Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Newspaper Editor Beat Up for Reporting Cartel Stories

A newspaper editor from a Mexican border city considered his future Thursday, a day after three armed men dragged him from his office, beat him and threatened his life before letting him go.

Enrique Juarez Torres, editor of El Manana in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, said his kidnapping was a warning from the Gulf Cartel over publishing reports in Wednesday's newspaper about gunfights in the area that killed nine people.

A total of 15 people have reportedly been killed since the weekend as rival factions of the cartel battle between the border cities of Matamoros and . . .

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