Bloody Tuesday

Yesterday in Torreón and Gómez Palacio, in which slightly less than a million people live, 11 people were killed in drug violence. However, the events were pushed off the front page of the national papers by similar if not worse violence in Reynosa between drug traffickers and the army. I also wonder if the difference in coverage of yesterday's events compared with the attention devoted to the New Year's gunfight owes anything to the fact that this time around, most of the shooting was confined to poor neighborhoods.