Are Mexican Drug Gangs Targeting U.S. Journos?

“American authorities have alerted at least two Texas newspapers to rumors that violent drug trafficking gangs along the Mexican border are targeting a U.S. journalist for death.

The San Antonio Express-News temporarily pulled Border Bureau Chief Mariano Castillo from Mexico after a source alerted him to the threat Thursday. The Express-News said the source told Castillo, who is based in Laredo, Texas, and regularly covers the bloody workings of the feuding drug cartels, that a gang was “seeking to put out a hit on an American reporter who operates in Laredo and writes about the cartels.”"

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