Thread by @FbdnStories

60 journalists from 25 media outlets coordinated by @FbdnStories picked back up the investigation into the murder of #Regina Martínez, killed in 2012. Her death was a major shift in the targeting of journalists in Mexico. #CartelProject
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#Regina Martínez was the most-read journalist in Veracruz. “Everything that the local press didn’t dare to publish was published via Regina Martínez,” said Jorge Carrasco, director of @proceso, the news outlet Martínez worked for. #CartelProject

“Never in my career had I seen such an altered crime scene,” the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Laura Borbolla, said eight years after the murder of #Regina Martínez. #CartelProject

The only person sentenced for the murder of #Regina Martínez, Jorge A. Hernández, aka ‘El Silva,’ maintains that he confessed under torture. “They had a sort of taser and they gave me electric shocks on my chest.” #CartelProject

El Silva’s lawyer used all of the legal recourses available to her to try to get her client out of prison, but was unsuccessful. “He’s 34-years-old, HIV-positive and he’s going to die. He’s the perfect scapegoat.” #CartelProject

President @lopezobrador_ committed to finding the legal basis to reopen the investigation into the death of #Regina, who covered one of his campaigns in 1992. “I knew her. She was a professional, incorruptible journalist.” #CartelProject

#Regina Martínez denounced the corruption of consecutive Veracruz governors Javier Duarte and Fidel Herrera. The former was condemned to 9 years in prison; the latter has never been indicted. @FbdnStories continued Regina’s investigations. #CartelProject

Despite the accusations against Herrera and his presumed links with drug cartels, President Peña Nieto nonetheless named him consul in Barcelona. The Catalan police revealed that they had looked into links between the consul and criminal networks in Barcelona. #CartelProject

Jorge Carrasco, now director of @proceso, had begun to investigate the murder of his colleague #Regina in 2012. “In the end, I received a death threat and the effect was devastating. We were forced to end our investigation.” #CartelProject

For the first time, @FbdnStories uncovered the traces of an investigation that #Regina never had the time to publish: major revelations about thousands of people who mysteriously disappeared in Veracruz. #CartelProject

They killed the journalist, but they won’t kill the message. This story about #Regina Martínez is the first part of the #CartelProject. The next story will be published tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. CET about cyber surveillance in Mexico and the journalists who fall victim to it.