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Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of Juarez

Man#26, The Other Truth series, Juarez, May 2011 Christ­mas Eve/El Paso A Per­sonal Nar­ra­tive Lost and aban­doned. Christ­mas Eve reminds me of that, right now, as I look out my south-facing win­dow to Juarez (three blocks away) across the val­ley of Juarez, to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, where Crea­mac sits, CREAMAC, the “men­tal Institution” […]

Crossing the Rio without Confusion

Undoc­u­mented Women Cross­ingThe R2, Juraez-El Paso, 1984 Text and pho­to­graph by Bruce Berman The river with two names: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte. Depends where you begin and where you end and where you return to. These women are head­ing north. It was a long time ago. Every­thing has changed and noth­ing has changed and I […]

House of the Abandoned

Maria Full Of Grace, from The Other Truth (T.O.T.) series, Juárez, May 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Juárez —   Maria. Full of grace. And other emo­tions. A per­ma­nent res­i­dent of CREAMAC, in the hills of Juárez, way up there, near the Guadalupe, the last place on one of the last streets, near the top. […]

Juarez Through The Fence

Boy con­tem­plates the mur­der of “Our Daugh­ters” in Juarez, through the fence, from El Paso, 2010 by Bruce Berman ©2011 Copyright secured by Digiprove

Window Full Of Coffins

  View of El Paso from Juarez, April 25, 2011 by Bruce Berman Juarez –You keep hear­ing that “Juarez is dead.” Juarez is not dead. It’s stripped, dimin­ished, bruised and hum­bled but is it is not dead. Most small busi­ness com­mer­cial strips are shut­tered or just smashed and aban­doned. The streets are amaz­ingly empty, the bustle […]