What's it like working as a reporter in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists?

As AFP's Mexico City-based journalist Leticia Pineda writes, it's dropping to the ground behind some bushes in a hot prairie as you cover the disappearance of dozens of students, praying the armed men that just showed up in the distance won't see you.

It's being chased from a shopping mall parking lot for taking a picture of a cross.

And, when you're working for the local press in Mexico's regions, it's living with the constant fear that armed men can burst into your house at any time and take you away, never to be heard from again.