Juaritos: New Film Highlights Dangerous Life of a Mexican Narcoblogger Marisa Trevino - LatinaLista
go to original August 25, 2013

A drug cartel's reign of terror in Juarez, Mexico forces a reclusive young narcoblogger out of the shadows and into the fight. (Juaritos Film)

No other city in Mexico is as synonymous with the brutality of cartel drug violence as Juarez, Mexico. Once declared the most dangerous city in the world, reports are surfacing that the city is slowly recovering — but it has a long way to go.

Senseless murders of citizens and deadly attacks against journalists continue. One of the major consequences of the cartel warfare has been its attempts to silence the media. With surprise gun and grenade attacks on news offices and outright abductions and murders of journalists, the public’s right to know about what is happening in their communities and cities has been severely censored, if not ignored by the local media out of fear of the cartels.

Yet, no matter how much the cartels tried, and continue to try, to hide their evil acts with continued threats against journalists, a group of citizens emerged to fill in the gap of local cartel coverage — narcobloggers.

Anonymous but with a readership eager to see the pictures posted of murder scenes or read the latest reports of violence or missing people, these bloggers are keeping their fellow Mexicans informed — at a great risk.

... Now, the life of a narcoblogger is the subject of a film titled JUARITOS.

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