The violence has killed more than 28,000 people and made Mexico one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, which explains why Blog del Narco cloaks itself so heavily in anonymity. “When it comes to information, the Mexican public safety agencies don’t even shoot in self-defence.”
“You authorities have placed Mexicans in the middle of a shootout where it’s not clear where the bullets are coming from,” journalist Hector Aguilar Camin said at a recent forum evaluating the government’s strategy for fighting organised crime. Indeed, President Felipe Calderon has heard complaints that his government is not putting out enough information to allow people to function and stay safe. “People now demand information and if you don’t publish it, they complain,” he said. The blogger said he is a student in northern Mexico majoring in computer security, that he launched the blog in March as a “hobby”, but it now has grown to hundreds of postings a day and three million hits a week. The mysterious blogger hides his identity behind an elaborate cyber-screen.
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In at least one case, Blog del Narco may have led to the arrest of a prison warden after a video posting detailed her alleged system of setting inmates free at night to carry out killings for a drug cartel.
The undifferentiated content suggests that all sides are using the blog – drug gangs to project their power, law enforcement to show that it too can play rough, and the public to learn about incidents that the mainstream media are forced to ignore or play down.
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