Independent journalist. 2023 Fellow with the @NiemanFdn at Harvard. Previously reporting on Latin America from Mexico City. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 Santandereano Gringo
Sep 7, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Hey, I wanna tell you a story about this photo real quick. This person’s name is Estrella. This is her in her kitchen in Guatemala, a stone throw’s distance from the border with México
On this particular morning, Estrella got up at 4 a.m. to make lunch for her family -- and to make breakfast for about 70 people who spent the previous night at a shelter down the hill from her house
Apr 12, 2019 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Another makeshift camp is in this park in the center of Tapachula, which is the city closest to the border. I met people here who told me they were from Honduras and had been sleeping here for more than two weeks. Lots of children
There are also hundreds of people from Cuba. They held a rally yesterday where they agreed to go by bus to Mexico City to attempt to have their applications processed there. Today, they staged a protest outside the immigration office in the form of a crucifixion
Apr 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hey. I came to Mexico’s border with Central America to find out whether the Mexican government has been protecting the human rights of migrants as they’ve promised. I want to show you what I’ve seen
There are thousands of people stuck here, waiting to learn whether Mexico will allow them to continue their journey toward the U.S. It is 98 degrees here. The people who got tents outside of this facility in the city of Tapachula are lucky