Thanks to everyone who joined our live roundup this morning to discuss stories on The Border Chronicle from this week. Pablo De La Rosa joined us from the Rio Grande Valley, and Todd Miller connected from a remote writer’s-retreat cabin—so he experienced a few connection issues. You can watch a recording of their live discussion above.

This week on The Border Chronicle, Melissa del Bosque spoke with Dora Rodriguez, who fled the death squads in El Salvador during the civil war, about her new memoir, A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain. She also published a Q&A with Felicia Rangel-Samporano, co-founder of The Sidewalk School, a nonprofit montessori-style educational program for children in the process of migrating on the south side of the Texas-Mexico border. In the Rio Grande Valley, Pablo De La Rosa published a breaking update as SpaceX’s Starship 36 exploded catastrophically on Wednesday night, recounting repeated warnings over the past ten years of just such an event by local environmental justice groups. And Todd Miller reported from Lochiel, Arizona for this year’s Binational Border Happening, a cross-border celebration.

Find links to these Border Chronicle stories and more news from around the border below.

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This Week in The Border Chronicle:

From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir "A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain."

Dora Rodriguez fled the death squads in El Salvador during the civil war. Seeking asylum in the United States in 1980, she nearly died crossing the Sonoran Desert but miraculously survived. She remained in Tucson, Arizona, becoming a social worker and a formidable organizer and advocate for immigrants and for …

The Border ChronicleMelissa del Bosque

Education Instead of Chaos: A Q&A with Sidewalk School Cofounder Felicia Rangel-Samporano

In 2019, Felicia Rangel-Samporano, a stay-at-home mom in Brownsville, Texas, joined forces with Victor Cavazos, a software engineer, to start the nonprofit Sidewalk School and provide Montessori-style educational…

The Border ChronicleMelissa del Bosque

“A Huge Setback for the Starship Program”; Massive Explosion at Starbase, No Injuries Reported

This article first reported in Across the Americas.

The Border ChroniclePablo De La Rosa

More News from the Border:

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program The Texas Tribune

The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration Wired

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp) Gizmodo

Illegal Alien Found Guilty of National Defense Area Violation in El Paso Trial U.S. Attorney’s Office