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Messages found next to 2 mutilated bodies hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo...
claimed the man and woman were killed for denouncing narcos...on social networks.
Because many media are self-censoring any narco news...blogs and social networks have taken over the tasks of warning of local dangers.
One message said : "This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the internet. You better (expletive) pay attention. I'm about to get you."
The anonymously authored Blog del Narco is the best known web outlet posting news about drug violence...and mentioned in a warning message.
NEW!!! A NYTimes blog offers more details/background...even a gruesome foto link:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/in-mexico-social-media-becomes-a-battleground-in-the-drug-war/
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