Last Sunday (July 15th) we published a post about popular Mexican blog el5antuario.org making an open call to the Mexican Armed Forces to join the public protests against fraud in the ongoing Mexican presidential elections. During his daily video posts, el 5anto (also known as Ruy 5algado) mentioned our blog and asked his readership to drop by and check us out.
The picture above shows the 'small' difference that his endorsement did in our stats. From 18 visits on Sunday when we published our post to 3,684 visits on Monday evening when this sea-coloured demon went to sleep. The day would close with a total of 3,095 individual visits to this blog, most of which came from a link published at el5antuario.org, and the rest from their twitter and facebook contacts.
Far from exercising bragging rights about our activity on this blog, this significant increase in our traffic is a testimony of the massive following that el5antuario has as a true independent and emergent medium. In a country where the two major national media networks are completely biased in favour of the highest bidder, it is the work carried out by people like el 5anto that allows us to inform and be informed.
Under the obscurity of a wrestling mask with the signature design of legendary wrestler El Santo, the other 5anto (or Ruy Salgado) carries out his informative task from the exile due to threats against his life as a result of his blogging activity.
The members of elD3monario thank all the "5antuaristas" and el 5anto in particular not only for their encouraging words regarding our blog, but for the hard work they have been doing for over a year, informing the Mexican people of what really goes on in the country.
We sincerely hope that Ruy gets a hearty serving of Poutine, and 5alud!
We sincerely hope that Ruy gets a hearty serving of Poutine, and 5alud!
:D
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