http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39896&Cr=drug+trafficking&Cr1=
This article discusses the wave of murders in Mexico, specifying the vunerability of news reporters as targets. Apparently, "80 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000". Other targets include internet users, or anybody who would dare try and intervene in the drug wars.
What is particularly worrying about all this is the assumption that some elements of the police forces probably have a hand in this. Far from protecting their citizens, they have shown that corruption really runs deep in Mexico. How can human rights be protected if their primary enforcers are the ones torturing and murdering innocents? Not only that, but freedom of speech, a basic tenant of human rights, becomes something that is too dangerous to engage it. If people are too scared to speak out, how will this ever end?
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