Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz (1963 – 26 July 2011) was a crime reporter who had worked for nearly three decades for Notiver,[1] the largest-circulation newspaper in Veracruz, Mexico.

[2] Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz was the fourth journalist killed in Veracruz in 2011 as a result of the Mexican Drug War, where the first was Noel López Olguín in March.

"[10] Juan Carlos Carranza, former transit police officer and allegedly a local leader of Los Zetas,[12] had been signaled by the general attorney as the main suspect of the murder of the family López Velasco.

Notiver publicly requested the resignation of Escobar for these declarations [3][4] A few days after the crime the Mexican army killed two alleged drug cartel members, and the prosecutor said that one of them had an ID document of Yolanda Ordaz.

[15] Other journalists speaking anonymously told McClatchy that López and Ordaz may have been passing information to military intelligence and had been killed by crime gangs in vengeance.

[17] Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova said, "The latest case in an increasing global trend of women journalists being targeted, which I am deeply concerned about.