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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Man of fire/hombre de fuego, Juárez-o5/08/2010
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 [...]
Juarez, April 23, 2010 Went looking for trouble. People waved at me. OK.
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 [...]
Guadalupe #41, El Paso – Dec. 18, 2009 This third floor window looks out onto the Cordova Bridge to Juarez, three blocks to the south. It’s the Season. Guadalupe, I will light you every night -and a string of Christmas lights too- for the rest of the holiday. If anyone in Juarez sees this, please [...]
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