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Mexico - a story of captivity

Ocurría el verano del año 2000 en Arizona y con mis binoculares visualizaba el escueto pelaje gris pardo que contrastaba con un rosa fosforescente que yacía en el cuello de una hembra de año y medio de la subespecie en peligro de extinción de lobo mexicano.  Nuestra misión era encontrarla, atraparla y llevarla de regreso al área donde meses antes había sido liberada. Sin embargo ella tenía otros planes, emigrar.

Con especial cariño inicie la búsqueda de este ejemplar y al ver su errático andar en aquel verano que la encontramos solo exclamé en mis adentros conteniéndome sin dejar externar toda expresión emotiva que me delatara ante mis compañeros: “¡Buena suerte amiga! Adelante con tu lucha, sigue con tu búsqueda,…

by Nahum Sanchez on 16/06/09 | Read More

Obama's speech at the Berlin Wall - but what about the one the US is building at the Mexico border?

by on 24/03/09 | Read More

Stories of migrants travelling through Mexico to reach the USA

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/mexicos-southern-border/cynthia-gorney-text
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http://current.com/items/76273562/il_treno_della_morte.htm
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http://www.latimes.com/extras/enrique/splash.htm
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http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/2699/an-immigrants-journey.html
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Three wonderful reports published by the Arizona Daily Star
http://www.azstarnet.com/special/jesus
http://www.azstarnet.com/secureborder/
http://www.azstarnet.com/special/legalimmigration
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An excellent article by Gustavo Mohar:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=209
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A country profile focused on migration:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Resources/mexico.cfm
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A report on the economic impacts of inmigration in Arizona:
http://portal.sre.gob.mx/tucson/pdf/immigrants_in_arizona.judith_gans.july2007.pdf
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One excellent think tank:
http://pewhispanic.org/
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And two good blogs:
http://borderbeat.net/section/index
http://www.bibdaily.com/
AND a great film
http://www.mediarights.org/film/no_one_de_nadie.php

by anonymous on 11/02/09 | Read More

Gaza - The troubles of boundaries,borders and occupation.

This article below further articulates the troubles of boundaries,borders and occupation. 
Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism. By Darryl Li
In mid-January, when Israel further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip, it hurriedly assured the world that a “humanitarian crisis” would not be allowed to occur. Case in point: Days after the intensified siege prompted Hamas to breach the Gaza-Egypt border and Palestinians to pour into Egypt in search of supplies, Israel announced plans to send in thousands of animal vaccines to prevent possible outbreaks of avian flu and other epidemics due to livestock and birds entering Gaza from Egypt.[1] Medicines for human beings, on the other hand, are among the supplies that are barely trickling in to Gaza…

by Darryl Li on 15/01/09 | Read More

Nicaragua - Mexican coyotes (people smugglers)

Me gustaría contar lo que me contó un taxista en Managua. Él intento cruzar hacia el norte, por tierra, hasta USA. Fue llevado por coyotes hasta Honduras donde lo asaltaron, por lo que tuvo que regresar a Nicaragua. En esa ocación perdio 3,000 dolares.
En el segundo intento llego hasta México, pero la Migra Mexicana lo detuvo y deporto hacia Guatemala. Desde ahí realizo un ultimo intento, para ser detenido una ves más por la policía méxicana.
Los coyotes guías, cuando se tienen, lo llevaban por caminos fuera de carretera, únicamente comiendo frijoles (cuando había) y durmiendo en el suelo. Finalmente, cansado de tanto maltrato, asalto y llevadera por los países, regreso a Nicaragua.
Ahora trabaja como taxista, y ahí…

by Rodrigo Peñalba on 31/12/08 | Read More

Mexico/USA - what does the wall represent?

I’d like to ask that when you explore the look at the wall it isn’t simply about people fleeing poor mexico into the wonderful US of A there are plenty of mexicans, (i assume i’ve never been) that wouldn’t want to go to America, even if they could earn more. Also how about the economic reasons, ie NAFTA forcing mexicans across. Isn’t the wall just another neo-liberal policy of backwards socialism, public money into the private hands of corps like blackwater

by james 'tea maker' Messenger on 22/11/08 | Read More

Mexico / US border - an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities

I’m greatly encouraged by the possibility of part of the film focusing on the site of Tijuana, as Gael discussed with Annie Lennox. Not only is it clearly an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities but, as with many border areas, the creation of difference is on some levels only imaginary because the strict lines of cultural division that national borders insist upon, do not accurately embrace the realities of movements between and against them.
Importantly the factory culture of female workers in Cuidad Juarez, would also be an interesting inclusion perhaps, where the many unsolved “femicide” cases speak volumes on some of the extremely negative aspects of machista culture. Of course, I do not intend to…

by anonymous on 15/11/08 | Read More

Mexico - A Wall and a War

My form of resistance is a silent one.  One that is common when living in a bordertown. It is one of sadness and hope.  It is that of the border wall and a drug war.  Both are things that seem like they have no solution.
I’ve lived in Los Angeles, San Diego & Tijuana, MX.  Out of all three, my favorite place of all was Tijuana, MX.  Many view it as a party town, but its not.  It’s more than that.  It’s an explosion of culture. A world within a city. It is a fusion of new and old. It is truly a concrete jungle.  But its a beautiful one full of life and movement.  There aren’t many places where…

by Anya Meave on 17/06/08 | Read More