Human Rights

Reed Brody in conversation with Noemí Rubio Gudiño

How to trap a tyrant

Friday 5 September 2025, 10am –  Auditorio José Arana Morán, Facultad de Derecho

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.

Visual and sound performance with Ricardo Giraldo, Leonardo Heiblum and Valeria Luiselli

Echos from the borderlands

Friday 5 September 2025, 9pm – 10.30pm –  Cineteca Rosalío Solano

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.

Ecos de las tierras fronterizas has been created in partnership with the Dia Art Foundation.

Alma Delia Murillo in conversation with Dalia Larisa Juárez Otero

Saturday 6 September 2025, 10.30am –  Jardín Guerrero

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.

Yadira González, Alma Delia Murillo and Mirna Nereida in conversation with Héctor Guerrero

Disappeared in Mexico

Saturday 6 September 2025, 7pm –  Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)

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.