Masked guys declaring to represent the kingpin of Mexico’s most effective drug cartel have actually launched a chilling video threatening to murder a female nationwide news anchor.
The unusual public danger was presumably made by members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel to Milenio Television newsreader Azucena Uresti.
The video grumbles that Milenio’s protection has actually favoured so-called self-defence groups in their continuous fights with the cartel.
A message stated to be from its leader Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, referred to as El Mencho, read out by a spokesperson for the group, with masked and greatly armed guys noticeable in the background.
He stated: ‘I resolve this message straight to Milenio. I am not versus liberty of expression, however I protest whoever assaults me straight.
‘Azucena Uresti, wherever you are, I’ll get you, and I will make you consume your words, even if they implicate me of femicide, due to the fact that you do not understand me: Rubén Oseguera Cervantes.
‘I am not a debt collector or extortionist, nor am I a kidnapper.’
The guy stated the vigilante fighters were really drug traffickers, the only groups that might pay for the weaponry those forces had at their disposal.
Ms Uresti is among the nation’s finest understood reporters and won acclaims for her questioning in the 2018 governmental arguments.
The president Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated: ‘We are going to protect Azucena and we are going to protect all Mexicans. It is our responsibility so that they are not intimidated or threatened by anyone.’
Mexico was the most hazardous location to be a reporter in 2015 – much more so than battle zone – with a 3rd of all around the world reporter killings occurring in the nation.
Nine reporters were eliminated in the North American nation in 2020, bringing its death toll to a minimum of 120 this millennium, stated the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel has actually risen to end up being Mexico’s most effective in the wake of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman being imprisoned for life in 2019.
University of Maryland teacher Samuel D. Henkin, a professional on Mexico’s drug war, informed The Telegraph Ms Uresti’s report was ‘a blow to the cartel’ due to the fact that the protection may stimulate on the self-defence groups.
They launched the video to prevent more vigilantes from signing up with the battle versus them in the state west of Mexico City, and to terrify reporters from future reporting.
Milenio Television stated in a declaration that Ms Uresti had its overall assistance, as did other press reporters.
It required a quick examination that ensured her security and rejected that it had actually ever favoured any group in it protection.
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