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Madeleine Wattenbarger

Mexico City, Mexico

Contributor at Freelance

reporter & translator, cdmx / words in @ojalaeditorial @thebafflermag @nacla / madeleine dot wattenbarger @ gmail

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  • Oct 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Madeleine Wattenbarger

    Amid incense and white lilies, thousands of mourners packed the town center of San Andrés Larrainzar, in Mexico’s mountainous southern state of Chiapas. They had come to bid farewell to a beloved priest known as a peacemaker in a region racked by violence. A half-open casket, draped with an embroidered stole, revealed the bandaged head of Father Marcelo Pérez , who was shot and killed while leaving mass in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas early on Sunday.

  • Sep 25, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Madeleine Wattenbarger

    The Mexican edition of the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference, held late last month in Mexico City, brought Ronald Reagan back from the dead. After the audience sang the Mexican national anthem and a Trump favorite, Christopher Macchio, belted out “Ave Maria,” sparkler cannons shot over the stage, and a deepfake Reagan appeared on the conference hall’s screen.

  • Jun 13, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Madeleine Wattenbarger |Rafia Zakaria |Arvin Alaigh

    The sun breached the horizon just moments before Fabiola arrived at the airport in Torreón, a city of around seven hundred thousand in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, to pick up her passengers for the day. Two young women from Mexico City, fresh off the hour-and-a-half flight from the capital, stowed their suitcases in the trunk of Fabiola’s beige sedan.

  • Jun 22, 2023 | lux-magazine.com | Madeleine Wattenbarger

    “I understand Cristina’s repulsion towards her sister’s killer,” said a judge during the ceremony for a top literary prize in Mexico last year, “but as a reader I’m intrigued by that character.” The award-winning book was Liliana’s Invincible Summer, by the prolific, multi-genre author Cristina Rivera Garza. A work of nonfiction, it chronicled the life of her younger sister, who had been murdered by an ex-boyfriend decades earlier.

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Madeleine Wattenbarger
Madeleine Wattenbarger @madeleinewhat
25 Apr 25

CDMX's forest defenders combat one of the worst wildfire seasons yet without health insurance or equipment. Story in @TheMexicoBrief

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Axel A Hernández @axel_a_hdz

Under precarious work conditions the Teporingos Brigades from San Miguel Topilejo, CDMX face forest fires fueled by illegal logging. They defend the water forest, the lungs of the city. Read the full story in @TheMexicoBrief @madeleinewhat & @axel_a_hdz https://t.co/LuLopDa6Tf https://t.co/QNp8r1G5T1

Madeleine Wattenbarger
Madeleine Wattenbarger @madeleinewhat
5 Apr 25

Amidst the latest revelations in Jalisco, an old case resurfaces: the three film students disappeared in 2018. The prosecutor's office said they were dissolved in acid, but seven years later, there's no evidence that the boys are dead @TheMexicoBrief https://t.co/ortjwkIqU1

Madeleine Wattenbarger
Madeleine Wattenbarger @madeleinewhat
4 Apr 25

Acompáñenos esta semana en @Ambulante, mañana 7pm en el CNA, el martes 5:30 en el Teatro de La Paz y el próximo jueves en Universidad Centro @Chingadamadrx https://t.co/6srce5hXbT