Tag Archives: Mexico
Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory
Deportations along Mexico’s southern border more than doubled between 2013 and 2015, forcing migrants into remote areas where many are robbed or exploited....Read More
Narco Violence, as Seen by a Journalist-Turned-Artist
Binational artist Luz Maria Sánchez grapples with killings that haunt her family and her country of birth.
In person and in her art, Sánchez’s style is observational and exact, almost without an expressive first-person stance, except for, perhaps, one of detached ...Read More
Renaissance Tejana: ‘Rant. Chant. Chisme.’
Amalia Ortiz transforms her rants, chants and poetry slams for the printed page.
Like the matadora, Ortiz practices her craft while a stampede rages around her. This is what she will be known for....Read More
Femicide in Juárez is Not a Myth
A vocal group of American critics claims that Juarez is not a place of disproportionate violence against women. Here’s why they’re wrong.
While Molloy, Powell and other critics may not consider femicide to be real or important compared to their preferred research on drug violence and global capita...Read More
Houston Mom Arrested At Gynecologist’s Appointment May Face Deportation
After her arrest in an exam room at her gynecologist’s office in early September, a Houston mother of three remains in the Harris County jail while her family...Read More
Inexplicable Deportation of Visually-Impaired Father Dashes His Hopes for Legal Status
Luis Antonio Perez-Morales almost certainly could have been among those whose lives were changed by the June 2012 immigration order that gave reprieve from depo...Read More
The Observer Review: Border Odyssey, by Charles D. Thompson Jr.
Charles D. Thompson chronicles his journey along the length of the U.S./Mexico border, charting straight shots and labyrinthine jags to places steeped in five c...Read More
Dark Humor, Outrage in Mexico Over El Chapo’s Brazen Escape
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's prison escape ignited a wave of darkly satirical jokes on social media in Mexico—humor being the favorite coping mechanism for Mex...Read More
GOP Wants to Spend Millions on Border Security—Whatever That Means
Without a real definition of border security, state budget analysts can't tell whether spending has been effective, and yet $815 million is proposed anyway....Read More