Daughters: Mexican reporter threatened for story
Daughters: Mexican reporter threatened for story
February 14, 2014 : Updated: February 15, 2014 3:38pm
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — The daughters of a reporter slain in the Mexican state of Veracruz have told authorities that a woman angered by one of his stories threatened to have a drug cartel kill him.
The statements by Gregorio Jimenez's daughters contradict the official version that the reporter was killed in a personal vendetta related to a relationship gone sour between one of his daughters and the son of the woman accused of ordering his death.
The daughters, Cindy and Flor, said in statements read in court Friday that Cindy had a heated argument about two months ago with Teresa de Jesus Hernandez, a neighbor who was angry about a Sept. 24 story Jimenez wrote about a man getting stabbed outside her bar in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.
They said the dispute came to blows and that after their father, a police beat reporter for the daily newspapers Notisur and El Liberal, intervened, Hernandez told him she knew members of the Zetas drug cartel and would hire them to kill him.
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