Courage Under Fire
From the New York Times, the BBC, and NPR, coverage in this country of a Mexican newspaper’s address to the drug cartels:¿Que quieren de nosotros? What do you want from us? after killers cut down two of its reporters, both in their early twenties. One survived and is still in the hospital. Here’s the original of El Diario’s editorial, reprinted throughout Mexico, and now, the world. As Los Angeles Times bloggers point out, Mexico’s media is frustrated at the lack of ability the country’s authorities have shown to deal with the drug trade and its violence.