Narcocorridos are epic folk ballads that extol the merits of the narcos: capos and sicarios alike.

In El Narco, Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug trade, starting with the term 'El Narco', which has come to represent the vast, faceless criminal network of drug traffickers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico. He was a noted singer of narcocorridos.1 Narcomusica (narco-music) plays a key role in shaping the social space of Mexico’s drug war. El Narco: Inside Mexicos Criminal Insurgency is a non-fiction book of the Mexican Drug War written by Ioan Grillo. Self-Censorship is Not Preventative Action: Mexican Journalists Respond (Part 2 of 2)įor broader context, read the Global Integrity Report: Mexico. Jesus Chuy Quintanilla was discovered dead in Mission, Texas, across the border from Reynosa, Tamaulipas. I was given confidential information by a top. Most the pics are from various forum users In the image above on the left is 'Gallito' the first cousin, not nephew, of El Chayo. Mexican Journalists Respond to “Narco Censorship” and Citizen Journalism (Part 1 of 2) Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY El Bujo, MX, DGO10. And for more background on the growing presence of narco-censorship in the Mexican press, see our recent Commons series: You can read the full Boing Boing interview here. While John and Leonarda both downplayed citizen journalism as a long-term answer to confront issues of journalist intimidation, Blog Del Narco fills a current void by publishing narco-related stories that are not, as its author states, “pre-digested.” Following the hype, we recently asked two members of Global Integrity’s Mexico field staff to contextualize Blog Del Narco in the nation’s greater media environment. This is the longest published interview I have seen with the anonymous blogger whose extensive reporting on the activities of Mexico’s drug gangs has brought international attention to his website. Earlier this week, Boing Boing published an email interview with the elusive author of Blog Del Narco.

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