Associated Press
The threats, four or five of them, came to reporters at Imagen, a daily newspaper in the once-quiet state of Zacatecas where drug cartels have taken over in just the last few years. Then editor Patricia Mercado got a phone call ordering her to print a prepared article or she would be kidnapped.
Mercado ran the story –verbatim –of an innocent young man killed by the army, which was committing human rights abuse.
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“If it’s a question of life or death, I have no trouble making a decision. The lives of my reporters are most important,” she said More…