Are Journalists Safe In Mexico?

In the latest wave of journalist killings in Mexico, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, an award-winning reporter who specialized in writing about drug trafficking and organized crime was killed Monday in the northern state of Sinaloa, officials said. He was among the six journalists who have reportedly been murdered in Mexico this year.
Cárdenas, who was the co-founder of publication Riodoce, was shot to death in the early afternoon near his office. Sinaloa stat