Mexican government officials disputed Sec. of State Clinton’s remarks comparing the situation in Mexico with that of Colombia in the ’80s, particularly her use of the word insurrection. In this article in yesterday’s editorial in El Norte de Juarez, the editor of the largest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, with two murdered reporters so far, makes an appeal for a truce to the narcos, pointing out that the Mexican government no longer rules in his city or in the State of Chihuahua for that matter and that ordinary citizens, not just rival gang members, are in danger. He ought to know.
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