El Salvador: the story of Karla Turcios

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On 14th April 2018 El Salvadorean journalist Karla Turcios was brutally murdered. Twelve days later prosecutors pressed charges against her husband for aggravated femicide. Across the country, her murder triggered outrage and the President of El Salvador announced a national crisis. In El Salvador – which has the highest rate of femicide in Latin America - a woman is killed every 3 days. Six months after Karla’s death, Patricia Sulbaran travelled to El Salvador to tell her story and speak to her family. She also visited the country’s biggest prison to meet Karla’s husband, Mario Hueso. Ever since, Patricia has been following the criminal case against him. Can justice be served in a country where crimes for femicide so often go unpunished?

Producer: Poppy Damon

(Image: A photograph showing a drawing of Karla Turcios smiling. Credit: BBC/Patricia Sulbarán Lovera)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the voice of Carla Tussios. In this video, on her
0:05.0	This is the voice of Carla Tussios.
0:08.0	In this video recorded on her phone and sent to her mother, she's smiling into the camera,
0:14.0	holding her three-year-old son on her lap,
0:16.0	and they're both laughing.
0:18.0	Her long brown hair brushes his cheek
0:21.0	as they wave to grandma.
0:23.0	Carla was a Latin American female journalist just like me.
0:38.0	On April 14th, 2018, Carla was killed in her home country of El Salvador, where a woman was murdered every three days in 2019 alone.
0:48.0	I am Patricia Sule-Baran-Loveira reporting for assignment on the BBC World Service.
0:57.0	Six months after Carla was killed, I traveled to El Salvador to tell her story and to meet her mother.
1:04.2	And ever since I've been following the trial of the man accused of her murder.
1:11.0	It's Carla's mother who is showing me the video on her phone. The two were very close.
1:17.0	Well to be honest with you, it was lovely. As a mother I was very protective of her you know
1:25.0	So that bonding between mother and daughter happen from the very beginning from the moment God sent her to my life
1:31.7	That bonding was always there, always, during our whole lives.
1:36.4	I sat with the Lourdes in the upstairs courtyard. She told me to call her Dory, like everyone does.
1:46.1	I was struck by how similar she and Carla looked.
1:49.5	Both had the same brown eyes and white smile.
1:55.0	Dory's hair is blonde and she wears glasses that she takes off to clean when she cries. In all moment, this is a new one,
1:58.0	she always had time for me.
2:01.0	As she got older, we still kept such a lovely relationship we
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