Investigating Mexico: An Interview with the Reporter, Writer, and Film-Maker Diego Enrique Osorno

Diego Enrique Osorno is an award-winning reporter, author, and filmmaker.

His work chronicles the violence of the drug war and the worst impulses of the government.

Osorno has written a dozen books, written or directed numerous documentaries, and worked on countless investigations to tell the stories of Mexico and Monterrey , where he was born.

In the case of Carlos Slim , I began to work on his biography after covering the 2006 uprising of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca against the state government.

That same year I also witnessed the brutal repression in San Salvador Atenco by federal, state, and municipal forces.

I always attempt to juxtapose personalities, ideas, and positions.

Diego Courchay is an associate editor at The Delacorte Review and a GIJN collaborator.

He is a graduate of Columbia University in New York , and writes and reports in English , Spanish , and French .

He says patience achieves immersion. It may not allow you to understand the tragedy of losing a child to a fire caused by corruption.