‘Please, Give Me Back My Daughter’

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When her daughter Karen was kidnapped in 2014, Miriam Rodríguez knew the Zetas, a cartel that ran organized crime in her town of San Fernando, Mexico, were responsible. From the hopelessness that her daughter may never return came resolve: She vowed to find all those responsible and bring them to justice. One by one, Ms. Rodríguez tracked these people down through inventive, homespun detective methods. Today, we share the story of her three-year campaign for justice.

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0:26.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.
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0:36.0	For the past three years, the city of San Fernando, Mexico had experienced a temporary
0:48.2	lull in the cartel violence that for years marked it as one of the country's most dangerous
0:55.2	places.
0:56.2	My colleague, Ozem Ahmed, went to San Fernando to piece together what happened there and
1:03.4	found a remarkable story of one woman's implausible quest to bring the cartel to justice.
1:22.0	It's Wednesday, February 3rd.
1:31.1	Ozem, where does the story of Miriam Rodriguez start for you?
1:35.4	I first heard about Miriam Rodriguez in 2017.
1:38.0	I'd been in Mexico for a few years as the bureau chief here.
1:46.4	But it wasn't until I sat down with her son, Luis and her daughter, Zalia, that really
1:50.4	figured out what her story was about.
1:59.2	Back in 2014, Miriam and her family were living in San Fernando.
2:03.5	She had three children.
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