Capítulo: Entrevista con la muerte

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said journalism is like quicksand, you hate it but you are willing to do anything to get news, a cordial greeting and welcome to a closed case, willing to do anything to get news and journalism today looks like threatened on two sides, one by selective groups that naturally want to keep their mouths shut so that news is not made about them and they can continue with their crimes, and the other is the lack of ethics that sometimes exists in journalism itself in search of news. scandalous etc it is a shame but I believe that the news is still very important let's receive the first case today sir director let it pass no criticism I am capable of putting my life in danger because of my profession but what I put up with is the deception to be a journalist You have to put your chest to the bullet and this man lacks courage, very good afternoon, welcome Kelvin, tell me who Lorena is, the reason for your demand and what it requires to resolve it, very good afternoon doctor, today I come to ask first that my wife, who is Lorena, gave me the amount of 70 thousand dollars that we should divide the company in two because it is something joint and also something that is very difficult for me the divorce between them how long have they been married for five years doctor do they have children not because they want a divorce well Doctor, I already told you, we have a company called CTV, it is an investigative journalism company, we started it a long time ago, but I met Lorena a few years ago at university, she was a compassionate woman, a supportive woman, a woman who showed a lot of feelings towards me as I Time passed because obviously we got married, we lived together, and situations and things were happening.

I understood that by looking at attitudes that I didn't like about Lorena, and interested a little and indifferent, a little possessive. Lorena, different from the university one, from the married life one, we started to do things. different investigative journalism tourism do productive things Lorena unfortunately had another objective what was her objective the monetary that journalism was not only positive things and obviously free because I work with journalism supporting the community ok so at that moment Lorena tells me that there is good a job that needs to be done we are going to do an interview with a person we are going to do tourism journalism which is good we didn't have it in california doctor I have to travel to cancun to mexico and to my surprise when he arrived at the place the boy started to prepare everything you begin to see people with weapons escorts taking care of the character that I am going to interview I begin to see a strange place they did not give a location doctor said that they were going to take us to a place but we could not know where the interview was going to take place He explained to me that they opened their eyes and something turned our faces off.

It was about 40 minutes on the way to that place, a place that I don't know where we were because in an unknown place, at that moment I arrived, I prepared everything and when he took the people that I was going to interview doctor, it turns out that he was a drug trafficker, he is a heavy hot dog wanted by the dea, international doctor, average, a well-known person, when that situation arrived, doctor, my first reaction is to get nervous, I say, but what am I doing here and what am I doing with this man, I greet you for Respect, I say, guys, give me a moment, I want to go to the bathroom.

When I go to the bathroom, nervous, still shaking because you know, look at a recognized drug trafficker wanted by the DEA as a reward for a person who has committed a number of crimes. I get very nervous, so I go to the bathroom. bathroom doctor when I'm there with the phone and secretly I call my wife and tell her Lorena what this is and I'm in a place with the person that you know who it is and she tells me calmly like this I already knew but you go to work and Whatever you live, I tell her, but Lorena, like, something about my work, you know who I am out there with traffickers, criminals, murderers, I already know, I'm not interested in that, you're going to do your job, do the interview and then come on, let's go. to earn a lot of money with that interview because we charge you, she is a person who is going to generate a lot of life, that is, who does not want to see that character, unfortunately, people like to see the magicians, doctor, when I am talking to her very quietly at that moment knocks at the door someone breaks in and puts a gun on me here they take me to a dark doctor room and start hitting but because they assumed that you were talking they believed that they were talking to someone or I told them who why they asked me who I was talking to they wanted that I was denouncing my wife that my partner and I am discussing the subject of the interview with ten armed guys in that place.

You think they are people who ask for an explanation, they are people who are going for what they are going to begin to beat them to start torture they began to torture me intimidate and they left that room you know how much time I spent dr 18 days of my life kidnapped adherence eating junk food I didn't even go to the bathroom doctor peeing me turning 12 in my clothes dirty and badly eaten and bandaged I never saw the sunlight doctor at 18 and at 18 and you know what it is like to go through that trauma because for me it is a trauma that still doctor I have a medical condition after that I became hypertension high blood pressure I have a heart condition I am hanging an oximeter at that moment because My oxygen is always at 80, it's not at 100 like all human beings, because with that condition, they were asking for a ransom, doctor.

I realized, maybe I went through the whole process, I realized that they were asking for a ransom for me. I ruled out that my wife never paid at that time, doctor. After 18 days, the guys went to dump me in a place at 24 in the morning, of course, not at 4 in the morning they went to dump a home that I didn't know in a real mountain, doctor. Doctor, I still have the scratches here because when they threw me, do you want where they grazed me with the wounds? They took a knife and cut me and took me here on my leg.

