NARCOBLOGS
Jun 27th, 2007 by David
The coming of the Internet has brought many changes around the world; the way people live and communicate has been greatly impacted. Certain social groups have used Internet blogs to create a community that spreads around the world, and, in this case, Mexico. If you look up blogs on the Internet you will be able to find a blog for almost anything.
The war against organized crime and drugs in Mexico is growing at a rapid pace, if the current state of organized crime remains there will be a major insecurity problem all over the entire country. The growth of these groups comes from the manner in which they communicate and how quickly information is exchanged, not to mention how easy it is to log on the net, through Narco-Blogs. Death threats and insults are passed around people that claim to be part of a certain Narco group. For example, the biggest rivalry in organized crime in Northern Mexico is between the “Chapos” and the “Zetas” who promote their victories and killing sprees on blogs and websites like YouTube, Metacafe, and others of the same kind.
There was a particular blog named the Escolar Blog. Within this blog the Zetas made death threat towards Marcelo Garza y Garza. Garza y Garza was the director for the AEI (State Investigation Agency) and carried out the task. This happened in San Pedro Garza in Monterrey on September 6, 2006. The blogs are extremely popular and it seems like the people who are bragging about their victories through posts are portraying a surreal debate between them that grows into a cyber/war for lack of better words.
In this translated section, of the original, where apparently a member of the rival Cartel is saying how they are looking for Marcelo Garza y Garza and how they are going to kill him amongst other people around him.
What’s up motherfuckers, you children-murdering Zetas, we know that you’re fixed with Marcelo Garza y Garza from the PGR, killing innocent people with the help of that traitor, but we swear that soon we will knock him off, so we can end the executions. We also know that he sold himself to the “Hummer” and the “50”, he even lets them borrow the PGR helicopter so they can get around, so start counting your hours cause soon enough you will get fucked.
This is only a small example of what globalization has done for such groups and how popular it has become to utilize the internet. Similar threats have been flowing around in You Tube with videos that use certain songs to promote the killing sprees these groups engage in. The latest example of how popular and dangerous these blogs have become was with the death of the singer/songwriter Valentin Elizalde who had a song titled “A mis enemigos (To my enemies)”. He dedicates the lyrics to the “Zetas” from the “Chapos.” Other sources claim that he did not write the song for them, that it did not have any significance with the group others say that “El Chapo” made it his anthem to the “Zetas” and used the song to promote himself. But what it all ca down was that Elizalde played a show in Reynosa Tamaulipas and he sang the song twice once at the beginning and once at the end. The lyrics of ¨El Chapo¨:
To speak behind my back you guys don’t need help, why don’t you say it to my face, are you afraid of death? You know whom you are dealing with, so now come and try your luck.
Keep crying snakes that ill get you out of my way and for all of those who appreciate me you have friend in me, cause I have already sang this to all my enemies.
After all, the internet has been an amazing tool for communication and other purposes. However, in this case it is promoting the violence in this country. Even though it resembles a form of cyber violence, it still promotes actual violence. Children log on everyday to the net, and it would be hard to believe that parents would not mind them looking at these websites that discuss killing other human beings along with the description of how they killed a guy in a gruesome way.
