Journalists in Mexico Who Live Under Threat Take Charlie Hebdo Attack Personally Bryan Llenas - Fox News Latino
go to original January 10, 2015

A cartoon style drawing hangs outside France's embassy that reads in Spanish "The pencil is the most peaceful weapon, don't mess with humor" in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

The terror attack on Wednesday in Paris leaving 12 people dead at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has even shocked hardened journalists in Mexico who consistently work under the constant threat of terror covering drug trafficking and organized crime.

“I just didn’t think that it could go to this extreme,” said Javier Garza, who worked at Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper and was editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón in northern Mexico from 2006 and 2013. “We had 13 reporters killed in Mexico in two years, that’s one more than got killed in one day in Paris.”

The vicious and barbaric murders of an entire editorial staff in their offices in France – has left an indelible mark on Garza’s colleagues who consistently put their lives at risk covering beheadings, hangings, and mass kidnappings.

“It was something that hit me very personally, the images were just shocking,” said Lucy Sosa, one of the top reporters for El Diario de Juarez in Ciudad Juarez, once deemed the murder capital of the world.  “The magnitude of the aggression was just incredible.”

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