Do you have questions about the recent buoy debacle on the Rio Grande? Our reporting has you covered, plus an important new hire at The Border Chronicle, and our new project Wall Watch.
As floodwaters swept hundreds of one-ton border buoys downstream, international bridges closed, commerce slowed, and officials struggled to get answers from DHS about a project advancing despite local opposition, environmental concerns, and treaty questions.
Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water supplies and downstream communities.
Welcome to our new site! It's official.
Welcome to the new Border Chronicle! And to our first weekly roundup on our new site. We won’t be doing a live video today, as we’re still working out some changes on the site. But they will be back soon! I also want to give a big thanks to the Outpost publisher’s collective for guiding us through the migration to the Ghost platform and to the folks there for being so helpful.
We’re very proud of our growth to a full-fledged media outlet. It’s been a long haul since we launched in September 2021, and it was just Todd and me for many years. Last year, with the help of grant funding, we were able to bring Pablo de la Rosa and Caroline Tracey on board, which has been amazing. We’ve also hired Brenda Machado for audience engagement and José Olivares as podcast editor. Pablo Morales has been our copy editor since day one.
Since we launched as the only independent outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border region, our mission has been to provide you with quality on-the-ground reporting with context from across the U.S.-Mexico border region. We also provide arts and culture coverage that reflects the richness, resilience, and nuance of border life. Through our podcasts, online discussions and written work, we’ve strived to make The Border Chronicle a platform for shared ideas and solutions that break out of the “crisis” narrative and counter the disinformation that harms our communities and the people migrating through the borderlands.
We hope to continue to expand our coverage, so if you’ve been a free subscriber for a while and haven’t signed up for a paid or founding subscription, we would really appreciate your support now at this crucial moment of growth. We thank you very much for subscribing and supporting our work. We are almost entirely subscriber-funded, so we can’t do this without you!
And now on to the Semana that was…
Caroline Tracey
Melissa del Bosque
Border grassroots organizing is winning in July; Who pays the price for Brownsville's tech and industrial boom? And Tijuana Art Week and NAFTA's lasting influence on Baja's landscape. Plus more!
Happy 250th America! In a new podcast, Melissa and Todd discuss surveillance, and unconstitutional policing migrating into the country's interior, and ancient rock art faces demolition in Texas. Plus more news from across the border region.
The efforts to preserve the desert's iconic plants, resist the destruction of ancient trees, and deal with the harassing border machine, even after deportation.
Latinos with DACA say they're being targeted in Texas, and a review of new Chicano vampire fiction by Laredo author Ito Romo, plus a rally in southern Arizona this weekend to save ancient cottonwoods from border wall destruction, and more!
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
