Instructions to stop telling stories in your town .. Get deaf! For intimidation against armed groups and corrupt, stick to journalism and registration not research. Become a deaf ear to the culture of illegality. Take a chance Take a chance that in the future people will claim "where were the journalists of my city when so many things went." not ask! Make a list of topics not play in the media in your country or city. never wonder why readers are so uninformed and what impact does this gap. contrast Post No information without solid backing and without contrast of sources. And then be surprised because they threaten. Let source send ... Do not worry about creating an information agenda propia en su redacción. Para eso están las fuentes oficiales que la dictan. Tome partido… Tome abiertamente partido en público, participe en candidaturas y campañas en su ciudad, mezcle el periodismo con sus asuntos personales. No denuncie… En caso de amenazas o agresiones derivadas de su trabajo, no las denuncie ante las entidades correspondientes, porque “denunciar me pone en riesgo”. Contribuya así a que las autoridades manifiesten que la situación es normal.. Vea normal las agresiones Considere que la agresión física o verbal de directivos y la intromisión de funcionarios administrativos en la agenda editorial are innate to practice journalism, and no censorship factors. The municipality sends Convince yourself that the municipality or state government to provide transport to news sites, 'buy' with it a right to be investigated or reported. Be an extortionist Become 'journalist extortion. " disseminate false information to pressure companies to sources or patterns in their environment. Stop fighting ... As the system of 'quotas' of advertising and arbitrary distribution of government advertising is a national problem, assume it is something natural and not seek alternatives or discuss it with the guild. raid without knowing bursts with your camera or microphone, without knowing the cultural differences of the populations. And then complain about not having access to these sources ... Let die stories ... If you can not publish a story in your town, prefers to let her die to share with colleagues or national media to disseminate it. Judge Judge self-censorship than self-censorship is the only protection mechanism and the only way to preserve neutrality in armed camps. Do you agree with this?
Sing when listening to Lady Gaga, has a voice that keeps you from screaming and talking about drip. This morning I wanted to make fun of Valle de Juarez cold with gray sweatshirt and legend love, jeans and black suede boots that cover just above the heel. walks toward his office with that obsession to look far to floor. Passes in front shot scraped the walls with white cement and plaster of police headquarters. grabbed me without makeup! "He says, and opens the door with a trio of bullet holes that could fit a thumb and carpeted offices with faces of men in hats or nectarines that are sought by prosecutors in Chihuahua with the caption: 'Help us find them. " Marisol Valles, 21, is the Police Chief G. Praxedis Guerrero located about 90 kilometers from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, which is reached by a road along the U.S. border. Just follow the path of the Rio Grande the Americans tube. "Look, see there," he said pointing to where the lights of his old Ford lit the night before heading to Praxedis, a photojournalist who agreed to guide me, here is ant traffic in arms and drugs. The road to this city, runs into a military checkpoint where a group of soldiers ask what you do and where to go. On one side wearing balaclavas, another military gets into a barricade of sandbags to shoot if someone does not stop. At night they are invisible. - Here we learned that the military were interested in two things at the checkpoints, you turn your interior light and put your hands on the wheel, I noticed Ernesto Rodriguez, who sniffs the red ink for 25 years and all that involves threats, adrenaline, frames per second, closing time and family at risk.
This route to the community of Marisol, also known news: "In Chihuahua a woman and four men were lined up and shot yesterday morning with a gap of Placitas village in the Juarez Valley, between the towns of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos and Praxedis G. Guerrero. Implementation will be fired over 100 bullets ... "
One might think that Marisol, who accepted this job because the mayor was invited, was trained to speak with reporters, but she says it was us who silence vaccine many of his sentences.
- have been so many and the early days not even let me work ... he recalls.
Days after taking office on October 20, 2010, a news website said local Marisol: Chief of Police does not kill a fly. Another headline: Marisol Valles, the brave
Mexico ... then the news was global and the town of Praxedis already appeared on Google and front pages to the history of criminology as a student in charge of local police.
