The journalist Gregorio Jiménez was killed and his body was found buried on Tuesday in the municipality of Las Chopas, Veracruz. The Attorney General's Office confirmed this afternoon that Veracruz state agents found the body of the reporter for Notisur and Liberal South in a grave in the Las Choapas during a special operation. Two other bodies were found in mass graves in the same place.
Four people were arrested in that area of the state of Veracruz, who confessed that they were hired to "plague and kill the journalist," on Wednesday, February 5, at his home in Coatzacoalcos. The four detainees were hired by a woman named "Teresa Hernández Cruz." The Veracruz Attorney General's Office said the investigation of the case of Gregorio Jiménez "remains open."

This morning, dozens of members of the Veracruz Investigations Agency (AVI) went to Las Choapas, where they located a person who named the kidnappers and led them to a safe house. The four detainees then led the investigators to a place where the bodies of three people were clandestinely buried, including the journalist.

The mobilization of state agents this afternoon, provoked messages on social networks that Gregorio Jimenez had been "found alive" in Las Choapas. This was "categorically" denied by the Veracruz government spokeswoman Gina Dominguez to Radio Formula. "We have not found him," she said.

In recent months, Jiménez had published in Notisur information regarding the operation of networks of migrant trafficking in Veracruz. On February 6, Notisur published that its reporter had been threatened by the owner of a bar called "El Mamey" and Veracruz Attorney General was investigating that person.

Journalists from around the country protested strongly during the last week regarding the disappearance of 'Goyo' Jiménez. This was expressed through social networks and marches held marches in Coatzacoalcos and this Tuesday in Mexico City.

During the term of the current governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte (PRI), 10 journalists have been killed.