MEXICAN PRESS SEEKS SAFETY IN PROGRAM

But government often falls short of goal for journalists, others

BY GREG MORAN, ALEXANDRA MENDOZA & WENDY FRY

January was a horrifying month for journalists in Mexico. Four were murdered, two of them in Tijuana, getting the new year off to a bloody start and setting an entire profession on edge.

Things didn’t improve when February began.

“I am going to kill you like a dog.” That’s what Netzahualcóyotl Cordero García, the 47-year-old director general of an online news site in Cancun, heard in the darkness on the street outside of his home Tuesday night.

He escaped death, narrowly His attacker’s pistol malfunctioned reports say the bullet fell on the ground as he leveled it at his target which allowed the journalist to knock the assailant off his bike.