A small archipelago off Mexico’s Pacific coast that had been home to an island prison colony is now ready to receive tourists.
However, getting to Islas Marias would be a challenge for even the sturdiest tourist: a five-hour boat ride in often choppy waters.
However, some people, like Beatriz Maldonado, are already imagining the voyage. When Maldonado was imprisoned between those “walls of water” as a Mexican writer also confined there described it she thought she would never see her mother again.
Maldonado only spent one year of her six-year sentence there for drug and weapons possession, but it was the
Modotti's modern shots remain style-defining, with Madonna being a collector. Yet, she traded in her camera in 1931 to serve the Communist Party of Moscow.