December 2007 – Border Blog

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Los Cartoneros

December 28, 2007 1 Comment

Cartonero Armando Hernandez Lamas, El Paso – 12/28/2007

Cartonero Alejandro Gonzalez, El Paso – 12/28/2007

Cartonero Hernandez in central El Paso

Cartonero Gonzalez, central El Paso

Armando Hernandez’ handmade tricicleta

Los Cartoneros

In a desert, on the border, nothing much gets wasted.

Cartoneros, paper haulers, collect discarded and surplus paper and card board from border streets and from border merchants and haul it on their customized ” tricicletas.” They then sell it to scrap buyers, located about a mile from the border shopping district in the Segundo barrio.

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Cameraphone session, 5:15pm, December 20, 2007 / Centro El Paso

December 21, 2007 No Comments

Cameraphone session, 5:15pm, December 20, 2007 / Centro El Paso

El Paso’s El Centro, the downtown, is packed with people at Christmastime. Unlike most cities of the southwest and of the rest of the United States, El Paso’s downtown is alive and bustling at all times of year, but especially during this season.

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