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Read my recent piece for the Americas Program, co-written with Alex Mensing, on the recent Viacrucis which Central American migrants lead through Mexico. “Nosotros decidimos entre todos hacer una caminata hasta Palenque.” “All of us, together, have decided to walk to Palenque.” Eighty kilometers separate Tenosique, Tabasco, from Palenque, Chiapas. By the end, the walk that started in Tenosique ended up all the way in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States. This is the story of that walk and the people who decided to…Continue Reading “Viacrucis: Migrants Step out of Shadows into the Streets” →

I recently wrote the text for a photo essay on Hermanos en el Camino migrant shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca. My good friend Daniel J. Ojalvo is the photographer. You can see the slideshow, along with music from the Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero, on the Mexican site Desinformémonos.