Michael Eamonn Miller

Biography

Michael Eamonn Miller is a staff writer for the Miami New Times. He work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic, GlobalPost, and the New York Times. He was born in Columbia, Missouri, and has lived in Northern Ireland, Spain, Venezuela and, most recently, Mexico. He holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago and dual Master’s degrees in journalism and Latin American studies from New York University. He is an Overseas Press Club Foundation scholar.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2011

Squatter City

By Michael Eamonn Miller ,  Photography by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala

Every day, Venezuelan newspapers across the political spectrum publish front-page articles on the most recent invasiones, the illegal occupation of property by squatters. In Caracas, invasions often begin with swift, surreptitious, and...