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Ana Lilia Pérez

Ana Lilia Pérez

The investigative journalist Ana Lilia Pérez is one of the most renowned reporters in Mexico. Since 2003, she has worked for the magazines Contralínea and Fortuna. She also publishes in major Mexican newspapers like La Jornada or Milenio. In addition, Pérez works as a free author and has published several books about her investigations. For years, Pérez has been working in revealing the machinations of organized crime and its accomplices in politics and therefore hovers in a constant danger to life. Her work is accompanied by persecution, arrest warrants and even death threats. In her book El Cártel Negro, which has been published in December 2011, Pérez continues her long-standing investigations about illegal business of the state oil company “Petróleos Méxicanos”, in which politicians, businessmen and the powerful drug cartels are massively involved. Since 2008, the journalist has revealed several scandals in the company and received several death threats. In late 2011, two colleagues of Pérez were tortured and assassinated. In 2012, Ana Lilia Pérez was a guest of the “Hamburger Stiftung für politisch Verfolgte” (“Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted”). Since 1 July 2013, she has a scholarship in the Writers-in-Exile-Programme. For her articles and books, Pérez was honoured by UNICEF, the Mexican Press Club and the Association of Latin-American Journalists.