Politics of Climate Change in Chihuahua

Planning what illegal wells to shut down / Tom Barry During recent trips to the Mexican borderlands and into central Chihuahua, I have been ...

New Chihuahua Water Wars -- Police Fire First Shots

Chihuahua Chronicles #4 Bullet shells on plat map of illegal wells and dams in Santa Clara basin / Tom Barry The brass bullet shells lay str...

Desert America -- Rubén Martínez Tells His Story by Telling Their Stories

Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez is the best book-length treatment of Mexican immigration. That’s largely because Martínez didn’t focus as m...

Magic and Realism in a Homemade Chihuahua Museum

Chihuahua Chronicles #3 Tom Barry Elizabeth Dávila with collection of mammoth fossils / Tom Barry I wasn’t expecting to spend more than a ha...

On the Libre to Cuauhtémoc

Chihuahua Chronicles #2 Tom Barry Most everyone heading to Cuauhtémoc takes the toll road. It’s faster, more direct. The cuota highway, how...

"¡Ah, Chihuahua!"

Chihuahua Chronicles #1 (The first of a series of dispatches about Chihuahua with a focus on the water crisis.) New deep well drilling on Me...

A Great Aridness

Book Review Tom Barry Abandoned farmland in Ascensión/Tom Barry While at a party in Washington, DC two weeks ago I found myself blurting out...