List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
Before the Mexican Drug War

List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico

Section Title: Before the Mexican Drug War
Table Section Text: None

Date	Name	Location	Media outlet	Status	Refs

25 December 1860	Vicente Segura Argüelles	Mexico	Diario de Avisos	Killed

1863	Carlos R. Casarín	Mexico	La Orquesta Mi Sombrero	Killed

23 September 1866	Donato Corzo Ruiz	Chiapas	La Tijera	Killed

27 April 1880	Santiago Sierra	State of Mexico	La Libertad	Killed

17 February 1885	Luis González y González	Morelia, Michoacán	El Acero El Explorador	Killed

28 April 1887	Roberto Berea	Mexico	N/A	Killed

13 May 1892	Pablo Ochoa	Mexico	El Norte de Chihuahua	Killed

2 April 1894	Emilio Ordóñez	Pachuca, Hidalgo	N/A	Killed

30 July 1895	Jesús Olmos y Contreras	Puebla	Crisis La Voz de la Verdad	Killed

27 January 1897	José Cayetano Valadés Rocha Pen name: (Asunción Sánchez)	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	La Tarántula	Killed

April 1901	Eusebio S. Almonte	Mezcala, Guerrero	El Eco del Sur	Killed

30 August 1902	Vicente Rivero Echegaray	Tampico, Tamaulipas	Bala Rasa	Killed

1908	Luis Díaz Coudert	Mexico	El Diario de Chihuahua	Killed

1 June 1911	José Sabás de la Mora	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Voz del Norte	Killed

11 August 1912	Ignacio Herrerías	Tlaltizapán, Morelos	El Tiempo	Killed

11 August 1912	Humberto León Strauss	Tlaltizapán, Morelos	El Imparcial	Killed

11 August 1912	José Luis Rivera	Tlaltizapán, Morelos	N/A	Killed

12 September 1912	José Gurdiel Fernández	Balancán, Tabasco	El Correo de Tabasco	Killed

12 September 1912	Renon de la Moral	Balancán, Tabasco	N/A	Killed

1913	– de la Torre	Mexico	N/A	Killed

9 February 1913	Mariano Duque	Mexico City	El Defensor del Pueblo	Killed

22 February 1913	José Rumbia	Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala	La Nueva República	Killed

27 August 1913	Solón Argüello	Mexico City	Nueva Era	Killed

December 1913	Víctor David Delgado	Chihuahua	N/A	Killed

August 1914	A.F. Paredes	Cananea, Sonora	La Voz de Cananea	Killed

August 1914	Donancio Chávez	Cananea, Sonora	La Verdad	Killed

September 1914	Manuel M. Hugues	Cananea, Sonora	N/A	Killed

13 December 1914	Paulino Martínez	Mexico	El Chinaco La Voz de Juárez	Killed

9 February 1917	Faustino Díaz	Sinaloa	El Monitor Sinaloense	Disappeared

1918	Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara	Saric, Sonora	Revolución	Killed

1919	Marcos Torres Collado	Cunduacán, Tabasco	El Chisme	Killed

1920s	Juan Rafael Durán	San Pedro, Coahuila	El Látigo La Opinión	Killed

April 1920	Francisco Rangel	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Verbo Libre	Killed

