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Offline TomSea

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Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens
« on: February 05, 2018, 06:06:24 pm »
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Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens
Kate Linthicum

During sleepless nights in an immigrant detention center in Texas just north of the border, Emilio Gutierrez Soto has had a lot of time to think. Shivering on a flimsy mattress under thin sheets, 54-year-old Gutierrez finds himself circling back to the same question: Was it worth it?

Was it worth writing those articles critical of the Mexican military? Was it worth having to flee Mexico after receiving threats against his life?

Many miles away, in a teeming Mexican metropolis, Julio Omar Gomez is not confined behind bars, but might as well be.

Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mexico-journalists-20180205-story.html
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Re: Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2018, 06:15:23 pm »
Oh the irony.  Everybody says Trump is at war with journalists, and yet you have journalists from Meh-Hee-Co coming here to flee a real war on journalists.
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Re: Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2018, 07:00:54 pm »
Yet if Trump were to call this a "shithole" he'd be villified.
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