Whatever happened to a letter to the editor?
16 September 2009
The directors of a Mexican newspaper, Diario del Istmo, have filed complaints with human rights commissioners and the public prosecutor after a police chief issued a death threat to a reporter and stormed into its offices accompanied by armed colleagues.
Raúl de Lucio Rincón, chief of the intermunicipal police in Nanchital, in the state of Veracruz, is reported to have threatened reporter Artemio Hurtado Ruiz. It followed an article in the paper detailing claims of police abuse.
When the paper then reported the threat … Rincón and several of his men “stormed into” the newspaper’s office to complain. They left after he had made his protest.
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