Authorities in Mexico have launched a manhunt for two men wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of television reporter Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo.
Surveillance camera footage reviewed by the Mexico City police showed the two individuals leaving Hotel and Villas Patriotismo over the weekend after the 29-year-old mother had gone to the hotel, local media outlets reported.
Additional government security cameras captured their vehicle traveling toward the southern capital's town of Tlalpan before it disappeared for nearly 20 minutes.
Investigators picked it up again as it went through Calzada de Tlalpan Avenue.
Mexico City authorities are searching for two men who were seen driving away from the hotel were television sports host Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo checked into Saturday before she body was found wrapped in sheets on a field Tuesday
Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo is said to have checked into the Hotel & Villas Patriotismo on Saturday in Mexico City, Mexico, according to Mexico television network Telediaro. Friends told authorities the 29-year-old mother had gone out to dinner with male friends in the Mexico City neighborhood of Polanco.
Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo worked as a host for Mexican television network AyM Sports. She hosted a soccer show
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SharePérez Tadeo's body was found Tuesday, wrapped in hotel sheets stained with blood in a field near the Pichaco-Ajusco highway by workers who were battling a fire.
Authorities also recovered a blood-stained hotel towel about 100 feet away from where the body was found. A forensic report showed Pérez Tadeo had been dead for about 18 hours.
Friends told police investigators that Pérez Tadeo, who also was known as Michelle Simón, was supposed to join male friends for a dinner at a restaurant in the high-end Mexico City neighborhood of Polanco Saturday.
She then met a man and took a rideshare car with him to Hotel and Villas Patriotismo for a work meeting, according to Mexican television network Telediario.
Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo is the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico in 2022
Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo had been dead for about 18 hours before her body was located
Anahí Michelle Pérez Tadeo, the sixth journalist killed in Mexico in 2022, leaves behind a four-year-old daughter
Newspaper El Universal reported that authorities have requested additional surveillance footage from the hotel and that employees who were interviewed have said that they did not hear or witness connected to Pérez Tadeo's attacked.
Pérez Tadeo moved seven years ago from her native southern state of Veracruz to Mexico City to pursue a career as television sports host. She had been hosting a soccer program for AyM Sports network.
She is the sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year. Four other members of the media were murdered in January and a fifth was shot dead February 10.
Pérez Tadeo's killing sparked a war of words between Mexican President André Manuel López Obrador and United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
The leftist leader slammed Blinken for 'interfering' by calling for greater accountability after the string of murders.
The high number of journalists killed in Mexico this year and the ongoing threats they face are concerning. I join those calling for greater accountability and protections for Mexican journalists. My heart goes out to the loved ones of those who gave their lives for the truth.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) February 23, 2022'The high number of journalists killed in Mexico this year and the ongoing threats they face are concerning,' Blinken tweeted late Tuesday.
'I join those calling for greater accountability and protections for Mexican journalists. My heart goes out to the loved ones of those who gave their lives for the truth.'
In response, Lopez Obrador urged Blinken 'to inform yourself and not to act in an interfering manner because Mexico is not a colony of the United States, nor is it a protectorate.'
He told reporters he thought Blinken was 'misinformed because otherwise he would be acting in bad faith,' and insisted that the Mexican government was dealing with crimes against journalists.
'In all cases, action is being taken. There is no impunity,' Lopez Obrador said, adding that he had asked his foreign minister to send Blinken details of all the cases and the government's actions.
Around 150 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000, and only a fraction of the cases ended with convictions, according to watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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