Monday, April 30, 2012

It gets dirty: Vázquez Mota pulls out narco card

While I haven't been able to follow the admittedly uninspiring 2012 campaign nearly as closely as I should, given too many projects, it nonetheless seems to me that the campaign took a particular turn for the dirty with the following statement from Josefina Vázquez Mota:
Moreira and the PRI not only betrayed the people by pawning our future with an unpayable debtl they also betrayed Mexicans with their pact with organized crime, being a part of them, looking after the wealth generated by the killing, extorting or poisoning of our children.
Wow.

"Proceso" reporter murdered in Veracruz

Terrible news for investigative reporting in Mexico: Regina Martínez, a veteran reporter of 30 years, and with Proceso the past 10, was found murdered in Veracruz. She is the fourth journalist murdered in the state in the last year and a half.

It has been a while since the recognized news magazine Proceso stopped using the names of reporters in bylines in many narco stories, and the reason is unfortunately very clear: They have now become targets of organized crime.