fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the italian paper "il mattino dell'italia centrale" in 1946. after 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in vietnam, for the indo-pakistani war, in the middle east and in south america. for many years, fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine "l'europeo" and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and "epoca" magazine. during the 1968 tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 summer olympics, fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by mexican forces. the demonstrations by immigrants in the united states these past few months "disgust" her, especially when protesters displayed the mexican flag. "i don't love the mexicans," fallaci said, invoking her nasty treatment at the hands of mexican police in 1968. "if you hold a gun and say, 'choose who is worse between the muslims and the mexicans,' i have a moment of hesitation. then i choose the muslims, because they have broken my balls."