10. Edited by Drug Lords
By Elisabeth Malkin
The entrance to Noroeste is covered with bullet holes after gunmen opened fire on the newspaper’s regional office in the Pacific resort city of Mazatlán, Mexico, on September 1, 2010.
(AP/Christiann Davis)
Adrián López Ortiz, the general director of Grupo Noroeste, a media group that owns the newspaper Noroeste in the northwestern Mexican city of Culiacán, was driving home from the airport in April 2014 when an SUV intercepted him. Two armed men got out and grabbed him, and he feared that he was going to be kidnapped. But they had other plans. One of them drove off in his car and the other stayed ...
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