A State of Surveillance in Mexico: A Conversation with Andrea Chapela

If you read Andrea Chapela’s Future Tense Fiction story, “The Wait,” you will be thrown head-first into a version of Mexico where a hyper-vigilant surveillance state uses technology to precisely track citizens in real time. Does the government do so to protect people or for more nefarious motives? The ambiguity behind this question divides Chapela’s protagonists, and provides the narrative tension, and a poignant echo of Mexico’s real-life  epidemic of disappearances, as a family seeks information about a disappeared son from the government registry. 

Join us for a conversation at 7pm CDMX, 8pm ET with Chapela, Emilio Rivaud, senior web editor for Letras Libres, and journalist Galia Garcia Palafox about Chapela’s story, the state of information tracking in Mexico, and the ever-shifting concept of privacy in a surveilled world. 

The conversation will be in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.