United States Diary publishes accounts given by citizen reporters on narco violence in Tamaulipas.
To break the circle of an information blackout that has been around for some years for the cartels in Tamaulipas, the Digital Diary Brietbart, from the United States, are called by Citizen reporters anonymously on violent events in Tamaulipas.
The Texan Diary, with strong circulation on the internet, has published in English and Spanish a series of articles with the name Cartel Chronicles, signed under a pseudonym for Journalists who risk their lives every day, to disseminate to the public, the manner in which criminal groups seek to silence their communities.
According to Breitbart, the reports that they publish help to attain the attention at the highest levels of the violence and corruption in which they live on the border between Mexico and the United States, and this way, the truth and reality of living in said region could be visible to the Citizens of other Countries.
In their investigations and anonymous reports, the Texas site put special emphasis on the activities and operation of the Gulf Cartel, the top and oldest criminal group in the region, that in these moments are threatened by external and internal situations, traitors, and disputes with rival factions such as Los Zetas that are bringing a new wave of violence that may affect social and economic activities of Texan Cities.
Breitbart also analyses how the medias of communication of the region have been threatened. The reporters of some television and print, have been killed when reporting on the violence and corruption.
Brave Citizen Journalists are using social networks under pseudonyms to carry the voice about the incomparable violence and the corruption at all levels. When they have been discovered, these Citizen Journalists have been killed because of accurate digital media.
Headed by two Journalists, Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, a team of halves that straddle the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, with the aim of supporting the few Citizen Journalists that exist in the region and attract them as contributors to research that makes a digital newspaper.
This past week the organization Article 19 released some information denominated State Censured, where it documents 50 attacks with explosives or firearms against Communication Media. The States most affected with a total of 28 attacks are Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Furthermore from 2006 - 2015 the organization documented 53 attacks on media installations with explosives and firearms. The States with the highest numbers of attacks are Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon. Companies that have suffered the greatest numbers of attacks are Televisa (11), Grupo Reforma (8) and The Tamaulipas Morning (3).
Original article in Spanish at Proceso
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