On 19 September El Diario, the main regional paper covering Ciudad Juárez, offered a truce to narco-traffickers operating in the area, in an effort to protect its journalists. The paper asked the narcos, whom it addressed as “señores" (gentlemen), to tell it what it should report and what it should not. The federal government's response was petulant, and perhaps misguided. The federal authorities claimed that the El Diario journalist, Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, assassinated on 16 September, had been killed for reasons completely unrelated to his job as a photo-journalist. The newspaper immediately repudiated the federal government's claim.
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