Raúl Gibb Guerrero (1952 – 8 April 2005) was a Mexican editor and the founder and owner of the newspaper La Opinión in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico.
[3] The WorldPress citation read ... (the three) gave the ultimate sacrifice in their pursuit of journalistic excellence and freedom of the press.
Their courage, tenacity, and dedication in covering sensitive subjects, especially drug trafficking, caused them to live in a danger zone of threats and violence, which ultimately led to their murders.
[3]The organization said it wanted to shine a spotlight on the dangers faced by Mexican journalists as a result of Mexico's Drug War.
[7] For several months, Gibb had been receiving death threats for his newspaper's coverage of corruption and connections between drug cartels and the government.
According to Secretary General of Government, Reynaldo Escobar Perez, Veracruz was affected by the "cockroach effect" of drug traffickers that are fought in other Mexican states.
Duarte said[5] "... media and journalists covering, face and often suffer the effects of this phenomenon, whose seal is violence, through which it intends to submit to the institutions and undermine the rule of law.