New Bedford

“Violence Unseen” is a response to the preponderance of street crime against Guatemalan immigrants – people of Mayan origin – who have settled in the port city of…

Marta was holding her sleeping son inside her doorway one morning last spring when a man pushed into the entryway and pressed a knife to her neck. “He…

In September, Efraín was assaulted on the street by a group of kids, no more than ten or twelve years old. He says he saw their faces clearly….

Leonidas has done well at his job in New Bedford. He works at one of the many scallop processing plants in the city, progressing over the past three…

It was on this block of New Bedford that Antolin was attacked, walking home from work at the fish house, at about 6:00 p.m. But it was December…

Rubén has worked for 11 straight years in New Bedford ­– moving blocks of cement, hauling loads of fish – hard physical labor that he says he enjoys….

In the past weeks I’ve had two conversations with David Provencher, New Bedford Chief of Police. What follow are excerpts from those talks. MBM: I’m trying to understand…

At this moment, Santos’s head is filled with images. In the telling of his story, he has broken down, covered his face with his hands, been silent for…

José has just left the neurologist’s office, in Boston. Corinn Williams, of the CEDC, has volunteered to drive him there, and with Corinn translating, he tells the doctor…

Manuel takes me to visit his neighbor, whom he’d heard had been assaulted. On that night he had come home bleeding, and their landlady had called the police….

The church service is underway in the basement sanctuary. Women wearing traditional huipiles embroidered with sequins pray together with men in collared shirts, while girls with long ponytails…

Julian is concerned about the churchgoers, mostly people of Mayan origin from Guatemala, yet some are also from El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic. He has seen young…