Episode 420: Melissa del Bosque

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Education, Arts, Books, News

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Melissa del Bosque is an investigative journalist covering the U.S.-Mexico border.“What I really want people to know is the context within which this traumatic event is happening. It doesn’t have to happen. It’s happening because certain people made certain decisions. Or they made a decision to do nothing. … There are laws, there are policies on the books that are either being ignored or could be changed.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: 8:00 The Western Edition 12:00 "Editorial: A Brief Look Back, Then Forward" (Staff • Texas Observer • Dec 2007) 14:00 The Monitor 18:00 Texas Observer 20:00 "Holes in the Wall" (Texas Observer • Feb 2008) 24:00 "Children of the Exodus" (Texas Observer • Nov 2010) 30:00 "Beyond the Border" (Texas Observer, Guardian • Aug 2014) 32:00 "They Die in Brooks County" (Mary Jo McConahay • Texas Observer • Jun 2007) 33:00 Type Investigations 34:00 "Death on Sevenmile Road" (Texas Observer • May 2015) 42:00 Bloodlines (Ecco • 2017) 50:00 Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma 50:00 "The Deadliest Place In Mexico" (Texas Observer • Feb 2012) 58:00 "The El Paso Experiment" (Intercept • Nov 2020) 1:03:00 "Army Sergeants at Fort Hood Fear for the Safety of Their Soldiers" (Intercept • Oct 2020) 1:04:00 "A Group of Agents Rose Through the Ranks to Lead the Border Patrol. They’re Leaving It in Crisis." (ProPublica • Feb 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.
0:07.0	The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen,
0:26.4	available now wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the long form podcast I am your co-host Evan Ratliff. I'm here with Aaron Lamer and very creepy-looking Max Linsky.
0:45.7	Max get some lights in there. Yeah, sinister. I'm coming to you guys from the dark.
0:51.8	Turn a light on. Light up your Zoom call. Who lit up our
0:57.0	podcast this week, Evan? This week I talked to Melissa Del Bosque, who is a reporter that I've admired for a long time.
1:06.0	She is a currently freelance investigative reporter.
1:10.0	She has won a bunch of awards for her work National Magazine Award, Hillman Prize, Emmy,
1:17.0	and she's reported for a long time from the US-Mexico border.
1:22.0	She lived in Texas for a long time and she I feel has
1:26.8	covered the border in a sort of multi-dimensional way that you don't find in a lot of the stories about border issues and I really want to talk to her
1:38.1	about why she was so interested in having that as her focus and how she works and it was a really really great
1:45.0	conversation. That sounds excellent and she has a book out too right? Yeah her
1:50.2	book is it's from a couple years ago but but her book, which is called Blood Lines,
1:53.6	it also sort of derives from this work.
1:55.4	It's about the Zeta's Drug Cartel in Mexico and their rise, and then the FBI's attempt to bring down a couple of the leaders who were
2:08.1	laundering their money through quarter horse racing in the United States.
2:11.9	It's a it's a great book.
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