The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13
How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 19
Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived." And Mexico and the US fund "water resiliency" for the Rio Grande, plus more news.
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This Week in The Border Chronicle:
Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises
In a 2023 image by Mexican photographer Eunice Adorno, a man stands in front of a towering wall, searching for the horizon line where the concrete ends and the sky begins. It’s as though he were contemplating an ancient structure, trying to interpret its meaning.
Caroline Tracey
Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?
The lower Rio Grande, which supplies drinking water to millions on both sides of the border from Del Rio, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, is the fifth-most endangered river in the United States. That’s according to the water conservation nonprofit …
Pablo De La Rosa
More News from the Border:
Canada and Mexico agree to deepen ties amid Trump trade war BBC
60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss The Washington Post
First section of new border wall in Az's San Rafael Valley visible Monday The Tucson Sentinel
Texas troopers are doubling their salaries under Abbott's border effort, even as crossings hit new lows Austin American-Statesman
Fort Bliss ‘assessing potential risks’ after city of El Paso deploys Chinese-made drones next to Army post El Paso Matters
South County Report: Democracy Is Dying? Not in National City Voice of San Diego
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13
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