El 5anto is a well known activist blogger whose blog El 5antuario is described as a “conglomerate of Mexican citizens who throughout the country — and from abroad — convene to locate all the valuable information we find and analyze it based on data that the government and self-censored media organizations religiously continue to hide.” With over 22,000 Twitter followers, his videos and interview, conducted under the pseudonyms Ruy Salgado and El 5anto, always see him wearing a mask. They have amassed hundreds of thousands of views as hotly-contested elections approach. His claim that unnamed sources revealed he was under investigation has galvanized many of his followers both on- and offline, with his latest tweet saying “the source that revealed the plan to jail me confirms that the objective is to jail Anonymous after the elections”:
La fuente que nos reveló plan para encarcelarme nos confirma que el objetivo es encarcelar a Anonymous luego de las elecciones. V de Verdad
