Collateral Damage: Mexican Media Infiltrated by Drug Cartels, Experts Say

Mexican Media Infiltrated by Drug Cartels, Experts Say - Latin American Herald Tribune - : "“We live under constant threats, like if a guy was pointing an AK-47 at you all the time,” Javier Valdez, a reporter with the investigative weekly Rio Doce, said. Rio Doce is published in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of Mexico’s most powerful drug traffickers and a place where journalists have to tread carefully.

Valdez and several colleagues used to living amid the violence that has claimed the lives of more than 60 journalists in Mexico in the past decade shared their stories over the weekend at the International Journalists Gathering organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair." Dec. 6, 2010