Anabel Hernández

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Anabel Hernández (2011)

Anabel Hernández García (* 1971 ) is a Mexican investigative journalist .

Life

Anabel Hernández comes from a family of engineers. Against resistance in her own family, she decided to study journalism and began working for the Mexican daily Reforma in 1993, the last year of her studies . Her first story was about electoral fraud in Mexico City that went undetected by the public. In 1994 she made her first story on the subject of drug trafficking , for which she researched on her own without any instructions from her editor-in-chief. It was then that she was threatened by phone for the first time, but did not take the threats seriously. With her first pregnancy she interrupted her job for three years and only started working again as a journalist for the Mexican daily Milenio in 1999 . In December 2000, her father was kidnapped and found murdered in Mexico City, the crime was never solved. This event encouraged her to expose injustices through her journalistic work. By exposing the financial misconduct of the Mexican President Vicente Fox , elected in 2000 , for which she received the Mexican National Journalism Award in 2002, Hernández was at the center of the so-called Tollgate affair.

In 2008 she did extensive research on corruption , violence and organized crime in the Mexican Federal Police for Reporte Indigo . After the release, those concerned launched a media campaign against Hernández, sources were arrested and she received serious threats. In 2010 she published the non-fiction book Los Señores del Narco ( Narcoland ), which deals with the links between the Mexican drug cartels and politics and the security forces. Anabel Hernández received bodyguards , was persecuted in the years that followed, and escaped multiple murder attempts. In May 2011 her public accusation against the then Mexican Security Minister Genaro García Luna , whom she suspected of collaborating with El Chapo, of having ordered her murder, caused a stir . In 2014 she left Mexico for the first time and went to the United States . In 2016 she returned and published her book about the massacre of 43 students in Iguala , La Verdadera Noche de Iguala (English A Massacre in Mexico ), in which she came to the conclusion that state authorities and officially covered criminal actors were involved in the event was far more extensive than was determined in the official investigations. There were riots at the book launch in Mexico City.

As a threatened journalist, she cannot find a job in Mexico because the publishers shy away from the risk. At the end of 2017 Anabel Hernández moved to Europe. She works as a freelancer, travels to Mexico again and again and is financed by her books, which are not published by a Mexican publisher. In 2019 she is writing a book about the Sinaloa cartel and its international networks. In March 2017, she identified El Chapo's successor in the leadership of the cartel, which had prevailed in a power struggle in 2016/17 and was captured by the Mexican military two months later.

Anabel Hernández is single and has two children, born in 1997 and 2010. Her 80-year-old mother and siblings live in Mexico.

Awards

  • In 2002 she won the National Journalism Prize ( Premio Nacional de Periodismo ) from the Mexican journalists' association Club de Periodistas de México .
  • In 2012 she received the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) for her investigative journalism.
  • In May 2014, Reporters Without Borders named her a “Freedom of the Press Hero”.
  • In the same year she received the Hans Verploeg Memorial Fund Award from the Dutch Association of Journalists for Heroic Journalism in Amsterdam .
  • On December 1, 2017, she was accepted into the Legion of Honor by the French Ambassador to Mexico, Anne Grillo .
  • In 2018 she won the international journalism prize Premio Reporteros del Mundo from the Spanish daily El Mundo .
  • In 2019 she received the Freedom of Speech Award from Deutsche Welle .

Works

  • La Familia Presidencial: el gobierno del cambio bajo sospecha de corrupción , 2005.
  • Fin de Fiesta en los Pinos , 2006.
  • Los Complices del Presidente , 2010.
  • Los Señores del Narco , 2010.
  • México en Llamas: el legado de Calderón , 2012.
  • La Verdadera Noche de Iguala , 2016.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vanessa Rancaño: Why This Mexican journalist Finally Fled The Country. In: Cosmopolitan . October 30, 2014, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Hannemann: The crisis in Mexico affects the whole world! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 4, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Golden Pen of Freedom goes to Anabel Hernández website Wan-ifra.org of September 3, 2012
  4. ^ A b Laura Jamieson: The Sorrows of Mexico. National Center for Writing, April 3, 2017, accessed June 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Ed Vulliamy : 'Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie'. In: The Guardian , September 1, 2013, accessed June 7, 2019 (interview with Anabel Hernández).
  6. ↑ Genaro García Luna sigue empeñado en matarme: Anabel Hernández. In: SDPNoticias , May 3, 2011, accessed June 7, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ann Deslandes: It could happen anywhere: Anabel Hernández reflects on Mexico's 43 missing students. In: The Guardian , May 1, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019.
  8. ↑ Anabel Hernández: The Successor to El Chapo: Dámaso López Núñez. In: InSight Crime , March 13, 2017, quoted by June S. Beittel: Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations (PDF; 1.3 MB). CRS Report 7-5700, p. 10 and Note 39.
  9. ↑ Contender for "Chapos" throne goes military into the net. In: FAZ , May 3, 2017, accessed on June 7, 2019.
  10. ↑ “No nos queda más que luchar”. In: IDL Reporteros , May 13, 2013, accessed June 7, 2019 (interview with Anabel Hernández).
  11. ^ Reporters Without Borders eV: Heroes of Freedom of the Press. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  12. ↑ La periodista Anabel Hernández condecorada en el grado de Caballero de la Legión de Honor. Press release of the French Embassy in Mexico, December 1, 2017 accessed on 7 June of 2019.
  13. ↑ EL MUNDO premia el periodismo sin límites de Thomas L. Friedman, Lydia Cacho y Anabel Hernández. In: El Mundo , July 3, 2018, accessed June 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hernández, Anabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hernández García, Anabel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971