(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 22 August 2006, an unidentified man on a motorbike threw a Molotov cocktail against the car of “Por Esto” reporter Jaime Vargas Chablé in the city of Mérida, state of Yucatán, southern Mexico. The attack took place minutes after the journalist’s wife, accompanied by their young daughter, parked the […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 22 August 2006, an unidentified man on a motorbike threw a Molotov cocktail against the car of “Por Esto” reporter Jaime Vargas Chablé in the city of Mérida, state of Yucatán, southern Mexico. The attack took place minutes after the journalist’s wife, accompanied by their young daughter, parked the car outside their home. The car was burnt to ashes. The motivation behind the attack is not known.
Vargas has published several reports about alleged corruption in the Office for Public Safety and Transport of the government of Yucatán, headed by Governor Patricio Patrón Laviada. Vargas’s wife, Irene López, stated that the journalist has received several death threats, but did not specify if they were related to that topic. The journalist is on assignment in the city of Campeche, southern Mexico.
López has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office.
