01/11/2025
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas – Southeastern Mexico, with its majestic Lacandon Jungle and ancient Mayan remains, is a land where nature still rules with an iron fist. It is a place of sublime beauty, but also of invisible dangers. The story of Andrea Cortés, a 32-year-old mother who traded the classrooms of Mexico City for the peaceful, yet challenging, life of Chiapas, resonates today as a somber warning. Her morning walk ritual, designed to maintain her emotional balance, ended in a detour that has left an immense void in the Villa Esperanza neighborhood and, unbearably, in the lives of her two young sons, twins Emilio and Santiago, barely 4 years old
