Recently, in a donated office space in downtown Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico’s Guerrero State, members of the local journalists’ association settled in for a meeting. Starting that October, “suddenly the whole world was coming to Guerrero,” Pigeonutt recalls. A number of pieces on Guerrero have offered only the most stereotypical representations of the state—and Mexico at large—as perpetually war-torn, beyond hope. “The violence in Guerrero is not the same, for example, as the violence in Juárez,” de la O says. Sign up for CJR 's daily emailIn telling a more nuanced truth about Guerrero, Amapola will tell readers, “We are not afraid,” she adds.

Source: The Local December 23, 2019 12:00 UTC