Message from the Media

Excelsior ran four almost entirely blank pages in the middle of its front section today, each with a short paragraph in small type dropped into its middle. The four-page message read: 

These blank pages are not an error. It's the sad evidence of how, as a society, we have become the target of insecurity and terror: kidnapping, violence, organized crime, impunity. These blank pages are cries of fear. Cries to the emptiness lifted up by victims of insecurity and violence. Cries that the society listens to with horror. Cries that the authorities don't hear, don't attend to, leave blank. These blank pages are absence of action from the authorities. Without worrying about the clamor for protection of citizens, they have left blank their promises to combat crime, to reform the obsolete judicial system. To guarantee us tranquility. These blank pages are the new banner of the society. A banner of peace and insistence from all of Mexico waving before the authorities. We demand that the put to one side their political differences and fulfill their fundamental obligation: our security. Now, enough already!