Chantal Flores

Chantal Flores is a Mexico-based freelance journalist investigating the enduring impact of enforced disappearance in Latin America and the Balkans. Her work has been published in Zora, Jezebel, Al Jazeera, Vice, In These Times and Rolling Stone México.


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In the western Balkans, DNA tests help families discover fate of dead relatives

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DNA testing is making it possible for thousands of families to recover and identify the skeletal remains of loved ones decades after they were murdered or disappeared. But some families are traumatized and distressed by these discoveries.