Mexican Reporter's Body Found After Kidnapping

Acapulco: Authorities have found the beaten body of a Mexican journalist behind a cemetery outside the Pacific resort of Acapulco, four days after he was kidnapped.

The reporter, Jorge Torres Palacios, was found on Monday in a rural area on the outskirts of Acapulco, the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said.

Torres, who had worked as a journalist for 20 years, blogged for the news website Dictamen de Guerrero and was also a spokesman for the Acapulco health department.

The website published his last blog in which he lamented the "the lack of security in the state." Torres was abducted near his home last Thursday. J

ournalists held daily protests in Guerrero following the kidnapping. Camille Soulier, head of the Americas desk at press rights group Reporters Without Borders, called for a probe by the special prosecutor's office for crimes against freedom of expression.

Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries for journalists amid a relentless drug war, with most crimes remaining unsolved. At least 87 media workers have been killed since 2000.