This Database Put 150 Years of Mexican and Mexican-American Regional Newspapers Online For the First Time

*This is fantastic! I’ve always maintained that you can’t understand the U.S.-Mexico border unless you’ve lived there. There’s a wealth of stories, data and history in this collection. I’m happy it’s available, there are reports that go back to the Gadsen Purchase and cover all the way to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. VL


remezcla-logoBy Yara Simón, Remezcla

The U.S.-Mexico border is as contentious as ever. In a political cartoonpublished exactly a century ago on El Paso Morning Times, Bud Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff shows three men standing in front of the border, contemplating whether or not to step into Pancho Villa territory.

El Paso Times

El Paso Morning Times

Back then – in the midst of the Mexican Revolution – the neighboring countries struggled over the border (aka the Border War), as Mexican revolutionaries tried to gain control of border towns.”Hysteria grew among border American residents after officials in 1915 discovered Mexican partisans’ plans calling for a race war against whites to take back the annexed American territory,” the Los Angeles Times wrote. “Mexican guerrillas made small raids into U.S. land across the border, and Texas Rangers and vigilantes began killing Mexicans suspected of involvement.”

These days, violence and death along the border continue . . . READ MORE



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