Patricia Herrera Valera, Owner Of Vanguardia Newspaper In Veracruz, Arrested

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

The owner of the newspaper Vanguardia de Veracruz was arrested in the state of Hidalgo. This is what is known at the moment about her arrest.

Accused of kidnapping journalist, owner of Vanguardia de Veracruz newspaper is sentenced to trial.

Ivohone Patricia Herrera Valera, owner of the newspaper Vanguardia de Veracruz, was indicted for the crime of aggravated kidnapping. The businesswoman is accused as the mastermind of the kidnapping of a journalist in Poza Rica.

Herrera was arrested on Sunday, September 24 in the state of Hidalgo. On Friday, September 29, the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) of Veracruz confirmed that she had already been indicted.

"The State Attorney General's Office obtained an arrest warrant against Ivohone Patricia "N" as allegedly responsible for the crime of aggravated kidnapping, events that occurred in Poza Rica last April 3 of this year, to the detriment of a victim whose identity is protected." The official message reads.

The aggravated kidnapping for which Patricia Herrera is held responsible is that of Ricardo Villanueva Ake, a police reporter for the Presente Veracruz news portal. The 27-year-old journalist was kidnapped by armed men from a mechanic shop where he was repairing his motorcycle, in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood in the municipality of Poza Rica.

A day later, on April 4, the reporter was found alive during a coordinated operation between state and federal forces on the outskirts of Poza Rica, in the northern part of Veracruz.

Minutes before the journalist was rescued, anonymous accounts spread on social networks a video in which he made a series of statements presumably under torture, where he mentioned names of people who were later killed, including Dr. Ruth Alamilla Olguín.

Ruth Alamilla Olguín, together with her daughter, Margarita Alamilla, were abducted in the municipality of Tihuatlán, on September 20, and hours later their bodies, bound and shot in the head, were found in an oil well in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, in the state of Puebla.

Patricia Herrera Valera

Ruth Alamilla Olguin and her daughter Margarita Olguin

Bodies of Ruth Alamilla Olguin and her daughter Margarita Olguin discovered. 

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