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Salvador Adame Pardo (ca. 1972 – June 14, 2017), a Mexican television journalist, director, and co-owner of Channel 6 TV in Michoacán, Mexico, he was kidnapped and found dead in the same state. Salvador Adame was abducted on May 18, 2017 in Nueva Italia, Mexico by armed men. On June 14, 2017, authorities found the burnt remains of Salvador Adame in the small town of Gabriel Zamora in Mexico. It is believed that Adame's abduction and murder may had been due to his strict criticism on the government officials, and his reports about crime and corruption within his area. Michoacán Mexico is located in the middle of the Mexican drug war. Salvador Adame's abduction and murder may have been connected to the Mexican drug war.

Personal
Salvador Adame Pardo was born around 1972 in Michoacán, Mexico, and lived there for most of his adult life. He was married to Frida Urtiz, and the couple did not have any children.

Career
Salvador Adame had worked as a journalist for over two decades. During his career, Adame had received a great amount of respect from the women of Michoacán after his reporting of a Special Operation Grou that had beaten his wife and eleven other women. Adame was broadcast television journalist for Channel 6 TV in Mugica Michoacán Mexico. He was the co-owner along with his wife and he served as the director, of Channel 6 TV. He was known for his criticism on the local mayor and municipal officials and reported on local news, politics, and corruption.

Death
Michoacán Mexico, Latitude: N 19° 9' 12.7226, Longitude: W 101° 17' 8.3495", Nueva Italia, Latitude:N 19° 1' 21.0349"

Longitude:W 102° 5' 20.005

Before Salvador Adame was abducted, on April 12, 2016, he and his wife Frida Urtiz and eleven other women were briefly detained by the Special Operations Group while they were covering a sit-in at the Mugica municipal building by women protesting changes in a local social program. The Special Operations Group is a military elite force. When detained, Salvador Adame later reported that his wife and the other eleven women were psychically beaten by the Special Operations Group. It is believed that the orders for him and his wife to be detained had come from government officials. According to local media, Salvador Adame had received death threats via cell phone calls. Then on May 18, 2017 in Nueva Italia, at 7:00 pm, Adame was abducted by a group of armed men. They forced Adame into a new model black SUV. Witnesses claim that Adame had been held in a water purifying plant located in Avenida Lazaro Cardenas before being taken to Nuevo Corondire Village. Fifteen hours after his abduction, government officials still did not make any effort into searching for him. According to family members, the Michoacán's Anti-kidnapping Prosecutors office had requested that they wait up to sixty-two hours before filing a missing person complaint. The local community called for the government to take action and investigate the abduction of Salvador Adame. Seven days after Salvador Adame's abduction, the government started to investigate. On June 14, 2017, the burnt remains of Salvador Adame had been discovered in the town of Gabriel Zamora. There is still questioning as to why Pardo was targeted, but many believe that due to the fact that he had been reporting about criminal actions taking place on the local news may had made him become a target of the drug cartel. The Mexican drug war has made Mexico one of the most dangerous places to live. Mexican Journalist are constantly targeted by the cartel, and Salvador Adame was one of them.

Context
Salvador Adame's murder can be in connection to the Mexican Drug War, and the local drug cartels that are located in the state of Michoacán Mexico. Nueva Italia, where Adame was kidnapped from, is where rival drug cartels including La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Los Viagras, Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel, and Los Caballeros Templarios are all located. Each of these cartels are highly dangerous and are known for their violent acts. The Mexican Drug War has been a bloody drug trafficking war amongst rival drug cartels spread all over the country of Mexico for over a decade. Due to this dangerous Drug War, Mexico has become the most dangerous country in the world as of 2017. There were 2,186 murder probes in May of 2017, the highest for any month going back to 1997, according to government statistics. Journalist, politicians, and students have all become targets for these dangerous drug cartels. Government officials have made countless attempts as to trying to put an end to this drug trafficking war, but have failed at all the attempts. The United States has also made some efforts in order to help Mexico get a hold on their drug trafficking issues. These drug cartels all over Mexico will do anything to anyone who gets in their way.

Impact
It can only be assumed that Salvador Adame's kidnapping and murder can be connected to the Mexican Drug War in Mexico due to where Adame was kidnapped, and the dangerous drug cartels who were located in that area. Also, due to Adame's reports on local crime and corruption within his community put a large target on his back for the drug cartels in his area. However, Salvador Adame was not the only journalist to lose their life at the hands of the drug cartels and the Mexican drug war in Mexico. Salvador Adame was the seventeenth journalist murdered in Mexico in 2017. Many Mexican journalist such as Javier Valdez, who was killed in Sinaloa, and Jonathan Rodríguez, who was fatally shot in Jalisco, these murders happened the same week of Salvador Adame's kidnapping. Both murders were in connection to the Mexican drug war.

Reactions
The local community called for the government to take action and investigate the abduction of Salvador Adame Pardo.

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, urged the authorities to investigate the assassination of Salvador Adame Pardo, broadcaster and executive director of Channel 6 Media TV in the state of Michoacán, in Mexico.

Attorney General Jose Martin Godoy confirms the discovery of the burnt remains and the death of Salvador Adame and says, "We are not going to close any line of investigation, as further investigations will be reported to clarify the investigation,".

The Family of Salvador Adame demands for new DNA testing to confirm the burnt remains found in the town of Gabriel Zamora.

After the finding of the corpse of journalist Salvador Adame, CNDH demands to clarify the crime.