Overview
- Fernando Vargas, communications director for Mexico’s LNBP, was robbed at gunpoint while doing a remote interview from his parked car at a Cuernavaca gas station on Tuesday.
- Video of the broadcast shows an armed man opening the driver’s door, chambering a round and demanding keys, phones and wallets before the camera was moved and the feed cut out.
- Vargas was not physically injured but left visibly shaken, his host Ed Martínez and the league said, and Vargas has filed a formal police complaint.
- National Guard personnel reportedly assisted at the scene immediately after the incident, and authorities had not reported any arrests as of Wednesday night.
- The suspect appears unmasked and possibly unaware he was being recorded, prompting colleagues and viewers to circulate the clip to help identify him and underscoring risks for journalists working outside studios in Morelos.