Trying to stay hopeful

By Aiya Cancio/El Inde I wake up every morning. I open my windows and I go outside. I see how beautiful everything is around me. Every day.  In the beginning, I cried a lot. During a whirlwind week that I am sure felt as chaotic for at least half of the people in this country…

Continue Reading

What the pandemic took away from me

By Victoria Ariate-Jover/El Inde The coronavirus pandemic has affected my life in a variety of ways. In a couple of weeks, I would have been on my way to Indio, California, to attend the Coachella Music Festival with a few of my best friends. A few weeks after that, I would have been attending my…

Continue Reading

The rise and fall of mining in the Patagonia Mountains

By Clara Migoya /El Inde In a lot on Harshaw Avenue, off-road trucks line up in neat rows. The small town of Patagonia is seeing new activity in the nearby mountains now that South32, an Australian mining company, is running round-the-clock mineral drilling operations at the Hermosa-Taylor mine.  “The Taylor deposit, just by scale, is…

Continue Reading

Bacanora and the bats

By Ashley Fredde/El Inde While there are many plants nestled in Borderlands Restoration Network’s greenhouses, the blue agave is one of Francesca Claverie’s favorites. Claverie, the Native Plant Program Manager, holds a cup of coffee despite the warm temperatures inside the greenhouse, nicknamed Greenhouse Baby Herbert. She leans over the agaves hanging in rows in the…

Continue Reading