What Next: Mexico’s Disappearing Women
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:37.6 | I asked Oscar Lopez, who reports for The New York Times, to help describe this photograph. |
| 0:43.3 | It's gone viral in Mexico. The photograph shows a young woman standing on a highway looking out |
| 0:51.3 | into the darkness. She's wearing a face mask. You can see just the highway behind her and it's |
| 1:00.3 | sort of unclear, you know, why this photo was taken. This photo is not skillfully framed. It's blurry, |
| 1:11.6 | but it's important because when it was taken, it's one of the last images we have of this teenager |
| 1:18.8 | before she went missing. You know what stood out to me about this photo? She's wearing high tops. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. She seems a little like a kid that I went to high school with. Definitely and I think that's, |
| 1:34.4 | you know, part of, again, what made this photo kind of haunting and viral is that she does look |
| 1:41.3 | so young and fragile. What's this woman's name? Her name is Dabani. Dabani Escobar, right? That's |
| 1:50.5 | right. Dabani Escobar. Dabani ended up at the side of the highway after leaving a party. |
| 2:01.6 | Some friends had called a car for her, but she ditched the cab before she got home. |
| 2:06.1 | That's when the driver took this snapshot. And it's not really clear why she decided to get out of |
| 2:12.1 | the car or even why, you know, the driver decided to just kind of leave her there. Or why he decided |
| 2:18.0 | to take a picture. Right. I mean, that I think speaks to the situation we're living in Mexico where |
| 2:24.6 | apparently he took the photo to send to her friends to say like, you know, when I left her, she was |
| 2:31.5 | fine. Sort of implying that, you know, in this country, it's very easy for women to go from one |
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