Soon Blog Del Narco was dominating Mexico’s drug-war blogosphere. The blog aired a resident’s YouTube video of the crashed cars and corpses along the highway. He is doing it without any ethical considerations.”īlog del Narco’s first posting concerned a small-town shootout in the border state of Tamaulipas that police wouldn’t even confirm happened. “This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. “Media outlets have social responsibilities and have to serve the public,” said Carlos Lauria, of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
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“We don’t want problems with them.”Ĭritics say it’s free public relations for the cartels. “We don’t insult them, we don’t say one specific group is the bad one,” he said. It can be extremely gory, but his neutrality has helped build his credibility. 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. “But as long as I don’t hear from her father, I won’t take them down.” “The girl wrote to me and told me, in a threatening way, to take down her photos,” the blogger said. 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 to death 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 then 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-defense.” “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 organized crime.
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