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Witness: El Chapo’s Sons Murdered Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez

HeadlineJan 24, 2019

In New York City, a federal jury heard testimony Wednesday blaming the sons of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán for the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez. Valdez died in May of 2017 after he was dragged out of his car and shot 12 times, less than a block from the office of the newspaper he co-founded in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. On Wednesday, a former lieutenant in the Sinoloa drug cartel testified at El Chapo’s trial in Brooklyn that Valdez was murdered after he ignored death threats by El Chapo’s sons against publishing an interview. In March of 2017, after one of his colleagues was assassinated, Javier Valdez said, “Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. No to silence.” Valdez would be assassinated just two months later.

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