MEXICO CITY—Five non-editorial employees of a newspaper in
northern Mexico were kidnapped but released within a few hours,
the company said in an editorial posted on its website Friday.
It complained there is a lack of security for news workers in
the violence-plagued region around the city of Torreon.  The
newspaper Siglo de Torreon, in the state of Coahuila, said
abductors took two people who operated its online services, two
employees of the advertising department and one administrative
employee. It said the workers were released early Friday, but
that for security reasons, it would not give any further details
on the incident.  Mexican newspapers and journalists have been
subject to frequent attacks in areas where drug cartels are
battling for control of key regions and seek to dictate news
coverage. Torreon is a city where authorities say increasing
violence is a product of a turf war between the Zetas and
Sinaloa cartels.  An official at the Coahuila state prosecutor's
office, who spoke on condition of