Author of Blog del Narco, Chronicle of Mexico's Drug War, Flees Country Allison Jackson - GlobalPost
go to original May 17, 2013

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – The anonymous author of Blog del Narco, a chronicle of Mexico’s drug-related violence, has reportedly fled the country after receiving a telephone call telling her to run for her life.

The Guardian reported they had spoken to the woman, who said she was living in an undisclosed location in Spain. Her colleague had disappeared.

The woman, who spoke to the Guardian and Texas Observer last month in her first major media interview since launching the blog three years ago, told the newspaper this week she had received a phone call from her colleague on May 5 telling her to “run.”

"I'm trying to think positively but I'm scared something terrible has happened. 'Run' was our codeword for when something was very wrong. We had never used it before," she said.

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