US/Mexico border

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On March 28, 2008, my “Death by Media” article was published. The article dealt with how the US press had literally scared the pants off of people, and visiting Baja with emphasis on Tijuana, all but stopped. The reports that visitors to Baja were in danger were tremendously exaggerated and overly dramatized was the basis of the “Death by Media.”</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As the US House of Representatives approved a $600 million border security bill August 10, polemics over the safety of the US-Mexico border intensified. In language reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan, New Mexico Democratic Congressman Harry Teague praised the passage of the 2010 Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Bill (6080) as a concrete gesture of support for the first-term representative’s “border security surge.”</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 1980s’s Hugo Torres led the tough 12-year campaign to make Rosario its own city, independent from Tijuana. When voters made that a reality in 1995, he was appointed the city’s first mayor.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arturo Esparza brought the visitor to the small patch of chile, tomato, eggplant and sunflower rising from the desert earth of Vado, New Mexico.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under normal circumstances, an open-air concert would be no big deal. But normalcy flew out the door long ago in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Nowadays, so many shootings and murders disturb the peace that any passage of time seems a bit spooky without the whir of ambulances in the background or foreground.</p>

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<p><strong>Video: <a href="http://laprensa-sandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Ceremonia-TKT.w… TKT</a></strong></p>

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<p>Video: <a href="http://laprensa-sandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Ceremonia-TKT.w… TKT</a></p>