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Fancy shoes / Zapatas ricos

Fancy shoes, Juarez, 2008
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Border gas: two different worlds

Pemex station, Juarez, July 2008
Ciudad Acuna, Mexico
A Mexican border city has begun fining U.S. drivers who cross the border to fill extra drums, tanks or barrels with government-subsidized Mexican fuel.
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The great divide: Juarez/El Paso

Border landscape #47, Juarez/El Paso - August 1, 2008

Mist and mirrors: facts and fictions

Mist and mirrors d’town, El Paso - 6:38:51pm/July 28, 2008
I am supposed to be packing right now. I have a job in another city. It starts in three weeks. I won’t be leaving. This corner, this light, these people, their shadows, have inveighed my life for an adulthood…a long time.

El Paso remnant: highway US80/”The Spanish Trail”

Remnant #41, Del Norte Courts, El Paso-July 22, 2008
Editor’s Note: For other images from the Remnant series, see the July 13, 2007 and the May 12, 2008 posts. Use the calendar in the right column.
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Mexico’s other border

SEE VIDEO: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player?titleID=1372185572
 
Borders. North and south. Mexico is a yin yang of the first order.
See what’s going on on the southern border and get some insights into what’s going on on the northern one.
Article by the always interesting and powerful Charles Bowden with cut-to-the-bone humane photographs by superb Magnum shooter, Alex Webb.
 
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Gilbert and Pooch

 

Gilbert and Pooch, El Paso - July 12, 2008
Assume nothing.
I asked this man, in Espanol, if I could photograph him and his Chihuahua (part of a series I’ve been doing for a long time).
“I don’t speak Spanish,” he countered.
Why would I think he was Spanish-speaking?
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Juarez murders: it’s complicated

 
Juarez Police Protest Arbitrary Arrests

Protesting policeman, Juarez -March 2008
photograph by Julian Cardona
Photo and story by Julian Cardona
March 31, 2008
About 50 Juárez police officers protested what they consider the arbitrary arrests of fellow officers by the recently arrived Mexican army in ciudad Juarez. They were protesting the alleged framing of numerous officers on charges of drug […]

Border story: Miguel, postman and mensch

Miguel, postman and mensch, El Paso - July 2008
Miguel.
Another border encounter.
He’s a savior for me on this day.
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Barrio warrior for Jesus: El Paso

James Barraza, Segundo barrio, El Paso - June 30, 2008
 
James Barraza prowls the Segundo barrio with his Bible and attempts to spread “the good word.”
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