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Practical Guide:

Steps to take in the event of a missing person

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Reference Materials

A selection of literature, journalistic work, academic analysis, poetry, films, multimedia projects, which serves as an introduction to the context of disappearance and the search in Mexico.

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Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Author: Cristina Rivera Garza

Language: English

Year: 2020

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Drug War Capitalism

Author: Dawn Paley

Language: English

Year: 2014

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Ayotzinapa Report. Research and initial conclusions of the disappearance and homicides of the normalistas from Ayotzinapa

Author: Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes para el Caso Ayotzinapa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2015

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Ayotzinapa Report II. Forward Steps and New Conclusions on the Investigation, Search and Care for Victims

Author: Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes para el Caso Ayotzinapa

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Land of open graves

Author: Jason de León

Language: English

Year: 2015

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We Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa

Author: John Gibler

Language: English

Year: 2017

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A History of Violence. Living and Dying in Central America

Author: Oscar Martinez

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Antígona González

Author: Sandra Uribe

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Gore Capitalism

Author: Sayak Valencia

Language: English

Year: 2018

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The Femicide Machine

Author: Sergio González Rodríguez

Language: English

Year: 2012

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The Iguala 43. The Truth and Challenge of Mexico's Disappeared Students

Author: Sergio González Rodríguez

Language: English

Year: 2017

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Tiempo suspendido. Una historia de la desaparición forzada en México 1940-1980

Author: Camilo Vicente Ovalle

Language: Spanish

Year: 2019

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El Tiempo de Ayotzinapa

Author: Carlos Beristain

Language: Spanish

Year: 2017

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Drama social y política del duelo: Las desapariciones de la guerra contra las drogas en Tijuana

Author: Carolina Robledo Silvestre

Language: Spanish

Year: 2017

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Ya no somos las mismas: Y aquí sigue la guerra

Author: Daniela Rea (editora)

Language: Spanish

Year: 2020

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Guerra neoliberal. Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México

Author: Dawn Paley

Language: Spanish

Year: 2020

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Procesos de la noche

Author: Diana del Ángel

Language: Spanish

Year: 2017

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Informe Ayotzinapa. Investigación y primeras conclusiones de las desapariciones y homicidios de los normalistas de Ayotzinapa

Author: Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes para el Caso Ayotzinapa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2015

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Informe Ayotzinapa II. Avances y nuevas conclusiones sobre la investigación, búsqueda y atención a víctimas

Author: Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes para el Caso Ayotzinapa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2016

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Informe Ayotzinapa III. Resumen

Author: Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes para el Caso Ayotzinapa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2022

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Cuerpos liminales. La performatividad de la búsqueda

Author: Ileana Diéguez Caballero

Language: Spanish

Year: 2022

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El país de las dos mil fosas

Author: Alejandra Guillén, Mago Torres and Marcela Turati

Language: Spanish

Year: 2018

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Crisis Forense

Author: Marcela Turati, Efraín Tzuc

Language: Spanish

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Gone (Ausentes)

Author: Stephanie Nolen, Félix Márquez

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2020

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Desaparecido es un lugar (A place called Disappeared)

Author: Daniela Rea

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2021

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Águilas

Author: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre, Danielle Mackey

Year: 2021

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Buscadores

Author:

Language: Spanish

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El cuarto de los huesos (The room of bones)

Author: Marcela Zamora

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2015

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El eterno presente (The Eternal Present)

Author: Ignacio Rosaslanda

Year: 2020

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El Violín (The Violin)

Author: Francisco Vargas

Language: Spanish

Year: 2005

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Guerrero

Author: Ludovic Bonleux

Language: Spanish

Year: 2017

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Las tres muertes de Maricela Escobedo (The Three Deaths of Maricela Escobedo)

Author: Carlos Pérez Osorio

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2020

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No sucumbió la eternidad (Eternity Never Surrendered)

Author: Daniela Rea

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2017

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Persistencia (Persistence)

Author: Anne Huffshmidt, Jan-Holger Hennies

Language: Spanish

Year: 2019

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Puntos Suspensivos (Elipsis)

Author: Paola Ovalle & Alfonso Díaz Tovar

Language: Spanish

Year: 2015

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Sin tregua (No Truce)

Author: Diego Rabasa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2019

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Soles negros (Black Suns, Soleils Noirs)

Author: Julien Elie

Year: 2018

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Tempestad

Author: Tatiana Huezo

Year: 2016

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Te nombré en el silencio (I Called For You In Silence)

Author: Dir. José María Espinosa

Language: Spanish

Year: 2021

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Until we find them

Author: Hunter Johnson

Language: Bilingual

Year: 2020

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Vivos

Author: Ai Wei Wei,

Year: 2020

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Volverte a ver

Author: Carolina Corral

Language: Spanish

Year: 2020

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Ya no somos invisibles (We are no longer invisible)

Author: Colectivo de Familiares Desaparecidos y Asesinados en Chilpancingo & Heriberto Paredes Coronel

Year: 2019

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Camino a encontrarles. Historias de búsqueda

Author: A dónde van los desaparecidos

Language: Spanish

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Nos llaman las locas de las palas

Author: Centro Prodh

Language: Spanish

Year: 2020

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The Disappeared: An Open Wound in Latin America

Author: Brigada Nacional de Búsqueda

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Forgotten: Women of Juárez

Author: Mónica Ortiz Uribe

Language: English

Year: 2020

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El agua hablará. Relatos de búsquedas en lo profundo

Author: Celia Guerrero y Mayela Sánchez

Language: Spanish

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Las Madres del Desierto de Sonora

Author: El Hilo

Language: Spanish

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Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared

Author: Gina Hinojosa y Maureen Meyer

Language: English

Year: 2020

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Los desaparecidos de Jalisco (The Disappeared from Jalisco)

Author: Alejandra Guillén

Language: Spanish

Year: 2018

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1er Curso de especialización en búsqueda y localización de personas desaparecidas por familiares buscadores. Recursos, experiencias y estrategias actuales

Author: UAM Cuajimalpa, Coordinated by Edgar Chávez Hernández, with participations by: Silvia Ortiz de Sánchez-Viesca. Presidenta de Grupo V.I.D.A. Laguna, A.C. ,Coahuila; Fabiola Pensado Barrera. Colectivo Familiares María Herrera, Xalapa, Veracruz; Micaela González Heras, Colectivo Uniendo Corazones, Culiacán, Sinaloa; Angélica Rodríguez Monroy – Colectivo Regresando a Casa, Morelos

Year: 2020

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Ecologies of Migrant Care

Author: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

Language: Bilingual

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Forensic Landscapes

Author: Anne Huffschmid

Language: Bilingual

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Huellas de la Memoria

Author: Huellas de la Memoria Collective

Language: Spanish

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Ayotzinapa. A Cartography of Violence

Author: Forensic Architecture

Language: English

Year: 2017

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