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 Travel Writers' Resources | April 2007 
Grenade Attack Causes No Injuries
 El Universal
No one was hurt when unidentified assailants hurled a grenade at the offices of the Cambio newspaper in the northern city of Hermosillo, an editor at the daily told EFE Wednesday.
Beatriz Espinosa said the grenade landed in the paper´s offices at around 8:00 p.m. Tuesday and made "a pretty big din" but did not cause much damage.
"Our workday was interrupted by an explosion," the journalist said, adding that the attack was the first on the newspaper and also the first on a daily in Sonora, which borders the United States.
"The grenade was tossed from the street into the interior of the building but fell in an administrative area where there were no people," Espinosa said.
Cambio was able to put out its Wednesday edition despite the attack.
Espinosa said she was surprised at the attack on a newspaper that some time ago abandoned coverage of the illegal drug trade to avoid attacks on itself and its reporters.
Two reporters have disappeared in Sonora in recent years. The first was Alfredo Jiménez Mota, who went missing on April 2, 2005, and another reporter disappeared two days ago.
In both cases, investigators have not been able to determine what happened to the journalists and it is believed drug traffickers or other organized crime groups are behind the disappearances.
Editor-in-chief Roberto Gutiérrez said after the incident that the attack was not just against Cambio but "against the profession of journalism" in that area of northern Mexico, which has been rocked by a wave of drug-related violence in recent years.
In recent months, the International Federation of Journalists, the Inter American Press Association and other organizations have condemned the wave of violence against journalists in Mexico and warned about the rising level of crime in the country.
Last week, the Latin American Federation of Journalists said 33 journalists were murdered in Mexico in less than seven years, and five others disappeared. |
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