Luisenrrique Becerra, a 29-year-old freelance photojournalist, was covering a demonstration in downtown Lima when officers from Peru’s National Police approached and him started shooting. It was Saturday, 28 January, at around 9pm. Becerra, who works with German and Swiss outlets, had seen how the police tried to surround a group of demonstrators, shooting them with […]| The Tequila Files
El Salvador’s gangs have inflicted nothing but misery on the population. For 30 years, people have lived in fear of being extorted, kidnapped, raped, or murdered by members of MS-13 or Barrio 18 – rival groups that were founded in Los Angeles and later exported to El Salvador through mass deportations. It is no surprise […]| The Tequila Files
Knowing her husband Bernardo Caal Xol is locked up in filthy, overcrowded conditions alongside men convicted of the most violent of crimes, Isabel Matzir fears constantly for his life. “Many people have been found murdered in Guatemala’s prisons,” Matzir, a 40-year-old Kaqchikel Mayan teacher, tells Amnesty International over the phone. “We know full well they […]| The Tequila Files
Emmanuel’s* dreams may seem humble, but they are not so different from those of millions of our planet’s inhabitants. “To get a job to help my wife, my children. And to help my family back in Haiti,” he tells me, in a shelter in Mexico City. “We left in search of a better life for […]| The Tequila Files
Upon arrival in Amatillo, an unassuming town on the border between Honduras and El Salvador, several people quickly clustered around the cars. They offered all kinds of services – to guard the car,…| The Tequila Files
