After just over 40 hours of captivity, Mexican journalist Jaime Barrera has been located alive and in good health, the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office reported this Wednesday. “This social representation will continue with the office and field investigations to clarify the facts and capture those responsible,” the agency mentioned this morning.
The State Prosecutor's Office reports that communicator Jaime Barrera was found in good health.
This social representation will continue with office and field investigations to clarify the facts and capture those responsible. pic.twitter.com/4Huj2JWgvZ
— Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office (@FiscaliaJal) March 13, 2024
Itzul Barrera, daughter of the communicator and also candidate for Jalisco deputy for Morena, announced on her X account (formerly Twitter) that her father is now free after being kidnapped on March 11.
According to local media reports, the journalist was released by his captors in the municipality of Magdalena, where he was held captive for two days. Moments after being released, Barrera granted a interview to Channel 4 of Televisa Jalisco, where he expressed that he is in good health. “I was fortunate that elements of the National Guard arrived, and the company has been total until this moment,” he said early this Wednesday.
“I left my radio show on Monday at two in the afternoon and was asked to get out of my car and get into a van and I was taken to a captivity center for a few days. Fortunately, I am free again,” said Barrera Rodríguez.
This Tuesday, dozens of people demonstrated in the Plaza de la Liberación in Guadalajara, where they demanded that the authorities bring the communicator back alive, after several images of the vehicles involved were released, including Barrera's. To date, it is unknown if any arrests have been made in the operation that freed the journalist.
Barrera, 56, hosts a daily news program on the local station Mega Radio and is a newspaper columnist The reporter. The first investigations into his abduction were confirmed by the state prosecutor, Luis Joaquín Méndez Ruiz, who confirmed the kidnapping by armed individuals after the journalist left his radio station.
My dad is already with us.
My heart knew that it always comes home.
Thank you all.
Thanks thanks.
— Itzul Barrera (@itzulBarrera) March 13, 2024
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