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The border is wide: guarding the Southern flank of the American dream.
For three days and nights last January, Claudia Ortiz had been hiking with her mother and father across the Arizona desert, headed for Phoenix...
Harper's Magazine, 10/01/06 by Balli, Cecilia · More from publication -
Continental rift: when George W. Bush appointed him U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Brownsville native Tony Garza talked of strengthening out ties to our most important neighbor. Then came Iraq--and his best laid plans became another casualty of war.
TONY GARZA, AWAY FROM HIS MARBLE residence in Mexico City, was learning about the "migration problem." He strolled through the plaza in the little...
Texas Monthly, 10/01/04 by Cecilia Balli · More from publication -
Ciudad de la muerte: ten years of murder. Three hundred women and young girls dead. No credible arrests. What unknown evil stalks the street of Juarez? I almost found out for myself.
DO YOU KNOW what happens, to a human body in the desert? If it's fresh, the intestines eat themselves out. The body swells, the lung ooze fluids...
Texas Monthly, 06/01/03 by Cecilia Balli · More from publication -
Bard of the border: Oscar Casares is Texas' most intriguing young storyteller, whose tales of his native Brownsville describe a place where Latinos have moved from the margins to the mainstream.
Lincoln Park is gone. Disappeared. We are rolling along in Oscar Casares' maroon Toyota Tacoma, searching for the place where a decent portion of...
Texas Monthly, 03/01/03 by Cecilia Balli · More from publication -
Twins peak: their mother was a Chicana firebrand who fought the San Antonio establishment. Three decades later, Julian and Joaquin Castro have followed her into politics, not as outsiders but as Harvard-educated lawyers--and symbols of generational change
HE CAN'T, TO SAVE HIS LIFE, REMEMBER THE WORDS TO THE POEM. "God, I used to know this. Obviously, `I am Joaquin,'" begins Joaquin, his untidy...
Texas Monthly, 10/01/02 by Cecilia Balli · More from publication -
Pueblo nuevo: when I moved to Houston from San Antonio two years ago, I thought I would miss Texas' best city for Latinos. Instead, I found it
HOUSTON, ALLOW ME TO PROPOSE, IS LIKE a martini--an extraordinary thing cast from the mixing of ordinary elements, especially if you agree with...
Texas Monthly, 09/01/02 by Cecilia Balli · More from publication
