Q&A with Molly Molloy: The Story of the Juarez Femicides is a ‘Myth’

By Christopher Hooks, The Texas Observer For years, a specter hung over Ciudad Juárez. In the 1990s, the largest city on the Texas-Mexico border became infamous for its gruesome “femicides”—the murders […]

By Debbie Nathan, The Texas Observer It’s 5:45 a.m. on a Monday, and we’re stuck in traffic, slowly inching northward on a bridge that joins Mexico to the United States at […]

Some of the happiest moments of my life have taken place in Mexico. The highlights of my childhood were from our trips to my parents’ hometown of Tepehuanes, Durango — […]

By Melissa del Bosque On Monday, July 25, there was a riot in the Cereso state prison in Juarez and 17 people were killed. The prison is divided between the […]

By Melissa del Bosque On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his […]

Texas, The U.S. Becoming More Latino Lots Of Latinos Don’t Have spanish Surnames (Like Me) Racist Statement Uncovers Real Tea Party California Law To Give Farmworkers Union Rights

Two years ago 18 year-old Estefania Anaya lost her mother when she took her own life. Today, she’s the valedictorian of her private school in El Paso, Texas and recently won […]

The Middle East continues to boil over, the TSA tests new body scanners, undocumented immigration has remained stable in the U.S., it’s cold across the country and Ciudad Juárez sees […]

I wanted to post this story about Mexico’s Wikileaks cables as a sort of repository for the info I could find on the subject. Of course Mexico hasn’t been the […]

A horrible milestone, to be sure, but reports are that Ciudad Juárez counted its 3,000th murder victim in 2010; the deadliest year yet.