For 67-year-old Sister Consuelo Morales, an Augustinian nun and veteran human rights activist based in drug war–torn Monterrey, Mexico—and one of the main subjects of Bernardo Ruiz’s new documentary film Kingdom of Shadows, opening Nov. 20—these are not options. As long as there is truth to be spoken and no one else courageous enough to do it, she will not be silent.

“The silence of good people,” she tells TakePart via Skype, “is sometimes more terrifying and does much greater harm than the actual evil that is being committed.”

. . . The prosecutors promised to investigate. It seemed unlikely anything would be done, and, indeed, the violence and disappearances continued. But little by little, certain truths began to emerge. “At least we began to understand how organized crime, and perhaps the authorities as well, had disposed of the people they had taken,” Sister Morales explains, “mutilating them, burning them or dissolving them in acid.”

Read the article “A Fearless Nun’s Fight for the Families of the Disappeared in Mexico” on takepart.com.