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Mexcellaneous Vol. 3: The Divine Comida
May 26, 2011, No Comments

Our first meal back in the United States was low-grade El Paso Italian and Budweiser. We weren't much interested in trac ...

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Drug War II: Revolución en el Norte
March 2, 2011, 1 Comment

Caught between two sets of cross-hairs, Juárenses are living, not only under siege, but also under occupation.

A Tapestry of Murder
Drug War I: A Tapestry of Murder
February 16, 2011, No Comments

Less dangerous than Culiacán, the state capital of Sinaloa and the Mordor of the Mexican underworld, Mazatlán is never ...

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Migration V: Arriaga Postscript
January 18, 2011, No Comments

Many of the migrants we met and befriended three months ago have since become the very statistics we hoped they might av ...

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The Other Train
January 7, 2011, 1 Comment

You know how it is there early in the morning in Los Mochis when the train pulls out of the station past the goats and t ...

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A Big Blue Watery Road
December 21, 2010, 1 Comment

Austin and I—either growing bored of conversing with each other or else beginning to crack under the pressure of our g ...

Revolución en el Norte
December 11, 2010, No Comments

When Mexico marked its Centenary of Revolution last month, bringing to a close two months festivities that began in Sept ...

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Migration IV: A Walk in the Parque
December 2, 2010, No Comments

Our Mexican host was not interested. "Not in a tourist attraction that takes something so serious and turns it into a so ...

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Mexcellaneous Vol. 2
November 24, 2010, No Comments

Our trip ended quietly at six o'clock in the morning, with a hug and a handshake out the front of an El Paso hotel, some ...

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Night on Bald Mountain
November 20, 2010, No Comments

” The Mexican … is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is on ...