The Las Vegas massacre viewed through Mexican lenses
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Sunday’s massacre drew ample attention and widespread commentary in Mexico. Continue Reading
The rubble, remembrances and reverberations of Mexican September
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Ironically, today’s political and economic landscape in Mexico, which was battered by an earthquake Tuesday, looks hauntingly similar to 1985, when another quake caused devastation on the same September day. Continue Reading
Farewell to an extraordinary border journalist
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Marisela Ortega Lozano, who died earlier this month, is one of the unsung heroines of border journalism. Continue Reading
Trump inspires a ‘green and brown coalition’ in the borderlands
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President Donald Trump’s border policies and proposals are stirring a new convergence of forces. Continue Reading
With the number of seniors growing, the U.S. stumbles toward a day of reckoning
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The number of U.S. seniors will nearly double from 41.2 million in 2010 to 81.2 million in 2040. Continue Reading
With an aging population, the U.S. and Latin America are ‘in a race against time’
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Many nations of the Americas are contronting a defining, 21st Century dilemma: caring for the elderly amid turbulent social changes, economic uncertainties, mounting inequality and contentious politics. Continue Reading
Singing the Central Avenue blues in Albuquerque
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These days a Central Avenue excursion gives a sense of a city simultaneously in the throes of death and rebirth, or perhaps stillbirth. Continue Reading
NM high court rejects Albuquerque ballot-access challenge
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The decision let stand a lower court ruling that only people whose petition signatures were disqualified — not Stella Padilla, the potential mayoral candidate whose forms they signed — had standing to sue. Continue Reading
Albuquerque’s hot summer of angst, decay and politics
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As the administration of Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry enters its final months, histories of critical times are being recorded. Continue Reading
Worse than Russiagate? Spying scandal rattles Mexico
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The New York Times recently reported on the illegal use of a spyware program to target journalists and family members, lawyers, consumer advocates and human rights defenders in Mexico. Continue Reading
Mexico’s June elections may foreshadow stormy presidential transition in 2018
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Controversy marred the June 4 elections in four Mexican states that analysts consider a possible dress rehearsal. Continue Reading
Indigenous woman makes a run for the Mexican presidency
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Maria de Jesus Patricio Martinez would be the first indigenous woman to make the presidential ballot. Continue Reading
Peace flags, Juárez jazz and the world migrant crisis
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A recent gathering in Ciudad Juárez was dedicated to the cultural rights of migrants across the globe. Continue Reading
Sunland Park accelerates push for a new border crossing
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The promoters of a Sunland Park international crossing plan to interest a private company in building the structure and then recouping the costs through user fares. Continue Reading
Another Mexican journalist is gunned down
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Javier Valdez Cardenas is the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico since the beginning of the year. Continue Reading