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Red Note
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Sociological essay of Violence in Latin America, the most violent zone in the world in its most dramatic and miserable. The impotence of pain and hell asocial victims of murderers in a daily theater of war where violence is always the news of the day in his red note.
Every day in the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, the murders, robberies and violence are increasingly present.
In these places the use of youth and children to train as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of earning money that gives them respect and fear. Deprotection of these societies for the defense and protection of children in these situations of violence is alarming.
Latin America is considered one of the most violent places on earth. Every day on the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, and Mexico DF, murders, robberies and violence are every day more present.
Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, traffic of drugs into the USA is uncontrollable and insecure neighborhoods of Maras or control of the Zetas border is the closest thing to a daily war.
The report of the Organization of American States emphasizes that in a country like Honduras violent death occurs every 74 minutes exist without war. Already in 2011 was the most violent nation in the world, totaling 7,104 murders documented by police.
In these places the use of youth and children to be trained as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of making money that gives them respect and fear. In the process of training the young killer from the most consumed strata of society become true harbingers of death.
He teaches photojournalism and documentary photography at the International School PICA
He develops humanitarian essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any reason or human rights in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent.
An award winning photographer, among these, could
be mentioned:
*Arts Press Award, KODAK Young Photographer *Atlanta Journalism Awards ( Best Photographer) *Scholarship of the European Social Fund
*Euro Press by Fujifilm
*Fotopress Prize
*POYI and POYI Latam
*Finalist Oskar Barnak Leica Prize ́09 & 2013
*Union Latina Prize 09
*Sony World Photograhic Award ́10
*Fotoevidence 2011,
*Eugene Smith Grant 2013
*Terry O ́Neill Award 2012 & 2014
*Photographer of the year in Moscow Photo Award 2014 among others.
Along these years, he has achieved projects on Latin America like “Territorios”, in Jamaica, an assignment that approaches the “Traffic of Marihuana” or the Boxing Olympic School in La Habana. His most recent assignments are with Médicos del Mundo on the Garbage Dump Cities in Central America, the question that City Hope publishes the book about. He also has a book on society portraits pictures, summarizing his daily activity in magazines, titled REVOLUZION, besides a photographic essay on charity in India titled Kingdom Charity. His most complete news articles outside Spain can be read in Time, CNN, IL Magazine, Leica Magazine, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Le Monde 2, El Mundo, El periódico de Guatemala as most important magazines. At the moment, he arranges Humanitarian Photographic assignments with diplomatic matters in his country.
Their final reports and publications can be seen in Esquire Spain
on the websites fronterad and soy502.
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Sociological essay of Violence in Latin America, the most violent zone in the world in its most dramatic and miserable. The impotence of pain and hell asocial victims of murderers in a daily theater of war where violence is always the news of the day in his red note.
Every day in the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, the murders, robberies and violence are increasingly present.
In these places the use of youth and children to train as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of earning money that gives them respect and fear. Deprotection of these societies for the defense and protection of children in these situations of violence is alarming.
Latin America is considered one of the most violent places on earth. Every day on the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, and Mexico DF, murders, robberies and violence are every day more present.
Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, traffic of drugs into the USA is uncontrollable and insecure neighborhoods of Maras or control of the Zetas border is the closest thing to a daily war.
The report of the Organization of American States emphasizes that in a country like Honduras violent death occurs every 74 minutes exist without war. Already in 2011 was the most violent nation in the world, totaling 7,104 murders documented by police.
In these places the use of youth and children to be trained as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of making money that gives them respect and fear. In the process of training the young killer from the most consumed strata of society become true harbingers of death.
About author:
Psychologist at the Complutense University of MadridHe teaches photojournalism and documentary photography at the International School PICA
He develops humanitarian essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any reason or human rights in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent.
An award winning photographer, among these, could
be mentioned:
*Arts Press Award, KODAK Young Photographer *Atlanta Journalism Awards ( Best Photographer) *Scholarship of the European Social Fund
*Euro Press by Fujifilm
*Fotopress Prize
*POYI and POYI Latam
*Finalist Oskar Barnak Leica Prize ́09 & 2013
*Union Latina Prize 09
*Sony World Photograhic Award ́10
*Fotoevidence 2011,
*Eugene Smith Grant 2013
*Terry O ́Neill Award 2012 & 2014
*Photographer of the year in Moscow Photo Award 2014 among others.
Along these years, he has achieved projects on Latin America like “Territorios”, in Jamaica, an assignment that approaches the “Traffic of Marihuana” or the Boxing Olympic School in La Habana. His most recent assignments are with Médicos del Mundo on the Garbage Dump Cities in Central America, the question that City Hope publishes the book about. He also has a book on society portraits pictures, summarizing his daily activity in magazines, titled REVOLUZION, besides a photographic essay on charity in India titled Kingdom Charity. His most complete news articles outside Spain can be read in Time, CNN, IL Magazine, Leica Magazine, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Le Monde 2, El Mundo, El periódico de Guatemala as most important magazines. At the moment, he arranges Humanitarian Photographic assignments with diplomatic matters in his country.
Their final reports and publications can be seen in Esquire Spain
on the websites fronterad and soy502.
BACK TO GALLERY
