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Journalism - A Dangerous Occupation in Mexico

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 4/19/08

1. In Ciudad Juarez, the recently created "Society of Journalists and Communicators" held a conference titled "Attacks on Freedom of Expression in Latin America." At that conference, Rafael Rodriguez Lopez of the "Ocho Columnas" newspaper in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and who is also Mexico's representative to the Inter-American Press Society, said that "Latin America, with more than three hundred murders of journalists in the last 18 years, is the continent with the highest degree of danger for the practice of our profession. Mexico is the highest (most dangerous) one in all Latin America and this northern border is the highest (most dangerous) in all Mexico. That is to say, we are at the epicenter of professional peril."

"the majority" of these events have taken place in states such as Tamaulipas, Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua. He added that this is a different situation from that of government imposed attacks on freedom of expression as occur in Venezuela and Cuba and not by organized crime mafias, such as in Mexico. He said that what happens along Mexico's northern border ought not to occur because it places journalists in a quandary between their duty of publishing the truth as against their self-awareness of avoiding the risk of losing one's life.

2. (note: new subscribers to our reports might not be aware that on January 26 of this year some criminals left a death threat with a list of names of Ciudad Juarez area law enforcement officers who were to be killed. The death threat list was left at the Monument to the Police in Juarez, in honor of those who have died in the line of duty) - Now, a report dated 4/19/08 and timed in at 00:25 hrs., Juarez time, states that Alejandro Martinez Casas, one of the officers whose name appears on the death threat list, and his eight year old son, were victims of an assault rifle attack by a group of thugs wearing ski masks. Martinez and his son were in a crew cab p/u which was hit by "innumerable" rounds and the boy's arm was practically destroyed. The boy was pronounced dead while Martinez' condition was critical.
Elsewhere in Juarez, another car-to-car gunfire assault killed two other men in Colonia "Revolucion Mexicana." And in Colonia Galeana, Juarez, a fifth person was assailed by an armed group, wounded by gunfire and forcibly spirited away.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/19/08

Military aerial reconnaissance along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Baja California southwest of Ciudad Obregon revealed a launch half hidden in the mangroves. Its load was found to be one ton seventy kilos of weed. No arrests were made.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 4/19/08

Last Wednesday evening in Tijuana an "armed command" began a car-to-car attack on the vehicle of Miguel Angel Montes Lopez, a Baja Calif. state police officer. Montes was able to fire back at his assailants, who fled and abandoned one of the vehicles they had been riding. "Authorities" searched that vehicle and found a Tijuana Police black uniform shirt with the city's police insignia.
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La Jornada (Mexico City) 4/19/08

The director of Mexico's National Adult Education Institute, Maria Dolores del Rio Sanchez, said that more than 33 million Mexicans have not completed a basic education and that many are illiterate. She added that the states of Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca have the highest numbers of illiterates due to "the cultural and economic conditions of their inhabitants, who in the majority belong to ethnic groups." Chiapas' illiteracy tally is 585 thousand, Guerrero's 393 thousand and Oaxaca's 395 thousand. There are similar or higher numbers for those who never completed either an elementary or secondary education.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 4/19/08

That load of "drug" seized by Nicaraguan police (our report of 4/15/09 relates) turned out to be cocaine and the total weight was 767 kilos 950 grams. This load is thought to belong to Reynero de Jesus Flores Lazo, who is wanted by Salvadoran police for smuggling cocaine since 2004.
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Note: The "o.e.m." (Organizacion Editorial Mexicana), a nationwide chain of some forty newspapers in Mexico, continues to feature the story titled "Authorities acknowledge that the Border Patrol enjoys torturing migrants" in its "Migration" section six days after it was first published. We note that it is common practice for newspapers to delete news items and reports from their websites even on the very same day that they first appear. Our report of 4/13/08 relates.
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