Profesora Julia Loses Her Cool

WARNING - the following posting contains violent images and strong language

When American Journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered, execution style, in Pakistan in 2002, the world watched, quite literally, in horror. I don't mean to minimize this tragedy in any way, but rather to provide a high-profile example of a journalist's death, one that you might remember.

Are you aware of the mounting numbers of journalists murdered and tortured in Juarez Mexico?
(I am grateful to Meredith Levande. She ws the first person to present the topic of "Violence in Juarez" to my students.)

Journalist Killed
NY Times Article 1/16/2010

The gruesome discovery marks the 59th journalist killed in Mexico since 2000, according to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission.

Some of these journalists died while trying to expose violence against women in Ciudad Juarez. Young women are disappearing.

Drug cartels have been emboldened by the U.S. and Colombia's inability to control the situation in that country. They use the mamed bodies of victims to send messages to the authorities and opposing cartels.


SALTILLO -
Brutal, competing drug gangs often send their adversaries grim warnings with written messages, beheadings or dismemberments.

Valdes' body bore five bullet wounds and signs of torture, the prosecutor's office said.">Police on Friday found the body of one of two recently-abducted Mexican journalists in Saltillo, northern Mexico, their newspaper reported online.

The body of Valentin Valdes Espinosa, a local news reporter, lay outside a hotel along with a warning message, in the city in northern Coahuila state, the daily Zocalo Saltillo said on its website.

The text said: "This will happen to those who don't understand," the Coahuila prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Valdes' body bore five bullet wounds and signs of torture, the prosecutor's office said.

Do the big networks like ABC and Fox adequately cover news coming out of South America?

This news from Juarez, news of senseless violence against innocents and media censorship via murder and torture is....
heartbreaking.

The image used is from Eye Magazine, "Femicide posters"

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