Is 'the Most Important Website in Mexico' Stealing Work From Mexican Journalists? Michel Marizco - Fronteras Desk
go to original April 16, 2013

Article from Cambio de Michoacan, left, and Blog Del Norte, right.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Recently, a carefully constructed narrative surfaced along the Mexican border. Its creators have been interviewed by everyone from the Texas Observer to television stations and online outlets. The narrative is that of a young woman fed up with the travesties that occur every day in Mexico; the murders and corruption and violence and barbarities that have dominated the headlines for most of the past decade. She says her name is "Lucy," she is in her mid-20s and is a journalist in northern Mexico.

The country’s news reporters are targeted and assassinated for reporting on the situation, the narrative goes. They are cowed into silence. Then one day, this woman steps in fill the void. She begins to blog about what’s happening in her country, telling readers about the atrocities that reporters can no longer write about. "Lucy" calls it Blog Del Narco.

The narrative is a fascinating one, complete with drama and danger and a lone figure standing up for the truth. And now, that writer has written a book. This book is so dangerous, states her publisher that, “it’s a certainty she will be horribly murdered.”

But just how much of it is true?

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