by Lisa Haugaard
on April 06, 2010
Charles Bowden’s Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global
Economy’s New Killing Fields is an unflinching look at the
violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the failing solutions by both
countries to address it. With an intense sympathy for the many victims
but also a degree of understanding even for a contract killer who finds
God, the author doesn’t let the reader find comfort in anything. The
book, just published by Nation Books (New York: 2010), can be found at
your local bookstore or online distributors. Here are a few selections
from this devastating catalog of violence.
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by Brian Erickson
on December 02, 2009
Between the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
and the Borderlands
RAVE photo exhibit in the Senate, the border wall has loomed large in
the minds of many this November.
As a final reflection for the month, Leslie Berestein of the San Diego
Union-Tribune has called attention to another function of the fence: a
place for artistic expression.
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by Jennifer Johnson and Brian Erickson
on March 08, 2010
As we mark International Women’s Day, we remember Esther Chávez Cano, a powerful champion for women’s rights who struggled to eradicate gender-based violence and whose efforts raised worldwide attention to the ever-growing toll of unresolved murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez.
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by Brian Erickson
on November 20, 2009
On Friday, November 13th, some influential thinkers from both
the United States and Mexico gathered at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Mexico Institute to discuss how our two nations must begin Rethinking
the U.S.-Mexico Border.
The current model, as described by former Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Government of Mexico Andrés Rozental, is a system characterized by “irritation, inefficiency, illegality, and now, violence.” Moving forward, he stated, we need “cooperative solutions to shared problems.”
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by Brian Erickson
on December 18, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
has sought to assure us all that human rights are a priority for the
administration. Unfortunately, the policies in place to secure the
U.S.-Mexico border have hardly been humane. That’s why Thursday,
December 10th, Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) sponsored a showing
of The 800 Mile Wall in honor of the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
by Brian Erickson
on October 09, 2009
Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are bringing national attention to a frightening dynamic developing along the U.S.-Mexico border. In spite of a large drop in immigration numbers, migrant deaths this year are threatening record increases!
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