- How many women are your team? - 13 and 2 men - Why more women than men? - Why is the project of the mayor. And because women are more sensitive, more humble, more compressive and give people more confidence and do not go armed. The woman makes more sense to listen with empathy and for that reason most women. - How to live motherhood and work? - It's a bit difficult because as a mom keeps me running can not be with my son for 8 months as long as you want. But I have the support of my parents and my sisters. My mom and sister care for him. - How to live your husband this stage? - I have so much support because he says I'm doing something I like. He accepts it very well. - do you do it? - My husband works in a garage. - why some reporters are looking to put Marisol against the narcos? - I always say, do not want to put something that is not going to say. The point is that they do not understand what we do. It was hard because I wanted it put in the mouth.
And he says something you already have tried: When asked about the bad, I say that is not my role. We will not fight them. Marisol
never tells the narcos narcos. He prefers to tell the bad guys. Neither wants to talk about things that others can see.
A woman who does not mind me first and last name in the Acapulco restaurant on Main Street - again I heard the children screaming and shouting. I thought that was chasing a crazy then walk here in the square. But when I got to peek were several trucks around the town hall. Balaclavas and fell several people shouted that out to hell. We we went and then began firing as usual. They were half an hour.
Another woman snuggles up to the discussion: Have you known who abducted the boy from the pharmacy? - Yes, "she says as she nods as if he cared to be heard, the assassins have killed many people and kidnap. - Oops yes, once cut the head off a policeman and left in a cooler, but nobody noticed because there were flea markets.
The stories and what happens in Praxedis not prevent Marisol insist: We choose hope over fear. We will not mess with anybody, just going to implement the values \u200b\u200band principles and we must drive them to ride.
- Who will face the narcos? - That's what the Federal Police, it is not my role be telling, but it is clear who is responsible for the prosecution, investigation and prevention.
- President Calderón has said that governments must take the risk to fight drug traffickers ... - How can we fight something that is beyond our reach. A municipality and Praxedis bigger ... if you could not why would a small town has to achieve it? That is why we are backing a project to encourage the values.
- What do you think of this 'war' against drugs?
- If others think that violence fought with violence is very of them. We focus on values. This is not war. We are Mexican. All are equal before the law Why make war when we can talk.
- Marisol Where do you see in the coming years?
- I do not think in the future. But now. I want an epidemic of values. We started in Praxedis because it is a small place. Because it's our town. Start here. If people here believe in our values, perhaps working in Mexico. I dream that Praxedis again be a happy people. My dream is that my son can grow here and that things will change. Do not be afraid to leave.
- Does it hurt or just Praxedis Mexico?
- It pains me everything that happens. But I'm not someone who can do something big for all of Mexico. But if I had the opportunity to do something for my town where I grew up, then I do. Maybe there are more people who believe in hope, that would advance much more and would have covered all of Mexico.
- How do you manage the risk of your job?
- I am here as manager. I'm not picking on anyone. Hope you do not get me wrong what I'm doing.
- What did not take it the wrong who?
- Bad people. We're not picking on anyone but to society they believe in his ideals and hopes to change that fear. Why not sit at the table ill to live with us?
- What would you say to President Calderon?
- To believe in what we are doing and Praxedis is in everyone and that everyone is a Mexico.
In Praxedis main square, a group of elderly clean your table leaf that the wind has dropped this morning. Marisol
walks with his jeans, his love sweatshirt and black suede boots. Passes to the side of a squad car, old tires defense and who is assigned as chief of police.
Then I remember that before there was another charge Marisol that office.
A story told on 19 January 2009 that his head was found in the cooler than Acapulco kitchen lady told me. The note said: The chief of police of the municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, was beheaded and his head abandoned in front of the local police headquarters ...
underestimate or denigrate an easy idea, believing it to change the state of affairs is complex. And that's what this story.
The Metro newspaper in Mexico City, a member of the chain Metro, the world's largest network of free newspapers, bet to see things differently.
