Charred body ID’d as journalist

A charred body found in western Mexico has been identified as the owner and director of a local television station abducted in May, the seventh journalist killed so far this year in the country.

Salvador Adame was director of local channel 6TV. Armed men grabbed Adame on May 18 and forced him into a vehicle in the city of Nueva Italia in violenceplagued Michoacan state.

The remains were found in mid-June in a rural area, and DNA tests later confirmed they were Adame’s, said Michoacan state prosecutor Jose Martin Godoy.

Godoy said a kidnapping suspect had told authorities that Adame was killed on the orders of a local crime boss, allegedly because of “personal problems” between the two.

Godoy said Adame had apparently received angry and insulting phone messages from the local gang leader, who he identified by his nickname, “El Chano” Pena.