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Journalist found dead at Mexico City hotel

  • Source: Chron.
  • March 7, 2023

"Retired journalist Carlos Acosta was found dead over the weekend in a Mexico City hotel, a case for which the Attorney General's Office announced on Monday the opening of a homicide investigation.

The man was found on Saturday [March 4] in a hotel room located in the Ermita neighborhood of the Benito Juarez district, the Mexico City Attorney General's Office said in a statement.

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Local media reported that the 65-year-old reporter was found by the hotel manager and agents of the Secretariat of Citizen Security in one of the hotel rooms.

The journalist specialized in economics and worked for the local magazine Proceso from 1983 until 2019 when he retired. Acosta also worked two decades ago at the local newspaper El Universal as coordinator of Society and Special Feature Stories."

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