| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2009 
Gunmen Kill Mexican Reporter in Front of Colleagues
 Julian Cardona & Chris Wilson - Reuters
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September 25, 2009
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Suspected drug hitmen burst into a Mexican radio station and shot dead a journalist in front of his colleagues in the latest brazen attack on the media, authorities and a Mexican newspaper said on Thursday.
Gunmen shot Norberto Miranda, 44, several times in the rural town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in Chihuahua state near the U.S. border on Wednesday night.
"His body was found full of bullets in the radio's offices," said a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general's office, Vladimir Tuexi, who declined to give more details.
The newspaper El Diario said Miranda, who was well-known locally, had recently reported on growing drug violence in the remote area of Chihuahua state, which cartels use to run narcotics into Texas.
He was shot in front of his co-workers and the gunmen escaped, El Diario said on its website.
An escalating fight between rival cartels for control of the multibillion dollar drug trade in Mexico and the United States has killed 14,000 people since President Felipe Calderon launched his anti-drug campaign at the end of 2006.
Attacks on the media have mounted as drug gangs seek to silence journalists who report on the killings.
Since 2006, at least 15 journalists have been killed in Mexico, making it one of the world's most dangerous countries for the media, according to the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
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