On November 2, 2012, a collection of humanitarian groups organized a Bi-National Day of the Dead Procession. This procession began at 5pm in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. Nearly 100 participants in each city wore white and carried candles and white flowers as they walked along the border fence passed the spot where José Antonio…
On November 2, high above Nogales, Sonora at the Colinas del Buen Pastor cemetery, Taide Elena placed two lit candles on the grave of her grandson, 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez. “Era mi niño,” she said over and over again through tears. He was my boy. He was my boy. Colinas del Buen Pastor was…
Chanting demands for justice and a thorough investigation, roughly 30 friends, relatives and supporters of the slain 16-year-old Nogales, Sonora, resident José Antonio Elena Rodriguez marched to the Sonoran side of the downtown port-of-entry Saturday morning. José Antonio was killed the evening of Oct. 10 in a Border Patrol shooting that is still under investigation…
{youtube width=”600″}7wd2-tXVbPI{/youtube} Seventy migrants captured by Customs and Border Patrol, or apprehended without papers inside the United States, are sentenced every day for jail and deportation in Tucson, Ariz through Operation Streamline. Within 48 hours, they are rushed past a judge and deported. Some defense lawyers and advocates say Streamline is in violation of the…
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto and Rocío Gallegos Rodríguez are two of many reporters in Ciudad Juárez that weren’t prepared to cover what was known as one of the most dangerous places in the world for a journalist.
There have been more than 70 media workers killed in Mexico since 1994, according to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Among those murdered were two of Rodriguez and Gallegos co-workers at El Diario de Juárez – reporter Armando Rodríguez Carreón and photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco.
