In this war for territory, the journalists have become victims. Because, unlike in traditional wars, in Mexico journalists don’t die in the crossfire, from a stray bullet, from walking in a minefield. In Mexico, the killers hunt down journalists, dragging them out of their offices and their houses, intercepting them in the street.
Mexican Journalist Marcela Turati: “Don’t Abandon Us” | Global Investigative Journalism Network
This is the result of
- prohibition
- a War About Drugs™ that Richard Nixon started that no one seems to to be ending some time soon.
- a cynical process to create a penal industrial complex changing people in to cattle to profit from penning in
- xenophobia
- solipsism
- sloth
- no one lighting a big enough fire under congress’ ass to fix it
- Americans not confronting how they have been trying to get the genie back in the bottle
