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.
Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
by Melissa Sanchez and Mica Rosenberg,
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.
por Perla Trevizo, ProPublica y The Texas Tribune, fotografía por Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica,
“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.
by Gerardo del Valle and Perla Trevizo,
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.
by Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica, and Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,
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.
by Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, photography by Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica,
“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.
por Gerardo del Valle,
“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.
by John Harwood for ProPublica, and Katie Campbell and Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica,
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.
by Mark Olalde, Mollie Simon and Alex Mierjeski, video by Gerardo del Valle, Liz Moughon and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons,