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Working to understand why gun-death rates are lower in a cluster of four counties in southern New Mexico and far west Texas could benefit our entire nation. Clearly, solutions must be nuanced and perhaps tailored to individual communities. Continue Reading
The violence of 2008-2012 was almost the nail in the coffin for the Juárez Market. So on a recent Sunday swing by the market, Frontera NorteSur was somewhat surprised to see most of the tables on the outdoor dining patio occupied by customers enjoying lunch. Continue Reading
A Juárez visit by the pope — in an American presidential election year — would likely bring attention in the United States to issues including immigration and the war on drugs. Continue Reading
For 43 hours hundreds in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez remembered — and protested — the first anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 Mexican male students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, at the hands of police and paramilitary forces. But late September’s bout of activism went beyond the Ayotzinapa issue. Continue Reading