It was created and believe in something . The chain of ideas born from the paper's editor Alfredo Gonzalez and chain Metro. The goal? Tell what happens in Juarez with extra ingredient: escaping the obvious.
recipe is set in motion: How and what to expect of Juarez in this ocean of information. " Had to withdraw and see things differently. Did was too naive to tell and explain what happened to the mental health of children in Juárez who daily meet, witness or experience violence from the cartels? Why children play at being hired, soldiers or federal? What's behind Marisol Valles, the Police Chief Praxedis in the Juarez Valley, whom the media became the bravest woman in Mexico without knowing who is dying of fear and pray that your son can go out 8 months play in the future without running into killers?
Sometimes it's good that newsrooms have eyes of a child because it helps ward normal. Normality does not explain anything, only play, repeat and imitate. How many newsrooms have monopolized normal? " many have given up on a story citadina find a vein information is important only because close early edition? In the following days, the idea was maturing. Skype conversations and electronic exchanges are not made in Mexico.
For reasons I was working in Panama. So the details of logistics, contacts with sources, the security net journalists Diario de Juárez, the security protocol to move into the area and the thorny issue of per diem, were triangulated from Central America. Metro put all his chips. The subjects were approved by the Metro chain and a plane ticket bound for Juarez, was triangulated in connection-Bogota-Panama City-Juarez.
The next step was to start do reporting and listen and share the drama of each Juárez stories. Relying on the experience of journalists who know the terrain. And apply some assumptions to the report:
- Why am I writing this?
- How to choose the topics or areas where I get involved?
- How to manage data so that my story is universal?
- Remember that when we seek to generate memory stories our readers.
- which is very dangerous to see a one-time sources.
- Remember that a journalist anxious will be seen as unreliable by the sources.
- look where everyone looks NO.
- Go for the action to the context.
- Do not lose the data certification.
- It is always necessary to know something of the rituals or routines or characters.
- That the details show class condition.
- How do you enjoy my character, who hates what you admire?
- that the poor transparency is essential.
- What to reconcile with the simple.
The creation of a story never ends with the wording of the reporter. Create stories is a ritual of faith in a same and others. If one transmits faith, clarity, simplicity and concept into the language, the gears of the creative work better.
One of these pieces was Miguel Jiménez, designer of Metro. He took his notebook and locked ourselves in the crazy room (board room) of writing. Miguel knew the details of history, data, text and intent of schizophrenia reporter that the pages were linked by an AK-47: the weapon with which most Mexicans are being killed in this so-called 'war'.
A weapon that is mostly stocked by U.S. armories. Someone said that the Yankees put guns and Mexico the dead. How many deaths will it take to Mexico for the United States continue to take drugs? Miguel sketch pages, proposed colors, reading entries. He also sent a library that would help the story to report on deaths in Juarez, the location, the phrases of the characters in the stories and the AK-47 that was across the pages.
There was a debate about the use of AK-47. Was it an apology for drug trafficking? Were we crazy? How useful would such a weapon? One element of that type had to tell a story. And so it was: the weapon that has the exact size of an AK-47 was peppered with information about the transfer and the impact it has had in Mexico for their illegal use.
The editing work corresponded to Alberto Gonzalez. The strength of the headlines, summaries, the accuracy and constant communication with the reporter made this alliance director-editor-journalist-reporter and reader visual teaching: evaluate ideas and move from the why not no?.
