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Juarez, Black Cross of Peace, 2010 by Bruce Berman

The Light in Juárez

[fla­gallery gid=6 name=“Gallery”] 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. […]

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 daily […]

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 a […]

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 the “cutting […]