

It’s not known whether the stories were plagiarized from the reporters who first published them, or if Blog Del Narco had simply took their stories from the same press bulletins reporters had received. This book is so dangerous, states her publisher that, “it’s a certainty she will be horribly murdered.”Ī review of recent stories by the Fronteras Desk shows the owners of Blog Del Narco have published the same stories as the Mexican journalists they say they had to replace. The narrative is a fascinating one, complete with drama and danger and a lone figure standing up for the truth. She begins to blog about what’s happening in her country, telling readers about the atrocities that reporters can no longer write about. Then one day, this woman steps in fill the void. The country’s news reporters are targeted and assassinated for reporting on the situation, the narrative goes. She says her name is "Lucy," she is in her mid-20s and is a journalist in northern Mexico. The narrative is of a young woman fed up with the travesties that occur every day in Mexico the murders and corruption and violence and barbarities that have dominated the headlines for most of the past decade. Its creators have been interviewed by everyone from the Texas Observer to television stations and online outlets. Recently, a carefully constructed narrative surfaced along the Mexican border.
