La mayoría del desierto de Arizona es una región solitaria llena de desesperación y de poca fe. A pesar de la falta de promesas del desierto, las personas siguen cruzando la frontera ilegalmente en busca de la esperanza, oportunidad y estabilidad en los Estados Unidos. Durante muchos años, las personas de todo el mundo, particularmente de Latino…
Touring the historic Spanish missions of the Sonoran border region is now possible again after years of violence in Mexico. The Southwestern Mission Research Center has been doing tours of missions built by Father Kino since the 1970s, but in 2010 the center had to suspend them due to violence from gangs and warring drug…
The sidewalks lining Calle Alvaro Obregón were packed with families – men, women and children craning their necks to watch red, white and green floats parade down the main street of Nogales, Sonora. A military procession followed vaqueros on horseback, children in school uniforms and girls in traditional Mexican dresses. The colors of Mexico hung…
The Sonoran desert is a rich and vibrant ecosystem full of unique plant life to be admired — and eaten. Tucson and Southern Arizona’s native food scene is teeming with life due to businesses such as the St. Philip’s Farmers Market, Food Swap Tucson and the Hopyard Market. But Tucson residents can also take it…
[UPDATED: This story has been updated to reflect more recent news about drug tunnels at the border.] NOGALES, Ariz. — Successful tunnel-building requires engineering, planning, equipment, money, and a lot of hard labor. But the Nogales Tunnel Task Force has found that with enough incentive, people on the Mexican side of the border in Nogales…
