The largest number of killings has taken place in Veracruz, which press freedom advocates call a "zone of silence" because many reporters there practice self-censorship to stay alive. In Veracruz, with a population of half a million people — about the size of Wyoming — nearly two dozen journalists have been killed in the last 18 years. Reporters and photographers from the state have been slain at holiday parties, their bodies dismembered and dumped in canals; some have been tracked down and killed after going into hiding in other parts of the country.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2018 23:37 UTC