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Border Theater

2025-02-10 Rich Wright International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Yesterday the Mexican Army posted up on Avenida Juarez. What were they looking for? Fentanyl? Venezuelans? The approval of the

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The Expected Environmental Catastrophe

2024-11-17 Rich Wright Downtown, International Relations, Juarez, Local Heroes, Mexico, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

Here’s a story (in Spanish) from La Jornada about the impending railroad accident that imperils Cd. Juarez and El Paso:

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Pollution at the Bridge of the Americas

2024-01-29 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, International Relations, Mexico, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

Commercial traffic on the Bridge of the Americas is contributing a lot of pollution to the surrounding neighborhood, and there’s

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Venezuela on the Rio Grande

2022-10-31 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Migration, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Standing tall and stoic, Albert Silva gazed at the barbed wire topping the fence on the U.S.

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The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

2022-08-10 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider 4 comments

By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a

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