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Gerardo del Valle

Gerardo del Valle is a video and film fellow with ProPublica.

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Gerardo del Valle is a filmmaker from Guatemala who started his career as a video journalist at the investigative online newspaper Plaza Pública. He’s worked on long-form documentaries, short form videos and web-based projects, collaborating with VICE, Univision, BBC, NBC and Agencia EFE. Over the last couple of years, he has been developing and directing a documentary on trauma and the undocumented journey from Central America to the United States. His work has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the International Documentary Association. He is also a Firelight Documentary Lab fellow and an SFFilm Foundation New America fellow. He is an alum of the International Center of Photography, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Universidad Rafael Landívar.

The New Immigration

El sheriff fronterizo pro armas y provida que perdió la lealtad de sus vecinos por ser tachado de “blando” con la inmigración

La inmigración no forma parte del trabajo de Joe Frank Martínez. Pero en Del Río, Texas, al igual que en otras comunidades mayoritariamente latinas del país, es un tema de máxima importancia para los votantes y está trastocando viejas lealtades políticas.

The New Immigration

“Del Rio, Texas”: How a Race for Sheriff Became a Referendum on Immigration

Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.

The New Immigration

Watch: How the Race for Sheriff in Del Rio, Texas, Became a Referendum on Immigration

Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.

The New Immigration

A Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Border Sheriff Appealed to Both Parties. Then He Was Painted as Soft on Immigration.

In Del Rio, Texas, like in other majority Latino communities, immigration is high on voters’ minds and is disrupting long-standing political allegiances.

“El camino correcto”: desde Venezuela a Juárez y desde Nueva York a Denver, la odisea de una familia en busca de asilo

La familia Pabón se encuentra entre los casi ocho millones de venezolanos que han huido de su país. El documental, “El camino correcto”, sigue a esta familia mientras aplica y navega por el sistema de asilo de Estados Unidos.

“The Right Way”: The Long Journey to Asylum for One Venezuelan Family

The Pabóns are among the nearly 8 million people who have fled Venezuela in one of the world’s largest displacements. “The Right Way” follows them as they attempt to seek asylum in the U.S. under a buckling immigration system.

The Long Journey to Asylum for One Venezuelan Family

The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have fled their country. Follow them as they begin a life in the U.S. and journey through an asylum system buckling under record numbers of new arrivals.

ProPublica Interviews President Biden

In a wide-ranging interview with John Harwood, President Joe Biden addressed broad threats to democracy, ethical concerns about the Supreme Court and more.

The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater

For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.