Mexico City (CNN)One of Mexico's astir almighty cause cartels has threatened a salient Mexican quality anchor successful a video message.
In the video posted connected Monday, a masked antheral claiming to beryllium the person of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), threatens to way down and "get" Milenio TV anchor Azucena Uresti for her sum of the cartel. Uresti regularly covers cartel unit and self-styled civilian militias formed to support communities against organized transgression successful her nightly newscasts.
CNN cannot independently authenticate the video.
In the video, six equipped men situation a masked antheral who claims to beryllium cartel person Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, besides known arsenic "El Mencho."
"As a person of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, I'm straight addressing Milenio News," the antheral reads aloud. "The lone happening I accidental to you is that you request to beryllium balanced, to not thin to 1 side, don't messiness with businesses that aren't yours."
"I guarantee you that if you proceed talking astir me, Azucena Uresti, wherever you are, I'll get you, and I volition marque you devour your words, adjacent if they impeach maine of femicide due to the fact that you don't cognize me," helium besides said.
On her premier clip amusement connected Milenio TV connected Monday, anchor Azucena Uresti said she'd entered into the national extortion programme successful the aftermath of the threat, the scope of which isn't clear. She besides issued her acknowledgment for each the enactment she said she'd received successful the aftermath of the video, adding, "Our enactment volition ever instrumentality to the information and to pass connected the world of a state similar ours."
Uresti went connected to springiness her enactment to each journalists threatened for their reporting, saying, "I besides express, arsenic has happened connected different occasions, my solidarity and enactment to hundreds of colleagues who stay threatened oregon person had to permission their places of root but who proceed to amusement the worth of informing and the worth of this profession."
Milenio Media radical published a connection acknowledging that reporting connected the organized transgression is simply a "risk, but that the Milenio radical "maintains an unwavering committedness to proceed doing truthful successful an impartial way."
It besides offered enactment "to each our colleagues and Azuncena Uresti, honorable and fantabulous journalists, successful regards to the threats and slander to which they person been subjected."
The Mexico bureau of Article 19, an enactment that promotes state of speech, has recorded 141 murders of journalists successful the state since 2000. Mexico besides ranks a grim 143rd retired of 180 countries successful Reporters without Borders' 2021 property state ranking.
"Year aft year, Mexico continues to beryllium 1 of the world's astir unsafe and deadliest countries for the media. Despite immoderate constricted caller progress, it is sinking ever deeper into a spiral of unit and impunity," Reporters without Borders wrote.
"Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's president since December 2018, inactive hasn't carried retired the reforms needed to rein successful this unit and impunity," the enactment besides said.
López Obrador connected Tuesday condemned the threatening video and expressed enactment for Uresti.
"I privation to explicit my solidarity to the writer Azucena Uresti for the menace she received from 1 of the transgression organizations, I privation to archer her that she has counted connected america since I recovered out, connection has already been established with her," helium said successful his regular briefing
López Obrador went connected to accidental that journalists would beryllium protected. "We're going to support Azucena, and we are to support each Mexicans; it's our responsibility."
"The authorization is nary longer successful the hands of the mafias, truthful I reiterate my solidarity with this journalist, Azucena Uresti, and to each journalists guaranteeing that our authorities volition ever support those who transportation retired this profession," helium added.
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