Filed Under: Mexican Newspaper Waves the White Flag

Correo (Leon Guanajuato) 9-20-10

We want a truce

Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua – “Who wants to kill more reporters?” “Do we continue to publish the news or do we quit?” These are the questions El Diario presents to organized crime in its editorial page today.

In the editorial, El Diario de Juarez asks for a truce with criminal bands to stop the violence against journalists after the murder of El Diario reporter Luis Carlos Santiago last Thursday. There is still no progress in the investigation of the murder of El Diario reporter Armando Rodriguez after almost two years.

“To the Lords of the different groups who are disputing control over the City of Juarez: The loss of two reporters of this newspaper over the last two years represents an irreparable loss to all who work here and especially to their families,” reads the beginning of the editorial.

The text continues, “We are communicators, not advocates….We want you to explain what you expect of us….As of this moment, you are the de facto authority of this city because the legal institutions have no power over you and that is why our companions continue to die.”

“What do you want of us?” The editorial asks and states that they want no more (reporters) to die and no more intimidation.

Senator Ramon Galindo Noriega stated that the impunity under which the criminal organizations in Chihuahua operate, and especially in Cd. Juarez, is intolerable

http://correo-gto.com.mx/notas.asp?id=184777

This has been in the news a bit – not the Main Stream Media – but this is the first confirmation I have seen from a “reliable source” – a direct translation from the Mexican newspaper as published by M3  (http://www.nafbpo.org) an organization of retired Border Patrol Agents.

(They publish news from various Mexican newspapers nightly by e-mail and you can subscribe as I do on their website.)