Mexico: journalists from Iguala, Guerrero, ask for protection; criminal group threatens to kill them

Source: Animal Político
October 16, 2020

"Federal authorities recognized that the spiral of violence in Iguala and the threatening of the local press is due to the division of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, suspected of the disappearance of 43 college students in 2014."

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