The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13
How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.
The Border Chronicle Podcast
The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, we interview fascinating fronterizo/as, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Episodes
Warrantless Searches, Stops With No Probable Cause Are Un-American: A Conversation With Sheriff David Hathaway
The second part of our in-depth conversation with the Arizona border sheriff
'Did the CIA Smuggle Cocaine? Yes, I Witnessed it Firsthand': A Podcast with Sheriff David Hathaway
Hathaway, a former DEA supervisory agent, on the failure of US drug policy, legalization, and the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena
When You Have No Country: A Podcast with Axel Kirschner and Levi Vonk, Authors of ‘Border Hacker’
A detailed, intimate, frank (and, be warned, often explicit) conversation with the 'Border Hacker' authors about how they met, why they decided to write a book, and how they are living under threat.
The Border Wall at the End of the World: A Podcast with Jenny Stümer
How apocalyptic mass fantasies stoked by Hollywood and the media help fuel the border industrial complex
Under Biden, Border Wall Construction Continues. It's Just Called Something Else: A Podcast With Scott Nicol
Today, the United States has more border walls than it's ever had in history, says Nicol.
The Making of the Narco Narrative: A Podcast with Oswaldo Zavala
An examination of official discourse and the cartel narrative, the national security paradigm, and the drug war as a policy of extermination.
I Was an Asylum Seeker. Now I Help Others: A Podcast with Dora Rodriguez
"My story was tragic and painful. It took me years to open up. But I have a story that I hope can make some change, and let people know who we migrants really are."
Border Violence and Security in a Warming World: A Podcast with Nathan Akehurst and Petra Molnar
In this discussion we take a close look at the “global panopticon,” robotic dogs, the border-industrial complex, and what all this has to do with the changing climate.
How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
The political director for the nonprofit America's Voice traces the history of the GOP's embrace of white supremacy messaging from the 2017 Unite the Right rally to the upcoming midterm elections.
Nature Has No Borders: A Live Podcast with Erick Meza of Sierra Club Borderlands
We discuss the history of The Border Chronicle, the environmental impacts of the wall, and how solutions to border woes might be in the flora and fauna before our eyes.
Challenging Smuggling Myths on the U.S. Mexico Border: A Podcast with Anthropologist Gabriella Sanchez
“The focus on organized crime prevents us from seeing how enforcement and inequality disproportionately targets the poor.”
A Memoir from the Front Lines of Family Separation: A Podcast with Human Rights Lawyer Efrén Olivares
“Putting these feelings, these experiences on the page was cathartic," he says about his new book on Trump's Zero Tolerance and its aftermath.