Editor's note: Today, The Huffington Post received the following letter from journalist Anabel Hernández detailing a threat she received this month clearly aimed at scaring her away from carrying out her work. Hernández is a HuffPost contributor and one of Mexico's most accomplished investigative journalists.
Since November of last year, Hernández and her colleague at the U.C.-Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, Steve Fisher, have published a series ofgroundbreaking articles that flatly contradict the Mexican government's account of the attacks against the students in Iguala, in which six people were killed and 43 students abducted.
I'm writing to make public that I received a threat on Nov. 4 in my home in Mexico City that resulted from my work as an investigative reporter.
In Mexico, the brutal truth is that journalists get murdered for doing their work. More than 100 journalists have been killed over the last decade and the vast majority of their killers enjoy total impunity. In 2015 alone, at least seven journalists have been killed: Rubén Espinosa, Gerardo Nieto, Armando Saldaña, Abel Manuel Bautista,Filadelfo Sánchez, Juan Mendoza and Moisés Sánchez.
For years, I've struggled to avoid becoming another number on the list of murdered journalists. The threats I've suffered over the last five years have affected my life and that of my entire family. In spite of that, I'm not going to abandon the reporting I'm doing, because this is work of public interest and our society deserves to be informed.
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