ONE OF KIDNAPPED MEXICAN JOURNALISTS HAD WORKED IN JUAREZ

EL PASO - One of the four Mexican journalists who are being held
hostage formerly worked in Juarez.

Hector Gordoa, a TV cameraman for the Televisa network in Mexico, was
abducted Monday in the Laguna region, which straddles the states of
Durango and Coahuila. He used to be a news director for Televisa's
Channel 2 in Juarez.

Carlos Lauria, senior program coordinator the Committee for the
Protection of Journalists (CPJ) in New York, called on Mexican
authorities to investigate.

Lauria said the Laguna region has been troubled by violence between
Los Zetas criminal group and the Sinaloa cartel.

Kidnappers reportedly want a Mexican media company to broadcast three
videos about the Zetas in exchange for releasing the journalists.

The other three journalists held hostage are Jaime Canales, a
cameraman for the TV station Multimedios; Oscar Solis, a reporter for
newspaper El Vespertino and Alejandro Hernandez, another cameramen
for Televisa.

The Zetas, once considered the enforcers for the Gulf drug cartel,
have branched off on their to fight against other drug cartels.

"We urge state and federal authorities to do everything in their
power to locate the four missing journalists and bring them to
safety," said Lauria, CPJ's Americas senior program coordinator.

Solis was abducted Monday night, and the other three journalists were
reported missing Monday afternoon after covering protests organized
by prisoners and their families at a detention center Gomez Palacio,

Durango, where prison officials were accused of allowing prisoners
out of the prison to commit killings.

One of the prison officials implicated used to be a penal judge for
the Cereso prison in Juarez.