This is not news. It happened a long time ago. Why doesn't the Mexican government BEG America to LEGALIZE IT! Because they are Right Wing, Bible Thumping Bush fans?
If its not the drug cartels, its the monopolies silencing the media so why care who does it?
Funny, manufacturing moves from Mexico to China and the number of impoverished in Mexico and illegal immigrants from Mexico increase significantly... You should hear about who the agriculture immigrants are and who they work for in the US and what forced them into unemployment.
Enlarge Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA military police officer patrols at the scene of a murder in Juarez, Mexico, in March.
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA military police officer patrols at the scene of a murder in Juarez, Mexico, in March.
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Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. So far this year, eight reporters have been gunned down. Last week, five were reported kidnapped — four of them in Durango state and one in Zacatecas state.
Some 25,000 people have been killed over the last 3 1/2 years in drug-related violence.
Unbiased information has also been a casualty.
Journalists in some parts of the country have stopped covering the drug trade entirely after their colleagues have been kidnapped, killed or threatened. Others say they have limited reporting on crime to only what is in official government press releases. Some even say they report whatever the local cartels order them to print.
"This record level of violence is really unprecedented," says Carlos Lauria, head of the Americas program at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
By the organization's tally, more than 30 Mexican reporters have been killed or have disappeared since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in December 2006.
"We only see these numbers (of murdered journalists) in conflict ridden countries like Iraq and Somalia," Lauria says.
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