Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco[a] (5 March 1989 – 16 September 2010), was a Mexican photographer working for the daily newspaper El Diario in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

His murder is considered to be part of the Mexican Drug War, although authorities dispute this point, and also involves human rights work.

The two were using a car that belonged to lawyer and human rights activist Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson, who lived in El Paso, Texas, United States.

El Diario reported that Santiago and Sánchez had borrowed the car from de la Rosa's son, who was an editor at the paper, to attend a photography workshop at the Rio Grande mall in the border city of Ciudad Juárez.

The worst of the violence tends to be concentrated in Mexico's northern border around Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, where 3,100 people died just in 2010.

[5] In addition to the random acts of violence on its citizens, Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America for press freedom and one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists.

Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco was the second El Diario journalist to be murdered in two years, following the death of José Armando Rodríguez Carreón, 40, who was shot dead on 13 November 2008.

The project, run by the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, evaluates psychological damage (post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, depression) incurred; it focuses on Mexico because of the severe risks journalists face in the country.

The open letter calling for an end to the violence published on the front page of El Diario, the newspaper for which these two photographers worked, illustrates the extent of the problem.

The staff of El Diaro were at Santiago's funeral when they found out that a severed head was atop a car nearby.

[10] During his free time, Santiago was an avid cosplayer, which is a subculture of people who don costumes to represent figures and characters.