La Caravana de los Misterios: A Micro-Landscape of a Drug War Performance Dossier

Authors

  • Susana Plotts-Pineda

Author Biography

Susana Plotts-Pineda

Susana Plotts-Pineda is a Brooklyn-based, Mexican-American theatre-maker, writer and performer. She received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University. Susana has worked with Noche Flamenca and Mapa Teatro. Her writing has been featured in Waif Magazine and Egg y Pan Magazine, which she co-founded. In 2020 she was a fellow at The Hemispheric Institute through its EmergeNYC program. Currently she is the CoLAB Arts Resident Artist at Unity Square in New Brunswick

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Dossier Sources

Character Transcript Sources

(Listed in order of appearance.)

“Aline Flores sentenció a Berta Cáceres.” YouTube, uploaded by cholusatsurcanal36, 3 March 2016. https://youtube.com/watch?v=iir2PBW-iJ0. Accessed 1 June 2020.

United States, Congress, Senate, Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Responding to Violence in Central America, September 2011. 112th Cong., 1st sess. US Government Publishing Office. https://drugcaucus.senate.gov/sites/default/files/FINAL%20Responding-to-Violence-in-Central-America-2011.pdf. Accessed 1 June 2020.

United States, Congress, Senate, Caucus on International Narcotics Control. U.S Mexican Responses to Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations, May 2011. 112th Cong., 1st sess. US Government Publishing Office, 2020. https://www.drugcaucus.senate.gov/sites/default/files/FINAL%20Mexico%20Report%20w%20CORNYN%20w%20UPDATED%20NAMES%2012-21.pdf. Accessed 1 June 2020.

“TVC Banegas-Entrevista a Aline Flores.” YouTube, uploaded by Mit Tvc, 17 December 2015. https://youtube.com/watch?v=REOVBsG1Rds. Accessed 1 June 2020.

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2021-05-01

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