Doctor, I have a look at my wounds, where they hit me, where they gave me, Doctor. with a tube, show me what the device has, this oximeter, you put it on your finger to see the rust, it has to be at 100, look, you are normal, if you look at that moment without your heart and you are always very upset, huete, ok, do you have images of how you look? If there is any other evidence, I need to see it, I know, Mr. Director, please, I realized that you can't, you can't even look at those images, I realized that you can't even look at them, it's very hard for me, and I imagine remembering 18 days of my life. and at the hands of your wife, I believe that this is the deepest pain that you have to feel, he is alive, doctor, we are going to take a short break and when we return, the demanded crisis, drug trafficking, support tourism and that is why they are there on vacation. every journalist must be prepared to die in marriage they met at university he is a journalist but they also fell in love they got married they live in California there they created a digital investigative journalism company one day she tells him hey I have a special interview for you in Cancun it's tourism The team is there, everything is ready, he doesn't speak blah blah blah and when he gets there he realizes that there are guys with a machine gun with firearms and the person he was going to interview is a well-known drug trafficker who was being sought by the dea etcetera and their name they have the name I thank God I don't even want to know the name of this person I'm not interested before starting the interview he goes into the bathroom he asks to go to the bathroom he goes into the bathroom he takes out his cell phone and He calls the wife and tells her but I, you know where you have put me and he says yes I know exactly but it was necessary to do this interview because this is going to bring us a lot of money.

Step later some people come in and break the bathroom door. They sell him and they put him in. in a dark room and they kidnap him for 18 days where they mistreat him and mistreat him they mistreat him or give him too much to eat he has nowhere to go to the bathroom he somehow finds out that they were asking for a ransom whose ransom the wife never even paid to For 18 days they set up a car for us and released him into a bush, there they rescued him, he was in the hospital and as a consequence he now has a continuous lack of oxygen, he has several physical consequences due to this event, he is here today demanding a divorce from his wife. the entire company for the 70,000 dollars that I mean are damages for what you suffered medically etcetera etcetera and she says that he is alive it's wonderful that he is alive right no thanks to you because that exists doctor first of all everything he says is lie and he was the field journalist for the project we have as a couple.

He knew perfectly well that he had to go do all the interviews. He was in Mexico. I was in California. So, as a digital medium, we receive emails from various sources. people in one of these emails and I see that they inform me that the drug trafficker has a lot to do with tourism in Mexico, especially in Cancun, I say that is why tourism in Cancun is going to lose so much and it has a lot to do with what he is talking about and I, well, from this email, I say, how interesting it is, it's a super interesting note, we have to do something.

In the company, there are people who can't support it financially. It's me, one of them, friend, how do you see this email, they are not watching an interview, this is how See, he says no, well, send your husband, he is there, and he is the field journalist. I tell him, I see this place, this one, you have to do this interview, there is the list of questions you have to ask, and it's over, but you forgot to mention his name. of the person who is not going to tell me that he did not know if you yourself are telling me that with test consultations like another collaborator of yours and they knew who that person was who was a drug trafficker but a doctor what happened is that he said that he was going to give us an interview with a drug trafficker but he did not specify the name of the person this happened then he was although as a result of his recklessness he called and started talking about the dea to this guy I was looking for him the idea I have knowledge of God he is not saying that ok Tell me something, how much they asked you for 50 thousand dollars as a ransom and you had 50,000 dollars and I had it doctor but I wasn't going to be spending those things because he visited us so what happens is that he and I agreed that first our work was our company then our relationship You have witnesses if we do it to the defendant's witness I'm going to give you some of these interesting ones first the couples who work a tone 98 percent of them get divorced second the one who decides to work together are couples and puts the company above the relationship loses the relationship and loses the company good afternoon good afternoon doctor polo your name karina so I come here to defend the defendant ok well I am a partner of the defendant and the truth is that I consider that he should not claim anything because every journalist must be prepared, we are going to die, well, I think that is fine, no, doctor, I am only of the opinion that when he was ordered to make the note, he was reckless, he did not have to make this call because he was not He sent there that he made a call saying that this was like a robot that had to act like an idiot make a fool of you not have values ​​not have a position on life I actually wanted to invest in that note because I know that anyway draws attention, drug trafficking is a very hot topic, very important in Mexico and we know that it even supports tourism and that is why it supports tourism in some way, it has the safest city, it is said, it is said, this has the safest tourist, the drug trafficker. because they are only killing each other when they go there on vacation because that's how things are, at least then tell me something, was there a proposal for the field journalist now currently do they have a proposal for the cinema that is going to be to finish the notes because we want them to I make the trafficker model look good that he kidnapped them for 18 days because in reality what they wanted to give him was just a substitute not in us from the book of course it is not corrupt corrupt authorities bad dominating and the new one the town or a certain part I hope that the town complete I don't know that he was reckless doctor but the width of the Mexican people saying that well in the end the drug trafficker supports tourism you have witnesses we take a short break and continue don't leave the people when they see, for example, a child in a car locked up and the parents are lost you are one of those who record the child drowning in the car instead of calling the police or breaking the glass cases he is suing his wife lorena he wants a divorce $70,000 in damages to have control of The company that they created, a digital investigative journalism company, turns out that his wife sends him, he is the field journalist, to conduct an interview in Cancun, Mexico with a person he supposedly supported, he was supporting tourism in Cancun, when he arrives he realizes that Everything was very suspicious, they blindfolded him and took him to an unknown place and when people with machine guns arrived at the place and when he saw the character he had to interview, it turned out to be a well-known fugitive drug trafficker from the DEA, among other things.

