MetaFilter posts tagged with mexico and USA

"This is an imaginary land"

Kattullus — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:27:04 -0800

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.

matteo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:38:36 -0800

"Everything is foggy. Everything is not clear. He was alive when we got to the other side. And now I have brought him back dead. Whatever hopes we had, that's where they ended."
The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman (BugMeNot)

Keeping the man down... er out.

subaruwrx — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:27:40 -0800

US Border Patrol attempts to build a wall between Mexico and the US. Coyotes are not worried Mexico is already coming up with plans around it and the Americans are already coming up with a way to not pay for it.

Jack Spencer -- Photographs of the Rural South and Mexico

matteo — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:21:31 -0800

Aparicioñes. Somewhere along the back roads of small towns dotting the Louisiana and Mississippi and Mexico landscape is Jack Spencer, a self-taught photographer, searching for beauty. More inside.

NAFTA

acridrabbit — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:02:30 -0800

It's the ten-year anniversary of NAFTA this week. Has it been a success? [more inside].

twiggy — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:33:43 -0800

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!

sudama — Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:36:00 -0800

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.

Postroad — Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:04:20 -0800

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.

owillis — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:32:05 -0800

Summit of the Americas protest ratchets up a notch Have these accomplished anything?