Yes, this is everything

By Mish DeCarlo/El Inde I cried for eight hours straight. Well, it was more like sobbing. And that was just during my drive from Tucson to my home in Huntington Beach, California. You should have seen me the night before after a glass (or rather, bottle) of wine.  By the time I pulled into my…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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