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Juarez, Black Cross of Peace, 2010 by Bruce Berman

August 31st, 2010
Categories: Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Is there any Light at the end of Juárez’s tunnel? There are a lot of things in Juárez these days: widows, widowers, killers,  thugs, riddled bodies, drug addicts, every day normal people, kids going to school, people being married, bombs and death across the street (almost) from the old “City Market.” Everything. There is very [...]

August 13th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Martin, man of dignity and courage, Lomas del Poleo, Summer 2009 Dear Martin, I said I would be back to Lomas and I haven’t been back in a year now. It’s crazy. I drive to work in Las Cruces three times a week and I look to the west and I can see you, I [...]

July 14th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Lomas del Poleo, Photo of the Week, Texas, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, el paso juarez border, la migra . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Salvador Valentino, Ring Announcer El Paso, Texas – May 23, 2010

May 24th, 2010
Categories: Photo of the Week, Texas, US/Mexico Border, border photography, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

la acusación (perp walk) en Juárez, May 15, 2010 Iasi Emanuel Rodriquez Gamez , aka “El Enano (the dwarf),” 22, is led down a hallway, by a member of the Federal Police at the Ministry of Justice (Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado) in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is accused of being the leader of [...]

May 15th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Town plaza, Zaragoza, Chihuahua-05/08/2010 Sunny normal day. In Zaragoza/Juárez? Impossible! I couldn’t work it in -excuses!- but beyond the Tarahamara woman and her brood, in the deep darkness of the trees, protected by yellow police tape and the Policia Federal -who shooed me away- lies a dead woman in her twenties. Cause of death? Bullet [...]

May 13th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Man of fire/hombre de fuego, Juárez-o5/08/2010

May 12th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Zaragoza (Juarez), Chihuahua, street kids at scene of a murdered woman, 05/08 ©Bruce Berman 2010 Two border towns. El Paso and Juarez. One city is half dead and the other is in a coma. Guess which is which? As always, a trip to Juarez puts everything in perspective and raises big questions. For openers:  We [...]

May 9th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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

April 24th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, border photography, el paso juarez border . 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: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments