The country has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists: at least 30 have been killed or have disappeared since 2006 and many news organisations have been attacked with bombs and gunfire. Since early 2007, over 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico.
El blog del narco full#
In one of their rare e-mail interviews, the authors, apparently a computer scientist and journalism student, told French website Bakchich that “only three people knew their full identities, and that was already too much”.
El blog del narco free#
Launched in March, the blog shot to fame in July after it helped lead to a major arrest, when a video posted detailed a prison warden’s system of setting inmates free at night to carry out drug cartel murders.įrance 24 tried to contact the authors of Blog del Narco to request an interview but received no response. Operating from behind a curtain of anonymity and computer security, Blog del Narco gives a graphic inside view of the kidnappings, killings and torture carried out by Mexico’s powerful drug gangs. Our Observer, herself a blogger anonymously covering drug violence and corruption, tells us why she thinks this kind of reporting is essential to Mexican society. Screenshot from a video posted on Blog del Narco, reportedly showing Mexican drug lord "El Ponchis" torturing and executing a victim.Īn anonymously run blog has become the go-to site for information on the country’s bloody drug war, covering stories that the mainstream media can’t or won’t.
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