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Cruz Negra: The Light In Juarez II

Juarez, Black Cross of Peace, 2010 by Bruce Berman

The Light in Juárez

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 [...]

Do You Have Shares In Hell?

Street kids on Avenida Technologico, Juarez – 2010 Pictures? More pictures of dead bodies in the streets of Juárez? Hard to want to do. I’m not visiting. I live here. It’s better when you have to get the images for your boss/editor and then high-tail it to the airport. But, I’m not working for a [...]

Sequesterer(alleged) Sequestered

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 [...]

Murder Is A Teaching Moment (Editor Says…)

Local TV Handles Vilolence In Juarez (at least Art about violence) SEE FULL VIDEO ABOUT THE ART CONTROVERSY: >http://www.kvia.com/ >Go to page #6 of videos >Hit:”Controversial border art makes waves” Your Editor Stumbles Into a Defense Of Decapitated Heads (Art) At El Paso’s Library July 9, 2009 Editor’s Note: Here is what they left on [...]

No Futbol War

“Maleno,” Juarez – March 2009 Juarez, March 13, 2009/ Estado Benito Juarez, Juarez, Chihuahua/Mexico The Juarez Indios are a professional futbol team(soccer). They are in the middle of the Cartel Drug War. Much of the city of Juarez has rallied around the Indios, finding some “normalacy,” in the middle of the troubled Juarez violencia. Julio [...]