“Perdido en Santiago” is the survival story of Mohamed Kassim, a young Somali boy of 19 years old that escaped from the horror of the tribal war in his country. The article follows Mohamed´s travel to a safer life from Africa to America with an illegal agent, all his hope to arrive to Canada, the uncertainty of leaving his family without knowing if they were dead or alive and the mistake that finally kept him in Chile, an unknown country with unknown religion, language and customs for him. The article is a story of hope and friendship, and leaves some questions about refugee laws and human solidarity.

María Paz Cuevas studied journalism in Pontificia Universidad Católica from 1999 to 2003. She writes as a freelance journalist in different magazines in Chile since 2002. She worked for Fibra magazine from 2004 to September 2005 when the magazine was closed and now she writes articles and interviews for Paula magazine and a weekly column called “Arriba las faldas” in Las Ultimas Noticias newspaper. She also had a column for three years in Zona de Contacto, El Mercurio newspaper called “Greatest Hits” and wrote for Caras and Prende magazine.