Mexico Metropolis, Mexico – Famend investigative journalist Anabel Hernández on October 21, accused Mexico’s ruling MORENA political occasion of harassment and mentioned that any future assaults on her or her household must be attributed to the occasion.
Celebration loyalists allegedly verbally harassed the “Narcoland” creator exterior the New York Metropolis trial of former Mexican Safety Chief Genaro García Luna on October 16.
“I’m involved, and I do maintain them accountable. I wish to categorically state that I maintain the MORENA occasion accountable for something that occurs to me or my household in Mexico, the US, or wherever else resulting from their involvement on this setup,” she told Mexican information outlet Aristegui Noticias.
Hernández has made a storied, 28-year-long profession of showing Mexico’s largest scandals associated to drug cartels and elected officers. Her reporting has uncovered corruption within the highest echelons of presidency and has helped to indicate the world how deeply embedded Mexican political establishments are with organized crime.
In her newest e book “La Historia Secreta: AMLO y Cártel de Sinaloa,” (The Secret Story: AMLO and the Sinaloa Cartel), Hernández claims that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and present President Claudia Sheinbaum, in addition to governors, mayors, and officers from the MORENA occasion, have been financed by the Sinaloa Cartel, one of many largest, strongest felony organizations on this planet.
Exterior the federal courthouse on Wednesday, MORENA loyalists harassed the journalist, screaming “traitor,” “gossiper” and “promote out.”
Hernández has suffered a number of assassination makes an attempt because the publication of her e book “Los Señores del Narco” (Narcoland in English) in 2010, the place she accused a number of Mexican officers of collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel, together with the now-convicted García Luna, who she accused of ordering her homicide.
Her profession has been showcased by threats of violence and armed bodyguards assigned by the federal government to guard her. Regardless, the 53-year-old journalist has been ironclad in investigating the deep ties between the cartels and Mexican politicians.
Her investigations have adopted severe accusations towards Mexico’s strongest figures, similar to President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012), chief throughout García Luna’s time as Mexico’s safety chief, and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), López Obrador’s predecessor.
Whereas president, López Obrador championed Hernández for her work, calling her a “skilled and brave journalist” and an “distinctive lady.” Nevertheless, when her investigations started pointing to López Obrador and his MORENA occasion, as an alternative of his political rivals, the chief started bashing her throughout his morning press briefings, going so far as to accuse her of being a double agent for U.S. safety businesses.
Hernández has claimed that López Obrador and President Sheinbaum have been financed by the Sinaloa Cartel, particularly the previous chief Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who was arrested on July 25 and is at the moment awaiting trial within the U.S.
In accordance with her sources, she has found that the present ruling occasion is an enabler of the Sinaloa Cartel and has secured a community of high-profile politicians to empower its operations, together with President Sheinbaum and Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, who has been beforehand accused of getting ties with the cartel.
Because the Zambada trial unfolds, Hernández has pledged to maintain reporting on what the previous drug kingpin has to say concerning his affect over Mexico’s present political dynasty.
“What Mayo Zambada has to say about his collusion with the MORENA occasion, with Governor Rocha Moya, and with the numerous MORENA municipal presidents in Sinaloa, together with AMLO, who (was) the president of the republic as a result of the cartel financed three presidential campaigns. There’s a lot to say about this, and nobody, not even with a gun to my head, has been in a position to silence me, a lot much less now,” she mentioned.
