Date: August 24, 2006 5:41:24 PM PDT
Subject: [narconews] Grenade Attack vs. Daily Por Esto! Fails to Silence Authentic Journalists
August 24, 2006
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Dear Colleague,
The daily Por Esto! of the Yucatan peninsula, the third-most-read
newspaper in Mexico, was attacked over the course of two days this
week, with guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails. Por Esto! has played
an important role in the history of Narco News, and is a shining
example of what "authentic journalism" really means. Now, its
reporters, who refuse to give up their valiant work, are in danger.
Al Giordano has the story:
"On Tuesday, August 22, in Mérida, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a
reporter's wife as she was exiting a car engulfed her 1980 Volkswagen
beetle instantly in flames. She escaped unharmed.
"On Wednesday night, armed gunmen attacked the paper's Cancún offices
shooting bullets and exploding two grenades at the door. Eighty
journalists, pressmen and other workers were inside the offices at
the hour of the attack; none were seriously wounded.
"Por Esto!'s publisher, Mario Menéndez Rodríguez (victorious co-
defendant with Narco News in the 2001 drug war on trial case in the
New York Supreme Court) and his team of authentic journalists have
afflicted so many powerful interests with investigative reporting 365
days a year that the list of suspects with motive and means to attack
the daily is large.
"However, in today's edition, the newspaper accused the organization
of narco-trafficker Ismael Zambada, known as 'El Mayo' who the paper
recently reported as responsible for the assassination of a two
police chiefs (in Cancún and in Playa del Carmen) and also an anti-
drug prosecutor, as responsible for the Cancún attack...
"Among those most exposed by Por Esto!'s reports have been
politicians and businessmen that are key players in the Fox
administration: Yucatán Governor Patricio Patrón Laviada, Citigroup-
Banamex board member Roberto Hernández Ramírez, and, most recently,
Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Since the July 2
presidential election in Mexico, Por Esto! has reported the details
of election fraud, while also publishing the entire texts of protest
speeches delivered in Mexico City by candidate Andrés Manuel López
Obrador."
Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin:
From somewhere in a country called América,
Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin
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