Luis Martin Sanchez Iñiguez (59 years old), newspaper correspondent The Conference in the Mexican state of Nayarit (northwest), he was found lifeless this Saturday after being reported missing, as reported by the newspaper he worked for.
The newspaper, which cited reports from local authorities, said that the communicator’s wife, Cecilia Lopezreported to the prosecutor’s office, did not know her whereabouts since Wednesday night, when she was in another town visiting relatives.
The lifeless body of Sánchez Iñiguez was located on Saturday morning in a rural area near Tepic, the capital of Nayarit. He was apparently wrapped in plastic bags and had a message allegedly from criminals on his chest, Nayarit media reported.
Sánchez, the first active journalist assassinated in Mexico in 2023, was at his home on Wednesday night and spoke with his wife by phone.
López said in her complaint that at her home she found the clothes her husband was wearing the last day she saw him and in his wallet were all his belongings except the correspondent’s card for The Conference. The family has also reported that “his computer, his cell phone, a hard drive and his sandals are missing,” the newspaper added.