The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: July 10
Border grassroots organizing is winning in July; Who pays the price for Brownsville's tech and industrial boom? And Tijuana Art Week and NAFTA's lasting influence on Baja's landscape. Plus more!
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Drought and Doubt on the Rio Grande: A Q&A with Watershed Scientist Martin Castro
As the Rio Grande dries up, Laredo, Texas, could run out of water by next spring. Communities downstream are already going dry.
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Who Pays for Brownsville's Industrial and Tech Boom?
County leaders say tax abatements attract jobs. But some residents argue the incentives enrich billion-dollar corporations while they shoulder the costs of growth, pollution, strained public resources, and environmental loss.
Trump’s Border Wall Is Coming for Some of the Oldest Murals in North America
A $2.6 billion border barrier through Texas' Lower Pecos Canyonlands has archaeologists warning that irreplaceable indigenous rock art and sacred sites could be destroyed.
The Manual Labor of Conservation
As housing projects, mines, and border wall construction accelerate habitat loss, photographer Eliseu Cavalcante documents the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society’s efforts to preserve the desert’s iconic plants.
“They Don’t Care About Any Law”: A Q&A with Elsa Hull on Her Arrest While Opposing Border Wall Construction
This month, Hull’s worst fears came true as contractors for Southwest Valley Constructors and Kiewit started bulldozing and scraping land near her home to construct a 30-foot border wall.