Archive for April, 2010

Juarez Children’s Art Project – Beautifying the Barrio

April 30th, 2010 by mmlindsey

Juarez Children’s Art Project – Beautifying the Barrio

Ciudad Juarez has been labeled a dying and lost city. So many have abandoned hope, discarding it like the plastic bags that dance in the spring wind. The undercurrent of cold-hearted violence and death has overwhelmed any good news that sprouts up in our city. Journalists and authors focus on the crime and ugliness, their [...]

Murder City

April 6th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey

Murder City

We can still believe that destroying another human life is an extreme act. Unless of course, the slaughter is done by governments. Or the killing is done to some vague group variously dubbed as terrorists or gangsters or drug dealers or people – and this varies with location – of other color or religious notions. [...]

This is Juarez: The War Next Door

April 2nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey

This is Juarez: The War Next Door

Almost all the dead are poor people, not drug-enriched grandees. And though we give Mexico half a billion dollars a year to encourage its army to fight drug merchants, this alleged war has a curious feature: Almost no soldiers ever die. For example, in Juarez, over 4,200 citizens have been slain in two years. In [...]

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