Patricia Mayorga

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Patricia Mayorga
OccupationJournalist
AwardsCPJ International Press Freedom Award

Patricia Mayorga is a Chilean journalist. She works for Proceso, a news magazine based in Mexico City. During her career, she has highlighted human rights violations of indigenous peoples including forced disappearances. As a result, Mayorga was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2017.

Career

Mayorga began living in exile in Rome in 1975 to escape the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.[1] Since 1992, she worked as a correspondent for the newspaper El Mercurio.[2]

Mayorga's journalism career in Mexico began in 2000 with a focus on health and education. This later developed into an interest in human rights issues, government corruption, and violence. She initially worked for El Heraldo, a daily in Ciudad Juárez, and El Diario.[3]

In 2003, she published a book, El Condor Negro: la Internacional fascista y las relaciones secretas con el régimen de Pinochet ("The Black Condor: the Fascist International and its secret relations with the Pinochet regime"). The book described the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton which took place during Mayorga's first year in Italy.[4] In 2007, she published Michelle Bachelet: la donna del riscatto ("Michelle Bachelet: daughter of her time") a biography about Michelle Bachelet's life.[1] In 2009, Mayorga collaborated with fellow journalist Miriam Verdugo to create Manuel Bustos, un sindicalista en la transición, ("Manuel Bustos, a unionist in transition"), a detailed book about Manuel Bustos Huerta.[5]

Due to the focus of her journalism work with Miroslava Breach, Mayorga has received death threats and fled Chihuahua in 2017.[6] Mayorga was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award that same year.[3] She dedicated her acceptance speech to Breach and Javier Valdez Cárdenas, another journalist who was murdered.[7]

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications:[2]

  • El Condor Negro: la Internacional fascista y las relaciones secretas con el régimen de Pinochet
  • Michelle Bachelet: la donna del riscatto
  • Manuel Bustos, un sindicalista en la transición

References

  1. ^ a b "Presentan en Roma el libro:Michelle Bachelet, hija de su tiempo" (in Spanish). Lavanguardia. 13 March 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "AMMPE's Board". ammpeworld.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Patricia Mayorga, Mexico International Press Freedom Awards". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  4. ^ "El Cóndor Negro, libro del caso Leighton que fue blanqueado en Chile". elmostrador.cl (in Spanish). 1 December 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Viuda y libro sobre Manuel Bustos: Es traer al presente su trabajo y su obra". cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). 25 September 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  6. ^ Tharanga Yakupitiyage (15 December 2017). ""We Need to Be Strong" – Award Spotlights Courageous Journalists". ipsnews.net. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Lograr un México sin impunidad y sangre inocente, difícil pero no imposible: Patricia Mayorga". aristeguinoticias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
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