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anonymous author of the blog Narco famous speech for the first time about the risks - and reveals that she is a woman

reported in association with the Texas Observer

For three years, has been written about the drug war in Mexico with graphic images and powerful stories that few dare show, attracting millions of readers, compliments, complaints -. And speculation about the identity of its author

Blog del Narco, an Internet sensation known as "first-line" to the agony of Mexico about drugs, has become a must for policy makers, drug gangs and ordinary people, because it reveals, day after day, horrific violence censored by the media.

The anonymous author was a source of mystery, Mexico ask who he is and his motivation to report such risks.

Now, in his first major interview since the launch of the blog, the author spoke to The Guardian and The Observer Texas - and revealed that she is actually a girl

"I do not believe that people never imagined she did that," said the blogger, who asked Lucy to use a pseudonym to protect his identity.

"Who am I? Am in my mid 20 years, I live in northern Mexico, I am a journalist. I am a woman, I'm single, I have no children. and I love Mexico. "

This is the first time that Lucy has directly spoken to motivations for running a blog that could cost him his life. In the early days, his colleague in charge of the technical aspects involved in short exchanges, anonymous e-mails to reporters, but none has spoken since.

The phone interview was organized by an intermediary anonymous. The Guardian then took steps to verify that Lucy had control of the blog.

She said she wanted to show the truth of what was going to help turn the page. "I love my culture, my country, in spite of everything that happens. Because not all bad. We are not all narcos. 're Not all corrupt. We are not all murderers. We are well educated (although many foreigners) think otherwise. "

She and her colleague living in daily fear of retaliation, either cartels or government forces. It showed a man and a young woman tortured, disemboweled and hung from a bridge in September 2011 - murders that shocked even hardened Mexicans atrocity - have contributed to this blog. "They used to send photos. It was very hard, very painful." Threats, he said, have become more serious.

Despite these concerns, however, Lucy wrote a book that explains in the blog and offer the most horrible, explicit account of the violence even though the cartel wars have brought to Mexico. Die for the truth: Inside Undercover drug war against violent Mexico, is on sale in English and Spanish, and documented murders a year since 2010, a key year

"I had the book to show what was happening," he said. "When I finished, I could breathe, because I was worried about being killed before finishing. But the book is there, it is on paper, a testament to what we have lived in Mexico during the war years. "

Adam Parfrey, head of the independent publishing house based in Washington Feral, who specializes in taboo subjects, said that the book is linked to a gang of police band whose notice of its contents . "It is shocking and horrible. Goes far beyond anything I've tried. 'S An important element of what is happening with our southern neighbors. "

account within Blog del Narco comes at a sensitive time. President Barack Obama will visit Mexico in early May for talks with his counterpart, Enrique Pe?a Nieto, who since taking office last December has made clashes with drug barons and media attention resulting.

However, the drug violence has claimed nearly 3,200 lives in the first administration of three months, according to government figures, and in recent weeks have disappeared murders along the border, and even in the city resort of Cancun. Cartels are increasingly sending more agents live and work in U.S. cities like Chicago, according to a recent Associated Press.

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