Vivir para contarlo (Live to tell) is a long term work on gender violence, fight for fundamental human rights and social equality. Starting from Argentine, a country that in recent years has experienced an increase of gender violence, I’m documenting this issue and the many different kind of violence women suffer focusing my attention on the Latin American countries where the problem is relevant. The phenomenon of gender violence and its most extreme manifestation, femicide, is unfortunately so massive as to be transversal: from childhood to adulthood, no social class and no conditions is excluded.
Particularly serious in the many slums of the cities where people live in poor condition, criminality is very high and the youngster are in danger. One aspect,which I have dealt with in depth and documented in most of the continent up to the Fire's Land, is the one linked to the women trafficking for purposes of sexual exploitation. An international network connected to the narcos cartel drugs traffic that involves about 24million people in the world,most women and children forced into prostitution,traded as sex slaves raped,abused and often killed or still disappeared. My analysis also goes through totally different stories but linked by a common thread. For example, In Brazil I’ve documented what it once was the favela with highest rates of femicides in the country that now was turned to a matriarchal society with no tolerance rules for violent men born thanks to the work of some former victims or In Chile on domestic violence and feminist protests against police abuses during the rebellion against Neo-liberalism and the government of Piñera. Raising awareness of the problem is the most effective immediate solution to encourage more women to come forward to tell their stories and put pressure on governments.