Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100806:14:20:00
President felipe calderon declared war on the drug cartels in 2006. police arrested three suspected gang members for kidnapping tv journalists. reporters urged to wear body armor, 30 have been killed or disappeared since 2006. telemundo network news anchor jose diaz-balart is live in mexico city. jose, why are journalists being such a big target of the cartels? >> reporter: journalists have been a target of the cartels for some time, but the fact of that the escalation against the journalists has been -- first they targeted local journalists, kind of shut them up so they wouldn't report in the...
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