I am facing a reporter's computer no longer tells stories because he's dead. His peers in the drafting of the Diario de Juarez agreed that their place is intact with a picture that says: The Choco is here. Just a can of incense that is over, a cup which had flowers, computer and a photo printed on a sheet reporting appears. A reconstruction of testimony tells me Rodríguez 'colleagues told days before his death on November 13, 2008: Do not be afraid ... Armando Choco told him by his skin color. The morning that killed him was getting ready to take your 8 year old daughter at primary school. His wife and fellow journalist, Blanca Martinez, gave a little syrup to the smallest when he heard the shots. Armando came out and saw wounded. He took the girl from the car and into the house. Upon his return he managed to say to him that she was not hurt. Armando died seconds later. President Felipe Calderón told a group of journalists and members of the Inter American Press Association on September 22, 2010 that they had arrested the alleged murderer of Armando. Les leaked that Hugo Valenzuela Castañeda called "The Vale" or "3." But the Diario de Juárez investigated and discovered that the man had been killed on July 8, 2010 in the state prison in Juarez. Also had a complaint with Rights Human military because he was tortured to blame other murders. On one side of the place of Armando is the place of Luz del Carmen Sosa. It is also empty because it has gone to Spain to receive an award that the newspaper El Mundo daily coverage given by the news that smacks of red ink in Juarez. find that on a shelf has dozens of spent cartridges of different calibers of bullets was found when covering a murder. Days later asked about that: - I have a lot more than me let me "do not forget. " I think no one has seen the pain that I've seen: Do you know how it feels when you see a dead mother and have her baby in her arms pissed and hurt? Do you know what your partner is in front of you is dead and another wounded asking you to go with him in the ambulance and paramedics listening to key words in there beds in the hospital? Or that in a fire is out of water? I repeat: - How do the mothers and actual reporting? - I'm more reporter than a mother, I confess - How do you combine the house with bullets? - My children are accustomed to my work, they know I do, read the newspaper, see news. Are no strangers to the situation of the city. Even in some cases they or their friends have given me information on violent events kidnappings, robberies. I was always the absent breast. That they were late to school. Which took them out of school to cover a violent event. Iban me to crawl. Have been involved since they were born in my work. But that has given us a different perspective of life to all three. We value life too much, the time together. - Have you ever thought of going to Juarez to the threats he has received? Others seek asylum ... - Look, I do not need me to put a gun to your head or send me a text message or a call on my cell phone to feel threatened. The risk is implicit since they killed and Luis Carlos El Choco and the murderers remain free. Stop doing my work would be almost like betraying myself. Because to my report is a lifelong commitment. And if you ask me if I prefer to go into exile to die for doing my job, I prefer the latter. I do not want to be a martyr or victim. I just want to do what they do. - Do you owe something to journalism or journalism owes something to you? - I owe more professionalism, therefore aims to prepare ... not owe me anything, I think only the writer can understand how a journalist can be so addictive ... - At the back of your place is the site of Armando wrote: El Choco is here, says the paper. What do you think of that act of faith in the drafting? - addition of faith is love ... this language is old. We met young. We attended our weddings, births of our children, piñatas, 15, divorces, we are family and friends of a lifetime - How experienced the murder Armando? - The shock of the murder of arming was devastating. Yet joined us. We almost welded. This wording is twinned with ink and blood. Passion for journalism.
At night, I go to report to a photojournalist who makes cookies in the afternoon to earn a little more silver and night 'patrol' - as he says, the labyrinths of Juarez with his camera canon, a trench coat, hair coated with gel and loaded with adrenaline. David Cross is a reporter for the Diario de Juárez.
Now open your trunk as a policeman that has marked the high this morning, he approaches his window. The police acknowledge and David Cross interior light. - Here I bring cookies, while in the background tells the turret lights the curtains closed for business in downtown Juárez. The policeman salutes and says to follow your path. - Ah, these cops, "exclaims David. - We turn in the bottom Ignacio Altamirano and I see a military truck near the bridge leading into El Paso Texas. - Very often dream that they will kill me and I say God take care of me, the truth is not when you return. As things stand, do not know if at any time you find yourself the gunmen and give you the mother you too. Without deberla or feared. You know well that you're in the ring.
So we have had to suddenly assembled the shootings when they cover a run. We have to work with fear and everything. And so never mind.
Suddenly, David Cross has learned this morning that there is an alleged execution in Aeronautics Avenue entrance. - Having my crazy, I'm at the entrance of Aeronautics, tells his colleague on the radio. David
that gunmen sometimes dreams take him to a very high cliff to kill him. - Once I dreamed I had shaven heads. That body was on one side and my head was elsewhere. - But even so, I always think that in Juarez can be a change.
The phone rings. He reported that the alleged discovery of a murdered man was a false alarm. A light shows me his eyes wobble to the right speed. We were headed to downtown Juarez and David patrol the news. In Juarez there is much to tell.
Sebastian and his five years have drawn on a yellow sheet three figures.
