Reporter exposes governor: gets fired
MEXICO CITY (Al’) An Amer
ican reporter was fired from a
Mexican English-language news
paper after writing in a U S
newspaper about alleged links
between a powerful politician
and the murder of a Mexican
journalist
The account by Zachary Margulis. a reporter for The
News, appeared Saturday on the op-ed page of The
New York Times
Margulis had obtained a copy of a IJ.S Drug En
forcement Administration document that said Manuel
Bartlett Diaz, who becomes governor of central I’uebla
state on Jan 1. ordered the 1UH4 murder of a journalist
in Veracruz
Bartlett, who resigned as education secretary this
year to run for governor, Is one of the most powerful
politicians in Mexico.
Mis possible links to drug traffic kers have long been
rumored, but never proven He was elected governor
on Nov h
The U S drug agency refused to comment on Merge
lis' firing
"They said 1 had promised not to write any more
about Bartlett," Margulis, 25, of Boston, said in an in
lerview Wednesday, ihe day ho was linxi "They said I
broke that promise when I did Iho storv for The Vow
York Times
"! said I |ust said I wouldn't write about him in The
Vow v This is what vou get If you want to bo honest in
this paper
Vow s publisher Kornulo OTarriil. described In Mar
gulls as a friend of Bartlett, refused to comment
The Vows is Mexico City's only lingltsh-language
daily.
The l)bA document is the summary of a debriefing
of Lawrence M.irrison, a DMA Informant Harrison
worked for a member of the C.uadalajara drug cartel
who has tieon charged in the' !‘I85 murder of Db'A
agent Knrique Camarena
The document was presentee! as evidence In the
1‘1‘S) trial in l.os Angeles of Kubon Zuno Arc o, whose
conviction on kidnapping and conspiracy i barges in
the Comarena case was overtumcxl on appeal His new
trial Ixigan Tuesday
The L)KA document, dated I'eb It. says Bartlett
may also he implicated m the murder o! Manuel
Buendla, a columnist for Mexico City newspaper I:*
cel si or
India bans Muslim
groups after riots
NEW DELHI, India CAP) Thn government an
no tintted a ban on fundamentalist groups Monday
and sent the army Into Bombay after religious riots
across India killisl about ilK) Hindus and Muslims.
righting with firebombs, knives, axes and stones
engulfed al irest tWO dOUfl tow ns after Hindu /e.il
ots destroyed u 430-year-old Muslim uuis<|ue in
northern India on Sunday and began building a Hin
du temple at the site
Sacking of the Babri Masjid mosque enraged In
dia's Muslim neighlmrs, Pakistan and Bangladesh;
prompted tails for the ouster of Prime Minister P V.
Narasimha Kao. and threatenei) w ide-st ale violence
among India's 7(H) million Hindus and-100 million
Muslims
Chief government spokesman S Nurendra said
Monttay the government was preparing a list of or
ganisations that will Is* outlawed, including Muslim
fundamentalist groups Details will Is- released Inti r.
he sattl
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