The traditional media in Mexico are under so much pressure from drug cartels that the truth can not be found from there. The odd brave journalist writes a story based on gossip but should you want to know the truth of the hell that the Mexcan border areas have become try El Blog del Narco. Set up in march it posts information, photographs and videos it receves unedited and without comment. The result is a catalogue of horror that is not for the squeamish. Much of the material comes from the cartels themselves but a lot is also from passive observers caught up in the mess. Blogs have been criticized of late but here, again, we find an arena where no other medium could hope to cover the truth.
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