Temóris Grecko – författare

“Vinieron por su marido. Las camionetas llegaron con estruendo, los ocupantes bajaron entre gritos, sus nietos jugaban en la calle, ambos corrieron asustados. Eran las siete y media de la tarde. Los siguieron al menos seis hombres. Otros quedaron afuera, de guardia. En el rústico patio interior, María Ordóñez sólo pudo abrazar a los pequeños. La única habitación con puerta que había en el interior de la casa era la de abajo. Los invasores la derribaron. Pero no había nadie detrás. Se apoderaron de una laptop, una tablet, una cámara, dos celulares: las herramientas de trabajo del reportero. Él dormía en la planta superior. El cansancio de dos días de trabajo duro no permitió que el ruido alertara a Moisés Sánchez. Probablemente despertó al sentir los golpes, o acaso apenas cuando lo arrastraban fuera. Abrazar a los niños, fuerte: hasta eso alcanzó el poder de María. Con sus nietos miró cómo se llevaban al abuelo”.The Truth Can't be Killed"They came for her husband. The trucks arrived with a crash, the occupants came down screaming, their grandchildren played in the street, both ran scared. It was seven thirty in the afternoon. They were followed by at least six men. Others stayed outside, on duty. In the rustic interior courtyard, María Ordóñez could only hug the little ones. The only room with a door inside the house was the one below. The invaders tore her down. But there was no one behind. They seized a laptop, a tablet, a camera, two cell phones: the reporter's work tools. He slept on the top floor. The fatigue of two days of hard work did not allow the noise to alert Moisés Sánchez. He probably woke up when he felt the blows, or perhaps just when they dragged him out. Embrace children, strong: until that reached the power of Mary. With his grandchildren he watched how they took the grandfather.

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalistIn 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least fourteen journalists killed over the course of the year. The following year another ten journalists were murdered, joining the almost 150 reporters who have been killed since the mid-2000s in a wave of violence that has accompanied Mexico's war on drugs.In Killing the Story, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Témoris Grecko reveals how journalists are risking their lives to expose crime and corruption. From the streets of Veracruz to the national television studios of Mexico City, Grecko writes about the heroic work of reporters at all levels—from the local self-trained journalist, Moises Sanchez, whose body was found dismembered by the side of a road after he reported on corruption by the state's governor, to high-profile journalists such as Javier Valdez Cárdenas, gunned down in the streets of Sinaloa, and Carmen Aristegui, battling the forces attempting to censor her.In the vein of Charles Bowden's Murder City and Anna Politskaya's A Russian Diary, Killing the Story is a powerful memorial to the work of Grecko's lost colleagues, which shows a country riven by brutality, hypocrisy, and corruption, and sheds a light on how those in power are bent on silencing those determined to reveal the truth and bring an end to corruption.