Juárez Journalist Murdered
Nov 13th, 2008 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
A border reporter in Ciudád Juárez was murdered this morning, gunned down outside his home. Armando Rodriguez was gunned down in a company car as he was driving one of his three children to school. The gunman fired at point-blank range.
The motive is unknown except that Rodriguez covered the crime beat for his newspaper, El Diario de Juárez, for more than a decade.
The newspaper is staying silent about the murder thus far, but this is what my colleagues in Juárez and some law enforcement sources in Texas report this morning:
Rodriguez had actually fled recently to El Paso recently; I don’t know if he used his cross-border visa or had sought political asylum. But believing he was safe, he returned to Juárez and resumed work at the newspaper. A threat came in over the past few weeks, I’m unclear on the date still, and the newspaper sought police protection for him but none was forthcoming.
Rodriguez is the second news reporter at El Diario to flee Mexico for the United States. A second, whom I will not name for security reasons, is currently living in the United States under asylum.
“Cuando esta gente se propone, pues no los para nadie,” says a colleague working in Juárez.
“Este de aquí, Rodriguez) pensaba el que estaba más protegido, pero en realidad, nadie está protegido,” this person says.
Five journalists have now been murdered in Mexico this year and one has gone missing, says Carlos Lauria with the The New York-based, Committee to Protect Journalists.
– Michel Marizco
Acá está una nota sobre “El Choco”. Lamentable, mucho.
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ya recivieron amenzas de muerte varios periodistas, los de la polaka no han actualizado su sitio desde ayer.
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y otros tantos que estan por recibir.
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parece que a los del agora tambien les cayo bronca, su sitio esta intacto desde la man~ana por lo menos.
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