But the cartels eventually caught up. By 2011, El Blog del Narco was named specifically in a narco-message left beside two bodies hanging from a pedestrian overpass in Nuevo Laredo. The sign warned: "This will happen to all the Internet snitches (Frontera al Rojo Vivo, Blog Del Narco, or Denuncia Ciudadano). Be warned, we've got our eye on you." It was signed "Z"—an apparent reference to the Zetas cartel.

The blog's own "About" page is a defiant manifesto against these claims. It defends its practices, arguing that once something is on the internet, it's in the public domain, and that its only goal was to inform the public without any filter or allegiance to any criminal group or power.

Online activities

Welcome to our online activities page. Here you’ll find a host of activities, including: