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Jacob Lyng
Jacob Lyng

Jacob Lyng, investigative journalist and tech engineer: writes in English and Spanish on the environment, human rights and freedom of expression.  He's been working on the Esperanza Project's technical backend for the last few years and is on the final lap for his book about press freedom and the persecution of journalists in Mexico. Also the godfather of a baby Mayan journalist.

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The American Borderlands and the Rights of the Child

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been violated on American soil more than any other time in modern history

On Christmas Eve, 2018, in a remote corner of the Texan desert, Esperanza Project editor Tracy Barnett interviewed activists organizing a creative resistance against the detainment of thousands of youths at the now defunct Tornillo Child Detention Center. It was deep in winter and the wind bit at the chain-link fence as she spoke with […]

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