This is news unprocessed, unadulterated and uncensored. Jo Tuckman of Dawn said that the website's contents are "a catalogue of horror absent even from the national press, which still covers the violence from the relative safety of its headquarters in the capital." ĭuncan Robinson of the New Statesman said "To say that the blog's coverage is raw is an understatement. Then there’s all the dead bodies and shot-up cars." People walking the streets in body armor, automatic weapons out. Paramilitary cops in ski masks taking dudes into custody. Old, wealthy men held hostage and humiliated. Spencer Ackerman of Wired said, "even if you don’t read Spanish (like me), the images on Blog Del Narco tell the gruesome story. If they do not comply with what the drug cartels demand, the journalists may be kidnapped, intimidated, or even killed. The Guardian and Los Angeles Times noted that Blog del Narco is a response to Mexico's "narco-censorship," a term used when reporters and editors of the Mexican Drug War, out of fear or caution, are forced to either write what the drug lords demand, or remain silent by not writing anything at all. MSNBC described Blog 1 del Narco as "Mexico's go-to Web site on information on the country's drug war." Additionally, The Houston Chronicle said that Blog del Narco is "a gritty, front-row seat to Mexico's drug war." Members of police and drug cartel groups directly read the blog. By 2011, it became one of the most visited websites in Mexico. 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. The site had not been active since May 2013. 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.
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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. An anonymous person created the website because the Government of Mexico 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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