The entity condemned the homicide in a statement and asked that it “be exhaustively investigated.”
According to reports in the Mexican press, Castro was murdered by armed men when he was in a restaurant in the town of Poza Rica.
Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism, with more than 150 journalists murdered since 1994, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Many journalists who were victims of attacks in Mexico worked in areas devastated by organized crime and published their content in small media or social networks, generally in precarious jobs.
Veracruz, with coasts on the Gulf of Mexico, has been devastated for years by violence linked to different organized crime groups, which compete for lucrative drug trafficking routes.
