Insurgents Hit Mexico’s Largest TV Network
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Mexico’s largest television broadcaster and the largest producer of Spanish language content in the world, Televisa, has come under attack in the northern city of Monterrey.
Unknown assailants threw a grenade early Sunday in front of the station, which shattered some of the building’s windows, but there were no reports of casualties.
Investigators say it was a warning for journalists to stay away from reporting on drug war violence, Reuters reported.
Alejandro Hernandez, a cameraman for Televisa as well as Javier Canales, another cameraman for Multimedios Television, were abducted last month by drug traffickers in the northern state of Durango. The journalists were kidnapped along with a Televisa reporter, Hector Gordoa, after they had covered a prison scandal.
Protests at the jail in Gomez Palacio erupted after state prosecutors accused officials of releasing inmates to carry out targeted killings.
Mexico is regarded by some press organizations as the most dangerous country in Latin America for journalists.
At least seven journalists have been killed in the country so far in 2010. Many more reporters have received threats from drug gangs.
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