Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup April 4
Deadly rains leave part of the Texas-Mexico border in ruins, an acute water crisis in northwest Mexico, and a ferocious dust storm on the road to a water conference in Ciudad Juárez.
Ask an Expert
How will the latest round of Trump tariffs affect trade and commerce? What will happen with Mexico’s relationship with the U.S.? Next week, we’ll be live-streaming our next “Ask An Expert” Q&A with Jerry Pacheco, an expert on border trade.
Jerry Pacheco is the president of The Border Industrial Association based in Santa Teresa, NM and is a nationally recognized expert on international trade and cross-border commerce, frequently called upon to advise U.S. and global leaders—including four Mexican presidents—on trade policy.
Email us your questions about tariffs, trade and business at the border for Jerry Pacheco by April 9 to be answered by him on our livestream Q&A. Don’t forget to put “ask an expert” in the subject line. Send them to theborderchronicle@protonmail.com
This Week in The Border Chronicle:
Historic Levels of Rain Leave the Texas-Mexico Border in Ruins, with Officials Slow to Respond
By midday Wednesday, the sky was dark and ominous across the region. The rain started in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and northern Tamaulipas and didn’t let up until…
Telling the Stories of Sonora’s Water
Like the arid U.S. Southwest, northwest Mexico faces an acute water crisis. In recent months, the country’s federal water commission (CONAGUA), Sonora’s state water commission, and the water utility of the city of Hermosillo have proposed building three new dams on the Sonora River, which is already stretched thin by agricultural, urban, and industrial …
Reporter’s Notebook: Walking to Mexico in a Dust Storm
We are standing on the Prospect Street Bridge over Interstate 10 in El Paso, Texas, during a ferocious dust storm at around 2 p.m. on March 18. I am with geographer Joseph Nevins, who tries to fend off the dust barrage by wearing an N95 mask. You may already know Joe; he did a