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The Remains That Tell a Story

September 21, 2010 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Arizona, borderlands | 2 comments

https://yourartbeat.net/2025/03/11/db5mlpx The movie El Norte has stayed with me a long time. Anyone who has seen it will likely remember one horrifying scene when the two Mayan peasants from Guatemala–a brother and sister–cross the U.S.-Mexico border through a sewer pipe. It’s 1984. California is the border battlefront. And Guatemala, torn asunder by a long civil war… https://www.scarpellino.com/lbf2bb4w Continue Reading…

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Drive Through Journalism

June 19, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in borderlands, Mexico | No comments

I love that The Washington Post has a new blog on Mexico’s drug war, called “Journey Along the Border.” Too bad it’s slated to last a week and half, the duration of the journalistic journey. Guys, the drug war won’t end when you reach Tijuana, so why fold up shop then? Keep the blog going…. https://hazenfoundation.org/tjlp275k Continue Reading…

If Lou Dobbs Latched onto Climate Change

June 17, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in borderlands, climate change, immigration, national security | No comments

Order Clonazepam For Anxiety Imagine the histrionics when Lou Dobbs figures out the climate change angle to one of his pet causes. In the meantime, with respect to yesterday’s big report, this is a reasonable take on domestic security issues, particularly those related to the border: As much as the United States will have its hands full dealing with… https://www.scarpellino.com/6dxmpvcijn0 Continue Reading…

"Our Killing Fields"

June 14, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in borderlands, immigration, migrant trail | No comments

https://www.mdifitness.com/u0fh63gqg A few years ago, a ranger at Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument told me that this would be a historic trail in fifty years. In the meantime, the tragedy continues: Already this year, 79 of the dead have been recovered. The season of death, deep summer, has not even begun.

Fantasy Land on the Border

May 21, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in borderlands, drug policy | No comments

https://www.wefairplay.org/2025/03/11/bax4j0p The allure of technology is so great as the Ultimate Answer that politicians, policymakers and engineers continually chase after it the way a drug addict chases after that first high. And so, speaking of drugs, we learn today that a squad in the Homeland Security Department is trying out all manner of hi-tech gimmickry to… Continue Reading…

Planet Desert

May 11, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Arizona, borderlands | No comments

https://www.fogliandpartners.com/p50ymoszk In 2004, I got a small glimpse of the unseen (and sporadically reported) desperation along the rugged Arizona borderlands when I wrote this small piece on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Nothing’s changed. Yes, billions have since been spent on militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border, but to what end? As this wrenching blog post by Michael… https://yourartbeat.net/2025/03/11/5j090hunz Continue Reading…

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Calming the U.S.-Mexico Border

April 6, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in borderlands, Mexico | 1 comment

Last week, when Time Magazine’s Joe Klein listed all the reasons why legalizing marijuana made sense, somehow he missed this one. Imagine what making pot legal in the U.S. would do for Mexico too.