The media rights group Reporters Without Borders is urging the US and Mexico to increase protections for journalists covering the Mexican drug war.

Mexican investigative journalist Jorge Luis Sierra: “Reporters Without Borders and other organizations are asking the Mexican government to take these crimes, the outrages against journalists, as a federal issue, so the federal police can take over the investigation. Drug traffickers are taking control of the editorial operations in the Mexican newspapers. They decide what, when and how some incident is going to be covered.”

At least fifty-five journalists have been killed in Mexico in the past decade.