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Maria Paz Cuevas Silva
Since the age of 20, Maria Paz Cuevas Silva has been working as a columnist and journalist in the newspaper El Mercurio. She made reports and interviews for the magazine Fibra from 2004 to 2005. Since then, she works as a free-lance journalist in different chilean newspapers : Revista Paula, Caras, La Nación, Las Ultimas Noticias. She also teaches writing at the Diego Portales University. |
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In Chile, 2007 was the year of femicides and women being killed by their partner: more than 50 women died at the handsof their husband. The subject was widely covered by the media and became a subject for national debate. This article tells the story of Maria Gabriela Alvarado, an 8-month pregnant woman, whose husband poured gasoline all over her and set her alight. Miraculously, Maria Gabriela and her baby survived. Maria Paz Cuevas Silva convinced Maria Gabriela to talk about the hell she went through. The idea was to denounce, through Maria Gabriela's story, the ill-treatment of women, and to explore the reasons why these wrongdoings are not denounced and why abuses continue to be committed. |
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