Viernes Video: New Suspense Film Highlights Dangerous Life of a Narcoblogger

SWJED — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:41:11 +0000

Viernes Video: New Suspense Film Highlights Dangerous Life of a Narcoblogger - Latina Lista.

No other city in Mexico is as synonymous with the brutality of cartel drug violence as Juarez, Mexico. Once declared the most dangerous city in the world, reports are surfacing that the city is slowly recovering - but it has a long way to go.

Senseless murders of citizens and deadly attacks against journalists continue. One of the major consequences of the cartel warfare has been its attempts to silence the media. With surprise gun and grenade attacks on news offices and outright abductions and murders of journalists, the public’s right to know about what is happening in their communities and cities has been severely censored, if not ignored by the local media out of fear of the cartels.

Yet, no matter how much the cartels tried, and continue to try, to hide their evil acts with continued threats against journalists, a group of citizens emerged to fill in the gap of local cartel coverage - narcobloggers…

Here's the trailer (in Spanish with English subtitles):

Read on.

SWJED Sun, 08/25/2013 - 6:41am

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Anonymous vs. Los Zetas: The Revenge of the Hacktivists

Peter J. Munson — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:30:00 +0000

Anonymous vs. Los Zetas: The Revenge of the Hacktivists Peter J. Munson Thu, 06/27/2013 - 3:30am

The potential for this cyber war in the underworld to expand or to spill out into real world violence is high.