April 18, 2001 Dear Colleague, Julie Reynolds, the courageous reporter for El Andar (the major Latino magazine in the U.S.) reports on narco-lawsuits against the First Amendment: "These days, those suspected of money laundering and other crimes linked to América's "narcosistema" don't send out hit men or mob lawyers to take care of nosy reporters and researchers. Instead, they employ former FBI agents, private investigators and high-powered Washington law firms to keep a rein on the media. They spy, they entrap, and they use lawsuits — not bullets — to silence the press." http://www.elandar.com/back/spring01/stories/story_entrapment.html We've linked to this important story from page one of Narco News. Anyone sense a pattern here? Narco News expresses its solidarity and support for the journalists and researchers targetted by the Laredo National Bank and the Hank family empire whose Free Speech rights are threatened by yet another set of frivilous lawsuits in the United States. >From somewhere on an island in América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
