Las Masacres de San Fernando (Premio Javier Valdez Cárdenas 2021) / San Fernando Massacres

El prop?sito de esta investigaci?n es develar la historia real de lo ocurrido en San Fernando, Tamaulipas, en 2011. Narrado por protagonistas, desde las entra?as, de ese sitio que lleg? a considerarse la "zona cero" de la guerra contra el narco. El terror descrito por la periodista obliga a cuestionamientos inmediatos: Qu? personajes de la vida pol?tica y econ?mica est?n detr?s de la delincuencia organizada? En qu? momento se podr? enfrentar a la extorsi?n, el secuestro, el levant?n, derivados del narco? El libro revelar? que las v?ctimas no s?lo fueron j?venes secuestrados de autobuses de pasajeros, son muchas m?s: la estudiante que a diario ve?a c?mo levantaban a migrantes frente a su escuela, la mam? salvadore?a que recibi? el cuerpo de su hijo, el periodista que no pudo publicar sus historias, el m?dico que ayud? a sobrevivientes torturados, las madres que se quedaron a buscar a sus hijos desaparecidos, los forenses que se dieron cuenta del ocultamiento de la magnitud de las masacres, por mencionar algunos casos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The purpose of this research is unveiling what really happened in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, back in 2011. Told from the protagonists' perspective, from their core, at a place once thought "ground zero" in the war against drugs.



The terror described by the journalist calls for immediate questioning: Which characters in political and economical spheres are behind organized crime? When could we be extorted, kidnapped, or abducted by the narco? This book will reveal that abducted youngsters, taken from passenger buses, weren't the only victims, but that there are many more: the student who saw how they took immigrants daily in front of her school; the mother from El Salvador who was sent her son's body; the journalist who couldn't publish his work; the doctor who helped tortured survivors; the mothers who stayed behind to search for their missing children; the coroners who realized the magnitude of the massacres they were concealing, to mention but a few.