Meanwhile, a Mexican journalist has been shot to death in front of his home in Guerrero state—the same state where the students disappeared. Francisco Pacheco Beltrán worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper El Sol de Acapulco, edited a weekly magazine, contributed to a local radio broadcaster and ran a website with articles on crime. News reports said Pacheco’s work was critical of local authorities, including the mayor of his city, Taxco.