On a sweltering August morning, Edgar Ureste recalls, he discovered that he’d left the gate of his corral unlatched and that his horse Corona, a handsome three-year-old brown mare with a white star on her nose, was missing. Corona, who was born in the early days of the pandemic that inspired her name, had been a gift for his daughter for her fourth birthday. Ureste knew that Camila would be devastated by the news of her horse’s disappearance.Ureste lives in Boquillas, a Mexican village of around two hundred residents that sits across the Rio Grande from Big Bend National Park. On the Texas side stands the Boquillas Port of Entry, the only means of legally crossing the border inside the park. After realizing Corona was…
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