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Four main cartels - in Tijuana, Sinaloa, Ciudad Juárez and the Gulf region - have fought each other pitilessly since the late 1990s for control of drug trafficking in the areas bordering the United States. Sometimes working independently of the main cartels, the traffickers buy off politicians to get their way. Journalists in northern and coastal states are often the primary targets of gang reprisals. The National Commission for Human Rights estimates that 46 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000, and eight have disappeared since 2003. More than half of the victims were investigating drug trafficking or related criminal activity. No one has ever been arrested and tried for ordering a journalist’s murder or kidnapping.
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