MEXICO: Border Violence Spreads Eastward To Reynosa

AP/ MIAMI HERALD/    A crumbling alliance between two drug gangs is plunging a 200-mile stretch of Mexico's Eastern border with the U.S. into new violence. From Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo at least 49 people have been killed in less than six weeks. It started in January when an alliance between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas was broken after a Zetas was murdered in Reynosa.

Is Mexico The Most Misreported Country?

CJR.ORG/Michael Massing
"... since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the Mexican drug trade nearly three years ago, the coverage has only deteriorated. When it comes to Mexico, U.S. journalists seem interested in only four things: drugs, traffickers, violence, and corruption (with an occasional nod toward immigration). Journalists peddle a sort of drug-war pornography, salaciously and insatiably dwelling on the most lurid aspects of the trade: narcos, gangs, smugglers, pipelines, cells, mass graves, severed heads, torture chambers, dirty cops. Journalists promiscuously quote DEA agents, eagerly accompany undercover cops on ride-alongs, descend daringly into drug-infested neighborhoods, and intrepidly interview members of the drug trade."