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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | May 2007 
TV Newsman, Cameraman Missing in Northern Mexico
 Associated Press
Monterrey — A reporter and a cameraman from a Mexican television station have gone missing in the northern city of Monterrey and have not been heard from in three days, their employer said Sunday.
The two men have not contacted the TV network or their families since Thursday, when they finished a report on conjoined twins at a hospital in Monterrey, 440 miles north of Mexico City, TVAzteca Noreste said in a statement.
The vehicle Gamaliel Lopez Candanosa and Gerardo Paredes Perez were traveling in has also not been found. The company is a regional arm of TV Azteca, Mexico's second-biggest TV network.
In the statement, TVAzteca Noreste declined to speculate on whether the men had been kidnapped or by whom.
Monterrey, a prosperous industrial hub, had largely been spared the drug-related violence plaguing many Mexican cities until earlier this year when it was rocked by a series of police killings. Sixteen officers have been killed so far this year in Monterrey.
"The atmosphere of violence that has been generated in recent months in the Monterrey metropolitan has given rise to speculation, but none of those hypotheses has been confirmed," the company statement said.
"The company, in collaboration with government security forces, has started a careful process of tracking" the missing men, it said.
Press groups say Mexico has become the most dangerous place for reporters to work in the Western Hemisphere because of the threat of violent drug gangs. Northern Mexico has been particularly dangerous, perhaps in part because that is where many large drug cartels operate. |
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