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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

Mexican editor takes on drug lords

At a time when Mexico's journalists are the targets of organised crime and violence against reporters goes largely unpunished, declaring an editorial war against corruption and drug trafficking seems suicidal.

But that's precisely what Zeta, a weekly news magazine in Tijuana, has done.

Editor Adela Navarro, who stepped into the chair after her predecessor, Francisco Ortiz, was shot dead, says: "I love my line of work. Other newspapers along the border have decided to stop investigating drug trafficking. Us, no."

Despite the dangers, she insists that Zeta will go on publishing the photos and names of drug lords so that "people can identify and denounce them."

Source: Knight Centre

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