Fotografías de la serie 'La Vida Loca' de Christian Poveda. Ya referí anteriormente en el blog ese documental y reportaje sobre la mara 18, una de las más peligrosas organizaciones criminales de latinoamérica, forjada en la guerra civil de El Salvador y la inmigración latina en Estados Unidos y que se ha hecho tradición, forma de vida y cultura en algunos barrios salvadoreños. El trabajo le costó la vida a posteriori al reportero franco-español, asesinado en Septiembre de 2009 a las afueras de San Salvador, un crimen por el que se detuvo y responsabilizó a miembros de la banda que retrató, filmó y con la que convivió muchas horas para la realización del documental y por el que también fue culpado un policía. Se especula que el crimen fue el resultado de la ira de la banda, quizás por haber fallado en ciertos compromisos adquiridos con los del barrio y por considerar que Poveda estaba ganando dinero a su costa o quizás por intentar que estrecharan lazos pacíficos con la banda rival o (lo que parece más absurdo aún) por rumores que lo señalaban como informante de la policía. Pero también hay que añadir que circula por la red una petición y también un manifiesto, aparentemente con la firma de amigos del fallecido periodista gráfico, reclamando que se investigue la responsabilidad de las autoridades salvadoreñas como inductores del crimen y argumentando la firme sospecha de que éste se cometió como respuesta por haber puesto en evidencia la incompetencia y corrupción latente en todos los niveles del sistema. Se puede leer un artículo interesante sobre su fallecimiento en el blog cronicasperiodisticas.wordpress.com.
Photographs from the 'La Vida Loca' series by Christian Poveda. I mentioned a few months ago on the blog this documentary and reportage about the Mara 18, one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Latin America, forged in the civil war of El Salvador and the U.S. Latino immigration and one that has become thorugh the years a tradition, a way of life and a whole culture in the neighborhoods of El Salvador. The work costed its author his life for the French-Spanish journalist was murdered in September 2009 on the outskirts of San Salvador after finishing the report, a crime for which some members of the band he photographed and filmed and a policeman were arrested and blamed. It is speculated that the crime was the result of the wrath of the band, perhaps considering that Poveda failed in some of the commitments made with the band and angry with the idea of him making money at their expense or maybe for him being interested in the end of violence intending to make peace between the mara 18 and their rivals or (the most absurd of them all) as a response to the rumours of him serving as informer to the police. But it should be add that there is a manifest and a petition circulating in the net and signed it seems by friends of the deceased photojournalist blaming Salvadoran authorities as inducers of the crime, a consequence of having exposed the incompetence and corruption of the system.
Photographs from the 'La Vida Loca' series by Christian Poveda. I mentioned a few months ago on the blog this documentary and reportage about the Mara 18, one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Latin America, forged in the civil war of El Salvador and the U.S. Latino immigration and one that has become thorugh the years a tradition, a way of life and a whole culture in the neighborhoods of El Salvador. The work costed its author his life for the French-Spanish journalist was murdered in September 2009 on the outskirts of San Salvador after finishing the report, a crime for which some members of the band he photographed and filmed and a policeman were arrested and blamed. It is speculated that the crime was the result of the wrath of the band, perhaps considering that Poveda failed in some of the commitments made with the band and angry with the idea of him making money at their expense or maybe for him being interested in the end of violence intending to make peace between the mara 18 and their rivals or (the most absurd of them all) as a response to the rumours of him serving as informer to the police. But it should be add that there is a manifest and a petition circulating in the net and signed it seems by friends of the deceased photojournalist blaming Salvadoran authorities as inducers of the crime, a consequence of having exposed the incompetence and corruption of the system.
