A year ago this August, 72 migrant workers -- 58 men and 14 women -- 'were on their way to the US border when they were
murdered by a drug gang at a ranch in northern Mexico, in circumstances that remain unexplained. Since then, a group of Mexican journalists and writers have created' a "Day of the Dead-style Virtual Altar" Spanish-language website,
72migrantes.com, to commemorate each of the victims, some of whom have never been identified. The New York Review of Books has
English translations of five of their profiles. [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Sep 7, 2011 -
7 comments
Border Stories is a series of
short documentaries about life on the US-Mexican border, none longer than 6 minutes. The subjects are:
drug addicts on the border (warning: graphic images),
electronic music group Nortec Collective,
hospital costs of fence jumpers,
lonesome Minuteman,
Mexican emigrant safety patrolman,
ranchowners whose land is an immigration throughway,
US-raised 18 year-old sent back to Mexico,
virtual vigilantes,
two old men provide water in the desert,
dangers of journalism in Ciudad Juarez,
graveyard of US tires in Mexico,
drug ballads,
hardened border policy hurts cross-border community,
another cross-border community fears closing of footbridge,
working illegally in Laredo,
mayors of the two Laredos,
migrants' safe house,
hand-pulled ferry,
dentistry in Nuevo Progreso,
Brownsville high school teacher protests border fence,
golf course with the border on three sides &
fishermen on the mouth of the Rio Bravo. Border Stories also has a
blog about immigration issues.
posted by Kattullus
on May 21, 2009 -
18 comments
One of the teams in the Mexico vs. USA World Cup game
made history. As of before the game, the USA has never won a knockout game of the World Cup - Mexico had never won a knockout game of the World Cup when not in Mexico. Click the article to see which team made history - or if you don't want it spoiled, don't click at all!
posted by twiggy
on Jun 17, 2002 -
28 comments
In the desert on the U.S.-Mexico border,
charity becomes political protest as humanitarian groups seek to put hundreds of gallons of water in the form of "watering stations" -- a few gallons of water and a blue flag -- on federal, military, private, and Indian lands.
posted by sudama
on Jun 11, 2001 -
3 comments
Summit of the Americas A very complex set of issues that are being discussed in Canada, but for most of us, all we see presented is the police, the tear gassings, the forces gathered in protest. Here, a summary of the complex issues at stake and being discussed.
posted by Postroad
on Apr 21, 2001 -
53 comments
