The interview marks the first time Lucy has spoken directly about the motivations for running a blog thatcould cost her her life. I’m a woman, I’m single, I have no children. “Who am I? I’m in my mid 20s, I live in northern Mexico, I’m a journalist. “I don’t think people ever imagined it was a woman doing this,” said the blogger, who asked to use pseudonym Lucy to protect her real identity. Now in their first major interview since launching the blog, the author has spoken to the Guardian and The Texas Observer – and revealed that she is in fact a young woman. The anonymous author has been a source of mystery, with Mexico wondering who he is and his motivation for such risky reporting. This story was produced in partnership with the Guardian, where a version of this story also appears.įor three years it has chronicled Mexico’s drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of readers, acclaim, denunciations – and speculation about its author’s identity.īlog del Narco has become a must-read for authorities, drug gangs and ordinary people because it lays bare, day after day, horrific violence censored by Mexico’s mainstream media.
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