Within months, Blog del Narco was one of the most visited websites in Mexico with 3m monthly visitors. The blog featured raw photos and videos of executions, and gun battles uploaded by anonymous contributors. Journalism is dead in Reynosa, and I have nothing more to say.'Īs Mexico's media outlets stopped reporting on the cartels and the government remained silent, Blog del Narco, launched in March 2010, began to fill the void. 'In more and more regions of Mexico, it is impossible to do journalism. When the reporters returned to their newsroom at El Milenio in Mexico City, their editor, Ciro Gomez Lleyva, wrote what was essentially the obituary for press freedom in his country. Only two of the kidnapped reporters survived. The offices of news organizations across northern Mexico were attacked with grenades and strafed with gunfire. In the first two months of 2010, eight journalists were kidnapped in the border city of Reynosa.
