Patricia Mayorga

Patricia Mayorga is a Chilean journalist. She works for Proceso, a news magazine based in Mexico City. During her career, she has highlighted human rights violations of indigenous peoples including forced disappearances. As a result, Mayorga was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2017.

Patricia Mayorga
OccupationJournalist
AwardsCPJ International Press Freedom Award

Career

Mayorga began living in exile in Rome in 1975 to escape the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.[1] Since 1992, she worked as a correspondent for the newspaper El Mercurio.[2]

Mayorga's journalism career in Mexico began in 2000 with a focus on health and education. This later developed into an interest in human rights issues, government corruption, and violence. She initially worked for El Heraldo, a daily in Ciudad Juárez, and El Diario.[3]

In 2003, she published a book, El Condor Negro: la Internacional fascista y las relaciones secretas con el régimen de Pinochet ("The Black Condor: the Fascist International and its secret relations with the Pinochet regime"). The book described the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton which took place during Mayorga's first year in Italy.[4] In 2007, she published Michelle Bachelet: la donna del riscatto ("Michelle Bachelet: daughter of her time") a biography about Michelle Bachelet's life.[1] In 2009, Mayorga collaborated with fellow journalist Miriam Verdugo to create Manuel Bustos, un sindicalista en la transición, ("Manuel Bustos, a unionist in transition"), a detailed book about Manuel Bustos Huerta.[5]

Due to the focus of her journalism work with Miroslava Breach, Mayorga has received death threats and fled Chihuahua in 2017.[6] Mayorga was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award that same year.[3] She dedicated her acceptance speech to Breach and Javier Valdez Cárdenas, another journalist who was murdered.[7]

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications:[2]

  • El Condor Negro: la Internacional fascista y las relaciones secretas con el régimen de Pinochet
  • Michelle Bachelet: la donna del riscatto
  • Manuel Bustos, un sindicalista en la transición

References
  1. "Presentan en Roma el libro:Michelle Bachelet, hija de su tiempo" (in Spanish). Lavanguardia. 13 March 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. "AMMPE's Board". ammpeworld.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. "Patricia Mayorga, Mexico International Press Freedom Awards". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  4. "El Cóndor Negro, libro del caso Leighton que fue blanqueado en Chile". elmostrador.cl (in Spanish). 1 December 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. "Viuda y libro sobre Manuel Bustos: Es traer al presente su trabajo y su obra". cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). 25 September 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  6. Tharanga Yakupitiyage (15 December 2017). ""We Need to Be Strong" – Award Spotlights Courageous Journalists". ipsnews.net. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  7. "Lograr un México sin impunidad y sangre inocente, difícil pero no imposible: Patricia Mayorga". aristeguinoticias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
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