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Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout
An anonymous reader writes "An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war. Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story. Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police."
You know why you get marked a troll? It's sad because you probably don't even intend it or know why you're being called a troll.
Did you read some of those posts above? Get your information from multiple sources. Not just ones that are spreading the same story around. See, when the economy is bad and pointing fingers won't get you anything anymore, politicians take a lovely wedge issue and run their assistants and cronies out to the talking head media shows to "put things out there". Those things get picked up, regurgitated, and passed around until everyone swears they're facts. You're part of that machine. None of this is really about racism, it's just a convenient wedge issue that happens to involve another nationality. It's about politics and winning in an election year. You didn't hear about this stuff so much last year...isn't that a little surprising? Nor did you hear about it the year before...and yet, that war has been going on for more than just this year.
Like how they use migrant workers to scare people who are scared for their jobs in a down economy, they picked a wedge issue that drives fear in the hearts of people like you and took a few minor incidents and transformed them through the media grapevine into an all out assault on your fellow US citizens. However, the numbers fly right in the face of that. There is more border security than EVER, right now, at the US/Mexican border. That's a fact that your tax dollars are paying for. There are several times more people getting deported the past 2 years...again, using your tax dollars...than there were the previous several years. That is also a fact. If you people were whining and shivering and scared about this stuff 6 years ago, you'd have credibility. But right now, you're just an unwitting tool of a political machine trying to get its people in positions of power so it can rip you off and give that money to their buddies in the industries that pay their bills, just like they did when they were in power. It's their job, and using you is a great way of saving themselves money they'd have to pay a staffer.