12 October 1920	Manuel Lezcano	Villahermosa, Tabasco	El Radical	Killed

19 July 1921	Florencio Ávila y Castillo	Mérida, Yucatán	Asociación de Periodistas de Yucatán	Killed

24 May 1922	Jesús Z. Moreno	Mexico City	El Heraldo de México	Killed

1923–1924	Pedro Flores González	Mexico City	N/A	Killed

23 June 1923	Ángel Pulido	State of Mexico	El Implacable	Killed

28 July 1924	José Carmen Hernández	Mexico	El Colmillo El Colmillo Público	Killed

5 February 1927	Archibaldo Clark	Magdalena, Sonora	El Heraldo	Killed

April 1927	Anacleto González Flores	Guadalajara, Jalisco	La Palabra	Killed

4 October 1927	Alonso Capetillo	Huitzilac, Morelos	N/A	Killed

2 October 1928	Enrique Woolfolk	Magdalena, Sonora	La Revista	Killed

31 May 1929	Luis D. Kluver	Agua Prieta, Sonora	La Vanguardia	Killed

13 September 1930	Arturo García	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	Regeneración Chiapas Nuevo	Killed

7 February 1936	Julián S. González	Mexico City	El Tiempo	Killed

20 April 1939	José Trinidad Mata Mora	Puebla	Avante	Killed

15 October 1942	Eduardo Galdámez	Tapachula, Chiapas	El Sur de México	Killed

3 April 1944	Ignacio F. Herrerías	Mexico City	Novedades	Killed

19 April 1944	Salvador Guerrero González	Torreón, Coahuila	La Opinión	Killed

31 March 1947	Vicente Villasana González	Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	El Mundo	Killed

11 November 1948	Fernando Sánchez Bretón	Mexico City	La Semana Ilustrada	Killed

19 November 1949	José María Jiménez Rubio Pen name: (Nicanor)	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	El Correo de la Tarde	Killed

24 October 1953	Raúl Parra Molina	Salina Cruz, Oaxaca	La Voz de Sureste	Killed

July 1956	Manuel Acosta Meza	Tijuana, Baja California	El Imparcial	Killed

2 September 1956	Fernando Márquez Sánchez	Tijuana, Baja California	Baja California	Killed

28 May 1957	Manuel Sánchez Hernández	Tepic, Nayarit	La Extra de la Tarde	Killed

24 April 1959	Jorge Salinas Aragón	Minatitlán, Veracruz	Diario de Sotavento	Killed

26 November 1961	Carlos Estrada Sastré	Tijuana, Baja California	Noticias	Killed

5 July 1964	José González Miravalles Pen name (Pepe Miravalles)	Acapulco, Guerrero	Novedades	Killed

15 April 1968	Juan Muñoz Flores	Jojutla, Morelos	Alarma La voz de Morelos	Killed

1 January 1970	Carlos Denegri	Mexico	Excélsior	Killed

8 October 1970	Ernesto Espinosa Hernández	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	La Jeringa	Killed

31 July 1971	Vicente García Medina	El Fuerte, Sinaloa	El Avance	Killed

1973	José Asunción Méndez	Chihuahua	La Jeringa	Killed

7 July 1975	Carlos López y López	Miahuatlán, Oaxaca	El Demócrata de Antequerda	Killed

31 July 1977	Mario Carlos Rodríguez Falcón	Sinaloa	N/A	Killed

22 August 1977	José Guadalupe Mendívil	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Diario de Sinaloa	Killed

16 February 1978	Roberto Martínez Montenegro	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Noreste Diario de Culiacán	Killed

