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El Mañana (Nuevo Laredo)
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El Mañana is a Spanish language
newspaper
published in Nuevo Laredo
, Tamaulipas
, Mexico
. The newspaper was founded in 1924 by Heriberto Deandar Amador, it is Nuevo Laredo's oldest newspaper currently still published. El Mañana uses the slogan "La verdad sin fronteras" ("The truth without boundaries"). El Mañana is also circulated in Laredo, Texas
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The El Mañana newspaper office was attacked by armed assailants on February 6, 2006. The attackers were equipped with AR-15s and AK-style rifles and fragmentation grenades. The primary target of the attack was Jaime Orozco Tey, a reporter who had recently reported on drug-related violence in the city. The newspaper had previously been attacked in March 2004, when the editor, Roberto Mora García, was murdered. As a result, the newspaper has practiced self-censorhsip that avoids reporting on drug-related violence in the city.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
published in Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a city located in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Río Grande, across from the United States city of Laredo, Texas. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo...
, Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 43 municipalities and its capital city is Ciudad Victoria. The capital city was named after Guadalupe Victoria, the...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. The newspaper was founded in 1924 by Heriberto Deandar Amador, it is Nuevo Laredo's oldest newspaper currently still published. El Mañana uses the slogan "La verdad sin fronteras" ("The truth without boundaries"). El Mañana is also circulated in Laredo, Texas
Laredo, Texas
Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091 making it the 3rd largest on the United States-Mexican border,...
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The El Mañana newspaper office was attacked by armed assailants on February 6, 2006. The attackers were equipped with AR-15s and AK-style rifles and fragmentation grenades. The primary target of the attack was Jaime Orozco Tey, a reporter who had recently reported on drug-related violence in the city. The newspaper had previously been attacked in March 2004, when the editor, Roberto Mora García, was murdered. As a result, the newspaper has practiced self-censorhsip that avoids reporting on drug-related violence in the city.