Investigative journalist Anabel Hernández has risked her life to expose corruption at the heart of her country’s violent ‘drug wars’. She tells Lucy Lamble why staying silent is not an option

Anabel Hernández is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has dedicated her career to exposing corruption and the consequences that come from the “war on drugs” in Mexico.

She talks about her most recent book A Massacre in Mexico – a brave and horrifying account of what she believes happened to 43 students who disappeared in 2014. She also discusses the west’s glamorisation of the cartels and how tragedy in her own life drives her work to bring justice.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist in the world. A report by the Mexican National Commission for Human Rights has revealed that between the year 2000 and March 2018, 138 journalists were murdered in Mexico.

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