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 Travel Writers' Resources | May 2007 
Mexico Journalists Hold Vigil for Missing Colleages
 Associated Press
| | Mexican journalist Jesús Blancornelas at his Zeta weekly's office in Tijuana, Mexico. The journalist, who died Nov. 23 2006 in Tijuana at the age of 70, dedicated himself to exposing drug trafficking activity and had survived an attempt to murder him in 1997. He lived constantly under escort after that occasion. (Omar Torres/AFP) |
Mexico City - Two dozen journalists held a silent vigil outside city hall in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Saturday to demand authorities solve the case of a TV reporter and cameraman who disappeared last week.
With banners saying "Not One More," the journalists expressed solidarity with TV Azteca Noroeste reporter Gamaliel Lopez and cameraman Gerardo Paredes, who were last seen May 10 while reporting on a set of conjoined twins at a Monterrey hospital.
Seven journalists have been killed in Mexico since October, making it the world's second-most dangerous place to report, after Iraq. Northern Mexico, where ruthless drug cartels operate, has been particularly hazardous.
Second Grenade Attack on Mexico Paper in Month
E&P
A fragmentation grenade exploded at the offices of Cambio Sonora Wednesday afternoon, the second such attack in a month at the daily in the Mexican city of Hermosillo, Sonora state.
National Mexican papers and the National Center for Social Communication, a Mexico City-based free press group known as Cencos, reported that this time the grenade exploded in the parking lot of the newspaper, damaging three vehicles and sending shrapnel into the building - but causing no injuries.
On April 17, a grenade was thrown into the yard in front of the newspaper. There were no injuries, but the building’s exterior was damaged.
Cencos quoted the paper’s editor, Beatriz Espinsoa Sotelo, as saying the newsroom has no idea why the paper has been targeted. There were no threats before either attack, she said.
Cambio Sonora is a paper in the big OEM media company that publishes 70 dailies, and owns 24 radio stations, and a TV station.
The attack came during a particularly horrific wave of violence in Sonora arising from narcotics traffickers who are targeting law enforcement and each other.
On the same day as the grenade attack on Cambio Sonora, the Mexico City daily El Universal reported, in an article by Marcelo Beylis, that a gang of 50 heavily armed men apparently in the employ of narcotraffickers invaded a police station, kidnapping seven policemen and six civilians. In the ensuing firefights, 22 people were killed, including 15 gang members, five police officers and two civilians. |
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