Is Mexico Finally Turning the Corner?
Journalist Alfredo Corchado Talks About the Surprisingly Hopeful Trajectory of America’s Southern Neighbor
Speaking to a full house at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles was something of a homecoming, said Alfredo Corchado, Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief and author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness. Corchado was born in Mexico and came to California as a child with his parents, braceros who wanted a better life for their children. Corchado grew up picking the fields of the San Joaquin Valley alongside his parents and siblings, and to come back to California all these years later was, …
