Threats silence ‘Al tanto’ news program

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The international press watchdog Reporters Without Borders, reports that the news program ‘Al tanto’ of recently slain journalist Amado Ramírez on Radiorama Acapulco was taken off the air after the station received threats. Ramirez was a well-known correspondent for Televisa, and was killed last Friday in what is suspected to be a reprisal by drug-traffickers. The day after his murder, the Radiorama Acapulco security guard got an anonymous phone call warning that ‘we haven’t finished yet,’ the group reported.

The warning said that Misael Habana, the co-presenter of ‘Al tanto,’ would be the next target. Habana said Ramírez had received telephoned death threats a month ago. Here’s the site

About 200 journalists marched through Acapulco on Tuesday to demand justice in the slaying. The Associated Press said federal prosecutors later announced they had detained two suspects in the case at a police checkpoint in Acapulco, and found a pistol of the same kind used to kill Ramirez in their car.

Posted by Geoffrey Mohan Times Foreign Desk