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### Viewing cable 09MONTERREY14, ATTACK ON TELEVISA TV STATION INCREASES PRESS INTIMIDATION

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09MONTERREY14 | 2009-01-12 19:07 | 2011-02-10 12:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Consulate Monterrey
Appears in these articles: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/02/10/index.php?section=politica&article=006n1pol

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    2009-01-12 19:54:00
    09MONTERREY14
    Consulate Monterrey
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTERREY 000014

    SIPDIS

    DEPT PASS TO ATF

    E.O. 12958: DECL:  1/12/2019
    TAGS: SNAR ASEC PGOV KCRM PHUM MX
    SUBJECT: ATTACK ON TELEVISA TV STATION INCREASES PRESS INTIMIDATION

    REF: 2008 MONTERREY 390

    MONTERREY 00000014  001.2 OF 002

    CLASSIFIED BY: Bruce Williamson, Consul General, Monterrey,
    State.
    REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
    ¶1.  (C ) Summary. On January 6 the Televisa TV station in
    Monterrey was attacked by unknown assailants, who shot eight .40
    caliber rounds into the station wall and threw a grenade over a
    fence into the parking lot, which exploded but did not injure
    anyone. The attack occurred while Televisa was broadcasting its
    nightly news show live from the station. The federal Attorney
    General's office (PGR) has concluded that most likely this was
    an attack by a drug cartel, and we agree with this assessment.
    Although no one was injured and it is unknown why Televisa was
    targeted, this attack increases the pressure on journalists to
    avoid reporting on drug cartel related issues. End Summary.

    The Attack on Televisa

            ¶2.  (SBU) The evening of January 6 at least two assailants
    attacked Televisa in a red car, and one of them got out and
    placed a message on a nearby parked car. They escaped, but their
    Pontiac Grand Am was found the following morning only 500 meters
    from the attack. State and federal police investigators found a
    .40 caliber Glock pistol in the car, along with clothes and
    shell casings. The attackers' written message left at Televisa
    said "Stop reporting just on us. Report on narco-officials. This
    is a warning."  Although no one was injured in the attack, the
    assailants could not have known if anyone was in the parking lot
    when they threw the grenade over Televisa's wall. The grenade's
    explosion left a crater one foot deep. The state police
    subsequently increased security for media outlets, and the local
    Mexican military on its initiative volunteered sent additional
    security to protect the Consulate. Note. The Consulate was
    attacked in a similar manner on October 11, 2008, and is located
    approximately one mile from the Televisa station. End Note.

            ¶3.  ( C) The investigation into this attack is being
    conducted by the federal Attorney General's office, the same
    office handling the October 11 attack on the Consulate. They
    have received strong cooperation from Consulate law enforcement
    personnel. The Consulate was contacted the night of the attack,
    and the RSO, DEA RAC and an ATF agent searched the crime scene.
    They recovered shell casings, which were analyzed by the Nuevo
    Leon State Crime Laboratory with an IBIS ballistic imaging
    machine, utilizing training provided by ATF. Those shell casings
    will be forwarded to the ATF lab for further analysis. Consulate
    officials took a soil sample, which will also be sent to the ATF
    lab for study. ATF traced the firearms recovered from the site
    and discovered that these guns were purchased in Texas one year
    ago. ATF has the specific information on the purchasers and will
    coordinate its investigation with the ATF Houston Field Office.
    The investigators recovered the grenade fuse spoon, which
    appears to be from a US military M67 fragmentation grenade. ATF
    is investigating if any M67 grenades from this lot were exported
    to foreign militaries. The M67 grenade is different than the M26
    grenade used to attack the Consulate on October 11, but five M67
    grenades were recovered during a raid several days after the
    Consulate attack in a Gulf Cartel warehouse.

    Unclear Why Televisa was Targeted

            ¶4.  (C ) Televisa news anchor XXXXXXXXXXXX (strictly
    protect) told PAO and Poloff that Televisa had not received any
    threats prior to the attack. Indeed, XXXXXXXXXXXX commented that the
    drug war has quieted down in Monterrey, and he could not think
    of any Televisa news stories which could have prompted an
    assault. XXXXXXXXXXXX thought that Televisa was attacked as a media
    symbol, not for any specific story. Moreover, he opined thought
    that the attack was for political purposes, designed to create
    instability and thereby undermine the current PRI Governor Jose
    Natividad Gonzalez Paras, and the Governor's favored candidate
    to succeed him in the July 2009 elections, his young Secretary
    of Government Rodrigo Medina. Note, the PRI has not chosen its
    candidate for Governor, but this has been a bad week for
    pre-candidate Medina. On the same day of the attack, there were
    several anonymous signs put up criticizing the Governor for lack
    of action against gangs, organized crime, public debt and
    traffic, and asking why should people vote for the Governor's
    candidate, widely assumed to be Medina. End Note.

    Interesting Trends in News Coverage

            ¶5.  (C ) XXXXXXXXXXXX stated that although news reporters and
    their families were worried, Televisa reporters still were going
    about their jobs. Televisa also denounced the attack in its
    national news program. The leading newspaper El Norte splashed
    the story all over its front page, with a picture of the crime
    scene. Curiously, the second leading newspaper Milenio led with
    an economic story, with only a lead at the bottom of the page,
    and the only description of the attack was a small story on page

    MONTERREY 00000014  002.2 OF 002

    ¶15. Poloff reviewed the internet sites of Milenio, and found
    that the Mexico City and Guadalajara versions led with the
    attack on Televisa in Monterrey (including a picture), but the
    Monterrey and Torreon sites led with other stories, and the
    story on the attack did not include a picture.

            ¶6.  (C ) Although this was the first attack on the media
    in Monterrey, the attack on Televisa follows a pattern of
    intimidation against journalists. As described in reftel, the
    leading newspaper El Norte has received many threats from drug
    cartels, leading the publisher to relocate his family to the
    United States. El Norte has continued to print stories,
    including in the January 4 Sunday edition (with no byline)
    discussing how drug cartels have branched out into extortion in
    the state of Veracruz. However, El Norte knows that the drug
    cartels have compromised some of its reporters (see reftel) and
    recently El Norte leadership told us that they are using
    substantial resources to follow some of their reporters to learn
    if they are connected to drug cartels. Given this, it seems
    likely that some Televisa reporters could also be compromised.
    FSN media specialist recalled a case where two Televisa
    reporters disappeared several years ago, and press colleagues
    thought they were tied to one of the drug cartels.

            ¶7.  (C ) Comment. The Televisa incident is an escalation
    over the October 11 attack on the Consulate. It was conducted
    during working hours, the assailants pulled the pin on the
    grenade, and the attack could well have killed or injured a
    Televisa employee. It is hard to fully interpret the message
    left at the scene, although clearly it is designed to intimidate
    journalists from reporting on narcotics crimes. As explained in
    reftel, news reporters are in a quandary, since if they report
    narco-killings by one cartel, that cartel is mad with them. But
    if they fail to report the crime the rival cartel may threaten
    them. Although the Monterrey press report on narcotics related
    killings, they do not investigate the influence of the drug
    cartels in politics. The message referring to
    narco-officeholders appears to point to Governor Gonzalez Paras.
    One cartel may think that his administration is protecting the
    other. End Comment.
    WILLIAMSONB

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