One of the few industries in Mexico that should be relied upon to speak the truth about what’s going on with the current drug war is looking like it will no longer be there for the public. Due to threats and acts of violence against them, newspapers are refusing to do any more coverage on the government war against the cartels. This week alone saw two newspapers in northern Mexico suffer attacks of automatic weapons and grenades. Though no one was injured, it certainly put a scare into them.
This is not the first act of violence against those in the field of journalism, of course. Journalists have been suffering from violence and threats for years now as the cartels sought to silence them individually. Since there were too many to effectively silence one at a time, the drug gangs chose instead to target where they worked.
