Imagine what they could do to us.'Īs of September 2010, the blog had three million unique monthly views. The blogger said, 'for the scanty details that they (mass media) put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped. The author of the blog said that he is doing a service by publishing sensitive details about the Mexican Drug War that journalist organizations in Mexico are hesitant to publish for fear of retaliation.

When he conducted an interview with the Associated Press, he used a disguised telephone number. The author uses computer security techniques to obscure his identity. In Mexico, many traditional journalistic outlets have been threatened and harassed due to stories about the drug trafficking industry they dared publish, so anonymous blogs like Blog del Narco have taken the role of reporting on events related to the drug war. Some of the videos posted on the website show incidents of murder and torture.

In May 2013, it was revealed that one of the authors of the blog was a woman in her early 20s who goes by the pseudonym 'Lucy.' In early May, Lucy fled Mexico for the United States ( Texas), then Spain. As a result of the video, the prison warden was arrested. In 2011, a video posted on the blog outlined a prison warden's system of letting prisoners free at night so they could commit murders for drug cartels. The creators and current editors of the blog 'have not received any threats yet.' During the early days of Blog del Narco, the general population of Mexico submitted only a small number of reports to them, but as the website built trust with time, more reports were submitted. They chose YouTube to upload videos to the web and comment as on Twitter. They decided to broadcast their content without alteration or modifications of convenience-and help Mexicans take all necessary precautions to protect their own well-being. To deal with the increased workload, he asked a friend, also anonymous, to help him. The author would initially spend four hours every day working on the website. Citizen journalism website documenting the Mexican drug war El Blog del Narcoīlog, Online newspaper, Internet forum īlog del Narco ( Narco's Blog) is a citizen journalism blog that attempts to document the events of the Mexican drug war, primarily those not reported by the government of Mexico or the Mexican news media.Īn anonymous person created the website because the government was not reporting the violence and was trying to pretend that 'nothing happening', the media was 'intimidated', and the 'government had apparently been bought.'

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