Mexico Investigates Journalists' Deaths...Slowly


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Friday June 4 8:18 PM ET 

Journalist's Death Inquiry Ongoing

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - The Inter American Press Association has praised
Mexico for its investigation into the death of a U.S. journalist but
criticized probes into the killings of two Mexican reporters.

IAPA President Jorge E. Fascetto said Thursday that progress is being made
in the investigation into the death last year of Philip True, the Mexico
City correspondent for the San Antonio Express-News.

Following a meeting with Jalisco state Gov. Alberto Cardenas, Fascetto said
state prosecutors `appear to be on the right track and, most importantly,
there appears to be political will to solve the case.''

True was killed in the remote mountains of Jalisco while writing a story on
the Huichol Indians. Two Huichols have been charged with True's murder, but
they claim they were tortured into confessing to the crime.

Fascetto, of the newspaper El Dia from La Plata, Argentina, heads a
seven-member IAPA delegation that meet Tuesday with Attorney General Jorge
Madrazo and Wednesday with President Ernesto Zedillo.

The delegation is pressing the government to solve the 1988 slaying of Zeta
newspaper co-owner Hector Felix Miranda of Tijuana, and the 1991 killing of
El Diario de Juarez columnist Victor Manuel Oropeza.

The IAPA says that more than 20 journalists apparently have been killed for
doing their jobs in Mexico over the past decade.

The organization, which represents more than 1,300 publications throughout
the Americas, began a project in 1995 to follow the course of unpunished
crimes against journalists.

 
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