The Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández announced this Thursday that she sued the renowned actor Andrés García, whom she linked to drug trafficking in her book “Emma and the other ladies of the narco”, after he insulted and threatened the writer in a video posted on Youtube.
“I have summoned you to report that (…) on January 24 I filed a criminal complaint for threats against Andrés García for threats issued on January 8 in the video ‘Message to Anabel Hernández’”, detailed the investigative journalist at a press conference in Mexico City.
The criminal complaint was filed with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and was ratified by said institution on February 1, she explained.
Hernández clarified that the FGR should also investigate the alleged links of the actor with criminal organizations, since García himself recognized in the video and on many other occasions meeting drug lords.
In her book, the Mexican woman, who currently resides outside of Mexico due to threats, assures that García was related to different drug traffickers, mainly with Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the extinct Beltrán Leyva organization and killed in a confrontation with sailors in 2009.
“I requested that, in addition to threats, gender-based violence be taken into account. Andrés García has confessed to being a friend of drug traffickers and having received them at his house. He also confessed to having weapons, including machine guns, ”added the journalist.
In his Youtube video published three weeks ago, the actor of 80 years old, originally from Santo Domingo but living in Mexico, insulted and directly threatened Hernández, whom he described as a “supposedly (supposedly) journalist.”
“I know almost all of them, and some are much more decent and much kinder than her, but since I have earned money with them, check it out, you will have to check before a judge”, criticized the actor on his YouTube channel.
In the video the actor had assured that he would sue the journalist, but she said this Thursday that so far no lawsuit has been received, neither from him nor from other celebrities such as the actresses Ninel Conde or Galilea Montijo, who also appear in the book, both romantically related to Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PRESS
During the press conference, Hernández insisted on the worrying nature of the daily threats against journalists for “telling the actions of others” in a country where, so far this year, four journalists have already been murdered.
“I believe in a journalism that calls for accountability, I believe in a journalism that is not for sale, that resists. We are the historians of the present and if we don’t do it, no one else will,” the journalist stated.
According to the organization Article 19, Mexico sum 149 journalists killed for their work from 2000 to date, 29 of them during the current mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which began in December 2018.
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