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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.

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 […]

El Paso/Juarez view

 

El Paso/Juarez - July 10, 2008
El Paso: foreground.
Juarez: Background.
Words written in blood on old documents and rattling around in people’s heads who don’t live there.
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Three women at a diet clinic: Juarez

Grand-daughter, grandmother and mother visiting a diet doctor in Juarez - June 21, 2008
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Bi in Juarez

Biplane in Juarez, June 21, 2008
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$ 39.99 Border

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: June 17-????, 2008

View of el poniente, Juarez, June 2008
World has gone crazy.
Murder and hell in this landscape.
Stop taking your drugs you busted up stinkin’ American pricks!