Border Blog

Juarez, April 23, 2010 Went look­ing for trou­ble. Peo­ple waved at me. OK.

April 24th, 2010
Categories: border photography, el paso juarez border, Juarez . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Dead Police and Mur­derer in Juarez by heroic by anony­mous El Diario de Juarez pho­tog­ra­pher Today in Juarez. More of the same. If this were any­where else we’d be send­ing aide and 120,000 troops. Instead we send DEA Agents (under the terms of the “Merida Ini­tia­tive”) and clan­des­tine mil­i­tary “train­ers,” to train sol­diers and police…to […]

April 23rd, 2010
Categories: border photography, Discussion of Documentary Photography, el paso juarez border, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

1939 Chevro­let, Lin­coln School Park, El Paso — March 2010 Sun­day in Lin­coln School Park. Everyone’s there: the vatos, the old low rid­ers, the young low rid­ers, Las Chi­cas, los ninos, las famil­ias and me. Got to get that build­ing open again! Fuzz cruised through, took a look, cruised out again (ándale). As it oughta to be. The parque […]

April 16th, 2010
Categories: American Highway, American History, border photography, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Joy#2, Segundo Bar­rio, Sagrado Cora­zon gym — El Paso Sagrado Cora­zon gym. Sun­day dance. Kick it. Kick it hom­bre! Golpelo, vato viejo (no muy)! Joy always seems to be some­where near this gym. The ‘hood is really tat­tered now. Any­thing near the bor­der is tat­tered or about to be. But ya gotta dance, yeah?

April 5th, 2010
Categories: border photography, el paso juarez border, Texas, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments