Norma Sarabia Garduza became the seventh Mexican journalist to be murdered this year by the drug cartels in a surging violence throughout the country.

In early June, she was talking to a relative on the veranda of her home in Huimanguillo near the Guatemalan border when four masked men pulled up in a car. One got out and shouted something to the effect, “Hey, Norma, got something for you,” and shot her four times. As she was dying, the group drove off and, as usual, have not been apprehended. Continue reading “Mexico’s Black Hole”