Miroslava Breach

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Honor for Miroslava Breach on March 24, 2017 in Chihuahua

Miroslava Breach Velducea (born August 7, 1962 , † March 23, 2017 in Chihuahua ) was a Mexican journalist who reported on the drug war in Mexico and the influence of drug cartels and was murdered in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua in 2017.

background

Miroslava Breach Velducea has worked for several media. She was best known nationwide because she has been reporting as a correspondent in the state of Chihuahua for the national daily newspaper La Jornada since 1997 . She also wrote for the Norte Internet platform . She repeatedly addressed the influence of the drug cartels on the economy, politics and the social fabric in the city of Chihuahua. Breach denounced the inaction of the authorities, the links between politics and crime and the numerous human rights violations. Miroslava Breach Velducea left three children.

Journalist Ricardo Monlui was shot dead in Veracruz state just days before Miroslava Breach's murder . According to data from the Mexican National System for Public Security, 3,779 people were killed in Mexico in the first two months of 2017, up to the death of Velducea.

murder

Breach Velducea was waiting in front of her house at around 7 a.m. on the morning of March 23, 2017 at the wheel of her car for her son, whom she wanted to take to school. According to investigations by the authorities, the unknown killer shot her from several sides. Her body was shot at least eight times. Breach died on the way to the hospital.

The authorities secured a video of the killer leaving a piece of cardboard with written information on it. It read: “Because of talkativeness. Then come the friends of the governor and the governor. The 80th "" The 80th is a local organized crime boss with ties to the Juárez drug cartel.

Reactions

The Mexican Senate and the House of Representatives observed a minute's silence for Miroslava Breach. In the parliament of the state of Chihuahuas, angry colleagues demanded the investigation of the murder of their colleague and of their colleague Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego, who had been killed in the same state the year before . The United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have called for thorough clarification.

With the journalist and police reporter Cecilio Pineda Birto , a third media worker was shot dead in early March 2017 in the state of Guerrero this month alone. Pineda had previously received regular organized crime threats.

In August 2020, Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, who, according to the prosecutor, was the intellectual author of the murder of Miroslava Breach, was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Miroslava Breach Velducea - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists. Accessed September 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c La Jornada correspondent Miroslava Breach shot dead in Mexico . In: amerika21 . ( amerika21.de [accessed on September 21, 2017]).
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Mexico: drug lord must be imprisoned for 50 years for murder of journalist - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Breach, Miroslava
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breach Velducea, Miroslava (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1962
DATE OF DEATH 23rd March 2017
Place of death Chihuahua