Mie Hoejris Dahl is a Danish freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She covers politics, economics, environmental, and social issues in Latin America and holds a master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Machado looks directly into the camera, smiling, as she holds one hand over her heart. She wears rosary beads and stands among a crowd of people beneath a blue sky with a few scattered white clouds.
A long dock stretches into the water at a port in Peru. Massive blue cranes are perched along its length, and one behind the camera has lifted a metal shipping container, so it hangs at the top of the image against a pale gray sky.
