In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America

“Chilling and nuanced … a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust."—Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review

"Epic ... deeply reported and riveting."—NPR Online

Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran’s pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico.

Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, admired Regina Martínez’s work. Troubled by the news of her death, Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Regina hadn’t even written the controversial article. But did she have something else that someone didn’t want published? Once there, Katherine bonded with four of Regina’s grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies—and discover what got Regina killed.

A gripping look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly “third rail,” where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe.

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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America

“Chilling and nuanced … a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust."—Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review

"Epic ... deeply reported and riveting."—NPR Online

Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran’s pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico.

Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, admired Regina Martínez’s work. Troubled by the news of her death, Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Regina hadn’t even written the controversial article. But did she have something else that someone didn’t want published? Once there, Katherine bonded with four of Regina’s grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies—and discover what got Regina killed.

A gripping look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly “third rail,” where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe.

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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press

by Katherine Corcoran
In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press

In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press

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Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America

“Chilling and nuanced … a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust."—Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review

"Epic ... deeply reported and riveting."—NPR Online

Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran’s pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico.

Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, admired Regina Martínez’s work. Troubled by the news of her death, Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Regina hadn’t even written the controversial article. But did she have something else that someone didn’t want published? Once there, Katherine bonded with four of Regina’s grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies—and discover what got Regina killed.

A gripping look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly “third rail,” where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781635575033
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 10/18/2022
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 165,600
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America. She has been an Alicia Patterson fellow, the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow. At the AP, she led an award-winning team that broke major stories about cartel and state violence and abuse of authority in Mexico and Central America. Her columns about Mexican politics and press freedom have appeared in the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and Univision Online, among other publications. She is currently codirector of Cronkite Noticias, the bilingual reporting program at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City.

Table of Contents

Characters xi

Preface xiii

Part I

Chapter 1 Time 3

Chapter 2 If Not You, Then Who? 8

Chapter 3 "We're Living in Madness" 14

Chapter 4 A Heaven inside Hell 28

Chapter 5 "Mr. Governor, We Don't Believe You" 39

Chapter 6 The Fab Four 59

Chapter 7 Case Closed 70

Part II

Chapter 8 The Young Radicals 87

Chapter 9 The Mouth of the Wolf 96

Chapter 10 Sidelined 109

Chapter 11 Reginazos 133

Chapter 12 The Cover-Up 152

Part III

Chapter 13 Arrancando Motores 159

Chapter 14 Welcome to Xalapa 170

Chapter 15 What Was She Working On? Part I 177

Chapter 16 A Pattern Emerges 188

Chapter 17 Paranoia 205

Chapter 18 The New Organized Crime 226

Chapter 19 Mass Graves 238

Chapter 20 What Was She Working On? Part II 244

Chapter 21 Who Killed Regina Martinez? 252

Chapter 22 The Gray Zone 273

Epilogue 281

Acknowledgments 287

Notes on Sources 291

Notes 293

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