“Socalj” for Borderland Beat
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The murder of Javier Valdez [the editor of Riodoce newspaper] was ordered by you. You threatened and pressured him not to publish the interview he did with my father.
First, on Saturday, you asked Javier not to write the article [covering his interview]. Riodoce closed out their weekly edition on the previous Friday, and on Saturday, you contacted him. They asked him not to write about it, but he told them that he had already written the story.
Then they told him not to publish it, he told them ‘I can’t do that’. And then, he told them that the newspaper was already at the printer’s [facilities, being printed].
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At midnight, they asked him to sell them every copy of the newspaper [which had been printed], which he also refused to do.
The next day an armed group arrived at the newspaper’s distribution facility.
In the end, they didn’t take the copies. What they did instead was follow each one of the distributors and as they arrived at each one of the stores where the newspaper was sold, they bought every copy. It was like a seizure.
Then they threatened Javier Valdez again and yet he still published the report a second time.
I know this because Javier told us and also because Ismael Bojorquez, founder of Riodoce and Javier’s partner has stated his. He and Javier’s wife know well that the Chapitos were the ones to blame for Javier’s death, but they have been threatened to say that I was the one responsible for his death.
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| Javier Valdez Cárdenas was killed 6 years ago today in Culiacan, Sinaloa. |