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  • [Nuevo Laredo Mexico: El Mañana] Editor says hands off on narco beat

    02/08/2006 8:25:13 AM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 31 replies · 1,197+ views
    LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | February 8, 2006 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV
    NUEVO LAREDO - Ramón Darío Cantú Deándar, the owner and general manager of Nuevo Laredo's El Mañana newspaper, promised to all but stop covering the ongoing bloody turf war between rival drug cartels to protect the paper's employees. "We have asked our personnel to remain calm," Cantú Deándar said in a news conference Tuesday, the day after masked men attacked the newsroom with machine guns. "We will be careful with what we publish regarding the drug trade." The paper already had been downplaying the increasing violence in the city as part of its efforts to maintain the community's image, but...