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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Journalist and owner of 4TV channel kidnapped in Michoacán

Posted by DD from material at Debate

Dove hunting season (which is the first legal hunting season of the year) in Mexico doesn't start until August 21 but it almost seems that some people in the country can't wait for legal hunting season to begin.  They are hunting journalist.  
 
It is almost incomprehensible that only 3 days after the murder of Javier Valdez  in Culiacan, Guerrero and the uproar that arose after his killing,  Salvador Adame Pardo, a journalist and owner of the 4TV channel in the municipality of Francisco J. Múgica, Michoacán , was kidnapped Thursday at about 19:00 hours in the Nueva Italia community, Michoacán.   Six journalist have already been killed this year Mexico, family and friends of Adame are hoping he does not become number 7.  

 A group of armed and masked men detained Adame Thursday evening at a water purification plant and took him away by force in a black van towards Nuevo Corondiro.   There are still no clues as to the whereabouts of the Michoacán television broadcaster.   


Local media reported he had been a critic of the mayor of the town of Mujica .  He had received threats on his cell phone.   

Last April Adame  had been arrested by elements of the State Public Security  Secretariat when a group of women were protesting at City Hall about some action of the Mayor.  He wrote on his Facebook page that after the State Police had evacuated the building the police beat him and his wife and 11 other women who had been evacuated from the City Hall.
 

 "The Special Operations Group beat my wife and 11 women . " It is very unfortunate to see these defenseless women being beaten, I have no words to describe, "Adame Pardo wrote in his Facebook account.

Even though there were witnesses at the water purification plant that saw the abduction by a group of armed masked men and saw them forcibly take him away, when the family tried to file a compliant about the abduction they were told by the state’s anti-kidnapping prosecutor that they must wait 62 hours from the time of Adame’s disappearance before making a formal complaint.  It had been 15 hours then since his abduction and there had been no statement from the government advising the public of the kidnapping..

It was later claimed that  information of the possible kidnapping against the journalist  was not made generally known to the public by the authorities so as not to hinder the investigations of the case.

The Inter American Press Association said Adame had stopped covering stories of violence several years ago due to pressure from drug traffickers.  But he continued to report on local government corruption.   

The kidnapping came less than 24 hours after President  Pena Nieto  announced new measures to protect journalists, six of whom have been murdered so far this year.  

Silvano Aureoles, Governor of Michoacán , was one of the Governors who did not attend the meeting that the federal government convened last May 17 where they were announced.

53 comments:

  1. I pray for his safe return feel sad for his family it is a shame that these reporter's can't do there job the USA should stop sending aid to Mexico until they get there shit together may Jesus be with his family

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  2. Sick and sad country that Mexico has become :-(

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  3. Journalist need to report more on Political corruption that protects cartels, start with the head of the snake, El Mencho talks & threatens military personal via cel phone when they get to close to him.

    How does he have phone number??

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    1. 6:14 if a pendejo like you can have devices to text and la mencha can have computerized weapons manufacturing machines, it is easy to see how la Mencha can have a miserable "cell phone"

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  4. It's Looking like threatening tactics from unknown individuals to halt investigation took a dramatic turn.
    Another example of how reporters face perils for exposing corruption. Moreover how municipal officials disregard the transparencies which took place. Despite the fact of being kidnapped with testimony of witnesses, process of filing a report takes 60 hrs . Such incompetence from those whose duty is to serve and protect. Furthermore the tenacity to appeal the concerns of those voices with discretion of investigations.
    Let's just pray that no tragedy has occurred to a good man. Like many who face the reality of speaking out and protesting against widespread corruption.

    E42

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  5. Good people in Mexico suffer so much ...

    Where is KARMA ???

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    1. This is karma. When the Mexican people stand by and watch for 20 plus yrs, this is the outcome.

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    2. 3:25 when I, a mexican people, stand, and see, the results,
      of a 15 years war for profit against a peoples armed with not much more than rocks and sand and private contractors rockets hacked up into IEDs, I laugh at the pretenses of said US private contractors, their greed is showing it dirty calzones.
      I don't want to see the same results in a mexico where we have about 1/2 million murdered and disappeared but not so much destruction, and pain and suffering.
      Of course, if "the mxican atomic bombs of mass destruction" are ever found, mexicans will be in very deep shit.

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  6. President peña nieto will give him free band-aids when he re-appears.
    Now who can deny the SSPE in every state are.just a bunch of criminals?
    --60 hours are waited when you escape with the boyfriend, not when someone has been abducted in public like this in front of witnesses, Obviously somebody is playing dirtier than dirty, the mayor and the SSPE, and the federales.

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  7. This clearly shows how the government and Narcos work together. He criticizes a public figure and goes missing. They are obviously making an effort to shut everyone up in Mexico. Maybe Trump is not so bad after all?

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    1. @8:10 Trump is also trying to shut the media up but just not using deadly force to do it (as far as we know) .

