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In a stunning front-page editorial the principal Juarez, Mexico newspaper El Diario has called for a truce with the ultra violent Juarez and Sinaloa Mexican drug cartels in wake of the murder of an El Diario photographer and severe wounding of a colleague in Juarez on Thursday of last week.
Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, 21, and co-worker Carlos Sanchez were ambushed in a gangland style “hit” in the parking lot of a busy market area on Thursday, September 16, Mexico’s Bicentennial celebration day. Orozco had recently ascended from intern to full time employee of the newspaper and he and Sanchez were going to lunch at a market close to the newspaper’s offices. The second victim was hospitalized in serious condition.
In a front page editorial, El Diario clearly asks the cartels “¿Qué Quieren de Nosotros?” or “What Do Want From Us?”
The editorial plainly states what has been obvious to many outside observers — the government of Mexico and its law enforcement entities are losing the drug war to the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels. This is a translation of part of the editorial in Sunday‘s El Diario, in which it lays out its new position for reporting on the drug war; I’ve added some text missing from the Spanish version in parentheses to ease readability.
From “El Diario” published Sept.19, 2010 – (more…)
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Who knew that George W. Bush had such powers over the natural world? According to some pundits, Hurricane Katrina was Bush’s fault, as was the tsunami in Indonesia and now – if you believe James Ridgeway in Mother Jones – that Bush’s policy is responsible for the devastating effects of the 7.5 earthquake that decimated the poor country of Haiti.
But during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency, we could depend on such ridiculous musings as Mr. Ridgeway displayed. I haven’t done enough research to determine if Bush was the most reviled president in our nation’s history – that might well have been Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President — but it’s not that hard to figure out that his coverage by the media was historically the most relentlessly hostile.
I first started writing my op-ed columns during the Clinton administration and while I may have disagreed with most of his policies I never stooped to the insulting, vitriolic language routinely leveled at President Bush. What also amazed me was the lack of outrage by the president and his administration officials. There is always the possibility that I might have missed their fury because the mainstream media was unlikely to report anything other than leftist propaganda. But I was a columnist for the only New York newspaper that covered Bush honestly and without bias from 2002 to 2008, when we died as a print publication. (more…)
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