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- Guillermo Barraza had already faced death threats for his work as a journalist in cartel-plagued Mexico. Now, he is risking even more by hosting a newscast in drag to shine a light on his community and the perils it faces. (Feb. 2)(AP video: Fernanda Pesce)
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Meet the newscaster in drag making LGBTQ+ history in Mexican television
By MEGAN JANETSKY AND FERNANDA PESCE - Associated Press
Thu,02/01/24-11:06PM , 197 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself transform.

Hands delicately paint stripes of bright pink eyeshadow onto Barraza’s angular face as newscasters and makeup crews bustle around him.

Tonight, in a small studio set in the heart of Mexico City, Barraza is making history.
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- Activists paste photos of Roxana Ruiz that read in Spanish "Defending my life is not a crime" on a wall near the court building where the 22-year-old attends a hearing where she is charged with homicide with excess of legitimate self-defense in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico, Abril 18, 2022. Ruiz, who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday, May 16, 2023.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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She killed a man while he was raping her, and a court in Mexico sentenced her to 6 years in prison
By MEGAN JANETSKY AND FERNANDA PESCE - Associated Press
Tue,05/16/23-10:24PM , 157 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican woman who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday.
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- A soldier checks the identification of youths on the main street of La Campanera neighborhood in Soyapango, El Salvador, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Here in La Campanera, once one of the most bloody neighborhoods of the country, police and soldiers demand men strip off their shirts to examine their bodies for tattoos, and flip through deeds or energy bills for any evidence to show they weren’t part of Barrio 18, the gang that once dominated the zone. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
By MEGAN JANETSKY AND FERNANDA PESCE - Associated Press
Wed,03/22/23-11:54AM , 122 Reads
SOYAPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — With semiautomatic weapons pressed to their chest, a pack of camouflage-clad police officers marches through rows of small brick homes winding up hills on the fringes of El Salvador’s capital.
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- A health worker weighs a child at the Fontaine Hospital Center where the baby got multiple vaccinations during the visit in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. As gangs tighten their grip on Haiti, many medical facilities in the Caribbean nation's most violent areas have closed, leaving Fontaine as one of the last hospitals and social institutions in one of the world's most lawless places. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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In heart of Haiti's gang war, one hospital stands its ground
By MEGAN JANETSKY AND FERNANDA PESCE - Associated Press
Sun,02/26/23-9:09AM , 169 Reads
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — When machine gun fire erupts outside the barbed-wire fences surrounding Fontaine Hospital Center, the noise washes over a cafeteria full of tired, scrub-clad medical staff.

And no one bats an eye.
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