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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mexican-media-face-perils-reporting-on-drug-war by PBS NEWS 25/8/10] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mexican-media-face-perils-reporting-on-drug-war by PBS NEWS 25/8/10] | ||
Gun battles like this have become almost daily affairs in Mexico, as heavily armed drug cartels fight each other and the government over billion-dollar trafficking routes to the United States. Mexican networks and newspapers have to make some tough choices on this drug war. They have to decide how to tell the story, how much blood and guts to show the public, and how to protect themselves. | Gun battles like this have become almost daily affairs in Mexico, as heavily armed drug cartels fight each other and the government over billion-dollar trafficking routes to the United States. Mexican networks and newspapers have to make some tough choices on this drug war. They have to decide how to tell the story, how much blood and guts to show the public, and how to protect themselves. | ||
=====“They Are Making Us into Slaves, Not Educating Us”===== | |||
[https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/08/09/they-are-making-us-slaves-not-educating-us/how-indefinite-conscription-restricts by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 8/8/19] | |||
Since the border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) have used indefinite national service to control the Eritrean population. Human Rights Watch research finds that many Eritreans have spent their entire working lives at the service of the government in either a military or civilian capacity. This indefinite national service has had a visible and lasting impact on the rights, freedom, and lives of Eritreans. | |||
