Posted on 08/12/2010 4:47:12 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war.
Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.
Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police.
The undifferentiated content suggests that all sides are using the blog — drug gangs to project their power, law enforcement to show that it too can play rough, and the public to learn about incidents that the mainstream media are forced to ignore or play down.
In at least one case Blog del Narco may have led to a major arrest — of a prison warden after a video posting detailed her alleged system of setting inmates free at night to carry out killings for a drug cartel.
The mysterious blogger hides his identity behind an elaborate cyber-screen. The Associated Press wrote to the blog's e-mail address, and the blogger called back from a disguised phone number. He said he is a student in northern Mexico majoring in computer security, that he launched the blog in March as a "hobby," but it now has grown to hundreds of postings a day and 3 million hits a week.
"People now demand information and if you don't publish it, they complain," he said.
Indeed, President Felipe Calderon has heard complaints that his government is not putting out enough information to allow people to function and stay safe.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
If you find out the site’s address so we can access it, let me know.
Thank you.
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this is just about the same but in Inglish http://www.borderlandbeat.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=50
Daily news to the minute http://lapolaka.com/
And another, fresh daily news http://el-blog-del-terror.blogspot.com/
Thanks. I went to the site and there is some horrifying photos. Not for everyone.
Thank you.
There are not that many computer security majors in northern Mexico. I hope that’s a red herring.
It’s not just in Mexico that the news blackout on what’s going on at the border is occurring.
Could it also be tolerated as a way of showing the nitty gritty of the murders? That it becomes a venue of showing how bloody each cartel has been done? That they allow it because it may scare those opposed to them into submission?
Could it also be tolerated as a way of showing the nitty gritty of the murders? That it becomes a venue of showing how bloody each cartel has been done? That they allow it because it may scare those opposed to them into submission?
WARNING!!
I went to the site and am kicking myself for clicking on one of the videos. Live execution, cutting off of heads....I’ll never forget it. These people are barbaric and it’s downright frightening to know that they have spread out all over our country.
Thanks for the “heads up” warning, Kimberly.
Y/W .... In a way I’m glad that this information has hit the MSM....Anyone who visits that website is going to want something done IMMEDIATELY about the border and will understand what we are dealing with re: Mexican gangs/drug lords here in the U.S.
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