anabel hernandez welcome to , democracy now!e are speaking to you in rome, italy, so there is a littltle bt of a delay. can you talk about who javier was, the reporter who was gunned down this week right next to the offices of the newspaper he founded?? >> hello, amy. mehas been very sad days for and for hundreds of journalists in mexico because javier valdez is our friend. .avier valdez will always be and thish his words speech in 2011. this is javier, a very brave man. this is javier, the journalist that believed in the courage to work for the mexican society at in liberty to take their own decisions. i memet him many years ago. i saw him the last time at the beginning of this year. he was laughingg, as he used to do. he was worried, as may, about all of this violence in sinaloa. the cartelied about after the arrestst of el chapo course, is after, of extradition-- his to federal court in new york. javier was and is and will always be a very honest journalist and a friend, a brother for me. amy: so talk about his newspaper, whe