By Ingrid Bachmann
Martín López, a journalist and host at Canal 44 in Ciudad Juárez, has joined the ranks of media workers who have sought asylum in the U.S. border city of El Paso, after receiving threats from drug traffickers.
Also in Juárez, the newspapers El Mexicano and Norte de Juárez received telephoned bomb threats, El Pueblo reports. Police are attempting to trace the calls to find those responsible.
In López's case, Notimex explains that Wednesday morning, a graffiti message threatened to cut off the reporter’s head. The message said the violence is a reprisal against López’s brother, a traffic officer who was recently arrested crossing the border with cases of ammunition.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
