A charred body found in western Mexico has been identified as the owner and director of a local television station abducted in May, the seventh journalist killed so far this year in the country. Armed men grabbed him on May 18 and forced him into a vehicle in the city of Nueva Italia in violence-plagued Michoacan state. Godoy said Adame had apparently received angry and insulting phone messages from the local gang leader, whom he identified by his nickname, "El Chano" Pena. Adame's abduction came after prominent journalist Javier Valdez was slain in Culiacan, in Mexico's Sinaloa state. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says some 40 journalists have been killed in Mexico for reasons confirmed as related to their work since 1992.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 27, 2017 00:24 UTC