When El Diario was born at the start of 1976, the maquiladora industry, export assembly factories designed to give jobs to thousands of unemployed men who ended up in these borderlands, had already been growing for ten years.

El Diario began investigating and publishing on its own, at the local level, assuming all risks associated with reporting on the growing drug-trafficking industry - an industry which was neither removed from, nor isolated from, the greater socioeconomic situation that was evolving along the border with the United States. Twenty-five years ago, we began to notice the beginnings of what at that time was known as the Juárez cartel, a phenomenon that we considered a huge threat to our borderlands even though the drug-trafficking industry already had a strong presence in our state. Excerpts are published below, edited for space and clarity. 7, the publication’s editor and publisher, Osvaldo Rodríguez Borunda, released this letter. Three journalists have so far been murdered, their cases unsolved. Rarely has a publication been so close to the front lines of Mexico’s ongoing turmoil than El Diario, the 35-year-old daily newspaper published in one of the hubs of the violence, Ciudad Juárez. Thirty-five years ago, El Diario de Ciudad Juárez printed its first issues out of very modest facilities and with an initial distribution of just 200 copies. 7, the publication's editor and publisher, Osvaldo Rodríguez Borunda, released this letter. Rarely has a publication been so close to the front lines of Mexico's ongoing turmoil than El Diario, the 35-year-old daily newspaper published in one of the hubs of the violence, Ciudad Juárez.

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