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This is part of an interview with a US journalist from El Paso who has been covering stories in Mexico for years:
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A Local TV Journalist's Tips for Covering Mexican Border Stories
Al Tompkins: How bad is the violence across the border? How has the situation changed in the last year?
Angela Kocherga: It's the worst I've seen, and I've covered Mexico and the border my entire career. Just in Ciudad Juarez there were 1,600 killings last year. And the bloodbath continues. Last week we saw beheadings in a small border town on the outskirts of Juarez. The killers brazenly left the head of the police chief in an ice chest on the doorstep of the small police station. And it's not just drug traffickers fighting one another for turf. Kidnappings for ransom, extortion and robberies of every kind are rampant. Juarez is really bordering on lawlessness.
How difficult is it for you, as a journalist, to do your job in Mexico? I assume journalists feel constantly threatened as they cover stories about killings and crime.
Kocherga: First I want to point out that the Mexican journalists who live in Juarez and other conflict zones are most at risk. Some journalists have disappeared, and others have been killed over the past few years while covering the drug story. Attackers have targeted both newspaper and TV station offices in Mexico. Most recently, anchors at a Televisa station in Monterrey, Mexico, asked for help on the air when someone threw a grenade at the station during a newscast.
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