- Jesús Blancornelas
Jesús Blancornelas (b. 1936,
San Luis Potosí – d.23 November 2006 ,Tijuana ) was a Mexican journalist.Biography
He was born in
San Luis Potosí , where he held his first job as a reporter. In 1960 he moved toTijuana ,Baja California , where, in 1977, he founded the weekly newsmagazine "ABC de Tijuana " and, in 1980, a successor publication called "Zeta" which is still published today. The brand of investigative journalism practiced by Blancornelas and his colleagues brought attention to corruption among local politicians, the burgeoning power of drugs gangs, particularly theTijuana Cartel , and the frequent connections detected between the two.He was the victim of several attempts on his life, including one on
27 November 1997 that left him critically injured and his bodyguard dead. In 1999, he was awarded theUNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for his journalistic work. In 1996, he was one of four winners of theCPJ International Press Freedom Awards .Blancornelas died in Tijuana on
23 November 2006 from complications caused bystomach cancer .External links
* [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/389761.html Profile of Jesús Blancornelas] "(El Universal)"
* [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5710&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize citation] (UNESCO )
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