Buh Bye Kristi Noem, and who the heck is Markwayne Mullin? Trump's new pick for DHS secretary. Plus, an epic novel about the U.S. and Mexico's joint erasure of Apachería, and historian and author Lydia Otero on Tucson's racial and urban history, and more.
Historian and writer Lydia Otero on growing up in the borderlands, Tucson's racial and urban history, and their most recent book, Storied Property: María Cordova's Casa.
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.
With media coverage shrinking, this two-person news bureau based in Hermosillo, Sonora, fills a vital role informing U.S. audiences about Mexico.
Kendal Blust and Murphy Woodhouse have been reporting from Hermosillo, Sonora, for the Phoenix public radio station KJZZ since 2018. They are the only permanent full-time reporters based in the Mexican state of Sonora reporting for a U.S. audience, which let’s be frank, isn’t often aware of what’s happening south of the border.
In the following interview, Kendal and Murphy talk about what it’s been like to report in and on Mexico. They talk about stories they’ve covered, ranging from the joint resolution put forward by Republican congressmen in January to authorize U.S. military force against cartels in Mexico, to tightrope walkers in Sonora, to collaborations with reporters across the hemisphere to cover migrant journeys into the United States. They also talk about sewage problems in Guaymas, unequal vaccine distribution during the pandemic, and the very moving reporting they did after the Covid border closures were lifted.
“We saw extraordinary displays of binational love and longing,” says Murphy.
Throughout the conversation we come back to the theme, again and again, of the importance of cross-border journalism.
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Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhood through themes of masculinity, history, and land.
While menacing Venezuela and Greenland, an “unbound” Trump has unleashed the empire on itself in Minneapolis.
In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the
DHS has begun installing its massive floating buoy barrier which could include more than 500 miles.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
