Reporteros con conjones… ¡grandes cojones!
Por Esto! is the ballsy Merida daily that — after withstanding an grenade attack (blamed on environmentalists by the local authorities) — was protected by taxi drivers, housewives, shoe-shine men… the real people.
Here’s today’s front page:
And here’s a translation of the on-line text…
POR ESTO! denounces the alarming increase in narcotics consumption and the indisciminate and overt dealing in Progresso in particular, and the Yucatan in general.
Manuel “el Negro” Chalé Martínez organized the hit men who serve the organized criminal interests of “La Vaca” Patrón Laviada.
Fragmentation grenades were thrown against a police station in Progresso to distract federal forces, guaranteeing the secure delivery of narcotics to Patrón Lavida, whose ties to organized crime must be investigated.
HOLY SHIT!
¡Por Esto! may not be the world’s greatest newspaper, but they sure are the nerviest. Reporters and editors have been killed for less in Mexico, and even on this side of the border, I won’t mention — not even with the qualifier “alleged” — the names of some of our local … ahem… agricultural importers.
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I am sorry to have to disappoint you but I don’t think you understand a dot of what Por Esto! really is and what its agenda is. You are lost in the jungle of Mexican printed garbage. “La Vaca” Patrón is simply a successful real estate businessperson. He looks for land and buys it if it has a good price. He has been in the business even before he left for his 2-year activity with poor people of Chiapas, as sort of a missionary, but actually did the work under the instructions of a group of nuns who can easily testify as to such activities. La Vaca has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with any sort of illegal activities. He simply didn’t want to “pay the fee” for the Por Esto! not to write about him. The incredible fact is that it has been IMPOSSIBLE to shut the damn rotten paper through legal means. That is how solid the freedom of press is in the Mexican Country.
Also, I am sorry to have to mention the fact that your “cojones” journalists have been attacked ONLY when they have BETRAYED those who paid them not to continue mentioning them and in spite of the payment, they “forgot” (probably wanted more money) and continued. In other words, the real “mafia” does act as expected. This is the obvious proof that “La Vaca” is completely alien to any of the stupid attacks he constantly receiving from Por Esto!
They have known that they can write ANYTHING they want about the Patrón Laviadas, a group of the most honest people universally speaking that you may encounter in your little or big life.
The Por Esto! has a diatribe against Roberto Hernandez simply because at one time this man didn’t want to accept the terms of a credit solicited by Por Esto! “to save” the paper. Apparently they didn’t need it, since they have survived.
I am a simple citizen of the world who has been in contact with people that work in close contact with “La Vaca”: not one of them has a single complaint about the man: ¡they love him! They express themselves about the guy as a super honest person, always thinking in terms of what is best for those around him and for the state of Yucatán in general.
Man, if you really want to inform the Americans about what is going in the Yucatan Peninsula, you better concentrate on getting the truth from those that know it from first hand sources.
And not from those who have been rejected when they have made dirty proposals. Please, understand before you continue. Americans living in the Yucatan, without exception, understand this with even more clarity than a lot of the Yucatecans themselves do.
Help Yucatan by not backing what is nothing but garbage press.