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Mexico-Crime/Media/ Chief editor of Acapulco daily goes missing
Jun 9, 2011, 17:58 GMT
Mexico City - The chief editor of the Mexican daily Novedades de Acapulco has gone missing, the daily said on its front page Thursday.
Journalist Marco Antonio Lopez Ortiz went missing late Tuesday and his car was found abandoned, and locked. He did not show up for work Wednesday, and the daily launched an investigation among his family and friends.
Lopez Ortiz had apparently gone to a bar to meet with a friend Tuesday and left the bar just before midnight. Eyewitnesses said a group of unknown attackers took him.
Violence has increased greatly in Acapulco since last year, as rival drug gangs fight for control of the Mexican resort city on the Pacific. On Thursday, the authorities reported they found six mass graves in the city with at least 10 bodies.
Mexico, where over 40,000 people have been killed since December 2006 in incidents linked to organized crime, is one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to practice journalism, international press advocates say.
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