- Who is he?, Asked the kindergarten teacher. - my dad is killing another man ... - "And this Who is it? - That's me and I am helping to kill my dad ... Sebastian strokes trace much of what happens in the colonial Mexico 68, west of Ciudad Juárez. In the courtyard of a kindergarten, where last October was placed a blanket that threatened the extermination of 300 mobsters, a teacher told me: "Many of the children we have here are aggressive, fight and reflect anxiety. Half of the Mexico 68 is climbing on a so ma, with steep streets and capeadas with earth. " "Look," he says by looking at a child who eats alone a cake ", he saw how they killed a neighbor and now has trouble speaking."
"Many of these children have witnessed crimes, vandalism and gangs. Some have parents killers or drug dealers." The professor, who is Kenite eg with a body that seems stuck in a girl of 15 years, top: "Sometimes I pretend to be soldiers and assassins. A few days ago one of them told another friend: 'Culero, we to take a few tequilas ... ' "Last week we were in class and asked them what they wanted to be great. The children raised their hand and there were those who said 'when I grow up I want to be like my dad and kill people. " walked to one end of the kindergarten playground and a gale cold reminds me that these days the sun goes down the curtain early. II .- At six p.m. Juarez remains unclear. Two children run past, rolling an old tire. The teacher noted that some students say their parents will steal because they have no work. I have also heard -ta-eat their game characters are soldiers and gunmen. "When I grow up I will use gun!" Said one of them. In the same kindergarten, another teacher who has asked not to appoint to the fear of a penalty of Educational Services of the State of Chihuahua, he ordered them not to speak of violence, asks: "What future is pear to them? Did you know that many children do not show friendship? "And loose courage" is coughing children say they want to go to the maquila, or aspire to be cholos! ". - What is the main feature detected in children of this kindergarten?, I insist. - What are insensitive. Bad things are not the ma for them. Can you imagine a child playing the federal and saying I'll kill you? I had to have a child in the room who was afraid to hear the helicopters and how do I asked his mom what was wrong with that, she told me that his dad walked in a helicopter looking for the federal child and when I saw them spend said: "And go looking for my dad." III .-
have long words and federal assassins and soldiers, in Juárez, are in the vocabulary of thousands of fam ily. On the avenue Paseo Triunfo de la República, two trucks of federal agents come to the mall. A car screeching tires is enough to change its position. Jump from the truck and pointed their weapons back. But he's nobody. Only a sound and a driver, who, fearing, squats at the reaction. tension of almost five thousand federal agents have been sent to Juarez is not free.
On July 15, 2010 a car bomb, ar made up of a Mexican drug gang known as La Linea, exploded in downtown Juarez and killed two federal police, a municipal and a doctor. The reaction of the cartel was a source, the capture of one of their leaders called Jesus Armando Acosta, 35. In this year in Ciudad Juarez have killed 11 federal agents and 10 have been injured. The presence of the military has faced the consciences of many Juarez. "When they arrived, the gene you saw it. But after the atrocities and abuses began. A lot of families took their cars, saying they were illegal and demanded money be returned. So people aho ra sees them with suspicion" I said to Mrs. Araceli Aztec colony. In April 2010, a Mexican official source revealed that 10 federal agents had been arrested on charges of extorting money from traders of pirated products, which called for up to four thousand dollars to not take away their goods and they could continue selling.
The master of the colony Mexico 68 gives me another clue. A group of professors at the Na tional Pedagogical University, lifted the carpet to find out what is causing the violent behavior of some children in kindergarten in colonias of Juarez.
One of the teachers who led the research talks that began to detect cases four years ago.
- Now we can see that children are incorporating into your life what you see in the city, army trucks, federal, soldiers and parents who commit crimes.
