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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