Understanding Mexico's Epidemic of Violence

In Mexico's deadly war on drugs, the use of information technology has become widespread. For instance, once journalists became targets of the cartels and reduced their reporting in traditional media, information began flowing from Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and YouTube videos. After the Mexican government decided to stop publishing information about the number of people killed by organized crime, websites started using Google Maps to track patterns of violence. Andrés Monroy-Hernández and Javier Osorio will present their research on the use of new media and technology in reporting and finding trends in drug violence in Mexico. Karla Zabludovsky of the New York Times's Mexico City Bureau will comment on the role that alternative media has played in the coverage of the war on drugs.

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Our government the USA should make more of an effort on closing the Mexican effort for at least one reason to prevent drugs from getting to the buyers distributors product an maybe drying up monies for the cartels in hopes they would go some where else thereby giving relief of the violence in their country so they may use resources for more productive purpose

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The Mexican social media reporters have placed themselves in danger for the better their community I applaud them and their efforts

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It likens my heart that the Mexican people are despite the problems of drugs and the cartels the repressive nature of traditional news sources have found a way that helps their community

[sourcemaster]

Maybe. They probably thought it would become too big of a problem because of revolution.

[Rdchannels]

Let's just accept Mexico into the the US simply for national security and economic stability. We should have kept expanding during the 1800's this wouldn't be a problem.

[Walter Clark]

How about getting someone to take notes and summarize for us. This is the youTube your are speaking to.