Four journalists were kidnapped after publishing a story earlier this week about prison officials in northern Mexico who had allegedly let drug-gang assassins out repeatedly and supplied them with weapons and trucks to massacre 35 people. The gunmen who took the journalists demanded that videos they had made accusing the police of collaborating with another drug gang, the Zetas, be aired on TV networks. The videos were aired on a midday newscast, but the men were not released, and remain in captivity.
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