Threats and intimidation Mexicos weapons of mass censorship
July 27, 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the threatening messages left for four Mexican journalists in the past week that warned them to stop their outspoken reporting. This barbaric behaviour has again confirmed that Mexico’s journalists are in desperate need of protection.
The four journalists targeted by the threats are based in Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Michoacán, states with particularly high levels of organized crime and corruption.
The first was Luis Rubén López Domínguez, a reporter for the Tabasco Hoy newspaper in Paraíso, in the southeastern state of Tabasco. Gunmen opened fire on López’s car while it was parked outside his home on 19 July and left message on the windscreen warning him to stop reporting if he did not want to get killed.
Two placards with death threats were found the same day on the streets of Cancún, in the nearby southeastern state of Quintana Roo. Signed by Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s most dangerous crime cartels, the placards named two journalists: Pedro Canché, the publisher of the Pedro Canché news site, and Amir Ibrahim, the editor of the El QuintanaRoo news site.
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