Seeking Justice For Slain Journalist

About 400 people marched in the eastern Mexican city of Poza Rica to demand justice for newspaper editor Raul Gibb on Saturday, the anniversary of his killing.

Gunmen ambushed and shot dead Gibb, of the local newspaper La Opinion, as drove to his home in a village near Poza Rica, about 140 miles northeast of Mexico City.

A year after his death, federal detectives assigned to the case have made no arrests.

"Up until now there is nothing. There is no advance in the investigation, just pure speculations," said Abel Andrade, an editor at La Opinion who helped organize the demonstration along with Gibb's family members.

Detectives and media groups have said Gibb's killing could be connected to his reports on drug traffickers or about a gasoline contraband ring.

Media groups say Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the Western Hemisphere to be a journalist, largely because of violent drug cartels. Since 2004, nine journalists have been killed and another has disappeared.

In February, armed gunmen opened fire and launched a grenade at the offices of El Manana, a daily newspaper in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, severely injuring reporter Jaime Orozco Tey.

Three weeks later, President Vicente Fox named a university law professor to the new post of special prosecutor for crimes against journalists.
By Miguel Hernandez