4 journalists
reported missing in
northern Mexico
Posted 1h 5m ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's National Human
Rights Commission called on the government
Tuesday to find four Mexican journalists reported
missing in or near the violence-wracked northern
state of Durango.
The journalists include two cameramen from the
Televisa network, a reporter for Multimedios
television and a reporter for the newspaper El
Vespertino.
"The lack of investigation into attacks on journalists
has made them more vulnerable in doing their
work," the government's rights commission said in a
statement.
The four disappeared Monday in the Laguna region,
which includes Durango and areas of the
neighboring state of Coahuila.
The commission said three of them were "picked up"
— a tactic frequently used by drug gangs in which
victims are forced into waiting vehicles — around
noon Monday, and the fourth was snatched that
night.
The area has been wracked by drug gang violence.
Prosecutors say officials at a prison in Gomez
Palacio — the Durango city where some of the
journalists are based — allowed drug cartel gunmen
to leave the penitentiary temporarily and provided
them guns and vehicles to carry out executions.
At least seven journalists have been killed in Mexico
so far in 2010. Many more Mexican reporters have
received threats from drug gangs.
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