Jorge Torres Palacios was a Mexican journalist and government spokesman who was murdered in 2014. At the time of his death he was a columnist for the Acapulco newspaper El Dictamen and for other local news media, including the website Libertad Guerrero Noticias. He was also a spokesman for the Acapulco municipal health department.
In its report on the Torres murder, the Spanish daily El País noted that 32 journalists had been killed in Mexico during the preceding four years.[1]