QR journalist denounces threats from Palazuelos

Patricia Vazquez

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, February 17, 2022, p. 13

Cancún, QR., The independent journalist Pedro Canché denounced that as a result of his publications on alleged acts of corruption by Roberto Palazuelos, a candidate for the governorship of Quintana Roo for Movimiento Ciudadano, he has received death threats, and blamed the actor for what it can happen to you.

In his social networks, the communicator explained that he received the following message: Look, someone close to Palazuelos got together, some of his people, to discuss a topic about you to silence you; they met in a hotel called Alaia. Only so that you walk with slope and with care and above all have discretion.

Canché, author of the page noticiapedrocanche.com, anticipated that he will go before the special prosecutor’s office for crimes against freedom of expression and will increase his security protocols, but he will not stop giving voice to citizens who denounce having suffered acts of corruption and dispossession. of Palazuelos.

He assured that on Wednesday morning a source very trustful revealed to him that people close to Palazuelos met in a hotel in Tulum, where they agreed mute it.

He added that he will not wait for the threats to come true, so he had to make the warnings public, file a criminal complaint and, above all, give voice to those affected.

He stressed that it is not the first time that he has received threats from said character, since in an interview the candidate referred to the reports of acts of corruption in which he is allegedly involved, and stated: When I am governor we will settle accounts. Canché was the author of the information to which Palazuelos alluded.

The journalist recalled that since 2010, when he was sent to prison during Roberto Borge’s six-year term, he has been part of the protection mechanisms for journalists and human rights defenders, and security has increased according to the degree of threats and intimidation. is a victim.

He warned that the threats will not silence him, since he already has several files in which he denounces the actor’s way of acting, whom he calls old robberybecause it has dispossessed several elderly people of their properties.