| June 27, 2025
Best of the West
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia and Dudley Althaus grab third place with 'Mexico is about to elect its first woman president, but many doubt that will ease cartels’ grip.'read more
San Antonio Express-News | June 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS — President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and crackdown on illegal immigration have unsettled some residents along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that overwhelmingly supported his re-election. read more
El Paso Times | May 16, 2025
Sandra Sadek & Gibran Caroline Boyce
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — Bandanas veiled ranchers’ mouths and noses, shielding them from heavy dust clouds kicked up by the Mexican herds of cattle crossing the United States-Mexico border. read more
KVIA | May 8, 2025
Gibran Caroline Boyce & Sandra Sadek
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — Bandanas veiled ranchers’ mouths and noses, shielding them from heavy dust clouds kicked up by the Mexican herds of cattle crossing the United States-Mexico border. read more
The Guardian | May 6, 2025
Sandra Sadek & Gibran Caroline Boyce
The unpredictability of the US president’s tariff policy on Mexico has already cost ranchers millions in profit losses. read more
My RGV | May 2, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS — President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and crackdown on illegal immigration have unsettled some residents along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that overwhelmingly supported his reelection. read more
KVIA | May 2, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS – President Trump's threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and draconian immigration policies have unsettled many along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that jolted national voters in decidedly supporting his election. read more
My RGV | April 4, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia and Angela Kocherga
MISSION — Even as President Trump was vowing hellfire for the trade that has forged the U.S.-Mexico border into a business beehive, crews proceeded laying cement for yet another road to channel foreign cargo crossing her to deep into the American heartland. read more
KVIA | April 3, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia & Angela Kocherga
ANZALDUAS INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE (OR MISSION,) TEXAS – Even as President Trump was vowing hellfire for the trade that has forged the U.S.-Mexico border into a business beehive, crews proceeded laying cement for yet another road to channel foreign cargo crossing her to deep into the American heartland. read more
palabra | April 2, 2025
Jason Buch
PHARR, Texas – In the middle of the 20th century, the South Texas border region became the epicenter of influential, international musical styles. read more
El Paso Times | March 14, 2025
Eduardo Garcia, Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga
MEXICO CITY – President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated big at El Zócalo, the country’s largest public square in downtown Mexico City, after securing a second delay — at least for another month — on punitive U.S. tariffs targeting all Mexican exports. read more
San Antonio Express-News | March 10, 2025
Eduardo Garcia, Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga
As her country's economy struggles, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum says she is willing to work to address the concerns raised by the Trump administration. read more
palabra | February 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Angela Kocherga, Gaige Davila and Aline Corpus Simerman
CIUDAD JUÁREZ — Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on Day 1. read more
KVIA | February 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUÁREZ - Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on Day 1. read more
El País | February 19, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Angela Kocherga, Gaige Davila and Aline Corpus
Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on day 1 of his administration. read more
palabra | February 1, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia, Angela Kocherga and Pablo De La Rosa
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – Not two weeks into President Trump’s four-year term, nerves are jangling along the U.S.-Mexico border, deep inside both countries and beyond. read more
palabra | December 13, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY – If enacted, President-elect Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexico and Canada will bite deep and well in the Texan border area and beyond. read more
palabra | November 4, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Stark political ads blare incessantly on the airwaves of this crucial battleground state. They portray the southern border of the United States as out-of-control, chaotic terrain overrun by “waves” of immigrants without documents — a crisis in need of heavy-handed solutions. read more
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting | October 30, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
Iconic Texas Sheriff Arvin West was a leading voice against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. He pushed strict measures favored by former President Donald Trump. But West says his perspective is aligned with what he sees as the reality of the border, his weariness of divisive politics, and the wishes of neighbors who’ve voted him into office. read more
palabra | October 26, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
MILWAUKEE – Fresh beginnings sprout in the most unusual of places. read more
San Antonio Express-News | September 30, 2024
Eduardo Garcia, Sandra Dibble & Alfredo Corchado
EL PASO — Víctor González fears for his safety every time he drives to meet potential clients outside his home base, the city of Aguascalientes in central Mexico. read more
El Paso Times | September 29, 2024
Eduardo Garcia, Sandra Dibble & Alfredo Corchado
Because of gangland violence, Víctor González fears for his safety every time he drives to meet potential clients outside his central Mexico city of Aguascalientes. read more
San Antonio Express-News | September 29, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY — When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Claudia Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico City, turned the capital’s public security center, known as the C-5, into a hub for handling emergency calls and coordinating medical assistance. read more
KVIA | September 27, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY – When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, then-Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum quickly re-purposed the sprawling Mexican capital’s public security center, the C-5, into a hub for handling emergency calls and coordinating medical assistance. read more
Nieman Lab | September 16, 2024
Hanaa' Tameez
In February, seasoned immigration and border reporter Alfredo Corchado took on a new challenge: covering his homeread more
San Antonio Express-News | July 8, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador — For years, the small, violence-plagued nation of Ecuador has served as a corridor for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa looking to start their overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
palabra | July 6, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Monica Almeida
QUITO, Ecuador — The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
KTEP | July 3, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador -- The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
El Paso Inc. | July 2, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador – The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
KVIA | July 2, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
QUITO, Ecuador -- The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
USA TODAY | June 20, 2024
Steve Fisher & Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico − The tunnel is dark and narrow. Toxic gases rise from the dank water. Insects scurry along the sides, rattlesnakes wait, coiled. Rodents lurk along the water’s edge. read more
NJ.com | June 7, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY — Outperforming even the rosiest predictions, leftist Claudia Sheinbaum has swept into Mexico’s presidency in a landslide that likely will enable her to accelerate the nationalist-populist program of her patron, who hands over power in four months. read more
KVIA | June 7, 2024
Eduardo García, Alfredo Corchado and Dudley Althaus
SANDERSON – President Biden’s executive order to crack down on asylum seekers at the southern border not only put a damper on Mexico’s post-election celebration — the first woman president was just voted into office - it left residents along this stretch of the Texas border unimpressed. read more
KALW | June 7, 2024
Malihe Razazan
On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss the presidential election in Mexico. read more
El Paso Times | June 5, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Overcoming even the rosiest predictions, leftist Claudia Sheinbaum has swept into Mexico’s presidency in a landslide that likely will enable her to accelerate the nationalist-populist program of her patron, who hands over power in four months. read more
San Antonio Express-News | June 4, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Texas and other U.S. border states have much at stake in how Claudia Sheinbaum, newly elected as Mexico’s first woman president in a landslide, uses her mandate. read more
KTEP | June 2, 2024
Angela Kocherga, Alfredo Corchado & Wendy Fry
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The tortuous path toward a more equal and democratic Mexico was first carved decades ago on the gritty streets of communities bordering the United States. read more
Houston Chronicle | June 1, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Mexican voters appear poised to make history Sunday by electing a Jewish woman as president. But by all indications, the groundbreaking moment will leave the nation's overall politics largely unchanged. read more
USA TODAY | June 1, 2024
Lauren Villagran & Omar Ornelas
The election will likely have big ramifications for the U.S. and others. 'So many things that happen in Mexico don’t stay in Mexico; they influence the United States,' one expert said. read more
LMT Online | June 1, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Mexican voters appear poised to make history Sunday by electing a Jewish woman as president. But by all indications, the groundbreaking moment will leave the nation's overall politics largely unchanged. read more
Texas Observer | May 31, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
Crossing a historic threshold, Mexicans appear poised to elect a woman as president this Sunday but to otherwise leave politics largely unchanged. read more
