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Posted inCurrent Events, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

The City I Love Is Destroying Itself

by Nicole Antebi November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.

Posted inCurrent Events, Editor's Pick, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews

The City I Love Is Destroying Itself

by Nicole Antebi November 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.

Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes

Why Is Northern Mexico’s Thriving Resale Clothing Business Illegal?

by Aaron Gilbreath March 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Enterprising Mexican citizens buy America’s unwanted secondhand clothing to resell in Mexico, so why is this illegal?

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs

by Aaron Gilbreath August 9, 2017October 19, 2022

How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.

Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized

Treating Our Border As a Battle Zone

by Aaron Gilbreath May 26, 2017October 19, 2022

Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

What It’s Like to Be an FBI Agent in a Border Town

by juliawick April 3, 2015October 19, 2022

Lawson moved out of his extended-stay hotel and into a house in Laredo, not far from some of the Treviños’ extended family, he says. He came to appreciate the camaraderie of working the border, a destination so low on agents’ wish lists that the bureau lets them transfer wherever they want after five years. Most of the […]

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