"Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate death threats against two crime reporters, Óscar Balderas and Luis Chaparro, and take all appropriate steps to guarantee their safety and that of other reporters covering organized crime, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. [...] The threats came just weeks after unidentified assailants killed two journalists in Mexico.
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'The brazen threats against Óscar Balderas and Luis Chaparro are part of an ongoing campaign to terrorize any journalist who provides in-depth reporting on organized crime in Mexico,' said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. 'These threats can only happen in a context of festering impunity for the country’s press, something Mexican authorities continue to fail address.'
Both Balderas and Chaparro are experienced investigative reporters. Balderas hosts and contributes to several news shows on nationally syndicated radio and television channels, including La Saga, Milenio, ADN40, and MVS Noticias. Chaparro, formerly based in the northern city of Ciudad Juárez but now in the United States, hosts online news show Pie de Nota."