- What alarmed us is that children have changed their traditional games. Pretending to be thugs and make the toy machine guns and pistols. We have to tell you that a gun is to harm another person. But the media beat us, what they hear on the news we want ... violence, he says, is part of their generation: they grow with it. The children are terrified of some sounds, when you hear loud sounds they think it's a volley of bullets. There are many niños que se quedan con adormecimiento. Como no saber actuar o qué hacer. – ¿Cómo puede salir Juárez de esto?, le pregunto. – Tratando de unir nuevamente a la familia. Porque esos niños, cuando crezcan y tengan 12 ó 13 años, no tendrán suficientes juicios morales y la delgada línea entre el bien y el mal, la cruzarán pronto. V.- A unos dos kilómetros de ahí, en un negocio de tortillas de harina, Carmen, –sin apellido por su seguridad– ha dejado a sus tres hijos en casa. Enviudó hace casi un año. A su marido lo asesinaron cuando reparaba su automóvil. “Los que lo mataron an dan ahí sueltos”, me dice y sirve nigerrima coffee. now have to sell burritos from 10 pesos in the vicinity of the international bridge connecting El Paso, Texas. According to the local association of maquiladoras in Juárez violence has left at least 10 000 orphans. The Mexican government has no official figure about it. VI. But kindergarten teachers not only care for the imitation of violence by children, also are concerned that come your way. One of them, not yet born. April Alvarado brings in her womb. Both live in the municipal jail in Juarez. "I have two months pregnant, said in April while on a piñata glue sticks, in the next few days break with his cellmates. This is the second time that the mother, the father of her first child was a member of the band The Aztecs, but died in a confrontation with federal agents. April said his partner was in drug trafficking. The Aztecs, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a gang that has made alliances with Mexican cartels. Would have more than 10 thousand members living on both sides of the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. The FBI says that control the drug distribution centers and prisons retail on the Mexican side. They are also hired for in office. April says: "Yes, he (the father of her first child) was Azteca." In her second pregnancy, your child will have another dad, a neighbor of jail in April, which also is in jail for trafficking. - Everything is quiet , we have many privileges, says while it also boasts pink colored paper and selling them out of jail.
And suddenly, before the surprised look on Hector Conde, spokesman for the prison that accompanies the visit- clarifies that the privileges are to study, work or exceeded within the prison. April says it has less than 30 years, but his body seems to over 40.
- Why is prey? - Because I was caught with 40 bugs heroin ... Abril up to the bedrooms and do not I see her that morning. VI .-
Hours later, outside the prison, I meet with Professor Mary Perchez Nevares Dora, a teacher at the National Pedagogical University, with many years of experience in the management of preschool children. Account: "Once we were in recess, and suddenly, some children came to tell us that some children had in the back garden were playing the gunmen. They were bound hand and foot. I wonder how you did this, but the children were frightened and kept quiet ... " Days after the conver sation with professors, a group of gang members set fire to a kindergarten in the San Antonio, because it allegedly had not paid the fee required them extortionists. Professor takes me up a wall along the Paseo de la República. There is a picture of a child and the phrase: "I want peace, no gun." Strokes are signed Irvin Gustavo Mata. The teacher Dora looks at a drawing hand and says, "If we do nothing, children of Juarez will be the next assassins."
In a year and seven months a bullet Panther kill someone in Ciudad Juárez. In the dining room of the county jail for women awaiting release from prison and design your itinerary: I want to be Sicaria ... Panther, which does not have a name, know and consider: "There are load of old killers and extortionists, but are made withered, "he says while a woman around 60 years old, imprisoned for trafficking, walking behind us and limping from the cold. - Have you told your spouse you want to be holster? - Many times. - "And he responds? "That when I leave here, I'll change. - And what did you say? - Do not! I'm going to be worse. The day I quit, "I say I want to kill a rump in front of you. And I ask him: What do you think? And he stays silent. II .- The bedroom area is like a steel cooler pieces in cream. Here there are 134 women prisoners. 80%, according to official transportation convicted of crimes and drug smuggling. The rest (20%) is held captive by robbery or extortion. La Pantera, browse the local newspaper today Dawn has called calcined. A guard, who has recently shaved his beard and trained to talk a little - watching in silence about 10 meters. Your story about female prisoners back to me a video. Appeared on YouTube as elpumaoriginal hours before the death of a woman on 11 October 2010. The video , a woman is questioned by two suspected assassins who point to the belly. Sanjuana called Gabriela Enriquez said. His captors ask - You know that more women are thrust into this, right? - Yes - How many, which you know, how many more? - just the two of us - What has happened to the others? - The killed - Are not you afraid? - Yes During questioning one of his captors placed a rose in her hands. Minutes later see a shot where the woman is painted on the back the quote: "I am serving extortionist Line." Sanjuana appear a day later killed.
