I Survived a Kidnapping in Mexico. Now I Tell the Stories of Those Who Didn’t.

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  I'm Anna Martin, the host of the Modern Love podcast.

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  In every episode,

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  we peek into an intimate corner of someone's life and learn about what love means to them.

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  You know, I can tell you, 35 years with another person,

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  I've never spent that much time with anyone else either.

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  So we both kind of said I love you pretty fast.

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  My advice is that it's okay if it's hard.

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  You've heard the news, here's what to make of it.

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  My name is Manuel Vallo Hisbert.

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  I'm a visual anthropologist, artist and activist living in Mexico.

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  I document cases of enforced disappearance and state terrorism in Mexico.

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  I started doing the work that I do after I was kidnapped

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  in 2020 by a local drug cartel in the outskirts of Mexico City.

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  On June 4, 2020, my ex partner and I, we were on a highway outside of Mexico City.

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  We were trying to do some shots for a short film that she was doing,

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  and I had this bad feeling inside of me.

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  We all know in Mexico that highways are extremely dangerous.

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  And I remember telling her, in this place, women get raped all the time.

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