Journalist’s Car Sabotaged After ‘Narco-Message’
La Prensa San Diego, Posted: May 18, 2007
SAN DIEGO -- Reporters Without Borders voiced concern about gruesome, threatening messages from drug traffickers to journalists in Mexico, reports La Prensa-San Diego. On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, the head of a corpse was left on a street in the eastern Mexico city of Veracruz along with the message: “Here is a gift for journalists, and other heads will fall, as Milo Vela well knows.” Vela is a columnist who writes for the Veracruz-based daily Notiver. Four days later on May 7 journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro’s car was sabotaged in Mexico City. “These so-called ‘narco-messages’ to the press are extremely disturbing,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We call on the authorities to immediately ensure that both Lydia Cacho and Milo Vela are properly protected.” As Cacho and her police bodyguards drove away from Mexico City’s airport after her arrival on May 7, the driver lost control of the car and nearly crashed. Cacho’s bodyguards discovered that the nuts had been loosened on one of the wheels. “I have been advised to file a complaint at once because everything indicates it was a murder attempt,” Cacho said.
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