Posted on 09/20/2010 4:12:13 PM PDT by MamaDearest
(RTTNews) - 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.
Santiago and a co-worker was shot by unidentified gunmen in Ciudad Juarez on 17 September when they were sitting inside a parked car outside a shopping mall in Ciudad Juarez. Santiago, who suffered seven gunshot injuries, later succumbed to the injuries. But his colleague, El Diario, survived the attack and is currently recovering at a hospital.
"You are, at present, the de facto authorities in this city, because the legal institutions have not been able to keep our colleagues from dying," the Sunday's editorial addressing the drug cartels operating in the city read.
"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," the editorial said, referring to the 2008 killing of Armando Rodriguez.
"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?", the newspaper renowned for its extensive coverage of drug-related violence in the city asked in the open letter to the drug cartels.
Stressing that the editorial was not a sign of surrender to the cartels, the paper insisted that it has not given up on the work it has been developing, and said: "Instead it is a respite to those who have imposed the force of its law in this city, provided they respect the lives of those who are dedicated to the craft of reporting."
On Friday, group of unidentified gunmen shot dead seven people in a bar in Ciudad Juarez. Witnesses said the gunmen stormed the bar and opened fire at a group of people siting at a table. A woman was among those killed in the attack.
Ciudad Juarez, like many other Mexican cities and towns along the border with the US, has witnessed a high level of drug-related violence in recent months as rival drug cartels fight each other for control of smuggling routes.
The city, which has a population of 1.3 million, is located along a major route used for smuggling drugs into the United States, and is directly across the border from El Paso, Texas. More than 2,600 people were murdered in the city of Ciudad Juarez in drug-related violence last year.
The Mexican government says more than 28,000 of its citizens have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's drug cartels late 2006 and deployed thousands of troops to combat drug-related violence.
In addition to the war against drug cartels, President Calderon had also launched a massive anti-corruption drive named 'Operation Clean-up' to identify and punish public servants with alleged links to the drug cartels.
Coming to America?
The only difference between this Mexican newspaper and the MSM is that the Mexican newspaper is more honest.
Both are complicit in printing what they are told to print rather than sticking to the true news of the day. While the cause (for their action) is different, the effect is the same. It doesn't mean I don't sympathize with the rationale behind the Mexican newspapers while I have no such sympathy for the fawning and complicit American MSM.
Kind of like admitting your country has slipped from 3rd world crap hole to anarchy.
Hells Bells, why not just turn ownership of the whole paper over to the cartels? Let them write their own copy. They ( the narco-trafficantes) could save on ammo that way. Not having to shoot editors and journalists they don’t like for what they wrote I mean.(s).
It's already happened in the USA. How many times do we read or hear news reports where the same "keywords" are used in the same news story by every network and every news venue? Conservative talk show hosts point out this glaringly obvious "coincidence" for most political articles. It couldn't possibly be that their "talking points" were called or faxed to them (sarcasm).
Substitute "Obama regime" for "cartel" in your post and allow the so-called journalists to add a few words of their own to personalize the article and here you have the MSM version.
Who needs a newspaper for that observation? We've got the administration and DHS going after Sheriff Joe and the State of Arizona for upholding the Rule of Law - even going so far as to report the State of Arizona to the UN. It's unashamed in its agenda and its blatant.
Medicine for poor suffering patients.
Don’t give the lib nuts any ideas...Do you think some crazy libs wouldn’t threaten violence if it would keep critism of certain people out of the News?
Yeah, bongs sold separately.... This report only dealt with pot arrests, no mention of any of the other drugs they are bringing across that southern border with impunity (and closed eyes from the feds - they'd rather go after Sheriff Joe and the State of Arizona than to irritate their drug cartel (USA- American SW bank deposit champions) cohorts). It's all tied together!
There is nothing they can do to avoid becoming a part of the violence.
It is the same as all socialist countries really,they get these ironclad exclusive jobs and then they want the same kind of protection around their lives.
Not saying they should lower their standards on who they hire but lower their expectations of what it means to have a middle-class to an upper-class lifestyle in Mexico.
The drug cartels making policy in Mexico and muzzie terrorists are making policy here!
Be Ever Vigilant!
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