Literary Fiction
2022
Dying in the South
by Gabriel Velazquez Toledo
In 1993, journalist Santiago Moreno investigates a series of similar murders in Chiapas, in the South of Mexico, when he finds a new one that does not fit in with the patern. Following the lead, he is sent to the jungle where he finds groups of indigenous people protesting and organizing themselves. Step by step the plot goes knitting both stories into one, and towards the end we see the emergence of the Zapatista movement, on January 1st 1994.
