It's Feb. 3, and three journalists have already been killed this year in Mexico.
The third journalist, of Jorge Ochoa Martinez, was director of El Sol de la Costa, a small newspaper in Acapulco. Mr. Martinez was shot in the face at a food stand in Ayutla.
Last year, 12 reporters were killed in Mexico, and the country's National Human Rights Commission said 60 journalist have been killed since 2000. In addition, eight others have either been kidnapped or simply vanished.
Officials were not yet sure if Mr. Martinez was killed in connection to his work.
This third murder prompted Reporters Without Borders to announce that Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America to be a reporter. "The authorities are failing to respond adequately to a wave of threats against media personnel by presumed drug traffickers and, in some cases, by local officials,” according to a statement.
Source: Washington Post
Photo: Committee to Protect Journalists, with Rodolfo Rincón Taracena, a journalist who vanished in 2007.
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Immigration and Bad Drugs
The Magic and Wonder of the Coca Plant, Coca Bush. And the Old Indian Women that educated me about plants
There is a good Bush, the Coca Bush.
When I was a kid some very old Andean Indian Women told me that they never thought in their childhood of the Coca Plant as being evil or negative.
Everybody and his aunt had coca plants in the interior patios or the exterior backyards.
The coca bushes were thought of as medicinal plants for stomach aches, headaches, backpains, sore throats, etc ...
And these very old ladies told me that when an old indian was in a terminal disease, then chewing coca was the best against pain and desperation of death.
And that old indians became embalmed in life, very peacefully, and had tranquil and calmed deaths. Corpses were incorruptible after this process. All insects dislike the coca bush, perhaps this is a thing of defensive evolution of plants.
NOTE : I am not defending COCAINE, which is another matter that I abhor. COCAINE makes a lot of damage to a body, same for CRACK, and other garbage.
I do not defend a FREE MARKET for drugs. Repression is OK for me. And I am not a Big Narco or Drug Trafficker.
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