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  8. Did you see the one on forum I translated Friday? :(

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    1. 8:46 we don't know no forum...
      Must be some cultural or creative differences.

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    2. @2:46PM If you click the button at the top of the page that says BB Forum it will take you to the Borderland Beat Forum which is very much a part of Borderland Beat.

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    3. Yes, I know, i've been there, a while ago, some articles make it to here, and there are many respectable people there too. My skills don't go that far about crashing the forum so I trash it from here, no Twitter. No Facebook no instygram either, puros kilos aqui

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  9. Man if my own people was kiddanping or extorcion me I will rise up in arms like the michoacanos did a couple of years back good thing I live in Durango no need to it's calm over here

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    1. All states have a cartel problem not just Michoacan, they extort and kill innocent people every day

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    2. michoacanos rose but quickly got infaltrated

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    3. Uea, specially Durango. Isn't there where the triangulo dorado is? Doubt it's safe, it's only somewhat safe if they mind their business but eventually it's going to hit home when those sicarios want something you got.

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    4. Durango was safe, but now that Chacorta has not been around for a while, things may change, like they changed when el ozito osiel or la chapa, or el barbas or la barbie got gone.
      The vultures swooped in like unos pinchis cuervos to steal all the business they could.

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  10. do the mexican tv news report this at all?

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    1. Does the US's???

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    2. They don't want to piss certain People off. So they stay on their lane.

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    3. @1:45PM I am sure it got come Mx. tv coverage. I saw a story broadcast on Carmen Aristegui's show and I know that in the morning of the day he was killed he did a TV interview on a morning TV show called “El Almohadazo,”

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    4. @1:28PM Yes the story of his murder got fairly good coverage in US TV and radio and I even saw some tv coverage in Great Britain, France, and on Eurovistion.

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    5. 2:39 well, appearing with la Aristegui is a national emergency, I remember the french resistance took great pains to not be in the news, during WWII, they just wanted to blow some holes on the "Thurd Reich".
      Real Mexican journalists are valuable, too valuable to be losing them so openly.

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  11. I fight the forces of evil!!!
    -ScumFighter

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  12. In 2016, the authorities discovered 1,500 new illegal pipeline taps in Puebla, roughly 800 more than the year before. None of this would be imaginable without at least a certain amount of complicity between Pemex workers, who have both the expertise and tools to tap the pipelines, Pemex contractors, and the gangs of highly organized criminals. As Carlos Loret de Mata reports, new drone footage has revealed that the gangs have achieved economies of scale and operational efficiences that would be the envy of many of the world’s largest corporations:
    It’s midnight. There are 148 trucks lining up to fill their drums with gasoline. They are neatly parked in the surrounding streets. Everyone knows their place, they respect it, they perform with perfect choreography.
    …It could be the distribution line of Bimbo or Coca-Cola. It looks like a Pemex terminal. But it’s not. It’s a hamlet next to the Puebla-Orizaba highway where the huachicoleros (fuel thieves) drilled a duct and their trucks are just waiting to load the stolen product and take it wherever they’re told to: gas stations, transport companies, big consumers.
    The scene was captured by a drone belonging to the Mexican federal government and is to date the most conclusive proof of the sheer scale and scope of the criminal organizations behind the oil siphoning.
    The sale of stolen gasoline is now the second most profitable source of funds for Mexico’s criminal gangs, behind the trafficking of drugs. The pilfered oil is sold at half the price (or less) of what drivers would have to pay at a Pemex gas station.
    Mexico’s black market for gasoline has been growing for years, but it was given an almighty boost at the beginning of 2017 when the government decided, against all reason, to follow through on a previous pledge to withdraw public subsidies that had helped keep gasoline prices artificially low, just as inflationary pressures were building. The result was a 20% surge in average gasoline prices, which triggered a wave of angry protests throughout the country.
    The depth of public anger is understandable: Mexicans spend more of their annual income on fuel than residents of 60 other countries tracked by Bloomberg, due largely to the country’s low salaries and high gasoline consumption. The Peña Nieto government had repeatedly promised that market liberalization would lead to markedly lower prices at the pump. The exact opposite has occurred, with average prices for gas and diesel soaring by around a third since Peña Nieto’s oil reforms were passed in 2014.
    Now, despite the Bank of Mexico’s frantic efforts to keep inflation contained by raising its policy rate to 6.75% (up from 2.5% early last year), the inflation rate has soared to 5.8% (via Trading Economics):

    Pemex is bleeding oil and funds at an alarming rate. For over 70 years, Pemex served as a vast funding asset, at times providing as much as one-third of total government revenues. But in 2016, it became a national liability, requiring a $4.2 billion bailout from the government.
    Further fuel tax rises may also be needed to keep the country’s increasingly strained fiscal health in check. But the more prices rise at the pump, the higher they will push demand on the black market, which in turn will feed the need for more pilfered fuel. In the meantime, the government has dispatched 2,000 more soldiers to protect Puebla’s pipelines. And just like that, a region that had largely escaped the mindless barbarity of Mexico’s drug wars found itself slap bang on the front lines of a new emerging war, this time over gasoline.

