A photographer kidnapped in Mexico
6 min readDec 3, 2020
Part II
(Part one of this essay was tough to read. This part is going to be even tougher. It contains graphic descriptions of torture, profanity and imagery that may upset readers)
Southern Veracruz is a region of extreme beauty. It’s where Hernán Cortéz landed in 1519, lured by greed and some weird rumor of a city made of gold — which the Maya he’d previously met in Veracruz…