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Podcast: The Border Chronicle
Episode: Into the Heart of Narcopolitics and Journalism: A Conversation with Melissa del Bosque about a harrowing article she wrote on the murder of Mexican journalist Miroslava Breach
Description: For the first time in the history of The Border Chronicle, Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller have done a podcast together. Don’t worry, it comes with the requisite banter, especially at the beginning. But the brunt of the conversation is a deep dive into Melissa’s chilling, page-turning article in The New Yorker, “A Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder,” published in April.
We talk at length about the harrowing story of Miroslava Breach, the Mexican journalist who covered stories that upset the powerful and who, in March 2017, was murdered in the city of Chihuah...