Suicide Journalism on the Crazy-Mean Streets of Tijuana
Suicide Journalism on the Crazy-Mean Streets of Tijuana
The editors and reporters of the Zeta weekly risk their lives with every issueand nobody reads them more closely than the cartels.
Andrea Noel
12.09.16 11:15 PM ET
TIJUANA, MexicoOn Friday mornings before daybreak, trucks bearing the slogan Free as the wind deliver tens of thousands of newspapers to an old-fashioned network of vendors, who stand at intersections across the city, right up to the line at the United States busiest border crossing, handing hot-off-the-press newsprint to groggy international commuters.
The small team of intrepid reporters who keep the weekly newspaper, Zeta, stocked with some of the countrys most fearless journalism were under heavy police protection this week, after state authorities anonymously warned the editorial staff of an impending attack, in retaliation for last weeks front-page story: The Jalisco Cartels Most Wanted.
By Monday it became apparent that among the thousands who read the story was a cartel operative nicknamed Goofy, whose face was plastered across the cover, along with seven other members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel plus one from the Sinaloa cartel.
The plan to shoot up the newspapers headquarters has been, apparently, postponed, in light of the heavy police presence now at Zeta headquarters.
More:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/10/suicide-journalism-on-the-crazy-mean-streets-of-tijuana.html
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