A journalist in northern Mexico is currently fearing for her life after a feared drug lord announced that he was going to kill her because of her reporting. Despite the threat being public through a narco-banner, Mexico’s federal government, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, refused to give the journalist protection, even though they have a program to safeguard news workers at risk.
The issue came to light last week, when gunmen working for Jose Rodolfo “El Rodo” Ramones Barba, 41, hung banners in the city of San Nicolas, Nuevo Leon. In those banners, El Rodo warned that his rivals had failed in killing him and that he was going to get them back. In that same banner, El Rodo threatened Valdez by name-calling her a
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