President Obama bailed out the banks. President Cheney started a war that netted his company billions in no-bid contracts. Both political parties support a Byzantine tax code that lets rich people and…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
The Border Chronicle – What Is Plan Sonora?
An aerial view in February 2023 of the largest solar plant in Latin America, which is being built in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, as part of Mexico’s Plan Sonora. (Photo credit: Raquel Cunha…
El Chuqueño Blog – “Vicki”
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The Border Chronicle – The Migrant Criminality Narrative: A Podcast with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Subscribe now An anti-deportation protest on a freeway in Los Angeles on February 2. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Share With Donald Trump, one thing has been constant since he announced his…
The Border Chronicle – America’s Gulag
COMPLEX exhibit photo courtesy of David Taylor. Subscribe now Share For denizens of the borderlands, surveillance is a constant presence. In the last two decades, as the budget for U.S. Customs and…
El Chuqueño Blog – Border Theater
Yesterday the Mexican Army posted up on Avenida Juarez. What were they looking for? Fentanyl? Venezuelans? The approval of the American president? While I was there they didn’t pop any trunks, or…
El Chuqueño Blog – “Forbidden”
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El Chuqueño Blog – Tariffs, the Superbowl and Ecocide
By Kent Paterson President Donald Trump’s decision to delay for 30 days the implementation of tariffs on Mexican products averted higher costs for the legions of football fans gearing up for Superbowl…
The Border Chronicle – The Mass Deportation Handoff
Subscribe now This article is a collaboration between The Border Chronicle and TomDispatch, a great outlet which has been looking at U.S. foreign policy, the military industrial complex, the “forever wars,” climate…