That earned Clinton a swift rebuke from the Mexican government. "These drug cartels are showing more and more indices of insurgencies," she told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton compared the rise of the gangsters to the narco-guerillas that plagued Colombia for decades - and even used the I-word. Asked if he's being used for propaganda purposes by his sources, he essentially shrugs: "e're not investigators, for that there are the police."īut he may have a point about Mexico's unwillingness to face how dire its narco-crime problem is becoming. "The violence that is happening in Mexico is not because the public reads about what is happening in, the factors that provoke violence in Mexico are much more important, and ultimately they are economic." As he emails Boing Boing, the Mexican government - bought off by the narco-gangsters - wants to "pretend that NOTHING IS HAPPENING." His blog has accordingly attracted a community of 3 million unique monthly viewers that wants a news outlet that doesn't "pre-digest the news before publishing it." That means publishing a lot of raw material - both in terms of how graphic it is and how seemingly unedited it is.
"People have a right to know why things have become so insecure in recent years," he tells Boing Boing.
Which is why it's remarkable that he's given an interview to Boing Boing describing what it's like to work in a wealthy city turned urban warzone. Facing a situation like that, it's no surprise that the blog's author, who's not even 30 years old, would want to stay anonymous.