Hay Festival Querétaro 2023 – Human Rights

In his fascinating work, To Catch a Dictator, Reed Brody (USA) shows how, sometimes, the struggle for justice and in favour of victims can overcome impunity. The lawyer known as the Dictator Hunter has written a book telling the story of the campaign to bring the Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, known as the «African Pinochet», to trial. A reminder that even the most powerful tyrants can be brought to justice. In conversation with Noemí Rubio Gudiño.

Ecos de las tierras fronterizas is a sonic journey that follows the US/Mexico border from west to east, tracing a route that explores histories of violence and resistance. Its creators (Ricardo Giraldo, Leonardo Heiblum y Valeria Luiselli) will take part in a conversation after the presentation.

Alma Delia Murillo tackles one of Mexico’s most painful realities: the tireless struggle of mothers searching for their children. Raíz que no desaparece is a work of fiction that deals with what is a part of so many women’s lives: mothers who are searching, who, faced with an absent State, seek the truth on their own, mothers who do not give up and will never give up.

In a country that, unfortunately, has become used to horrors, the discoveries at the Izaguirre Ranch, in Teuchitlán, were on such a scale that they have shaken the country. It has also served to bring back into the spotlight one of Mexico’s most painful realities: forced disappearances; and to place value on a group of brave women, the Madres Buscadoras. Guests are Mirna Nereida, founder of the Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte; Yadira González, a rastreadora who discovered the Tepeji del Río mass grave; and Alma Delia Murillo, a fiction writer who has written about the strength and grief of these mothers in Raíz que no desaparece.