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Mauricio Across the Border: Part 1 |  KCRW’s UnFictional, April 2020

The life of a mild-mannered worker at an LA body shop changes forever the day he met the rapper Xzibit

Mauricio Across the Border: Part 2 |  KCRW’s UnFictional, April 2020

Mauricio says goodbye to his kids in California and heads to Mexico on a business trip that he never returns from

Por La Feria (In Spanish) | NPR’s Radio Ambulante, December 2018

A group of migrant workers employed by a traveling carnival stands up to an abusive employer that nobody can protect them from (Narrated by Silvia Viñas)

Radio Features

Impeachment means little to U.S. troops providing military aid to Ukraine | The American Homefront Project, January 2020

Far away from Washington, members of the Wisconsin National Guard help train Ukrainian soldiers at a military base in a quiet stretch of forest and marshland near the border with Poland

Ukraine works to remain focused on economic turnaround |  Marketplace, December 2019

The U.S. impeachment inquiry is a distraction from Ukraine’s real problems

Ukraine is ‘sending a very clear message to corrupt elites’ | PRI’s “The World,” December 2019

A world champion boxer who fought under the name Dr. Ironfist is one of the Ukrainians facing increased scrutiny as Kyiv tries to drain the swamp

This deported nurse is now raising her Oakland kids—from Mexico (reported with Alyssa Jeong Perry) | KQED, May 2018

Parenting across borders through WhatApp

The rivalry between two Mexican towns could be responsible for the loss of a language |  PRI’s “The World,” April 2018

The town of Santa María del Mar hasn’t had electricity for three years. The locals up the road want to keep it that way

Violent crime in El Salvador is taking a damaging toll on the country’s economy | Marketplace, March 2018

For one Salvadoran man, the search for a job proved deadly

One deportee confronts violence, isolation in El SalvadorKQED, February 2018

Decades after fleeing civil war as a child, Juan Vicente returns to a country that no longer feels like home

The ‘Trump of Oaxaca’ cracks down on Central American migrants | PRI’s “The World,” December 2017

The call him el Trump Oaxaqueño

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After earthquakes, rural Mexicans struggle to afford food | Marketplace, November 2017

Before the disaster Mexicans were already struggling with rising food costs as the Mexican peso sunk to an all-time low against the dollar

Mexico’s earthquakes complicate life for Central American migrants fleeing violence | PRI’s “The World,” October 2017

As aftershocks continue to rattle southern Mexico, migrants are walking between small towns following a dangerous route where criminals wait to assault them

Many migrant workers building Russia’s World Cup sites are getting stiffed |  PRI’s “The World,” July 2017

Widespread wage theft in Russia threatens to tarnish the world’s most-watched sporting event

The FBI came knocking at this man’s door—long before Trump | PRI’s “The World,” April 2017

More than a thousand Muslims in the Bay Area have reported that FBI agents or police have shown up to question them about terrorism or attempt to turn them into informants

Putin promised Ukrainians sanctuary from their war; it hasn’t exactly happened | PRI’s “The World,” November 2016

Since the conflict in Ukraine erupted in 2014, more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Russia

Spot News

Migrant caravan must wait after U.S. border officials say crossing is full, againKQED, May 2018

An encampment sprung up overnight on the Mexican side of the border crossing to San Diego where migrants vowed to wait until they can apply for asylum

| Some 'caravan migrants' allowed to apply for U.S. asylum |  KQED, April 2018

The migrant caravan that has drawn the ire of President Trump arrives in Tijuana

En Español

Conflicto en pueblo indígena Huave pone en peligro su lengua | Radio Bilingüe, Mayo 2018

El pueblo de Santa María del Mar permitió que una empresa de energía renovable construyera un parque eólico, pero sus vecinos se opusieron (En la voz de Rubén Tapia)

Hermanos Salvadoreños que huían de la violencia sufren tragedia en el tren ‘La Bestia’ | Radio Bilingüe, Abril 2018

Cuando Francisco Vásquez pasó por el estado mexicano de Sinaloa, tuvo un mal presentimiento (En la voz de Samuel Orozco)

Alcalde del sur de México es conocido como “el Trump Oaxaqueño” |  Radio Bilingüe, Marzo 2018

Un presidente municipal en Oaxaca clausuró un albergue para migrantes y hasta la fecha sigue abandonado (En la voz de Rubén Tapia)

Más difícil el cruce de centroamericanos por Oaxaca, tras el sismo de septiembre | Radio Bilingüe, Diciembre 2017

Muchos migrantes tiene el derecho de solicitar una visa humanitaria, pero para los que llegaron poco antes del sismo el proceso pudiera demorar meses (En la voz de Rubén Tapia)

Tunéame la nave | Radio Ambulante, Diciembre 2015

Mauricio Hernández se fue de México en busca del sueño americano y lo consiguió del lado más inesperado de la frontera (En la voz de Daniel Alarcón)