Juarez Paper: What Do We Have To Do To Have You Stop Murdering Us?

El Diario de Juarez’s front-page op-ed yesterday is a frank plea to the real rulers of Mexico: the drug cartels. “The state as protector of the rights of citizens, and thus, of the media, has been absent,” they write-so, in light of the murder of reporters in Mexico, and the inability of the government to do anything about it, the paper wonders: would the leaders of the cartels like the paper to cease reporting? “Even in war there are rules. And in any conflagration there protocols or guarantees to the warring sides, to safeguard the integrity of the journalists covering them. So we reiterate, gentlemen of the various drug trafficking organizations: explain to us what you want to not have to pay you tribute with the lives of our comrades.”