Tamaulipas Tuitera/ Blogger Kidnapped and Killed

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat thank you "AC"

A blogger who used the user name, "Miut3" was kidnapped and killed in Reynosa Tamaulipas.  She was a "Tuitera" with the over 41k followers on her popular twitter page, that sent out situations of risk, and narco news  tweets.

 Maria del Rosario a close collaborator of Valor Por Tamaulipas and partner in the sister blog ResponsabilidadXTamaulipas .   Her twitter account is called Felina (miut 3).

She is a doctor by profession.  Kidnappers accessed  Maria's twitter page, and sent out a couple of threatening messages  to the public,  warning  that the same fate will come to other bloggers.

These photos of her after being kidnapped, and killed were uploaded there.

Maria was the closest collaborator of Valor Por Tamaulipas, but apparently there was a split.

Maria worked closely with Responsabilidad Por Tamaulipas a Facebook page  that publishes pictures of those kidnapped in Tamaulipas.

There have been five people executed for being narco bloggers in Mexico.  All executions have been in Tamaulipas.  However the first two, a couple, were never found to have ties to a blog and were determined to have been taken randomly and portrayed as bloggers being killed for their work.  After those first killings, the killers made sure it was bloggers that were killed.

The blogger known as Cruz Star says she was killed because of her failure to save a narcos kid, and not anything to do with her blogging.  The problem is that she and VXT have received specific threats for a year and a half.  She was too careless with concealing her identity.

Here are some of the messages posted by kidnappers on Maria's account and sent to various pages..  This is the only time I know of where kidnappers/killers have taken over a social media page from their victim:

#reynosafollow

Friends and Family, my real name is Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, I am a doctor, now my life has met it's end.

#reynosafollow

I have NO more to say except that you  do not commit the same mistake that I did.  I gained nothing, on the contrary, TODAY I REALIZE THAT.

#reynosafollow 

I ecountered death, and nothing was changed

@Bandolera7 @civilarmado_mx@ValorTamaulipas 

 Close your accounts!  Don't risk your safety and that of your family.  As I did.  I ask for your forgiveness. I found  death for nothing.
We are closer than you think

On October 7th she had received a threat, says Valor por Tamaulipas.   He posted earlier today that Twitter user @garzalaura142 made threats to @Miut3 on that day.  The threats use similar wordings; in one of them, @garzalaura142 says:

 "we are close to getting you, be careful felina) 

Which is similar to one of the messages left on her Twitter page, presummedly from her killers;

"We are closer than you think".

From VXT: I am in so damn much pain, yesterday morning Miut3 my collaborator was kidnapped. Today with horror, I see on her account messages and photos were posted, of an angel, as they took her life. An angel that gave her life, her future, her security, for the good of the people in our state. Today Miut3 stopped reporting, but what criminals do not know, is that Miut3 is in our soul and she will never leave us, or surrender to organized crime . 

She would never surrender and would be disappointed to know that someone who helps would. Miut3 my Dr. Rosario , I have guilt by removing you from Responsabilidad por Tamaulipas, because there you were safer. But, I was so fearful when they sent me the videos of executed persons, I was afraid for my family and collaborators,. 

For a year and a half I did what I could, so that they could be moved from the danger. I went and back hoping That cartels will no longer focus on the page and the only thing That I did in trying to protect you was push you to the edge, and no longer could force you to be careful. You had ignored all the times I demanded that you be cautious, but I feel it is my fault for not insisting. My only partner in ResponsabilidadXTamaulipas , I hurt so much.

[Please note, I found the foto below right of Maria yesterday while doing a background check.]

The following is posted by the editor of the real Valor for Tamaulipas the page with over

500k followers. He is very angry with Cruz Star and the fake VXT page.    Saying they are spreading misinformation by saying Miut3 was killed because she treated a child of a narco, and the child died.  Cruz Star simply gave that scenario without any details, like where, when who, and if he has any proof he has not shared it. Cruz Star lives in the US but frequents Tamps. 

 Here is what VXT says in part:

 “Let me clarify  again  that  I  am  not  related  in  any  way  to  the  clone  blog  of valorportamaulipas.com  and  clone  account :  @ValorXTamauIipa ,  published  information  that  I  have  not  said ,  I  have  not indicated  nothing  of  failed  clinical  care given to a  son  of  Narco. However,  on the part  of  Miut3 ,  she was  kidnapped    yesterday  morning , and when  we  woke  today  we saw her Twitter account was now in  the possession  of  criminals  and they posted the messages and  the photos of her kidnapping and supposedly of her dead body. 

 

VXT states:
 

“MrCruzStar ,  H_Reporta , and  ValorXTamaulipa  clone  account,   are  responsible for this misinformation..  I have my reasons  to  believe  that .”

The editor than goes on to say Miut3  exposed herself too much,  like working with humanitarian causes but that some were also associated with criminal authorities.  That he tried to take his warnings and recommendations seriously.  And that this year her identity was exposed in some “isolated” publications.

 He also reminds everyone that Miut3 is the heroine of ReynosaFollow, the movement that began the trend of using social media to warn people of pending dangers.   This happened after the Tamaulipas organized crime news blackout was initiated in 2010.  Her twitter page was created in January 2010.  A couple of hours ago Twitter suspended the account.