13 September 1978	Álvaro Burgoa López	Oaxaca, Oaxaca	Critica La Prensa	Killed

28 September 1978	Patricio Pérez Pintado	Loma Bonita, Oaxaca	El Pinero	Killed

1979	Álvaro Alemán	Oaxaca	El Demócrata de Antequera	Killed

1979	Guillermo Gallardo Astorga	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	Índice	Killed

13 December 1979	Alberto Rodríguez Torres	Pachuca, Hidalgo	Solución Avanzando de Hidalgo	Killed

1980	Guadalupe Ochoa Villaverde	Los Mochis, Sinaloa	El Gráfico	Killed

1980	Alberto José Altamirano Ortega	Poza Rica, Veracruz	Diario de Poza Rica	Killed

1980	Jorge Pliego Rodríguez	Veracruz, Veracruz	El Dictamen	Killed

7 June 1980	Aarón Flores Heredia	Los Mochis, Sinaloa	El Debate	Killed

1981	Jorge Pérez Díaz	Mexico City	Informex	Killed

21 February 1981	Jorge Ortiz Lagunas	Cuernavaca, Morelos	Diario de Morelos	Killed

16 October 1981	Xicoténcatl Ureña Zepeda	Apatzingán, Michoacán	Tribuna Libre	Killed

27 June 1982	Cristóbal Sánchez Reyes	Acayucan, Veracruz	Diario de Jalapa	Killed

1983	Mario Centeno Gómez	Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico	N/A	Killed

1983	Mario Hernández Beltrán	Iztapalapa, Mexico City	N/A	Killed

27 February 1983	Mario Centeno Yáñez	Naucalpan, State of Mexico	Pregunta	Killed

20 April 1983	Julián Sánchez Beltrán	Tláhuac, Mexico City	Radio Visión Activa	Killed

17 May 1983	Eliseo Morán Muñoz	Puente de Ixtla, Morelos	La Voz	Killed

25 December 1983	Salvador Cruz Cervantes	Córdoba, Veracruz	El Mundo de Orizaba	Killed

1984	Jorge Fernández Garduño	Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico	El Mercurio	Killed

1984	Julio Hernández Garduño	Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	N/A	Killed

1984	Francisco Saldívar Reyes	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	N/A	Killed

30 May 1984	Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón	Mexico City	Excélsior	Killed

31 May 1984	Javier Juárez Vázquez	Minatitlán, Veracruz	Primera Plana	Killed

30 January 1985	John Clay Walker	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Freelance journalist	Killed

17 January 1985	José Antonio Godoy Mena	Ayutla de los Libre, Guerrero	El Correo de Iguala	Killed

6 March 1985	Emilio Santiago Alvarado	Tehuacán, Puebla	Portavoz	Killed

25 October 1985	Roberto Ornelas Reyes	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	Noroeste	Killed

1986	Héctor López López	Sinaloa	N/A	Killed

1986	Pablo Nájera López	Sinaloa	Gaceta del Aire	Killed

7 May 1986	José Luis Nava Landa	Chilpancingo, Guerrero	Expresión Popular	Killed

8 August 1986	Eleuterio Cachú de la Cerda	Tijuana, Baja California	El Heraldo	Killed

17 June 1986	Jorge Breñas Araya	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	El Río	Killed

17 July 1986	C. David Cárdenas Rueda	Veracruz, Veracruz	Notiver	Killed

17 July 1986	Norma Alicia Moreno Figueroa	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Popular	Killed

17 July 1986	Ernesto Flores Torrijos	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Popular	Killed

15 August 1986	Juan Manuel Félix Zueta	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Diario de Sinaloa	Killed

7 October 1986	Odilón López Urias	Guamúchil, Sinaloa	Onda	Killed

5 November 1986	Antonio Iván Menéndez Marcín	Mexico City	Le Monde diplomatique	Killed

10 December 1986	Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez	Mexico City	El Nacional	Killed

2 March 1987	Martín Ortiz Moreno	Acapulco, Guerrero	Ovaciones Nueva Era	Killed

16 October 1987	Jesús Michel Jacobo	Culiacán, Sinaloa	El Sol de Sinaloa	Killed

19 October 1987	Clementina Herreros Andrade	Mexico City	La Prensa	Killed

28 December 1987	Felipe González Hernández	Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico	Un Minuto en la Noticia	Killed

22 February 1988	Manuel Burgueño Orduño	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	Deslinde El Sol del Pacífico	Killed

19 March 1988	Damián Sergio de Luna	Mexico City	Revelación	Killed

20 April 1988	Héctor Félix Miranda	Tijuana, Baja California	Zeta	Killed

15 July 1988	Ronay González Reyes	Comitán, Chiapas	El Mundo	Killed

23 July 1988	Linda Bejarano de Gómez	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	XHIJ-TV	Killed

15 October 1988	Rigoberto Coria Ochoa	Acapulco, Guerrero	El Trópico	Killed

1989	Joel Herrera Zurita	Mexico	El Dictamen	Killed

11 January 1989	Ezequiel Huerta Acosta	Saltillo, Coahuila	Avances Políticos	Killed

19 January 1989	Alberto Ruvalcaba Torres	Jalisco	Novedades de Zapopan	Killed

11 April 1989	Humberto Gallegos Sobrino	Chiapas	N/A	Killed

23 April 1989	Armando Sánchez Herrera	Río Verde, San Luis Potosí	Momento	Killed

May 1989	Francisco Valencia Gómez	Michoacán	N/A	Killed

29 June 1989	Óscar Treviño	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	N/A	Killed

30 June 1989	Elías Mario Medina Valenzuela	Durango, Durango	El Norte El Sol de Durango	Killed

October 1989	Ismael León León	Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico	Informeza	Killed

