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In a Mexicali Novel, a Secret and an Unraveling Childhood Friendship
Elma Correa’s award-winning Donde termina el verano follows two girls from the working-class outskirts of Mexicali whose friendship, guilt and memories are shaped by a childhood disappearance and the borderlands around them.
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Wall Watch: Mapping Trump’s $46 Billion Border Mega-Project
In this week’s podcast, Melissa del Bosque and Geographer Dugan Meyer explain how the Border Chronicle’s new project, Wall Watch, helps residents document and understand the massive construction project underway at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Update: August 21
Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel–in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley–that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.
The San Juan Hotel Battle: A Crossroads for Mexican American Civil Rights in the Rio Grande Valley
There is a reckoning with history happening at an old hotel with a horrific past and the RGV’s first and only civil rights museum.
Countering the Negative Border Narrative: A Photo Essay on the Friends across Borders Event in Agua Prieta and Douglas
A binational gathering shows that the borderlands community seeks peace and unity, not a manufactured war zone.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Update: August 14
As DHS gaslights border communities, help document the reality on Wall Watch, our new community powered map for border wall construction, and a podcast from the resistance in Lochiel, Arizona, where protestors try to save the last ancient Cottonwood tree from bulldozers.
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