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More recently, a blogger known on Twitter as a major contributor to the #Reynosafollow network who frequently reports information involving organized crime, said on 21 July that he was being targeted by a campaign of slander and threats on social media. Her killing unfortunately reflected the climate of extreme tension in regions reeling from the effects of drug trafficking. The murders included that of María Elizabeth Macias, an influential blogger found decapitated on 24 September 2011 in Nuevo Laredo, a crime for which gangsters claimed responsibility. In 2011, four netizens were murdered in Tamaulipas for having reported on narcotraffickers’ activities. Given the self-censorship by some traditional media who fear reprisals, the netizens have taken to the web and to social media, such as Valor por Tamaulipas, to inform citizens about violent incidents. The information network’s existence springs from the work of Mexican netizens. In February 2013, an organized crime group distributed leaflets in the region that announced a $45,000 reward to anyone who provided information on the identity of the Valor por Tamaulipas administrator. Enviar por correo electrónicoEscribe un blogCompartir con TwitterCompartir con FacebookCompartir en Pinterest. The fight against impunity is the only way to protect the citizens who risk their lives to provide information on the violence afflicting the country.” “ Organized crime groups’ terror campaigns against netizens are unfortunately not new in Mexico.

“ Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the murder of María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio and urges the government to investigate thoroughly to identify those responsible as quickly as possible,” said Virginie Dangles, the organization’s deputy programme director. Fuentes Rubio’s family left the country on 16 October, after filing a formal complaint. It focuses on violence and organized crime activities in the state. I ask your forgiveness.”įor several months, Fuentes Rubio, under the pseudonym “Felina,” had been contributing via the Twitter account to the Valor por Tamaulipas citizen information service.

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The photo of her body that appeared on Twitter was followed by a series of messages, including “Shut down your accounts, do not risk your families’ lives as I have done. Las cuentas de Facebook y Twitter «Valor por Tamaulipas», desaparecieron ayer de las redes sociales, apenas un mes y medio después de que un narco pusiera precio a la cabeza del administrador de las mismas. Fuentes Rubio was kidnapped as she left the Tierra Santa clinic in Reynosa, where she worked as a doctor. A picture of her dead body appeared on her Twitter account the next day. Ambas desaparecieron el lunes ante la sorpresa de los más de 212 mil fans que tenía Valor por Tamaulipas en Facebook y otros 20 mil seguidores que tenía en Twitter. Spain said that in light of the string of “unfriendly acts,” it was forced to “reconsider the whole of relations” with Bolivia.Netizen María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio was kidnapped by armed men on 15 October in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. Last year, Morales seized two Spanish electric companies and took over the Bolivian subsidiary of Spain’s REE, which ran most of the Bolivian power grid.

It was the third appropriation of Spanish property in less than a year. The admin stated that Miut3 was a collaborator at Valor por Tamaulipas and former admin at Responsabilidad por Tamaulipas. Valor por Tamaulipas confirmed her death on its Facebook page and lamented the incident. Analysts said Chávez may have decided his absence was too destabilizing: Since he went to Cuba in December, Venezuela has seen a sharp devaluation of its currency and the worst food shortages in four years.Īirports nationalized: In a slap to Spain, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has nationalized three Spanish-owned airports, saying the foreign owners were “maximizing profits” at Bolivians’ expense. Valor por Tamaulipas does not believe this version, however. “I am back in the fatherland, where we will continue my treatment.” The announced return came just three days after the government released photos of Chávez in a Havana hospital with his daughters, the first images the country had seen in months. Chávez is home: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced his surprise return to Caracas this week after 10 weeks of cancer treatment in Cuba.

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