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.

Murders and kidnappings have plagued Mexico amid its drug war. A mob in one Mexican town this week rose up, pursued a couple of presumed kidnappers and killed them. The day after the fury, another crowd stormed city hall and forced the mayor to fire the entire police force.

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.