Manuel Buendia - Journalist
- Artist/Author/Producer: Manuel Buendia
- Confronting Bodies: Unknown.
- Dates of action: 1984
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Description of the Art Work
- Buendia was a highly respected reporter and columnist. In his nationally
syndicated column he took on everyone from drug runners to right-wing
politicians.
- Description of incident
- In 1984, he was shot and killed in the street in Mexico City. The
subsequent investigation was botched so badly that key evidence
mysteriously disappeared or was destroyed, and the case was quietly
closed for more than a year.
The investigations seem to lead to officials in a disbanded federal
security agency, about whom Buendia is believed to have acquired damaging
information.
- Results of incident
- The case has since been re-opened.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, "Who's killing all these journalists?", by
Barak Kassar
