After Murder, Mexican Paper Asks for Publishing Guidelines from Drug Cartels

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Posted by Jan Frel at 4:37 pm
September 20, 2010

After Murder, Mexican Paper Asks for Publishing Guidelines from Drug Cartels
Posted by Jan Frel on @ 4:37 pm


From RTT news:

“A prominent newspaper in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juarez has published an editorial requesting guidelines on media publishing from drug cartels operating in the city after one of its employees was shot dead by suspected drug operatives last week. The unprecedented editorial carried by the El Diario de Juarez newspaper on its front page on Sunday was prompted by the killing of Luis Carlos Santiago, 21-year-old photographer working for the paper, last week.”

The El Diario de Juarez reads, “The loss of two reporters from this publishing house in less than two years represents an irreparable sorrow for all of us who work here, and, in particular, for their families. We do not want more deaths. We do not want more injuries or even more intimidation. It is impossible to exercise our role in these conditions. Tell us, then, what do you expect of us as a medium?”


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/20/after-murder-mexican-paper-asks-for-publishing-guidelines-from-drug-cartels/