... to the violence that, over the last decade, has claimed hundreds of women’s lives in the north- ern Mexican cities of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez. Many of the victims have been tortured, mutilated, and dumped, like...

...Alejandro Lugo Duke University Press 2006 Alejandro Lugo Photo Essay: Cruces These photographs of the El Paso–Ciudad Juárez borderlands—my own native homeland— were taken between 2000 and 2005. The photo...

... Juárez para su viabilidad jurídica” (“Elements for the Analysis of Systematic Sexual Femicide in Ciudad Juárez for Its Juridical Viability”) . Paper presented at the International Seminar: Femicide, Law, and Justice , Mexico City , December 8–9, 2004 . Segato Rita . 2013 . La escritura en...

... traveled to Ciu- dad Juárez in Chihuahua—a city on the U.S.-M­ exico border across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, where hundreds of young and adult women have been murdered or have disappeared since 1993.9 Ciudad Juárez has Figure 2. Teresa Margolles, Línea Fronteriza (Border Line), 2005...

... to the U.S.-Canada border region and now lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she teaches anthropology and environ- mental studies at Western Michigan University. She is completing a book about a century of cross-border garbage and recycling between the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez...

... to destroy his organization. It was at this meeting that the modern drug cartels with their respective corridors would emerge: the Tijuana Cartel, the Sinaloa-Sonora 9 Cartel, the Juárez Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel. These are the same organi- zations that today...

... a Migrantes (Beta Group for the Protection of Mi- grants), the Mexican border patrol in Ciudad Juárez, in 2003. C. Roberto Gaytan Saucedo, the interim director for the INM in Juárez, reported that the scale of migration makes the task of policing the desert region impos- sible. Officially a humanitarian...

... afinidad y otras reflexiones para hacernos y pensarnos en un mundo otro” (“On the Community of Affinity and Other Reflections to Make and Think Ourselves in a World Otherwise” ). El Apantle , no. 1 . Segato Rita . 2013 . La escritura en el cuerpo de las mujeres asesinadas en Ciudad Juárez...

..., and a dentist in Juárez recommends purified rather than public water to avoid the risk of infection after dental work. As the novel’s central plot, the river’s color change articulates a sym- bolic critique of U.S.-style globalization that draws on the originary political impetus of Latin American ‘‘boom...

..., the map- ping of this space should be accomplished through the illumination of the diverse cultures in the border region. The Border Is: Danger Some friends and I are in a cheesy piano bar of some tourist hotel in Ciudad Juárez. A man is telling us about the dangers of Juárez, about how it is far...

..., NJ : Princeton University Press . Segato Rita . 2013 . La escritura en el cuerpo de las mujeres asesinadas en Ciudad Juárez (The Writing on the Body of the Murdered Women of Ciudad Juárez) . Buenos Aires : Tinta Limón . Verbitsky Horacio . 2013 . “Suburbs” (“Conurbanos...

... success ‘‘winning the war’’ on the border than it is winning anything in Iraq. Mi- grant deaths have reached new highs (Manzanas, Sadowski-Smith, Cama- cho Schmidt), murders of women continue unabated and unresolved in Ciudad Juárez (Wright), environmental conditions remain worrisome to many (Hill...

... the Conquistadores took over the land. Native Americans have contributed notable leaders. In Mexico s history who is more grandiose than the pure-blooded Indian Presi­ dent, Benito Juarez? He is the Lincoln of Mexico. He broke up ecclesiastical and landed feudalism and set his country on the path of greater...

... to putting nations on a kind of restart mechanism that could bring back the days when the Venezuelan currency (the bolívar fuerte) was strong or when Mexico was ruled by honest republicans like Benito Juárez. Alongside these exalted aims, the new founding fathers have finance ministers...

..., the stubborn center of a stirring Indian life and a politically discredited re­ ligion, the center of an invisible empire. Juarez broke the power of the Church by wrenching away its mortmaine estates; the recent revolution completed the process; but the invisible theocratic government still persists, and still...

... to enter military service in Mexico. Finding that the purpose of its leaders was to fight for Maximilian rather than Juarez, he withdrew his name. With the collapse of the Confederate armies in the East, Kirby Smith moved his head­ quarters to Houston, Texas. The surrender of his army was made by his...

... the questions of existence. As the Panchos put it, the “system” teaches “individualism and apathy” (FPFVI-UNOPII 2006 : 2). This education is what anthropologist Rita Laura Segato ( 2018 : 13), in her description of the violent metropolitanization of Juarez, names “pedagogies of cruelty,” “all those practices...

... admission of her lesbianism at a meeting of the women s movement at Columbia University. This was in 1970, before such intimate communiques were commonplace. . . . Millett vividly recalls the scene: Teresa Juarez s voice loud hutches me from a floor mike center of the room, a bully for all the right...

..., October 24, 1955, a rather detailed account of the election of October 3 to listeners in Soviet Central Asia in which he dwelt on the UDN as a tool of the American capitalist warmongers. The party s candidate for President in that election was General Juarez Tavora of the Army. Brigadier Eduardo Gomes...

... Hidalgo and Benito Juarez.”39 Gonzales makes American patriotism into a transcontinental affair, echo- ing Jose Martí with his ghosts of liberators past. However, he goes further when he tells these seniors that when they fight for the United States in World War II they should seek courage...