Mexican authorities have found a body that they believe to be that of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar near the municipality of Tehuacan, just nine miles from the border between the Puebla and her home state of Veracruz. She was abducted on Monday when armed men broke into her house around 2 a.m., claiming to have a warrant for her arrest, as Reporters Without Borders described in a press release.
Flores Salazar's colleagues at the daily El Buen Tono also received phone calls on Monday from people claiming to be members of the Zetas cartel, threatening to burn down the newspaper's office in reprisal for some of its stories, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. State police are now monitoring the office.
With her death, Anabel Flores Salazar joins at least 15 journalists who have been killed in the state of Veracruz since 2010. Veracruz is one of the most dangerous states in Mexico for members of the media, according to the BBC. Nationwide, 88 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
