Drug lords have forced a Mexican newspaper to pull back from its hard-hitting coverage of the country's vicious gang warfare after apparently killing one of its journalists.

Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, was shot dead last week while sitting in a parked car (above) in Ciudad Juarez. He had been working as a trainee photographer for El Diario, a newspaper that has built a reputation for its in-depth reporting of the drug-related violence that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 people in Juarez so far this year.

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Es ist ein Triumph der Gewalt und eine Niederlage des Rechtsstaats: Eine mexikanische Tageszeitung hat die Drogenkartelle um klare Anweisungen gebeten, was veröffentlicht werden soll und was nicht. Zuvor waren Journalisten erschossen worden.

Ciudad Juárez - Die führende Tageszeitung in Mexikos Drogenhochburg Ciudad Juárez hat an die rivalisierenden Rauschgiftkartelle appelliert, ihre Gewalttaten gegen Journalisten des Blattes einzustellen. "Wir wollen, dass Sie uns erklären, was Sie von uns wollen - was wir veröffentlichen sollen und was wir nicht mehr veröffentlichen sollen", wandte sich das "Diario de Juárez" in einem am Sonntag veröffentlichten Leitartikel auf seiner Titelseite direkt an die Drogenbosse.

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Showtime has ordered a seventh season of its hit series Weeds and a second season of its recently-launched series The Big C, both of which will air in 2011.

Weeds stars Emmy Award winner Mary-Louise Parker as a suburban widow who becomes a marijuana dealer to support her family. The series also stars stage veterans Justin Kirk and Hunter Parrish.

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Jeremy Miller proudly talks about last weekend's first ever cannabis farmers' market. The director of Sacred Plant Medicine Co-op says he came up with the idea after listening to his customers.

"We have patients come in all the time with extra medicine and they don't know what to do with it, so this in an outlet for that extra medicine because the state only allows them to carry 24 ounces," said Miller.

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