23 November 1989	Martín Heredia Sánchez	Huatusco, Veracruz	El Sol del Centro	Disappeared

19 December 1989	Rodolfo Mendoza Morales	Puebla	El Heraldo de México – Puebla	Killed

23 December 1989	Elvira Marcelo Esquivel	Mexico City	El Día	Killed

1990	Raúl Zúñiga	Oaxaca, Oaxaca	N/A	Killed

19 January 1990	Antonio Díaz Vargas	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Diario	Killed

10 March 1990	Jaime Huitrón Vega	Tula, Hidalgo	Tollan	Killed

4 May 1990	Roberto Azúa Camacho	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	El Nacional	Killed

6 June 1990	Alfredo Córdova Solórzano	Tapachula, Chiapas	Unomásdos	Killed

1991	Lázaro Cárdenas	Michoacán	Radio Azul	Killed

1 February 1991	Carlos Alberto Medina	Mexico	Excélsior	Killed

16 March 1991	Primitivo González Becerra	Guadalajara, Jalisco	El Diario	Killed

6 April 1991	Alejandro Campos Moreno	Cuernavaca, Morelos	Diario de Morelos	Killed

3 July 1991	Víctor Manuel Oropeza	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	Diario de Juárez	Killed

7 October 1991	Juvencio Arenas Gálvez	Mexico City	Cuestión	Killed

14 October 1991	Gabriel Venegas Valencia	Mexico	Televisa	Killed

3 January 1992	Fernando Preciado Escobar	Tapachula, Chiapas	La Opinión de la Costa	Killed

7 April 1992	Nicandro López Vásquez	Oaxaca	XEKZ	Killed

13 November 1992	Ignacio Mendoza Castillo	Mexico City	La Voz del Caribe	Killed

28 December 1992	Jesús Núñez Sánchez	Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico	Objetivo	Killed

January 1993	Carlos Aguilar Garza	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas	Y Punto	Killed

23 January 1993	Maximiano Quirino Escobar	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	Consigna de Reynosa	Killed

1 February 1993	Roberto Antonio Mancilla Herrera	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	Es! Cuarto Poder	Killed

