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September 29, 2009

Media Group Urges Journalist Protections in Mexico
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The media rights group Reporters Without Borders is urging the US and
Mexico to increase protections for journalists covering the Mexican drug
war.

Mexican investigative journalist Jorge Luis Sierra: “Reporters Without
Borders and other organizations are asking the Mexican government to
take these crimes, the outrages against journalists, as a federal issue,
so the federal police can take over the investigation. Drug traffickers
are taking control of the editorial operations in the Mexican
newspapers. They decide what, when and how some incident is going to be
covered.”

At least fifty-five journalists have been killed in Mexico in the past
decade.



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