Todd Miller

Dec 20, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Todd Miller

When I first meet the fisherman Gerardo Delgado, he is sitting in his boat, surrounded by pelicans, off the shore of Lake Toronto, in central south Chihuahua, Mexico. Perhaps the pelicans are waiting for Delgado to toss a fillet, but his catch is, yet again, meager. In the last couple of years, it’s been hard to make a living from fishing on the lake. I am with another fisherman, Alonso Montañes, and we approach Delgado on a motorboat.

Nov 21, 2024 | theborderchronicle.com | Todd Miller

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -46:23Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano put it in his book Upside Down: A Primer for a Looking Glass World, the terminology used in mainstream political discourse often describes precisely the opposite of reality. Cut-throat capitalism is free trade. Violence is law and order. Extraction of natural wealth from communities is increasing revenue. So where does “border security” fit in to this?

Nov 8, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Todd Miller

The man was sitting on a bench in front of the 20-foot rust-colored border wall near where the public buses passed. He was jotting in a small notebook in the bustling center of Nogales, Sonora. It was Tuesday, Election Day in the U.S. I approached him and told him I was a journalist and was interested in what he thought about the election in the United States, especially since the border—which I pointed to right before us—was one of the election’s biggest issues.

Nov 7, 2024 | theborderchronicle.com | Todd Miller

The man was sitting on a bench in front of the 20-foot rust-colored border wall near where the public buses passed. He was jotting in a small notebook in the bustling center of Nogales, Sonora. It was Tuesday, Election Day in the U.S. I approached him and told him I was a journalist and was interested in what he thought about the election in the United States, especially since the border—which I pointed to right before us—was one of the election’s biggest issues.

Oct 31, 2024 | theborderchronicle.com | Todd Miller

The following piece was done in collaboration with Zócalo Public Square, an online platform that publishes essays on a variety of topics and whose mission is to connect people to ideas and to each other. This is part of Zócalo’s Election Letters series which collects dispatches from people around the United States—and the world—about their on-the-ground experiences of the elections.