Morelia, Mexico’s Indigenous Group Kidnap 13

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MORELIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Recently a government media tour with an aim to promote tourism in Morelia, Mexico took a bad turn when 13 journalist were kidnapped briefly by the machete-wielding Indians. The group of 13 reporters that also included cameramen was not the only group to be held captive by the Nahua Indians on that day as they later on that day kidnapped another group of 15 people who had come to shoot a beer commercial in Morelia. Though the people were released after hours, reports claim that the Nahua Indians have stolen the equipment and other devices that the groups had brought with them and according to the latest reports the Government officials were negotiating to get the equipments back.

The deputy director of a local newspaper that had two of its journalist on board said that the group of Nahua Indians holding machetes confronted the journalists on a highway between the port city of Lazaro Cardenas and the town of Aquila of southwestern Mexico. After kidnapping the group they were questioned rigorously by the Nahua Indians who tried to clear doubts about their being members of the Grupo Modelo team.

A government official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the indigenous communal landowners were annoyed that the maker of the Corona beer, Grupo Modelo did not seek the permission of the landowners before filming the commercial on their land. The Nahua Indians of southwestern Mexico however mistakenly kidnapped the group of reporters thinking them to be members of Grupo Modelo team. The Nahua Indians thus released the reporters after three hours realizing their mistake without doing any harm. The group of Nahua Indians then kidnapped the team members of the Grupo Modelo who arrived at the place later. However they too were released after several hours.