On The Edge of the Edge – The U.S. – Mexico Border
Carlos (last name not given) in Memorial Park with his Pit Bull Zues. They both had a lot of scars. They both are fighters, and it appeared they had more in common with each other than either could have with anyone of their own species.
Pit Bulls.
Asked why he liked that particular breed of dog, Carlos replied, “They don’t give an inch. Neither do I.”
Carmen Sotelo Rodriquez is the face of the Post Global economy. She worked at a Phillips plant in Juarez,Chihuahua, Mexico. The plant had moved from three shifts to one shift and by 2002 the company had migrated most of its assembly operations to China. She is shown standing in front of the plant on the city’s south east side. This photo was shot on assignment for Bloomberg magazine.
A man stands in the last light of the day at the corner of 6th and El Paso Street in El Paso, Texas. This is the first street of the United States after entering the U.S. from Mexico from the Paso Del Norte International Bridge. The bridge links Ciudad Juarez with El Paso and 6th and El Paso streets could be considered the crossroads of the northern part of the Western Hemisphere from south to north.
A lot of old folks (viejos) grew up in this barrio and are still there. They are the dignity of the barrio.
Imagine how people felt when a picture of an old viejo was used, by City planners, to show what was wrong with El Paso?
Los Viejos are what’s right with El Segundo.
Photograph of Dorothea Lange,
Resettlement Administration photographer,
in California, c. 1936
The car is a 1933 Ford Model B (AKA “V8”).
She is -as well as Russell Lee and the other FSA photographers- the spiritual “Godmother,” of this site.
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This is a picture of Dorothea Lange, at work. She was one of my earliest influences (the other was Weegee).
fotografo-centro Juarez-Retrato: $ 4.50(US)
Musicos de Juarez-March 23, 2007
Musico de Juarez-March 23, 2007
South El Paso Street
March 14, 2007
Foto: Jaime Ojo
Drug cartels want migrants’ routes
Fight to control corridors on Arizona border turns violent
ALTAR, Mexico ˆ This village on the edge of the Sonoran Desert has been a supermarket for smugglers and the smuggled for nearly a decade. Migrants choose from an array of packages offered by coyotes and pick up day packs and anti-dehydration potions for the trek north.
Now drug smugglers want their route.
The Border Blog highly recommends that our readers go to this You Tube link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk&mode=related&search=
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the border. She’s hot, cool and happening! Groove, Take a break. Chill. La Lucha begins anew soon. In the meantime Sister Rosetta wails and is good for our heads.
Day 2 / Christmas Eve eve
Day 44 / Finished
by Nathan Zarate
photograph by Jaime Ojo
Artist Francisco Delgado, his brother Oswaldo, his friend, artist Mauricio Olaque and a large helping hand from Bowie High School students and neighborhood residents began the Sagrado Corazon Mural on the night of Christmas Eve eve, 2006.
The mural, with support from Sagrado Corazon, local businessmen, concerned residents and ex-residents of the Segundo Barrio,
 photo by Bruce Berman
TIJUANA, Mexico ) — The police department has issued about 60
slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana,
Centro El Paso – Enero, 2007 – photo by Bruce Berman
Legislators restarted talks of immigration reform Wednesday with the reintroduction of a bill for a guest-worker program, leading some border farmers to rejoice and some workers’ advocates to worry about potential abuse.
The bill,
Whacked
photo by Jaime Ojo
Artist Francisco Delgado with the assistance of Artist Mauricio Olague and numerous south side student volunteers have, once again, affirmed that El Segundo Barrio is the coolest neighborhood in El Paso.
Entering USA from Juarez.Yet again.The bridge.Flirting from enclosed car to enclosed car.
Fumes.
Juice.
Anticipation.
It’s almost 2007.
Accept no crap!
sueno del cielo
autoretrato#401
photo by Bruce Berman
Window Watch
Downtown, El Paso, 2006
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/Photos/online.htm
This is a good place to see some documentary photography collections.There are a lot of sites on Native Americans. That’s good. But, I find a scarcity of sites relating to Latinos, Mexican Americans or the Border. Do you have to be eliminated to get documented.
While I’m at it, here are a few more documentary sites:
http://www.maryellenmark.com
http://chnm.gmu.edu/fsa/
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/focus_areas/mw/10
http://www.edelmangallery.com/misrach.htm
June 2006, Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso, Texas
MexOnline.com – Mexican Revolution of 1910
The Border(PBS) | About the Show
Produced by Matthew Sneddon, KNME-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico 
The economies of Juarez, Mexico and its sister city, El Paso, Texas are driven by a system of assembly plants known as maquiladoras. There are more than 600 maquiladoras in Juarez, two-thirds of them owned by U.S. companies. Since the first maquiladora was built in Juarez in 1976, the population of the city has increased nearly five-fold to more than 1.25 million, making it the largest Mexican city on the border. The Rio Grande fuels Juarez and El Paso’s water supply.
However, the more than 10 million people who live in these desert communities have begun to exhaust the Rio Grande’s capacity to support them.
This segment focuses on one Rancho Anapra family faced with the realities of living in a desert community with no running water. It examines the factors that contributed to growth of this particular border region: the Rio Grande, the maquiladoras and the promise of a better life.
Roberto Martinez is the former director of the U.S./Mexico Border Program. A lifelong Chicano activist, he has spent 30 years monitoring human rights in the San Diego/Tijuana area. In 1992, he was honored as an Intermational Human Rights Monitor by Human Rights Watch, the first U.S. citizen to be honored in such a way.The following essay, published here as a call for a humane U.S. immigration policy, was written as the introduction for the American Friends Service Committee 2003 human rights report.
