Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:00 PM
Jesus Malverde (5,777 posts)
She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder.
She was a crusading Twitter journalist in a bastion of organized crime who chose a photograph of Catwoman as her online avatar and christened herself Felina. Like a comic-book avenger, her alter ego defied the forces of evil in her real-life Gotham of Reynosa, a border city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas located a short drive from McAllen, Texas. Tamaulipas is notorious as a state caught in the iron grip of organized crime. Extortion, kidnappings, shootouts, arson, bodies excavated from arid pits, all of this happens in Tamaulipas, practically on a daily basis, but hardly any of it gets reported because of a media blackout the cartels decreed four years ago that is as strictly enforced as martial law after a coup.
Two rival drug cartels in Tamaulipas, the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, have final say over what gets printed or broadcast in the local media. By necessity the people of the state increasingly have turned to social media to share information about organized crime and its infiltration of the government. They are referred to as citizen journalists and have received international attention for their innovative use of sites like Facebook and Twitter to defy the imposition of the blackout.
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Felina nevertheless continued to post a high volume of news alerts to the site at the hashtag #ReynosaFollow. Until early in the morning of Thursday, Oct. 16, when this message from Felina @Miut3 was posted:
# reynosafollow FRIENDS AND FAMILY, MY REAL NAME IS MARÃA DEL ROSARIO FUENTES RUBIO. I AM A PHYSICIAN. TODAY MY LIFE HAS COME TO AN END.
The next message, sent moments later, is supposedly her warning friends and family not to make the same mistake she did, using social media to report on organized crime, because “there is no point.†The message after that is a warning to her followers and to three prominent citizen journalists that the cartels “are closer to us than you think.†The last message sent from Felina’s account is not written but rather consists of two photos: in the first, a middle-aged woman keeps her hands folded in front of her and looks directly at the camera; in the second the same woman is lying on a dirty floor with a coup de grace bullet wound in the face. The founder of Valor por Tamaulipas confirmed that the photos are of Felina. Twitter has since shut down her account.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/she-tweeted-against-the-mexican-cartels-they-tweeted-her-murder.html
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:00 PM
blackcrowflies (41 posts)
5. If drugs were legal
this entire problem would vanish.
I wonder if any of the guns used had Eric Holder's finger prints on them. :whistling:
blackcrowflies (41 posts)
5. If drugs were legal
this entire problem would vanish.
KansDem
4. Maybe if the big banks laundering the cartels' drug money were prosecuted and put in prison, the cartels wouldn't have so much power.
KansDem
4. Maybe if the big banks laundering the cartels' drug money were prosecuted and put in prison, the cartels wouldn't have so much power.
And the banks. Don't forget the evil banks.
Has it ever occurred to the primitives that even if drugs were legal that gangs like this would find something else to run in order to make money and have control? There's always something. You can't eliminate them all.
No, that thought is WAY above their tiny little liberal noodles ability to reach.
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Gangs are finding that cigarettes are more lucrative and safer to sell on the black markets in places like Chicago and New York City.
Strange that liberals push to ban tobacco while wanting all other drugs legalized. :stoner:
And the banks. Don't forget the evil banks.
Has it ever occurred to the primitives that even if drugs were legal that gangs like this would find something else to run in order to make money and have control? There's always something. You can't eliminate them all.
No, that thought is WAY above their tiny little liberal noodles ability to reach.
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Hell look at what's happening in CO. They legalized it and created a larger black market because all the hippies don't want to pay TAXES!!
KC