A clash in Jilotlán de los Dolores, Jalisco, left five people dead: four suspected Cártel Nueva Generación gunmen and one soldier. [1] El Informador filed army special forces and National Guard coming under fire at two camps. [1] La Jornada filed the same five-dead split. [2] Print the clash. Do not print an ambush of five civilians.

Two soldiers were wounded and flown out; one later died, in the same files. [1] Authorities seized long guns, improvised explosives, and vehicles. [1] A Barrett among the guns is a seized rifle. It is not a named commander.

Tecalitlán's clinic belongs to another page. This page owns Jilotlán's five. Print four and one. Leave a civilian-ambush rewrite to the edition that owns a civilian-ambush file.

Four presumed criminals and one soldier: the split is the story, separating a firefight from a massacre. Informador and Jornada agree on the numbers. Civilian-ambush framings belong to a different file.

Split counts tell firefights; Saturday's split tells one. Telling is the update. Massacres belong elsewhere.

Massacres belong elsewhere; Saturday's split is four presumed criminals and one soldier. Informador and Jornada agree. Not five civilians.

Jalisco's sierra clash is a firefight count, not a civilian massacre. Four presumed CNG gunmen and one soldier are the dead both papers named. Seized rifles and explosives do not name a commander. Do not import five civilian victims.
One soldier and four presumed gunmen are the named dead. This page prints a clash. Five civilians would be another story.

This page prints a clash. Five civilians would be another story. Do not import five civilian victims.

-- LUCIA VEGA, Mexico City