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Rafael Castillo is a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker. After the mass forced disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero, he focused his reporting on the national humanitarian crisis. He has reported on migration and deportation, internal forced displacement and disappearances, femicides, indigenous political rising for elections and its efforts to install indigenous governments ousting political parties. During his career he was worked as VICE and Reuters, publishing also in BBC, National Geographic, HBO, and Mexican Newspaper El Universal.
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A year after journalist Javier Valdez was murdered, National Geographic and VICE investigate on the state of press freedom and the risk that journalist face in Mexico.
An armed attack against the indigenous town of Oxchuc, Chiapas, revealed a political conflict that has bring the population to install an indigenous traditional government, and oust the elected mayor and all political parties.
Marichuy Patricio is the face a national indigenous movement which seeks to compete in the Mexican presidential elections in 2018 as an independent candidate.
A clandestine grave with more than 300 bodies was uncovered after families of forced disappeared people in Mexico investigated with their own resources. On their path they have faced cartels, corrupt politicians, members of police and armed forces implicated in these crimes.
As the Mexican Navy continues the hunt for fugitive Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, hundreds of people have been forced to flee the Golden Triangle, the Sinaloa Cartel’s stronghold in Northern Mexico. While refugees claim they fled helicopter gunfire, the navy denies their operation to hunt the most wanted drug lord are out of control.
A wave of homicides targeting female victims — labeled as femicides — has been sweeping the State of Mexico, the sprawling suburb that engulfs Mexico City. While government officials have not provided exact figures, the National Citizen Femicide Observatory estimates six women are murdered a day, and a United Nations body has described the situation as a pandemic.
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