Apr 11, 2011

Collateral Damage: Survival Courses for Journalists Covering the Drug War

Survival Courses for Journalists Covering the Drug War - Fox News Latino: "Raymundo Arellano wears a pair of dog tags around his neck. His name, blood type and next of kin have been indented on the silver plates.

“My greatest fear is that I’ll be killed and they’ll bury me somewhere and no one will recognize my remains,” he says. Arellano is a Mexican television reporter trying to do his job in a country wracked by drug-related violence. ...


Speaking to a classroom of fellow journalists taking a survival and first aid course last weekend, Arellano described how he was kidnapped a year ago in the northern city of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas. He and a colleague were picked up by armed members of an organized crime network while researching a report on drug-related violence there. They were beaten up and threatened before being let go. Arellano is one of the lucky one. He survived."

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