![]() Both her reporting and her death made the nexus between organized crime and the Mexican state seem ever more apparent. But with the murder of Martínez, who had acquired a degree of local renown, those protections seemed to have worn away. ![]() In fact, journalistic prominence in some ways seemed its own form of protection nefarious actors were less willing to risk the scrutiny that the death of a notable figure might bring. In 2012, there were few Mexican equivalents to Jamal Khashoggi and Anna Politkovskaya, murdered journalists whose deaths drew international attention and outrage. The name of her killer has remained maddeningly elusive.Ĭorcoran, a former Mexico and Central America bureau chief for The Associated Press, set out to investigate the journalist’s death not just because Martínez was a colleague-someone who had braved the “pig swill of Veracruz politics”-but also because her death marked a turning point. She was strangled to death on her bathroom floor on April 28, 2012. Mention Regina, and the name evokes both an unsavory portrait of the Mexican state and those who have struggled to bring accountability to it. Tough and locally revered, the 48-year-old correspondent for the investigative weekly Proceso was known for rooting out government corruption, narco violence, and the relationship between the two. ![]() And yet according to Katherine Corcoran’s deeply reported new book, In the Mouth of the Wolf, the name Regina Martínez rolls off the tongue. ![]() Burials are not only too many, but blurred lines between cartels and authorities make it safer to avoid committing names to memory, especially those of journalists. In the violence-wracked Mexican state of Veracruz, those who work in overfilled cemeteries rarely recall even that much. ![]()
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