$380,000 for Eliseo Barrón,s Killeer: Is it Guzman?

The Attorney General's Office offered a reward of $380,000 for help solving the homicide of reporter Eliseo Barrón, who was found dead in the state of Coahuila after being kidnapped from his home in the northern state of Durango, The New York Times reports.

The killing brings about a new scale of violence against Mexican journalists, adds BBC Mundo.

The leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín "Shorty" Guzmán, threatened journalists by putting up signs within kilometers of where the homicide occurred. "Beware soldiers and journalists," one of the messages said.

The reward also generated criticism from some journalists, who claim it is discriminatory. According to El Diario of Ciudad Juárez, 51 unsolved killings of journalists have been registered in the country in the past nine years, and only in the case of Eliseo Barrón has an award been offered.

"Unfortunately, the [federal prosecutors] are not addressing the problem as a whole of aggression against journalists," one lawmaker said.

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