Um, is it just me, or is there a sort of scary revolution going on down here?

In his last report before leaving office, outgoing President Vicente Fox stated on September 1 that freedom of press is a reality in Mexico. What President Fox did not mention was that Mexico now ranks only second to Colombia in terms of murdered journalists, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. For many Mexican journalists, covering the news about organized crime is practically akin to being a Middle Eastern war correspondent.

Just hours before President Fox delivered his upbeat report, a grenade exploded at the offices of the Por Esto! newspaper in Merida, Yucatan, wounding three workers. The attack occurred within 180 feet of a school that had just begun classes for the day. It was the second grenade attack suffered by a branch of the newspaper in recent days. Known for its audacious reporting, recent stories of Por Esto! have discussed the smuggling of undocumented Cubans and the involvement of law enforcement officials in drug trafficking.

Whenever drug "gangs" are involved, your hackles should go up. As in, because bad and spooky unofficial military/government people are always involved in it, somewhere. Ian has more:

In a coup or revolution the first thing you do is take over the radio, TV stations and newspapers. And in a large sense the Oaxaco revolution is a history of the fight to control radio broadcasting. After the first destruction APPO took over the university radio station and broadcast. When that was sabotaged by an acid attack, they then took over the government's own radio station and when that was destroyed by a paramilitary attack, they then took over commercial stations.
Meanwhile, the local economy has been rather badly damaged (such as it is).

WTF is going on here? Anyone? I hate being ignorant and not speaking the languages needed to understand a situation. But in this case, I am.