When we began this blog, we knew we'd receive death threats, but recently, they've become more serious. We will tell you as much as we can about why we chose to create and maintain Blog del Narco without revealing any identifying information about ourselves. In this extract, the anonymous duo behind the Blog del Narco tell why they risk their lives to document Mexico's war on drugs The result can be extremely gory, but his neutrality has helped build his credibility.Article published in the Guardian on 3 April 2013, reported in partnership with the Texas Observerĭying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War – excerpt The blogger said he provides an uncensored platform, posting photographs and videos he receives regardless of content or cartel affiliation. While there are numerous blogs on Mexico’s drug war, Blog del Narco seems to be the first used by the traffickers themselves.
* Photos of Mexican pop music stars at a birthday party for an alleged drug dealer’s teenage daughter in the border state of Coahuila, across from Texas. * Links to Facebook pages of alleged traffickers and their children, weapons, cars and lavish parties. At the end of the video the officer is shot dead. * The prison warden affair, which unfolded in a video of masked members of the Zetas drug gang interrogating a police officer, who reveals that inmates allied with the Sinaloa cartel are given guns and cars and sent off to commit murders. While media only reported police finding a beheaded body, the video shows the man confessing to working for drug lord Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villareal, who is locked in a fight with both the Beltran Leyva and Sinaloa cartels. “For the scanty details that they (mass media) put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped,” the blogger said. The violence has killed more than 28,000 people and made Mexico one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, which explains why Blog del Narco cloaks itself so heavily in anonymity. “When it comes to information, the Mexican public safety agencies don’t even shoot in self-defence.” “You authorities have placed Mexicans in the middle of a shootout where it’s not clear where the bullets are coming from,” journalist Hector Aguilar Camin said at a recent forum evaluating the government’s strategy for fighting organised crime.
Indeed, President Felipe Calderon has heard complaints that his government is not putting out enough information to allow people to function and stay safe. “People now demand information and if you don’t publish it, they complain,” he said. The blogger said he is a student in northern Mexico majoring in computer security, that he launched the blog in March as a “hobby”, but it now has grown to hundreds of postings a day and three million hits a week. The mysterious blogger hides his identity behind an elaborate cyber-screen.
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In at least one case, Blog del Narco may have led to the arrest of a prison warden after a video posting detailed her alleged system of setting inmates free at night to carry out killings for a drug cartel. The undifferentiated content suggests that all sides are using the blog – drug gangs to project their power, law enforcement to show that it too can play rough, and the public to learn about incidents that the mainstream media are forced to ignore or play down.
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