Covering La Línea: Melissa Del Bosque

Video interview by JOANNA JACOBO and DALIA ANDRADE
EL NUEVO SOL

Melissa Del Bosque, reporter for the Texas Observer, is dedicated to covering the border and all that comes with it, keeping an eye out on current events via her blog La Línea. Photo: Dalia Andrade/El Nuevo Sol

How does a journalist decide to tackle the complexity that is the Mexico-U.S. border and the irregularity and corruption that lurks beyond its nation’s borders? Melissa Del Bosque, alongside only a handful of journalists, has taken on the task of covering these forgotten neighboring areas, which she claims to be a “dysfunctional family,”; forgotten by the press, but never ignored by the corrupt individuals that reap the innocent from their dignified lives. Having worked on the Texas senate for 5 years, Del Bosque has seen first hand the corruption that infiltrates the governmental system that runs one side of the fence. Her goal now is to figure out how these two, these brother nations, confront the brutal reality that has taken over the Mexican peoples of these small towns that are just miles away from, what has come to be known as, the deadliest place and deadliest crossing on earth.

In an exclusive interview for El Nuevo Sol, Del Bosque describes her experiences in dealing with victims of the violence and injustices that occur in these towns, as well as her journey from politics to her one true love, journalism.