Some of the videos posted on the website show incidents of murder and torture. The site had not been active since May 2013. In May 2013, it was revealed that one of the authors of the blog was a woman in her early 20s who goes by the pseudonym 'Lucy.' In early May, Lucy fled Mexico for the United States (Texas), then Spain. As a result of the video, the prison warden was arrested. In 2011, a video posted on the blog outlined a prison warden's system of letting prisoners free at night so they could commit murders for drug cartels. The creators and current editors of the blog 'have not received any threats yet.'

During the early days of Blog del Narco, the general population of Mexico submitted only a small number of reports to them, but as the website built trust with time, more reports were submitted.

They chose YouTube to upload videos to the web and comment as on Twitter. They decided to broadcast their content without alteration or modifications of convenience-and help Mexicans take all necessary precautions to protect their own well-being. To deal with the increased workload, he asked a friend, also anonymous, to help him. The author would initially spend four hours every day working on the website. HistoryĪn anonymous person created the website because the Government of Mexico was not reporting the violence and was trying to pretend that 'nothing happening', the media was 'intimidated' and the 'government had apparently been bought.' Blog, Online newspaper, Internet forum īlog del Narco ( Narco's Blog) is a blog that attempted to document the violent incidents and characters involved in the Mexican Drug War that never made it to government reports or the mainstream media.

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