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Why Sean Penn’s El Chapo meeting was an ‘epic insult’ to imperiled Mexican journalists via the @washingtonpost
As the Mexico City bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News for almost two decades, Alfredo Corchado has been on the front lines of the...

Why Sean Penn’s El Chapo meeting was an ‘epic insult’ to imperiled Mexican journalists

via the @washingtonpost

As the Mexico City bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News for almost two decades, Alfredo Corchado has been on the front lines of the journalistic struggle to document the brutal toll of drug violence across Mexico.

That struggle is among the world’s deadliest, with more than 60 Mexican journalists killed or having disappeared over the past decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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