BROOKE GLADSTONE: You've said that you hope that this story will get a lot of play in the American media. We've been waiting for that for a long time. And so, it seems that the United States authorities are recognizing this now. BROOKE GLADSTONE: So who do you think the principal target for El Diario’s message was? Was it the cartels, the Mexican authorities, the American authorities? GERARDO RODRIGUEZ: They just gave asylum for the first time to a Mexican reporter here in the United States, and he’s from Juarez. We're recognizing this fact, which everybody talks about in Mexico but is not published very often. BROOKE GLADSTONE: What was your actual intention? GERARDO RODRIGUEZ: To send a message, you know, that we, we recognize that they are the authority in town, because the authorities are nonexistent. BROOKE GLADSTONE: You say that there was a certain ironic intent in your editorial, but it reads like a real cry of the heart.
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It used to be that they would call the TV stations and the newsrooms, and they would threaten. Tell us, then, what do you expect from us as a newspaper?” You didn't really expect the cartels to respond with a bill of particulars, did you? GERARDO RODRIGUEZ: Well, of course, we are not expecting a direct message. BROOKE GLADSTONE: So the paper’s editorial read, quote, “It is impossible for us to do our job under these conditions. Only 3 percent get ever to courts, and less than those are solved. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Is it true that in Juarez only about 2 percent of these drug-related murders are actually solved? GERARDO RODRIGUEZ: Yes, it is. The other photographer is, is alive, but he’s in a secret location. Both were wearing their IDs for the newspaper. And then the killer ran and, and chased his companion, which he’s also a graphic reporter for our newspaper. He was shot in the middle of the day in a mall. His crime has not been solved, even though we have promises from the presidency. Armando Rodriguez was a police reporter who got killed less than two years ago in front of his house, killed in front of his daughter. BROOKE GLADSTONE: So can you tell me exactly what your editorial said? GERARDO RODRIGUEZ: It’s asking the leaders of the Plaza, and this is the territories that are run by island cartels, that in this war between them and the government we are in the middle, under fire, and we're not getting a clear message why are they killing our journalists. Gerardo Rodriguez is an editor for El Diario. On Wednesday, Calderon announced a plan to help protect journalists, but that’s likely to be of limited solace because there’s no trustworthy authority in Juarez. Last Sunday, after the murderer of staff photographer Luis Carlos Santiago, the newspaper El Diario of Ciudad Juarez printed an editorial on its front page titled What do You Want from Us?, a query both angry and plaintive directed at the cartels. Among the casualties are at least 30 journalists killed or disappeared. Mexico’s ongoing drug war has taken 28,000 lives since Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a militarized campaign against the cartels in 2006. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I'm Brooke Gladstone. BOB GARFIELD: From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.
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