Eliseo Barrón

Eliseo Barrón Hernández (1973 - 27 May 2009) was a crime journalist for Milenio's La Opinión de Torreón, Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, who was brutally beaten in front of his family in his home in Parque Hundido Gómez Palacio, Durango on 25 May 2009, abducted, and later found dead in an irrigation ditch two days later with a gunshot wound to his head.

Barrón was the second reporter killed in the state of Durango, Mexico in a one-month period, and he was one of three reporters who were killed during the same year and who were reporting about police corruption in the state of Durango. The other two are Carlos Ortega Samper and Bladimir Antuna García.

Personal Eliseo Barrón, born 1973, and the fifth of seven children of Adelaido Barrón Pérez and María de Lourdes Fernández. He studied agricultural engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Agropecuario número 10. It was reported that 302 police and at least 20 others were fired as a result of coverage about the corruption, which is why it is seen as a motive for his murder. The LA Times reports that a note was found on his dead body saying "This happened to me for giving information to soldiers and for writing too much."

Banners placed around the city of Torreón on the day of Barrón's funeral at first indicated that Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán of the Sinaloa Cartel had taken responsibility for Barrón's death as the banners threatened journalists and soldiers. They were later order to stand trial for the murder. who was deputy director of in the Directorate of Forensic Services. In 2009, those areas were controlled by "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was reported by Forbes magazine to be one of the most powerful drug cartel leaders of Mexico.

In mid-April 2009, Mgr. Hector Gonzalez Martinez, a Roman Catholic Archbishop in Durango, indicated that "El Chapo" Guzmán had made Durango his home and said Mexican authorities were doing nothing about it. His statement was in support of an ecclesiastical statement that showed that the Mexican drug war was having an impact on the priesthood in both deaths and in causing hundreds of priests vacating their parishes. His statement brought to public attention Guzmán's presence in the Durango area.

Impact Eliseo Barrón was the second journalist killed in Durango in a one-month period. Carlos Ortega Samper was murdered in Santa María El Oro, Durango, Mexico on 3 May 2009. Ortega had also been reporting on this corruption case.