Tag: resilience

  • Beyond the Cars: One Country, Fourteen Conversations

    This is the first in a series of stories about Cuba. Smuggling the Truth I am at the airport going home. After three exhausting weeks in Cuba documenting this country with over 70 pages of interview notes and 5000 images, the final hurdle is before me: I am in line for customs. There is confusion…

  • Taken

    Taken

    Inside the families apartment, a father explains why his wife did not come home from work. A baby no longer sleeps through the night. A fourteen-year-old weighs whether it is safe to attend school. This is not a headline. It is a family adjusting to life after their wife and mother was taken.

  • Portraits from Cabo San Lucas

    Portraits from Cabo San Lucas

    I walked past the edge of Cabo San Lucas’s tourist zone and into the town itself, moving slowly and meeting people as they worked, waited, and lived their daily lives. These portraits reflect brief moments of trust and a Mexico rarely seen from the resort side of the wall.

  • Minneapolis did not wake up to a federal “operation” today. It woke up to a killing.

    Minneapolis did not wake up to a federal “operation” today. It woke up to a killing.

    I arrived shortly after an ICE agent killed a woman in Minneapolis. What follows is a firsthand account of what I witnessed as federal agents withdrew and the city gathered to bear witness.

  • Two Cubas: One Survives, the Other Exploits

    Two Cubas: One Survives, the Other Exploits

    Behind Cuba’s bright dollar stores and the near-empty CUP markets where ordinary Cubans shop lies a deeper divide: everyday workers scraping by, and a military empire hoarding billions offshore. This story meets both sides, the makers who endure and the machine that profits from their struggle.