Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández is the author of Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine ... in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.


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For those try­ing to reach the US on foot, the dead­ly winds of Tehuan­te­pec are just one among myr­i­ad ex­is­ten­tial threats.

Opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 29 Nov 2023

Death fol­lows the jour­neys of peo­ple des­per­ate to reach safe­ty across mil­i­tarised bor­ders.

Opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 22 Nov 2023
Migrants stand near the border wall during a sandstorm after having crossed the US-Mexico border to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, as the U.S. prepares to lift COVID-19 era Title 42 restrictions that have blocked migrants at the border from seeking asylum since 2020, in El Paso, Texas, U.S., May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The 20 trucks of aid that en­tered Gaza are just a dis­trac­tion from Is­rael’s mur­der­ous war on the Pales­tini­ans.

Opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 21 Oct 2023
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/EGYPT