It was deeply frightening.'Īnonymity became the only safeguard for freedom of expression. 'We had never seen houses burnt, people massacred like this before. 'We were living in some kind of low-intensity war,' said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville who studies organized crime in her native Mexico. The blog documented the drug war in all its horror: photos of decapitated heads, mutilated torsos and other stomach-jarring acts of violence committed by organized crime to induce terror among the population.įrightened and curious Mexicans read Blog del Narco to understand what was happening to their country. Within months, Blog del Narco was one of the most visited websites in Mexico with 3m monthly visitors.

The blog featured raw photos and videos of executions, and gun battles uploaded by anonymous contributors. Journalism is dead in Reynosa, and I have nothing more to say.'Īs Mexico's media outlets stopped reporting on the cartels and the government remained silent, Blog del Narco, launched in March 2010, began to fill the void. 'In more and more regions of Mexico, it is impossible to do journalism. When the reporters returned to their newsroom at El Milenio in Mexico City, their editor, Ciro Gomez Lleyva, wrote what was essentially the obituary for press freedom in his country. Only two of the kidnapped reporters survived. The offices of news organizations across northern Mexico were attacked with grenades and strafed with gunfire. By using this Product or otherwise accepting this Agreement and the Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy and represent you satisfy all of the eligibility requirements below.In the first two months of 2010, eight journalists were kidnapped in the border city of Reynosa. If you do not agree with or wish to accept the terms of either this Agreement or the Privacy Policy then please do not use the Product. Please read and review both this Agreement and the Privacy Policy before using this Product. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Activision and its licensors.Use of the Product is also subject to acceptance of Activision's Privacy Policy available at. You agree that your use of this Activision website, application ('App'), account, product, service or other property (including Service and/or Service Provided Content as defined below), including any patches, updates, and downloadable content associated with any App or other software (collectively 'Product' or 'Products'), shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement.

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