Mexican journalist Carlos Huerta Muñoz, crime correspondent on the daily Norte de Ciudad Juárez in the northern state of Chihuahua, has been forced to flee the country with his family after receiving death threats from a drug cartel. Since his flight into exile six days ago his newspaper's management has decided to reduce its coverage of drug-trafficking.
Two other incidents have underlined the alarming situation for the Mexican press. Octavio Soto Torres, editor of the daily Voces de Veracruz, survived a shooting attack on 23 January. Four days later the home of Cecilia Vargas Simón, of the daily La Verdad del Sureste, was broken into. (Via Reporters without Borders)
