Humberto Millán Salazar, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Humberto Millán Salazar

Mexican journalist

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1958

Date of Death: 24-Aug-2011

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Humberto Millán Salazar

  • Humberto Millán Salazar (6 February 1958 – 24 August 2011), a Mexican journalist, was a radio host of "Sin Ambages" (Translated: Plain Language) on Radio Fórmula and the founder, editor, and columnist for the online newspaper A Discusión in Culiacan, Mexico.
  • Salazar was abducted on 24 August 2011.
  • His body was discovered by authorities the next day. At the time of his abduction, 13 Mexican journalists had disappeared since 2003.
  • He was the second journalist to be killed in Mexico within a month, the sixth Mexican journalist to have been killed in 2011 at the time of his death, and one of over 70 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000.
  • Local journalists and the director-general of UNESCO said the case illustrated how impunity for the murders of Mexican journalists put working journalists in the country in danger and harmed its citizens access to information.

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