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September 21, 2010

Mexican Newspaper Urges End to Attacks on Journalists
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The editors of a local newspaper in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juárez
have issued a defiant call to continue their reporting following the
murder of a young journalist last week. The victim, twenty-one-year-old
Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, was the second reporter from the El Diario
de Juárez to be killed in the drug violence that has besieged Mexico. In
a front-page editorial, the editors of El Diario write, "We don’t want
to see more dead. We don’t want to see more wounded, nor do we want to
be intimidated. It is impossible for us to do our job under these
conditions. Tell us, then, what you expect from us, as a newspaper?"
They continue, "This is not a surrender. This is about a truce with
those who have imposed the force of their law in this city, so that you
will respect the lives of those who dedicate themselves to the job of
informing the public."



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