Journalists kidnapped as drug war rages in Mexico

A worsening dispute between the Gulf drug cartel and its former security force, the Zetas, has resulted in 200 deaths in two weeks in the northeastern states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León and unprecedented censorship along Mexicos border with Texas. The news blackout is backed by threats, kidnapping, and attacks against journalists. In the past 14 days, at least eight Mexican journalists have been abducted in the Reynosa area, which is across the border from McAllen," One died after a severe beating, according to reports that could not be independently verified. Two were released by their captors. The rest are missing.The five missing journalists are a reporter for El Mañana newspaper, a freelance photographer from the papers afternoon edition, La Tarde, two journalists from an online news service, and a TV cameraman, Corchado says, citing editors and reporters who spoke anonymously. Even in Mexico, one of the worlds most dangerous countries for journalists, the recent intimidation campaign is more far-reaching and effective than previous attempts. UnlikeCiudad Juárez, a drug-plagued city where news organizations update the daily death toll, news media in the Gulf Cartel region say they have no other choice but to censor themselves. The city of Reynosa, has created a Twitter account to give details about violence in the city.

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• Mexican journalists
• mexico drug war
• Gulf cartels
• sinaloa cartel
• zetas
• Ciudad Juárez
• Reynosa
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[calamaty]

@moniquevas That kind of started already "Matazetas" are a group of friends and family of zeta victims.

[xmzmagiicx]

people need to just mind they business ...

[jerrito81]

its chinga not changa lol

[ihatelittlefags123]

just stay out of mexico rite now if u dont want to die changa tu madre

[megaDoombringer]

true that. get a gun a shoot the cartel members next door.

[moniquevas]

maybe if just the good people of Mexico refuse to be victims and come together to take on all of these scum who are kidnapping and creating all these problems

[justanothersheeple]

every single border incident needs to be sent to borderwatch and national terror alert center, the smallest incident, just bombard them til they realize states are gonna have to enforce their own immigration i guess

[justanothersheeple]

@Chanocksanchez no the eight reporters are on google, and the natinal terror alert center had the zapata incident report on there yesterday, all this crap needs to go to borderwatch & national terror alert center, please

[Chanocksanchez]

They are being censored by 2 organizations, the state(Tamaulipas) government, and the criminal organization(s). There are shoot outs after shoot outs and the mayor of Reynosa city and governor of the tamaulipas state say "Nothing is going on". that its people on twitter making up rumors, while you can go here in youtube and see the videos of the shoot outs with the soldiers and gun man, and they have the nerves to say nothing is going on?

[forencic13]

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