He goes into the bathroom for a minute before starting the interview to call his wife and tell her, but like you, they sent me here, this guy is looking for the DEA, Dad, and suddenly they go into the bathroom and kidnap him for 18 days. where they ask her for a ransom of 50 thousand dollars that she had and that she decided not to pay because her husband of 5 years is not worth 50 thousand dollars 5 years ago finally at the end of 18 days they release themin a thicket, possibly they thought he was dead and he survived, but of course there are several consequences of those 18 days of that story, the plaintiff's witness, please, I was telling our experts to be ready, but you have, I'm going to be there, he's a man, Mr.

Hook Juancho, even if I'm here. I studied with her, she is studying this journalism and she works with them, right? She once sent me to do a report about some animals about some dogs and I go to the place, right, when I get to the place it turns out that they are clandestine fights to put the Of course, they put the dogs that don't go to the fight or that don't make money into fights. What they do is kill the rogues with an ax. They dismember the blogs so that the other dogs feel like giving them more anger to the other dogs.

I felt very bad and I called the police. I was bad, it lasted a few days without sleeping and then when, as you saw, I came to him with nothing, without some evidence, without something to do a tabloid report and make a good profit, I am and voted because this juancho is a fool that is what he is he is no good for journalists we want talented people in the agency to help us cover what you are telling me that you are one of the people who when they see, for example, a child in a car locked and the parents are not lost, you are one of those who record the child drowning in the car instead of calling the police or breaking the glass, not necessarily doctor, but what you are telling me, what we wanted is to finish that note for After he enters, not necessarily, we wanted him to record those, yes, those images to first make our note and then the police colleague invited the journalist José Venegas and the investigator, the criminal Héctor Sur, to the room, please, good afternoon and welcome.

Mr. Venegas, a journalist has the obligation to denounce, for example, a fugitive. You know that this person is a fugitive, that they are looking for him, that he is a terrible criminal, and you are given the opportunity to face this person supposedly to do an interview. and you have that dilemma in your head, if someone did the interview, they gave it away after my courses, I say I can't do the interview, my stomach hurts, I'm leaving about the act, in this case the journalist is not part of the agreement with the source, if one were do an interview with a drug trafficker and that is agreed upon, one does not have the obligation to provide that information to political scientists, seen a journalist go to prison because they do not want to reveal that confidential source and I understand that, and I understand that they are also taking care of their way of informing the correct public.

It is correct now if one is not part of that confidentiality, one does not die, what a mess with the press in Mexico, right, and Colombia recently, I imagine that Venezuela also has to be facing serious problems from people with its journalism, so he is more the main witness in the Chapo case. Guzmán Juan Carlos Ramírez, better known as the head of the Valle del Norte cartel in Colombia, recently testified that he had all the legislators, police officers and journalists in Colombia under his pocket and those who cooperated in one way or another with the DEA he ordered them to be murdered and recently in playa del carmen a journalist who was in the custody of the federal judicial police because he was collaborating with the authorities was sent precisely to cesc to murder the journalists the dea seeks cooperation from the journalists without a doubt with the doctor the dea seeks collaboration everywhere all those people who want to collaborate are given a specific number the name of the journalist is not used a number and they get paid through that number and it is very common in our countries because journalists have very little money so they do not It is so common in the United States, but it is very common in Mexico and in our countries where the case is decided.

She betrayed her husband. She also pressured her coworker. This Indian put him in danger. That danger was because, having the money to pay the ransom, he decided. If you don't do it, I'll grant you a divorce because your marriage is hopelessly broken, betrayed, stepped on, Cupid is a mess, I'll grant you the 70,000 dollars because I think you deserve that money for the 18 days you were kidnapped because she caused it. The company was something they formed together. We are going to evaluate it and depending on the value of this company, you will have the option of buying its part and keeping the entire company if it is not dissolved and your form is yours and it was whatever it wanted.

That is my decision, good luck and I congratulate you for having the courage to survive 18 days at the hands of a sadist like that, I said, following him to return the money that he paid me to her for beating him and then he asked me to beat her and Since I would like to kill this case, I grant you the request, I said.