Newspaper Director Shot to Death on Gulf Coast
From Times Wire Reports
The director of a newspaper on Mexico’s Gulf coast was shot to death in an apparent ambush by drug hit men, police said.
Raul Gibb Guerrero, director of the La Opinion of Poza Rica newspaper, was driving to his home Friday night near Poza Rica, about 125 miles north of Veracruz, when four gunmen riddled his truck with bullets, witnesses said. He lost control and crashed.
Authorities said Gibb Guerrero had written articles about the Gulf cartel and corruption.
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