Cardona is himself a former journalist, the director or editor of El Regional in June 1992. That was an election year, which pitted the PAN and PRI parties against each other in a hot contest for the state and city. Along with El Regional, two other weeklies supported the PAN who won in July 1992. The other weeklies were Contacto, edited by Guadalupe Navarrete and Prensa Libre edited by Armando Ortega Mata, the older brother of Jose Luis Ortega. The incumbent PRI lost the 1992 election 4756-3029.
Life is almost unbelievably difficult for Mexican journalists.
We saw hat directly in 1992 as we watched them haul their newspapers to Pecos, Texas almost 200 miles one way to be printed. Mexico has no First Amendment and no presumption of innocence. Journalists murderers are seldom caught. They work under conditions very like frontier America 100 years ago. If we look closely we will see ourselves and our own raw, lawless history.