5 March 1993	José Herrera Cañas	Mexico City	Servicios Fotográficos Personales	Killed

15 March 1993	Jessica Elizalde de León	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	FM 106 Radio Centro	Killed

2 June 1993	Araceli Caballero Hernández	Ecatepec, State of Mexico	El Día	Killed

30 July 1993	Gregorio Sánchez Mora	Veracruz	La Voz del Pueblo	Killed

17 March 1994	José Agustín Reyes	La Paza, Baja California	Rasa El Heraldo de México	Killed

6 June 1994	Jorge Martín Dorantes	Morelos	El Crucero	Killed

6 July 1994	Enrique Peralta Torres	Morelos	La Unión de Morelos	Killed

11 July 1994	José Luis Rojas	Cuernavaca, Morelos	La Unión de Morelos	Killed

1995	Cuauhtémoc Ornelas Ocampo	Torreón, Coahuila	Alcance	Disappeared

5 February 1995	Ruperto Armenta Gerardo	Guasave, Sinaloa	El Regional	Killed

18 June 1995	Dante Espartaco Cortés	Tijuana, Baja California	El Mexicano	Killed

25 October 1996	Fernando Martínez Ochoa	Chihuahua	Government journalist	Killed

3 December 1996	Fernando Balderas Sánchez	Mexico City	Crime journalist	Killed

3 December 1996	Yolanda Figueroa	Mexico City	Crime book writer	Killed

22 March 1997	Jesús Abel Bueno León	Chilpancingo, Guerrero	7 Días	Killed

15 July 1997	Benjamín Flores González	San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora	La Prensa	Killed

26 July 1997	Víctor Hernández Martínez	Mexico City	Cómo	Killed

16 December 1997	Margarito Morales Ramírez	Cocula, Jalisco	El Nuevo Zitlán	Killed

12 February 1998	Luis Mario García Rodríguez	Mexico City	La Tarde	Killed

3 August 1998	Sally-Sue Hulse	Mexico City	TIMES – Mexico City	Killed

23 October 1998	Claudio Cortés García	Mexico City	Le Monde Diplomatique	Killed

29 October 1998	Pedro Valle Hernández	Zihuatanejo, Guerrero	Radio Variedades XEUQ	Killed

15 December 1998	Philip True	Jalisco	San Antonio Express-News	Killed

15 April 1999	Mario Morales Palacios	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Bravo	Killed

28 April 1999	Ramiro Ramírez Duarte	Zacapu, Michoacán	El Heraldo	Killed

7 June 1998	Paco Stanley	Mexico City	TV Azteca	Killed

7 February 2000	Luis Roberto Cruz Martínez	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	Multicosas	Killed

9 April 2000	Pablo Pineda Gaucín	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	La Opinión	Killed

19 April 2000	Hugo Sánchez Eustaquio	Atizapan de Zaragoza, State of Mexico	La Verdad	Killed

28 April 2000	José Ramírez Puente	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	Radio Net	Killed

22 June 2000	William Uicab Salas	Chetumal, Quintana Roo	Canal 8	Killed

31 October 2000	Alfredo García Márquez	Hermosillo, Sonora	Encuentro	Killed

9 February 2001	Humberto Méndez Rendón	Gómez Palacio, Durango	Canal 6 de Durango	Killed

21 February 2001	José Luis Ortega Mata	Ojinaga, Chihuahua	Seminario de Ojinaga	Killed

9 March 2001	José Barbosa Bejarano	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	Alarma	Killed

27 March 2001	Saúl Antonio Martínez Gutiérrez	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Imparcial	Killed

12 January 2002	Félix Alfonso Fernández García	Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas	Nueva Opción	Killed

1 February 2002	Julio Samuel Morales Ferrón Pen name: (Severo Mirón)	Tacuba, Mexico City	El Sol de México	Killed

15 October 2002	José Miranda Virgen	Veracruz	El Sur de Veracruz	Killed

10 June 2003	Jesús Sandalio Mejía Lechuga	Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz	Primera Hora Ms Noticias	Killed

15 September 2003	Gregorio Urieta	Acapulco, Guerrero	El Sur	Killed

13 December 2003	Rafael Villafuerte Aguilar	Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero	La Razón	Killed

11 February 2004	Alberto Torres Villegas	Córdoba, Veracruz	El Sol del Centro	Killed

21 February 2004	Míriam Denise Ramos Delgado	Hermosillo, Sonora	Notimex	Killed

19 March 2004	Roberto Javier Mora García	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas	El Mañana	Killed

22 June 2004	Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco	Tijuana, Baja California	Zeta	Killed

31 August 2004	Francisco Arratia Saldierna	Matamoros, Tamaulipas	El Imparcial El Regional	Killed

9 September 2004	Leodegario Aguilera Lucas	Guerrero	Mundo Político	Killed

28 November 2004	Gregorio Rodríguez Hernández	Escuinapa, Sinaloa	El Debate	Killed

2 April 2005	Alfredo Jiménez Mota	Hermosillo, Sonora	El Imparcial	Disappeared

8 April 2005	Raúl Gibb Guerrero	Poza Rica, Veracruz	La Opinión	Killed

16 April 2005	Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas	Stereo 91	Killed

17 September 2005	José Reyes Brambila	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Vallarta Milenio	Killed

31 October 2005	Hugo Barragán Ortiz	Tierra Blanca, Veracruz	XEJF Radio Max La Crónica de la Cuenca	Killed

25 October 2005	Julio César Martínez Pérez	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	Siglo de México	Killed

6 January 2006	José Valdés	Sabinas, Coahuila	Radio journalist	Killed

9 March 2006	Jaime Arturo Olvera Bravo	La Piedad, Michoacán	La Voz de Michoacán	Killed

10 March 2006	Ramiro Téllez Contreras	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas	Exa 957	Killed

26 March 2006	Rosendo Pardo Ozuna	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	La Voz del Sureste	Killed

8 July 2006	Rafael Ortiz Martínez	Monclova, Coahuila	Zócalo	Disappeared

10 August 2006	Enrique Perea Quintanilla	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	Dos Caras, Una Verdad	Killed

27 October 2006	Bradley Will	Santa Lucía del Camino, Oaxaca	Indymedia	Killed

10 November 2006	Misael Tamayo Hernández	Zihuatanejo, Guerrero	El Despertar de la Costa	Killed

17 November 2006	José Manuel Nava Sánchez	Mexico City	Excélsior El Sol de México	Killed

20 November 2006	José Antonio García Apac	Tepalcatepec, Michoacán	Ecos de la Cuenca	Disappeared

21 November 2006	Roberto Marcos García	Veracruz	Alarma Testimonio	Killed

31 November 2006	Alfonso Sánchez Guzmán	Orizaba, Veracruz	Enlace Veracruz Televisa Veracruz	Killed

8 December 2006	Raúl Marcial Pérez	Oaxaca, Oaxaca	El Gráfico	Killed

Sentence(s)

Journalist Perea Quintanilla was killed in Mexico.
Perea Quintanilla was killed in Mexico in 2004.

final_sentence: Journalist Perea Quintanilla was killed in Mexico.
final_sentence: Perea Quintanilla was killed in Mexico in 2004.