Shock in Mexico due to the kidnapping of a renowned radio and television news anchor. He was intercepted by men when he was getting into his vehicle.
The images of kidnapping of journalist Jaime Barrera (56 years old), with extensive experience in radio and television in the city of Guadalajarashocked the society of Mexico. The details of the security camera are being investigated to find his captors.
He prosecutor of the State of Jalisco Luis Joaquín Méndez explained that “from the moment he leaves these offices, the deprivation of freedom of Jaime Barrera violently, apparently by three or four subjects.” He also explained that at least one of the men “he carried a long gun” and that the journalist was intercepted when he was heading to his vehicle.
Jaime Barrera He is the host of a news program on the channel Televisapanelist at the Channel 44 of the University of Guadalajara and newspaper columnist The reporter. Neither he nor his daughter, also a journalist, reported having received threats prior to the incident. The car was found hours later in a residential area of the city, without damage or traces of “any violent event.”
Mexico: journalistic organizations express concern
Through a statement, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expressed “great concern” about the disappearance of Jaime Barrera and called on the authorities “to mobilize efforts to find him alive” and provide security to his family. In that same sense, the Inter-American Press Society (IAPA) He said he urged “urgently take the necessary measures to find his whereabouts immediately and safely.”
This year alone, 11 journalists were murdered, 320 imprisoned and 65 disappeared throughout Latin America, according to a report from the FES Project together with Distintas Latitudes. According to the RSF itself, since 2000 In Mexico, at least 150 journalists have been murdered and 31 are missing.
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Rosario: Academy of Journalism and ADEPA warned for threats to journalists
In the midst of the situation of violence and threats that the city of rosary beadsgroups of journalists repudiated a series of threats suffered by television journalists Alejandro Puebla, Sebastian Domenech and Nelson Castro. For this last fact, there would be a 47-year-old detainee.
“The National Academy of Journalism expresses its deep concern for the dangerous insecurity situation that the citizens of Rosario experience and, in particular, the journalists who work at the scene to keep the country informed,” says the institution’s statement, which “demands concrete actions from the national and provincial authorities to preserve the physical safety of journalists who are in Rosario“.
For its part, the Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities (ADEPA) They “strongly repudiated the death threats to journalist Nelson Castro and the Todo Noticias channel team while they were covering in Rosario” and urged “the local and federal authorities, and the three branches of government, to investigate and punish those responsible for the threats that the driver and the team that covers drug violence in Rosario received.”
Source: Ambito