In the prison, I chat with Panther. Her eyes are huge and stalkers. Now he wants to talk about the family: - Even my child of 12 wants to be a hitman. Once I asked: "Mijo, do you want to be? And he said, as hitman mom.
- But speaking of killing people ... - What's that? - Said by looking to the side-one day I will kill myself. I am also a person. - What makes you think life will be better if Sicaria? - You live life as you live. Not to be a secretary or to be hired killers or being Buzzard or for being who you are. The life you have to live once. If you do not do what you like, then what's the point? .. IV .- To understand a section of what was said by La Pantera-prey the robbery of a jewelry-I look to the board of a local language. not the figures of the Mexican prosecutors, but the Diario de Juarez, which has its own count of crimes in this city: 2 000 932 so far in 2010. arithmetic violence in Juárez and the incursion of women in the killings could have a sense of imitation. U.S. Something called copy cat. People copy characterized by murderers who have committed crimes or highly recognized celebrities TIME-po back. criminologist Gabriel Rodríguez Juárez Leos based this hypothesis and believe that some women who are hired or are in line Conversion to the killings, admire the fame of other gunmen. - That fact is what invites women are attracted to that reputation, he says the specialist and member of the Association of Criminologists Criminologists and Chihuahua. He says They see violence and contract killings are common and taste for the easy money offered by drug trafficking or illegal activities. V. - in downtown Juarez, specialist theory takes shape. This is my second day in town and this time the chill of night has-ta drag me downtown streets near the international crossing to the city of El Paso, Texas, considered a of the United States safer. In El Paso - where 90% of the population is of Mexican origin, there have been four murders in 2010, against 2 000 932 of Juárez. The logic is simple. Across the border, die in a year, equivalent to people who are killed in half a day in Juarez. There cerquita the bridge, with a light brown, I know a prostitute close to 37 years and a son of 22. Newly widowed. Her husband was murdered by a rival gang. She suspects that is because of the mafia. And talk: about two weeks ago came a cholo and said: I come to announce that starting Friday we will charge a fee to tell them all. - brought credentials to the calling fee. - And what was that? - I did not return ... - On Saturday, one of the girls working there she was threatened with a gun. He was told to tell the hotel bato not go from cock. That if I did not think were going to start waking up at us. And in April we learned that new people will no longer asked fee. The lady got off the car and lost blocks down, heading home.
VI .- right back to jail with Panther. 'Oh swallow, tell me you're back / by my side / eventually / ... 'is heard on the radio in the laundry which is run by a woman accused of murdering his son. - You seem a very brave woman ... - I've always been. Tell it like it is. For my character I have many many problems here. - Outside there are many who are hired, what do you think? - I know. But you have not heard the saying that is more righteous a woman than a man? Sometimes you have more eggs one woman one man. Is proven. - More ovaries, you say. - Put eggs, then laughs wickedly. - What about your dream? - I have dreams myself. - And the dreams of their children? - Son of them. Are your dreams. - Why not have dreams? - just be hitman. Dreams do I want more now. What do I get to dream that maybe things or meet me? - Why not think about getting out of here in a taxi driving, teaching or being in the maquila? - Of course not! A maquila do salaries of 400 pesos a week? What is that as the killers are not going to pay 400 pesos. Are you going to kill all day for 400 pesos? I too will mourn when I die. - Who will win this war by President Felipe Calderon? - The drug traffickers are going to win because the president is not going to win. We are going to be able to stop - So you support the drug traffickers? - And what do I get to support the president. Is the president in which we supported us? What gives us president? Do promises? A president to sit in a chair promises you many things you never met. That's why I never vote for anybody. - What do you think of women who have killed their children in this war? - Even though it was their turn. You have a hairline to where and how you arrive you get there, and Te Ching. - What do you expect your children this war? - That war continues, Juarez is running alone.
