Social Media Helps the Fight Against Narco-Trafficking in Mexico Juliana Machado - Infosurhoy.com
go to original July 8, 2013

Latin America is the region with the highest growth rate of Internet users in the world, as there was a 12% increase, to 147.24 million, from March 2012 to March 2013. Above, a woman accesses Facebook in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Héctor Guerrero/AFP)

Social networks play a fundamental role in the fight against narco- trafficking in Mexico, where the media often are silenced by organized crime.

In the cities of Monterrey, Reynosa, Saltillo and Veracruz, which are in northern Mexico and hotbeds for narco-trafficking, the use of Twitter is twice as high as it is in cities such as Seattle, in the United States, according to the “New War Correspondents” study carried out by Microsoft Research.

Mexicans use the platform to provide information about crime, threats and dangerous situations they have experienced that were not reported by the press.

Latin America also has high levels of Internet connectivity.

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