Narco Blog: Gunman Threaten Journalist and Newspaper in Guerrero (WARNING EXPLICIT PHOTO)

This week, an armed group violently stormed into El Sol de Chilpancingo. Threatening by gunpoint, they pointed a gun at the head of the newspaper editor. They insisted that workers suspend the printing of the evening edition, which had begun.

In broad daylight, the criminals entered the journal located on the busy Avenida Vicente Guerrero.  The gunmen demanded that the newspaper owned by Pedro Julio Valdez Vilchis, Director of Communications Social Guerrero State Government does not publish a Narco message signed by La Familia Michoacana. The story showed a man who was dismembered, skinned and roasted, a few meters from the Municipal Transit facility on Monday. The gunmen threatened that if they did not suspend the publishing of the article that they would harm the director of the newspaper as well as all the reporters in the team, saying they knew the addresses of all, and their families. They also threatened the delivery boys who were expecting the newspaper to be ready to begin delivery. The journalists were left with no option and suspended the circulation of the newspaper. No one filed a complaint for assault.

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