With the publication of “Desert, Divided” and “One nation, divisible” (HCN, 3/19/18), HCN demonstrated a commitment to tell the stories of the borderlands and to embrace the region as part of the West. The correspondents and photographers humanized the daily struggles of life there, sketching portraits of communities that reveal the complexity of the border. […]
Meg Scherch-Peterson
Posted inDecember 11, 2017: Scorched Earth
Border lite
Weaponized landscape or great place to drink Tecate? The tone of this piece is way out of whack with the story it purports to tell: how author Francisco Cantú transformed himself from a (brutal? we never find out) Border Patrol cop to a teacher, writer and (we are led to believe) sympathizer with those he […]