They identify the body as Candida Cristal Vasquez, a journalist who has been missing from Sinaloa since July.

On August 27, it became known that body found in a storm drain in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, has been identified as belonging to journalist Candida Cristal Vasquez, who went missing a few weeks ago.

ONEA Mexicoan organization responsible for protecting human rights from corruption and impunity, and the governor of the state, Ruben Rocha, confirmed the identity of the body and they stressed that the announcer’s whereabouts had been unknown since July.

“This constant attack on the press must stop with Government tools that help communicators feel secure”- demanded ONEA, stressing that with Vazquez in Mexico, 16 journalists will already be killed in 2022.

Secondly, Attorney General of the State of Sinaloa reported the discovery of the body in the application and detailing that they are being implemented appropriate genetic tests for full identification of the individual, as their relatives would already have identified the remains, but “The body is in the process of decomposition.”

America, the mother of the communicator, clarified on her social media that there are still doubts about the identity of the remains, since both she and her relatives believe that some physical characteristics do not fully match Candida.

“There are several special features body found in the CID, which they don’t fit our daughtermy husband was the one who went for identification, and among those who do not confess, there is a tattoo, my daughter has no tattoos, ”he said on his social networks.

The disappearance of the journalist became known on July 21. A day later, the Alba State Attorney’s Office issued a State of Sinaloa protocol on the start of the search. The recording highlighted the physical characteristics of the announcer and emphasized that on the day when nothing else was known about her, she was wearing a white sleeveless blouse, dark trousers and white shoes.

The last entry for Candida Vasquez’s whereabouts was around 5:50 pm. when he was at his home located in Fraccionamiento Real del Valle.

Who was Candida Crystal Vazquez?

“La Chulis”, as the communicator was also called, was reporter and radio hostresident of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and member of the team of the current president of the municipality, Luis Guillermo Benítez Torres.

The Vasquez case is not an isolated case. As emphasized in ONEA and Article 19, In Mexico, the death of journalists has become a hidden issue. Until August 2022 there are already 16 killed signalmen in the countrybeing one of the last columnist and reporter Fredid Roman Roman to die when shot at with bullets in downtown Chilpancingo, Guerrero.