'If you have nothing to do tonight, well not show ...' border reporter warning. By Dario Davila
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sniper was reporter by day and night. That afternoon in August 2005 in full wording, he led negotiations to prevent the death of a reporter who had documented police brutality a couple of policemen.
In those days, the heat wave in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico, became a kind of griddle the streets. Temperatures reach 45 degrees. Temperature was such that even the iguanas were amazed at the exhaust heat of the trucks, I warned the owner of a local newspaper.
The reporter had a prominent belly. His skull was conspicuous by his baldness and his voice was hoarse as a child and an old man. I remember I was a fan of showing that he knew a lot of weapons. Look, he said, standing in shooting position, you must wield it well.
know, like taking the gun, its dimensions, its mechanisms, color, texture and even smell. A Sometimes it was like a child playing big guns between ink and paper.
I never knew what became court reporter. But I saw him arrive at daybreak with your notepad and perfectly polished military boots.
had a habit of blowing air into your cheeks with his lips twisted to one side. One afternoon I assumed that this ritual was more continuous. The reporter wanted to disable the possible murder of a reporter who years later would be his partner.
- Yes sir, said by telephone. Someone in the background
asked: Do you want to go ....
He replied: Tell them to wait ...
The reporter had published in a newspaper police how two Reynosa municipal police had beaten a detainee. Hours after a call from a local dealer associated with the Gulf cartel or asking the head of the journalist. Why? The police were at the service of the criminal group and its leader, drug dealer, did not like the story documented in the newspaper.
Finally, reporter obeyed the order of the trafficker. The cited the backs of local police offices of Reynosa. 'The office was filled with computers and weapons, "tell me years later.
- Are you going to kill?
- Yes, I said I was wrong with his boys ...
on the table, "he said there was also food.
At that time, the Gulf cartel in its local representation in the hands of Gregorio Sauceda "Don Goyo" and Los Zetas, maintained certain harmony. They killed them and ran the cartel.
A reporter gave him permission to live. Days later I found out that the negotiation of the reporter-sniper in favor of it, bought extra lifetime. He had been involved with a group of journalists bought by the cartel to keep the murder. And they did from an essay.
Today, various media and intellectuals signed an agreement Agreement for the coverage of the violence in Mexico or as part of the initiative Mexico.
But I doubt that they are a day at the office against a capo and his AK-47 as the reporter of the border. I doubt much to report these areas.
heard that some newspapers were present we do have trained their journalists in security protocols for drug coverage but journalists are played daily skin safety reporting local issues in our country were not present in Mexico Initiative.
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