Traditional mortuary rites are no longer enough in Mexico, where a new trade has come to exist over the past few years:
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MEXICO CITY The man who killed who sent my parents to their death, along with thousands of other people, died while under
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Our group work “Los jornaleros forenses” was distinguished with the 2019 National Journalism Prize of Mexico, in the chronicle-narrative journalism category. It
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Metallic bags glitter outside every kiosk in Guatemala. In a country where child malnutrition coexists with malnutrition, transnational corporations seduce children with
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The Citizen’s Council of the National Journalism Award 2021 in Mexico recognised nine journalistic works among 1,015 entries from 31 states, most of which address the issue of the disappearance of people and the struggle of the mothers of victims. In the Reporting category, “Traficantes de ADN” (DNA Traffickers) was awarded, by Wendy Selene Pérez
Girls who went disappeared. Children growing up alone because their mothers are looking for siblings. Teenagers opening graves. To disappear and to search: two words that already have a different meaning in Mexico. Names of a deep, desolate, infinite pain. Names of silences. The Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico, REDIM, commissioned me to write
This is a chronicle of how people profit from pain in a country that doubled the official number of disappeared in three years; a story of opaque agreements and private laboratories that seek to do business and of an incapable and corrupt State that opens the door for them. Paula Mónaco Felipe, Wendy Selene Pérez
Metallic bags glitter outside every kiosk in Guatemala. In a country where child malnutrition coexists with malnutrition, transnational corporations seduce children with fried foods and soft drinks. They replace the ancestral corn and, bag by bag, bottle by bottle, they build a sick future.A chronicle that results from a visit to indigenous villages in Guatemala,
The first time I went to Guatemala I was impressed by how many McDonalds restaurants were there. Later I learned that the happy meal, the combo that sells millions of dollars in the world every day, had been invented there, in that indigenous country. So I began a search that included several months of travel,
Our group work “Los jornaleros forenses” was distinguished with the 2019 National Journalism Prize of Mexico, in the chronicle-narrative journalism category. It is the most important award given to the press in Mexico, but there is no place for celebrations when we have at least 77,000 missing people in recent years, when the portrayed diggers
Translated by @ellen_c_jones , can be found in LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR WALL, a collection of Mexican writers weighing in on the immigration crisis. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR WALL is out 10/15 from @thenewpress Unlocked from BOMB #153
Traditional mortuary rites are no longer enough in Mexico, where a new trade has come to exist over the past few years: that of the bone searchers. In Veracruz, one of the deadliest states in Mexico, six men have the job of digging through clandestine graves for the human remains hidden there. For the most
MEXICO CITY The man who killed who sent my parents to their death, along with thousands of other people, died while under house arrest a few weeks ago. He was 90 years old and serving 14 life sentences. Death has died, and yet it brings me no joy. In Argentina, murderers bought groceries at the