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Prayers for the Stolen
bookshelves: radio-4, published-2014, autumn-2015, play-dramatisation, mexico, women, tragedy, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, sleazy
Read from September 07 to 14, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068tl63Description: Inspired by true stories, this atmospheric drama follows 15 year old Ladydi Martinez in the mountain village of Guerrero, Nr. Acapulco, Mexico, where being a girl is a dangerous thing and mothers disguise them as sons, hiding them in holes in the ground as the drugs cartels scourge the town, looking for girls to steal.
More Info:- A timely drama series, as drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has recently escaped a Mexican prison for the second time,. Guzman is considered by US authorities to be "the most powerful drug trafficker in the world." He is also cited as the 14th wealthiest person in the world. This lyrical and atmospheric drama explores the effects of drug trafficking through the perspective of a teenage girl, LadyDi.
Why is LadyDi named so?
MIKE: Ladydi, Ladydi...Why did your mama name you after a dead princess?
LADYDI: Because she hated what that Prince Charles did to Diana. She watched it on TV. She loves any woman whose man has been unfaithful. It's a special sisterhood of pain and hate. Patron Saint of Betrayed Women.
1/5: Mexican girls hide in holes to avoid being taken by drug cartels 2/5: LadyDi finds out about her father and best friend 3/5: LadyDi's mother, drunk on beer and tequila, mistakenly shoots her 4/5: Scared of the Cartels, LadyDi leaves to work as a maid in Acapulco 5/5: LadyDi is in a Mexican jail for a crime she didn't commit14:09:2015 The women disappearing without trace
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