MEXICO CITY (AP) — Assailants fired a dozen gunshots at a building housing the newspaper El Debate in the embattled northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, the...
MEXICO CITY — Assailants fired a dozen gunshots at a building housing the newspaper El Debate in the embattled northern Mexico state of Sinaloa , the media outlet said Friday.
Threats against journalists and their sources have increased exponentially since the latest round of factional fighting broke out after two Sinaloa drug capos — one from each faction — flew to the United States and were arrested there. In 2017, Javier Valdez — an award-winning reporter for the weekly publication Rio Doce who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime —Ismael Bojórquez, Rio Doce's director, said that “as in other wars, we journalists are the ones who get caught in the crossfire.”“This obliges us to rethink the protocols and how we cover events in this context, because, sadly, it is practically a war at certain times,” López said.
On Thursday, hours before the attack on the newspaper, Sinaloa Gov. Ruben Rocha said “there is nothing to worry about” and “everything is under control.” State prosecutors were largely left hamstrung after the chief state prosecutor resigned after allegedly submitting false information about the July 25 killing of an opponent of Gov. Rocha.to check their guns, something that’s been done in the past when the army suspects that police officers are working for drug cartels.
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