Laura Sánchez Ley is an investigative journalist and author of specialised books on issues of government transparency and public safety in Mexico. Amongst her most notable investigations is the assassination of the presidential candidate in Mexico, Luis Donaldo Colosio, where she revealed for the first time the irregularities in the criminal case as well as the corruption in the judicial processes. After being reserved as a "state secret" for 25 years she managed to declassify records of the investigation that had been hidden for over two decades and revealed the unpublished information.
It was this experience of declassifying archives, which led her to co-create ARCHIVERO, an initiative that has brought to light political and judicial documents classified as state secrets and made them available to all citizens. A task that she considers extremely important in a country where official truths are constructed every day and relevant investigations are hidden. Among the most important files that have been declassified for the first time and introduced a new generation to high profile cases in Mexican politics, include the murder of Cardenal Posadas Ocampo at the hands of drug traffickers, the Cobalt 60 accident, the worst nuclear accident in the history of Mexico, and the secret files that reveal the true investigation into the death of two secretaries of state. She currently collaborates with MILENIO, one of the largest media outlets in the country, where every Monday on national television she reveals a secret file and publishes investigations on drug trafficking between Mexico and the United States.
She has been honoured and nominated for awards around the world and has been part of the finalist team for the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, the Walter Reuters German Journalism Prize and the World Justice Project's Anthony Lewis for her investigations that exposed government corruption