Cinthya died the day her father was buried in Ciudad Victoria after the direct attack on her home with bullet impacts from a 40-millimeter caliber firearm. exclusive use of the Army.
The Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office reported that in this city there are already elements of the FGR to investigate the homicide.
“Ammunition from a single firearm was found, which makes us presume that only one has intervened so far,” explained the head of the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office, Irving Barrios Mojica.
De la Cruz was a reporter for several media outlets in the capital and worked for more than 15 years at the newspaper Express. With this presumed homicide, there are 12 journalists murdered so far this year in Mexico; although the organization Article 19 confirms 8 assassinated in relation to his journalistic work.
Before De la Cruz, they were murdered this year in Mexico Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi, Sheila Johana García Olivera, Luis Enrique Ramírez, Lourdes Maldonado, Margarito Martínez, Heber López Cruz, Juan Carlos Muñiz, Jorge Camero Zazueta, Roberto Toledo, José Luis Gamboa and Armando Linares.
The Reporters Without Borders association has denounced “unprecedented” violence against the press in Mexico, which remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice journalism.
