However, those reporting online also face very serious risks. The dangers faced by bloggers like Lucy is illustrated by the deaths in Tamaulipas, as well as recent threats against sites like Facebook page Valor por Tamulipas, which seems to have been taken down in recent days.Ī report last year by US NGO Freedom House found many journalists using social media were not taking adequate privacy precautions online.
By posting sensitive information and favoring speed and speculation over accuracy. Social media has become an increasingly important source of information on Mexico's drug war, as traditional media have resorted to self-censorship to protect themselves. Blog del Narco exercised more risk than traditional journalistic venues. The author also said that three people killed in Tamaulipas in 2011, whose bodies were left with signs warning "This will happen to all the Internet snitches," had been contributing information to Blog del Narco. Lucy, whose site attracts 3 million readers a month, said she and her colleagues changed where they lived every month and hid their equipment, in an attempt to avoid being identified. And I love Mexico," she told the newspapers. I'm a woman, I'm single, I have no children. "Who am I? I'm in my mid-20s, I live in northern Mexico, I'm a journalist. She has never given a major interview before, and her identity remains unknown. BTW, the author doesn't want to have surprise sex with the cartels, so he does a pretty good job of keeping himself anonymous. Images of chopped off heads, narcovideos with 'sicarios' being executed, bullet-ridden SUVs, you name it. Narco News published original investigative journalism & analysis for 19 years (20002019) on the war on drugs from Latin America, and on social movements, community organizing, nonviolent resistance and election campaigns throughout the world. Using the pseudonym of "Lucy," the author of Blog del Narco, a site which has graphically reported drug-releated deaths since March 2010, told UK newspaper The Guardian and US newspaper Texas Observer that she lived her life in fear but was utterly dedicated to her work. El Blog del Narco is a website with a fine collection of stuff shat out by Mexican drug cartels. Hijo de la guerra by Ricardo Raphael My rating: 5 of 5 stars The book is in Spanish. 'Sol Prendido' for Borderland Beat On Monday afternoon Sergio Carmona was executed in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, he was considered the 'King of Huachicol' and he had been singled out for financing electoral campaigns by Morena politicians in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas. The author of one of Mexico's best-known websites documenting the country's drug violence has revealed her identity as a woman in her mid-20s.