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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 770715" data-attributes="member: 12952">Mexican newspaper to cartels: ‘We do not want more deaths’&nbsp; By Nick Valencia(CNN) — On the same day friends and family buried&nbsp; slain photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, the newspaper he worked&nbsp; for, El Diario, in an unprecedented move published an open letter to the&nbsp; drug cartels operating in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.No newspaper in Juarez has ever published an editorial directly&nbsp; addressed to the cartels that are battling for the trafficking corridor&nbsp; in the city. The letter, written by the editorial staff of the newspaper&nbsp; and published, pleaded with the drug gangs to end violence against&nbsp; journalists.“You are, at present, the de facto authorities in this city,” the newspaper’s letter to the cartels said, “because the legal institutions have not been able to keep our colleagues from dying.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 770715, member: 12952"] [B]Mexican newspaper to cartels: ‘We do not want more deaths’ By Nick Valencia (CNN) — [/B]On the same day friends and family buried slain photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, the newspaper he worked for, El Diario, in an unprecedented move published an open letter to the drug cartels operating in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. No newspaper in Juarez has ever published an editorial directly addressed to the cartels that are battling for the trafficking corridor in the city. The letter, written by the editorial staff of the newspaper and published, pleaded with the drug gangs to end violence against journalists. “[COLOR=maroon][B]You are, at present, the de facto authorities in this city,[/B][/COLOR]” the newspaper’s letter to the cartels said, “[COLOR=maroon][B]because the legal institutions have not been able to keep our colleagues from dying.[/B][/COLOR]” [/QUOTE]

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