Blog del narco7/5/2023 ![]() It featured YouTube video of crashed cars and corpses along a road.ĬNN, Mexican media, the FBI and Mexican Defense Department are among the blog's 7,300 followers on Facebook and Twitter. The sites first posting concerned a small-town shootout in the border state of Tamaulipas which police did not even confirm had happened. He is doing it without ethical considerations.' 'This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. We don't want problems with them.'īut critics said it is free PR for the cartels.Ĭarlos Lauria, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said: 'Media outlets have social responsibilities and have to serve the public. He added: 'We don't insult them, we don't say one specific group is the bad one. He said the the blog provides an uncensored platform, posting items regardless of content or cartel affiliation. The blogger added: 'For the scanty details that they (mass media) put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped. The violent drug war has killed more than 28,000 people and made the country one of the world's most dangerous for journalists. Mexico President Felipe Calderon has faced criticism that his government is not putting out enough information to the public. He said: 'People now demand information and if you don't publish it, they complain.' The blogger, a student in northern Mexico studying computer security, launched it in March as a 'hobby' but it now receives three million hits a week and hundreds of postings a day. ![]() While there are numerous blogs on Mexico's drug war, Blog del Narco appears to be the first used by traffickers themselves.
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