Lucy Says She Never Wanted to Be the Most Wanted Blogger In the Hemisphere Pablo Gamez - RNW
go to original June 14, 2013

Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by the Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco by Blog del Narco Check it out on Amazon.com

In Mexico, the drugs cartels have become interested in the country’s bloggers. But it’s not just any type of interest. The drugs cartels have put a price on their head, just as they have with journalists. Eliminating them has become a priority. Why? Because they have put the cartels in check, publishing reports that can’t be found in the traditional media.
 
The censorship imposed by the drugs gangs in Mexico is a cancer that’s affecting all of the country’s media. No magazine, newspaper, radio or television station has been able to circumvent the cartels’ rules. Publishing any news about them immediately leads to threats or the kidnapping of journalists. In the worst cases, reporters are quartered and their limbs are dumped on streets and in parks.
 
There are drugs dealers who are open about who they are, and there are organised criminals who operate in the shadows. The latter appear to be the worst because they hide behind an official uniform  of the police or army or navy. A combination of these three now wants the head of Lucy, a 27-year-old blogger who had to flee Mexico and is now living somewhere in Spain.
 
Lucy’s sin was to launch the Narcoblog, a unique space which gradually became the main source of information about the dirty war in Mexico. It’s a war being waged by the cartels, gangsters and corrupt politicians, and it is destroying Mexican society.

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