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Valor por Tamaulipas ("Courage for Tamaulipas") is a Facebook page that covers security updates in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It was founded by an anonymous user on 1 January 2012, and its goal is to share information with other social media users on the drug-related violence and risk situations all across the state. With over 500,000 likes on Facebook, Valor por Tamaulipas routinely posts messages and photos of crime scenes on its page. In a country where many journalists have been assassinated for writing about drug trafficking and organized crime, the page survives under anonymity, but it has not been immune to threats.
In early 2013, a Mexican drug trafficking organization issued fliers offering a reward of $600,000 pesos (US$46,000) for anyone that could give out information to locate the administrator of Valor por Tamaulipas or any of his family members. The administrator, however, openly defied the criminal organization's threat through Facebook. His wife and children reportedly fled to the United States after the threats for security reasons, but the citizen journalist stated on the Facebook page that he had decided to stay in Mexico and continue updating at Valor por Tamaulipas.
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 MARÍA 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.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: csulli456
You have groups willing to execute people who dont agree with them.
Do you really think legalizing everything is going to solve the problem? Do you think these morons running cartels are going to pay taxes? Abide by safety standards?
If you think legalizing all drugs will resolve the problem you are as delusional as the cartels.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: kelbtalfenek
I am saying cartels are not keen on paying taxes. Their entire business is based on controlling their monopoly and making as much money as they can while killing those who get in there way / challenge their area control.
given how long drugs have been around the ability to legalize them have come and gone with no push from cartels.
To think these groups will all of a sudden comply with the law is insane.
they could flood the market or just arbitrarily drop the price down to say...$5 an ounce. (They won't but let's just say that they do.)
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: kelbtalfenek
they could flood the market or just arbitrarily drop the price down to say...$5 an ounce. (They won't but let's just say that they do.)
your right, it will never ever be that low. especially when the other states see just exactly what Colorado and Washington make in taxes and save on law enforcement and prison costs.
the greedy bastards.