IRE Radio Podcast | The Disappeared

[Looking for the Spanish version of the podcast? Click here]

It’s no secret to Mexicans or Colombians that people are disappeared, all the time, often at the hands of cartels and with seemingly no reason. We talked with Daniela Guazo from Mexico’s El Universal about the work she and her team did along with Colombia’s El Tiempo to give a human face to an issue that has affected nearly 100,000 families.  

Read a Q&A with highlights from this interview.

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EPISODE NOTES

Looking for links to the stories, resources and events we discussed on this week's podcast? We've collected them for you.

• Check out El Universal and El Tiempo’s investigation, “Desaparecidos.”
• If you’re interested in data journalism, subscribe to our Spanish-language listserv, NICAR-ESP-L.
• Members only: Browse our new database of tipsheets in Spanish. We also have tipsheets on covering Mexico and the border written in English.
• Members only: Read “The Other Disappeared,” a 2015 Associated Press story and interactive on Mexico’s disappeared.

CREDITS

Daniela Vidal reported this episode. Lucio Villa of the San Francisco Chronicle was our guest editor for the Spanish version of this episode, along with IRE’s Sarah Hutchins. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.

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