Narco News 2001

Atrocity's Apologist

NYT's Juan Forero Covered for Embassy

A Narco News Global Alert

By Al Giordano

Special to the Narco News Bulletin

U.S. news correspondents in Latin America are sharpening their laptops like knives, but their wits remain dull as doornails.

The countdown has begun: only six weeks until the October 9th expiration date on the demilitarized zone in Colombia, when the drug war could well go "boom."

And Juan Forero of the New York Times is just another soldier-of-fortune, one with a press pass.

War has long meant good news for foreign correspondents for United States newspapers: It brings dreams of page one stories, media industry awards, maybe a Hollywood movie deal later on. Never mind the human suffering of the folks stuck on the battlefields. For inauthentic journalists, the blood of others is merely a pretext for ink.