Mexican journalists caught in the crossfire of citys drug-cartel wars

“”If anyone knew I was talking to a reporter, theyd kill me,” said an El Manana employee several months after the attack.

The employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed to two men standing by the barrier outside the front door, smoking and chatting. “They spy on everyone inside the newspaper, and almost everyone knows they get money from Los Zetas to do it,” the worker said.

More than 400 journalists have been killed in Latin America over the past four decades. Since 1992, 13 journalists have been murdered in Mexico in connection with narcotics reporting, according to the U.S.-based nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists, which offers detailed accounts of journalists killed around the globe.”

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