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Mexican journalist disappears
Veracruz, Mexico, May 27, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) --
Relatives of Mexican journalist
Fidel Perez Sanchez said Wednesday that he has disappeared, one day
after the lifeless body of another reporter who had been kidnapped
was found in the northern state of Durango.
The last time Perez, a popular columnist who worked for the daily
Notiver, was seen was on Tuesday in the Gulf coast port of Veracruz.
The chairman of the Reporters Defense Committee, Gerardo Perdomo
Cueto, called the incident "very serious" and said that Perez's
relatives had filed a missing person complaint with the Veracruz
state Attorney General's Office.
Notiver is one of the Veracruz dailies with the largest
circulation and specializes in crime and drug trafficking stories.
"We're all waiting. It's a very serious thing, but we're hoping
that he can be found soon," Perdomo said.
The reporter's wife, Clara Ondina Morales, reported his
disappearance when the school of their two children notified her
that her husband had not come by to pick the kids up at the end of
the school day as he normally did.
She tried to locate him by telephone, but none of his mobile
phones was working. On Wednesday, his vehicle was found abandoned in
the Costa del Oro residential development in Veracruz city.
Ondina publicly asked anyone holding her husband not to hurt him
and she demanded the help of the state and federal authorities.
"I want help. To the governor, to all his friends, please, I want
you to help me look for him. My children are sad. One doesn't want
to eat because he hasn't seen him since yesterday," she said.
The last time Perez was seen in public was at a state government
press conference on Tuesday morning.
The reporter's disappearance comes one day after veteran crime
reporter Eliseo Barron, 36, was found dead in the northern state of
Durango.
Barron was home with his wife and two daughters Monday night when
seven armed men wearing hoods burst into the house and took him
away.
His body was discovered the next day in a vacant lot.
Last month, the independent National Human Rights Commission
announced that at least three journalists had been murdered and 46
others attacked in Mexico between January and April this year.
International press organizations say that the violence from
organized crime has made Mexico the second-most-dangerous country in
the world in which to practice journalism, topped only by Iraq. EFE
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