In Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage

by Allen Sullivan on August 3, 2010

Washington Post: “Two weeks ago, Mexican soldiers clashed here with drug cartel gangsters in running gun battles that lasted five hours. The outlaws hijacked vehicles, including a bus, for use as barricades and battering rams. Terrified residents scrambled for safety. At least a dozen people were killed, including bystanders. Children were wounded in the crossfire.

Not a single word about it appeared in the local news media.”

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