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Living, Dead, Disappeared

NACLA Report on the Americas, 2018

The resolve of the searchers, most of them mothers whose children were disappeared in the context of the war on drugs, brings them out every Saturday in scorching temperatures to walk long distances, dropping to their hands and knees to comb the dry, dusty soil. After hours of searching and filtering earth through homemade screens, Grupo VIDA sometimes ends up with thousands of bone fragments to hand off to authorities for DNA testing. “We don’t have a global, real number, because as you’ve seen, week to week there’s more and more bones,” said Silvia Ortiz, the leader of Grupo VIDA, in an interview in her living room in central Torreón last year. Behind her hung a faded school portrait of her daughter Silvia Stephanie Sánchez Viesca Ortiz, who was disappeared on November 5, 2004 a few blocks from the family’s home.

AHP 47 Life

Bla ma skyabs བླ་མ་སྐྱབས། 2017. Life. Asian Highlands Perspectives 47:64-75. I had a female yak when I was a young child and drank her milk, which helped me grow. She was like a mother. One day I got very sick and was put in the hospital. My family did not have enough money for my medical care so Father sold the female yak to pay for my treatment. That yak saved my life again. While I was in the hospital, an old relative came to visit. Knowing that I liked stories, he told me this one: Many years ago, all the villagers were talking about Zhao ma's baby. Elders wondered who the baby's father was. Others curiously gossiped about who Zhao ma's lover was. There were no clues. ...

The Internal Death of Japanoise

This is a draft of an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis [28 Jul 2015], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2015.1065654