About: José Luis Ortega Mata

José Luis Ortega Mata (1964 – 19 February 2001) was a Mexican journalist and director of the Semanario de Ojinaga, a weekly newspaper based in Ojinaga, Chihuahua in northern Mexico. With fifteen years of experience as a journalist, Ortega Mata was known for publishing articles about organized crime, political and law enforcement corruption, and drug trafficking. On a February evening in 2001, an unknown gunman shot the journalist twice in the head and killed him. The crime remains unsolved; it is unknown if his assassination was a crime of passion or a reprisal for his work on the Mexican drug cartels.