Narco News is an online newspaper that covers the "War on Drugs" and social movements throughout the Americas.
This culminated in a publicity tour in New York, including a forum at Columbia University with both Giordano and Menéndez in attendance.
[1] Mendéndez hired Martin Garbus as his lawyer, although the court found that it did not have personal jurisdiction over Menéndez.
[2] The text of the decision reads:[4] "Narco News, its website, and the writers who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist...
Furthermore, the nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordano's statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug trade and its affect [sic] on people living in this hemisphere..."Narco News was the first publication to investigate the cover-up of the "House of Death" mass murders in 2004, which involved an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informant assisting a cell of the Juarez Drug Cartel in planning and carrying out the murders of multiple people as part of a U.S. government-sponsored deep cover operation.