The Borderlands’ Lost Third Country
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.
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“Mexico Is the Wall”: Deterrence in the Time of Elections
Earlier this month the Mexican military killed six migrants in Chiapas. Behind this is the militarization of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, done with support and pressure from the U.S.
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