Media coverage of drug trafficking from the narrative strategies
loose ideas I share the workshop organized by Journalists Foot and delivered by Cristian Alarcón * Soon I will give way to the newsroom to share .
Narrative Workshop Cristián Alarcón (TCA) How do I choose the topics or areas where I get involved?
TCA: In the narrative there to choose from where I write.
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: One who decides to become a storyteller, is determined to become an author.
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: The focus between the detail and context must exist in the narrative.
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: How to manage data so that my story is universal?
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: When we seek to generate memory stories our readers.
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: Nobody will remember the numbers.
Cristián Alarcón Workshop: When delving into the research neighborhood becomes a character.
immersion journalism is to be in the social and cultural patterns is expressed in violence, is a frank and transparent dialogue with the sources.
Table
my stuff to think relatively.
• Not all sources are characters and not all characters are sources • When introducing the characters I'll introduce the cards for each character. • The subject must illuminate. • You have to reconstruct the details of the issues. • Philipe Borgois ; editorial century.
• Understand the value of details (eg Christmas tree, holy death) • We have to rebuild narrative scenes in each act. • There is a point where we must detach • There is a moment we took off the character and lights. • One should not make deals; are covenants intangibles. • It is dangerous to look to sources at once. • A journalist is someone eager unreliable.
• MICRO SITE REPORT journalism • There is a lot of crime scenes, choreographed violence, only account where it came from and where was the bullet to stop. • The writer must select the point where going to tell the story. Weather
particular odor
Furniture Brands The lights were lit. Using the theme of the temperature are.
• The crime scene is a fetish: Someone saw things more. • It should be playing the axis of the chronic and point out the dead. • The districts have cultural and historical facts. • Example: The Tepito of Before there was the same. • Who was the son? • We have to look where everyone looks NO. • You have to leave the crime to have the crime.
FINDING THE TONE OF THE STORY
The interview carried the story is a story of life.
On one side is the interview I ask and respond.
Why am I writing this?
No way to find the right tone without making a structure. The tone can be in the interview, location, temperature.
have to detect the emotional component.
Do we want to be experts or reporters? Meter
brake and give the immediate context. Go
action context.
Being close is not spare their lives to the characters.
Try to see the evil.
Getting out of that logic.
I have to know I am speaking on each of my scenes.
must not lose the data certification.
are new deals with the reader.
MANAGING THE LIKELIHOOD
The Chronicle is an unexpected version of reality.
reflect and find the symbolic places. The
want to keep your routine.
The psychological damage to a routine.
I can not speculate but I give the reader certainty.
be credible means knowing sort.
not want to be named, but he knows and tells. The
chronicler is doomed not to know exactly what happened.
is always necessary to know something of the rituals or routines or characters.
The characters move and goes to a place. Details
showing class status.
When we find these symbols or signs can be demonstrated. October These days oscurese suddenly raised his eyes when it is night.
culinary tastes. How
enjoy my character?
People see much detail.
The color has to mean something.
data
radio ... Christmas music of the city
The light in the scenes is essential ..
is best at first to find the friend ...
anyone outside the core is better ...
HOW TO WRITE A BURIAL
should not seek answers about the death of another, but the other's life.
You have to start smoking a cigarette, eating and checking the photo album.
life of the dead is the life of those who remained.
need to establish a first covenant. IDENTITY
must make clear agreements with the other. Explain
I'm trying to do ...
I need to know things that maybe make him ridiculous ...
When you consider we can talk about what happened ...
The meetings are to be warm ...
If one is hot the other will perceive ...
with poor transparency is essential.
territorial linkages must be made. CHARACTERS
You have to choose how to count profile through a casting of the characters.
is extremely healthy self bored.
We may be full.
Choose the type of reading to help us to guide us in style.
ignorant should be recognized. Verbs come
a non-colloquial language.
must be reconciled with the simple.
We must protect the amount of images we released. Letting narrative language
Two copies underline the verbs and adjectives.
You must use black humor and relief for the reader. ANALYSIS