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    1. I was reading in an oil publication that Pemex's revenues before provided the country with 40% of their funds.Recently though it's only at 14%,huge difference and that now Pemex is 30% more liability than what it's actually worth due to huge pension inefficiencies among other things.In other words Mexico is in big caca.During the good times lots of that money plundered now during bad times nothing to operate with.

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  13. This man has been deprived of his freedom THREE times in the last four years and yet continues to try to do this work .
    He was going to cover an outbreak of violence by criminals in which 30 vehicles were burned.
    What do you find funny about that ?

    Plus, that's an insult to animals.

    Am I missing something?

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  14. It wouldn't be funny if it was your fAmily member... don't be a hater

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  15. Something tells me the cartels have intentionally or by accident seemed to banded together and have declared war on the press that reports their crimes and atrocities and gets the military after them. Seems Mexico will only get worse as the meth epidemic is getting worse as far as users.

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    1. No band of such to declare war on the press.
      The violence on journalists and media is from organized criminals who wish to remain anonymous( government/ narcos).

      E42

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  16. 4:02 I am sure I can't find one "mexican" that accuses you of being the rotten sanabagan you are, so I'll do my best to fulfill the vacuum.
    130 million mexicans did not kidnap this journalist or any of the other mexican crime victims, just to be accused by a pendejo like you.

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  17. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The situation in Mexico never changes -- why be a martyr when it's obvious your between a rock and a hard-place. Nobody is out their trying to protect these journalists from harm for covering the corruption that exits in MX. To many hands on the take. Even those of a monarchy'a banks. No el jefe is not a king. He'a just the emperor of La republica. Maybe the journalists should just cover tabloid TV and talk about the protagonistas of the novelas. Hey, maybe el guero Castro has a new one out. The mediavisa needs to put out a new interprete de la cancion. Alias el contador

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    1. The new "El Güero Castro novela" is real kife, peepool say he has been doing la pinchi gabiota's landscaping again.
      Hey, Italian playboys and international fugitives need to see some money, la gabiota's benefactors are not going to pay them forever.

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  18. PRI is silencing freespeach for the upcoming presidential election giving the green light to carteles!

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  19. maybe people should mind there own business and stop reporting you ever think of that ?????

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    1. @10:55PM Shining a light on and informing the public of corrupt public officials is not "minding someone elses business", it is exercising their right as a free press to freedom of speech which is corner stone of a democracy.

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    2. @10:55 pm
      Maybe you are complicit with the scumbags for such response.

      E42

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    3. People from the underworld look at this kind of reporting as 'snitching' same like a citizen reporting a crime same thing.Maybe the politicians these days are running a little scared after all these public embezzlements and impunity is at stake.

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    4. We are all each other business, people that want to steal your part of our business always tell you to mind "your own business" because they want to steal it because stealing is their business.
      --They also want to spend bimmions of dollars because their commission is built in...

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  20. I forget what politician it was, maybe Pence who said a few days ago that the drug problem is the United States fault, if only they brought light to the issues happening like this one.

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  21. It's monday...publish a diff story... I am curious what's going on in Sonora? Have Los memos fought for more territory or they just waiting it out?. Anybody out there know?

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  22. I'm hearing a news out of El Porvenir that a local came across "$200,000,000 buried" near a vacant lot when he tried to pull up an old car hood he was hoping to sell as scrap metal. My source spoke to someone who is a reporter that lives near Fort Hancock, Texas. Has anyone else heard about this?

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    1. Yes, I have heard about this! They say there is more buried there. I was talking to my cousin who lives near Houston. He said that he'd heard it while at the community center. But people are scared to say much about it because they don't who the money belongs to. But my cousin said the money was probably buried in the last 3-4 years. I don't know. We'll see.

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  23. 4:19 comparing the peniless narco gangbangers that the government can't defeat in spite of billon dollar budgets and official instithtional impunity to government forces is a caoital offense, for the way it insults everybody's intelligence

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  24. I said it before and I'll say it again, we the USA should invade Mexico and install our own government and stay until a new constitution is drafted and law and order is top priority.I would re-join up with my unit in a heartbeat for this operation.

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    1. 9:24 imagine, 130 more Hispanic voters from theexican protectorate, soon there will be hundreds of taco trucks around the WHITES' HOUSE...
      I think the powers that bee are kept in check and outta balance because of that, and then the.mexicans could get equal powers and get their own pistolas...nooo, callese los ojos güey.

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  25. Entire foto gallery of mini lic!! www.narcotraficoenmexico.com found 4 days ago! It's him at his kids bday party, family portrait w his pops, etc. Google "fotogaleria MINI LIC"

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  26. @7:25 you got that right that puerco @4:02 es un pendejo

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  27. 8:34 we the puercos don't want to be compared to caca de perro, aka "dog shit", we are better humans than most humans too!

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