SAN ANTONIO – A Mexican journalist who was the target of death threats like those made by drug cartels says he has been granted asylum in the United States in a case believed to be the first of its kind since the country’s bloody drug war began.

SAN ANTONIO – A Mexican journalist who was the target of death threats like those made by drug cartels says he has been granted asylum in the United States in a case believed to be the first of its kind since the country’s bloody drug war began.

Less than one week after the murder of Luis Carlos Santiago, a 21-year-old photojournalist for El Diario de Ciudad Juárez , three Mexican journalists in exile spoke to the press from the offices of the Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas: Emilio Gutierrez Soto, a newspaper reporter from the town of Ascensión, Chihuahua, Ricardo Chavez Aldana, a radio reporter from Juárez and …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newspaper’s stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico’s equivalent of the water cooler — its ubiquitous town squares.

A newspaper’s stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico’s equivalent of the water cooler _ its ubiquitous town squares.