The Sorrows Of Mexico Av Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernandez, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, Marcela Turati, Emiliano Ruiz P

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called 'war on drugs' has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be 'disappeared' leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as 'not located'). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell