This project studies how gender-based violence is represented in Argentinian and Mexican chronicles. I analyse seven chronicles published between 2004 and 2021 that focus on violence against women: “Y parirás con dolor” (2004) by Josefina Licitra, Los suicidas del fin del mundo (2005) by Leila Guerriero, Chicas muertas (2014) by Selva Almada, La fosa de agua (2018) by Lydiette Carrión, Donde no hago pie (2021) by Belén López Peiró, and El invencible verano de Liliana (2021) by Cristina Rivera Garza. The chronicle is a Latin American literary genre that tells true stories. It provides authors with a space to question current events, scrutinize dominant discourses, and propose new perspectives. Feminist movements that have placed gender-based violence on the public agenda constitute one of the most significant developments of the 21st century, with Latin American thinkers and activist at the forefront. Yet, in the region, gender violence is often either concealed or sensationalized. Against this backdrop, I formulate my central research question: what strategies does the chronicle employ to represent gender-based violence, and what does this reveal about the genre’s contemporary significance? To answer this question, I examine the chronicles on three levels: the use of narrative genres, the handling of documents, and the role of emotions. The analysis of narrative genres shows that authors draw on techniques from travel writing, detective fiction and melodrama to reconstruct crimes, while at the same time reshaping and critically interrogating these genres. The analysis of documents demonstrates how the chronicles create archives of the crimes by bringing public and personal sources into dialogue. In doing so, the texts reveal how gender violence is normalized, justified, and reinforced within certain discourses, while countering them by foregrounding the stories and voices of the victims. The analysis of emotions highlights how chronicle authors mobilize feelings of wonder, fear, pain, and indignation to denounce the violence and underscore its impact. In this sense, the chronicles function as affective archives of genderbased violence. Taken together, the analysis across these three levels shows that the chronicles not only make gender violence visible and denounce it but also expose how narrative genres and social discourses often serve to normalize and perpetuate such violence.