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Unlike the cartels, the Venezuelan government doesn't have to kill journalists in retaliation for a published story, they can kill the story.

That doesn't mean Mexico is as bad a place to live as Venezuela.

You're comparing unrelated things, but in any case Venezuela is lower in the global ranking for press freedom that that article references [1]

[1] - https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2019

How is that not apples and oranges?

Because the corporate media typically talks about human rights abuses in Venezuela only.

Well of course - governments are expected to be better than organized crime or at least stable.

Not to mention the entropic importance of the story being proportionate to the unexpectedness. Snowing in Moscow in the winter isn't news. Snowing in Florida summer is.