A Mexican reporter has been found beheaded in a torture so gruesome that it was initially thought he had been killed by a speeding train.
Julio Valdivia, 44, wrote about his country's most violent gangs for a number of years. He worked for newspaper El Mundo de Veracruz and is the fourth journalist slain in Mexico in 2020.
He was reported missing days before his grizzly death was discovered as calls grow for justice to be served for those who take the life of reporters in south America.
More than 100 journalists have been murdered since 2000 in Mexico, reports Daily Star. Only a very small number of these often-brutal killings have resulted in convictions.
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