Friday, March 11, 2011

Virtual drug traffickers in Ciudad Juarez dislike Mexican authorities

A virtual world, real controversy ... While the French publisher Ubisoft announced video game for the summer of 2011, the worldwide release of "Call of Juarez: the Cartel," the legislators of the State of Chihuahua have demanded an end February to ban the sale of the game on Mexican territory. Third installment in the series "Call of Juarez", he plays by local authorities on the violent reputation of Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.5 million inhabitants, located on the US-Mexico border.

The latter are even considering the possibility of a lawsuit for "moral damage", saying that gambling harms the image of the city. If the first two episodes of the game were happening at the time of the Far West, the latter component is part of him, in a modern context. He live players with a bloody spree in Los Angeles in Ciudad Juarez, on the bottom of drug trafficking.

And that's where the rub. The city is notorious in Tech Buzz News for its drug dealers and record rate of murders, eight per day on average since the beginning of 2011. In 2010, the cartels have killed more than 3,000 victims. According to local officials, a video game from Ubisoft is particularly inappropriate in this context.

This is the official launch of the campaign to promote Thurs 7 February, which set fire to the powder. On the first images to accompany press release, we see men, hats on head and body armor visible, walking through dark streets. They proudly powerful assault rifles, the weapon of choice for Mexican drug cartels.

"This is a work of fiction, a simple adventure game," said the spokesman of the French editor, Emmanuel Carré. The controversy arose when nobody had seen the contents of the game " "WE THINK THE CHILDREN" For members of Congress, the game mainly represents a threat to young people. "We need to think about children and do not expose them to such images and the lack of values \u200b\u200bthat follows," he told Associated Press member Ricardo Boone Salmon.

"They believe that so many blood and death is something normal," lamented his side, his counterpart, Enrique Serrano. An argument that refuses Emmanuel Carré: "People often mistakenly associate a video game and children, in this case, the target, are young adults." He added that according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), an American agency that specializes in multimedia games, no correlation has ever been established between violence in Tech Buzz News real violence in video games.

At the sale, "Call of Juarez: the cartel" is not at least 18 years. This controversy Mexican had precedents in other countries. Thus, the game's Japanese publisher Konami, "Six Days in Fallujah," which was scheduled for worldwide release in 2009, made explicit reference to the battle, conducted in late 2004 by U.S.

troops in Iraq. The project was abandoned. In November 2010, leaving the American game "Call of Duty: Black Ops" had provoked the ire of Cuban authorities, the players are being invited to virtually kill Fidel Castro.

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