Narco threats to journalists in Mexico

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The international press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders, voiced concern today about threatening messages to journalists in Mexico, including an apparent attempt to kill a reporter in Veracruz by sabotaging her car.

The group stated that reporters had been getting threatening warnings, apparently from drug traffickers, the latest being a note left with a human head on a Veracruz street that read: ‘ Here is a gift for journalists and other heads will fall, as Milo Vela well knows.’ Vela is a columinst for the Veracruz daily newspaper Notiver.

Also, one of the wheels on a car being driven by freelance journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro was loosened, causing her to nearly crash. She has been the focus of death threats.

‘These so-called narco messages to the press are extrememlly disturbing,’ the group said in a press release.

Two journalists have been killed and one missing in Mexico this year, making it the hemisphere’s deadliest country for the press, according to the group.

Posted by Michael Young in Los Angeles