The real-life story of a political insurgent who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale.

John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt, To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War, 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera, Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero, and I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa. His work on Ayotzinapa has been published in California Sunday Magazine, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and praised by The New Yorker.

The Journalists

The News Reports

They Tear You From the World

The Silences

The Interview

A Piece of Being

Is it Possible to Write Without Violence?

The Brothers

Tzompaxtle and Nube

The Disappeared

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