Ricardo Hernández, winner of the 2023 Breach/Valdez Award for Journalism and Human Rights, believes the right to a free press is essential for the protection and promotion of other fundamental human rights. In Mexico, the price for that right can be death.

Journalist and activist Griselda Triana fights for freedom of the press and for reparations for families of murdered, displaced, and disappeared journalists in Mexico – and she fights from personal experience.