Journalist: Press must bear witness to Mexico's drug war - Fox News Latino: " Spanish journalist Judith Torrea said the press must report on the reality in violence-wracked Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 'where only the dead are safe and life only exists in the cemeteries.'
'If we as journalists don't inform (readers). If we don't say what's really happening in Mexico, in the so-called 'war on drugs,' we become participants in genocide, accomplices of genocide,' she said here Wednesday in an interview with Efe.
Torrea is in Madrid to present her book 'Juarez en la sombra' (Juarez in the Shadows), published by Aguilar.
The work, to be released in Mexico in late May, compiles articles published on her blog 'Ciudad Juarez, en la sombra del narcotrafico' (Ciudad Juarez: In the Shadows of Drug Trafficking), winner of the 2010 Ortega y Gasset Prize for Digital Journalism, as well as other accounts of people who live in the violent city just across the border from El Paso, Texas."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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