(IPYS/IFEX) – During the morning of 25 October 2006, journalist Antonio Heraz, editor of the magazine “Lindero Norte” and correspondent for the daily newspaper “La Jornada”, was followed for several minutes by a van with tinted windows. This took place when Heraz was driving to his children’s school in the city of Mexicali, Baja California. […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – During the morning of 25 October 2006, journalist Antonio Heraz, editor of the magazine “Lindero Norte” and correspondent for the daily newspaper “La Jornada”, was followed for several minutes by a van with tinted windows. This took place when Heraz was driving to his children’s school in the city of Mexicali, Baja California. The journalist believes that this harassment may be linked to the investigations on corruption and drug trafficking that he published recently in “Lindero Norte”.
This is not the first time that Heraz has been a victim of this kind of intimidation tactic. In 2004, he was threatened by persons linked to drug trafficking when he worked at the newspaper “Cicuta”.
The cities of Mexicali and Tijuana in Baja California state are among the areas of the country where journalists’ work is under constant threat by the drug trafficking cartels.
