Come get a glimpse of the inner workings of the border industrial complex with these photos, text, and a video tour of the exhibition hall at the end. You will also learn about the national border security awards and who won person of the year.
"The history of migration through El Paso is one that’s been forgotten and overlooked, even though these workers—and not just workers but intellectuals, activists, and poets—helped shape the American Southwest as we know it today."
Happy May Day! An audio deep dive into the National Defense Areas and a human rights archeologist speaks on the politics of haunting and border deaths.
When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist, started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he found an odd pattern: many of his interviewees didn’t identify as part of the Right. They called themselves liberals. But “liberal” was also the term used by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then the country’s left-wing president, to describe himself. For González Ormerod, it was a problem that Mexico’s democracy didn’t encompass the full political spectrum. He went on to title his 2025 book La derecha no existe (pero ahí está): Guía para entender su fracaso y su futuro en México [The Right doesn’t exist (but it’s there): A guide for understanding its failure and its future in Mexico]. The book is in part a history of the Mexican Right’s failures, and in part an argument for why a recovery of the Right would benefit the country’s democracy. He contends that this is important even for those who consider themselves staunchly on the Left. In this podcast, Caroline Tracey speaks with Alex about the history of the PAN party, including its odd and sometimes unhappy marriage of Catholics and businessmen, and about his arguments concerning the future of democracy in Mexico.
You can also watch this video podcast on our Border Chronicle YouTube channel.
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With more than 40 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border now under military authority, we discuss our Border Chronicle/The War Horse investigation examining this unprecedented expansion of federal power and its impact on border communities.
As federal officials fast-track billions in border wall construction and floating buoy barriers, local leaders and residents say they’re in the dark, and fear the worst.
A Q&A and exclusive screening of a documentary short by award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz.
Each year since 1995, the Tohono O’odham Nation has held the Unity Run. “These runs,” Amy Juan says,“not only have their purpose as prayer for the people and the land but also put us on the ground to actually see what is happening” on the border.
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