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Home Run »
A jogging path along the Rio Grande was a treasured, secret place—until it became part of the front lines in a war I still don’t understand.
March 2012 by Oscar Casares
Living With the Border Fence »
The border fence cuts through a Valley farmer's property, upending his family's life.
December 2011 by Oscar Casares
Minor Emergency »
Drug gangs in Mexico are increasingly turning to American teenagers to smuggle their loads across the border. What can be done?
August 2011 by P. J. Tobia
On the Border
NPR correspondent John Burnett talks about the Gulf cartel and what it's like to be a journalist in Matamoros.
April 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Dead Line »
As the Mexican drug cartels have waged war along the border, they have also developed a disciplined approach to managing the press.
April 2011 by John Burnett
The Border Fence, Brownsville
Plans to erect a physical barrier between Texas and Mexico met with resistance up and down the border in 2008, but nowhere did the federal government and local authorities butt heads more than at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.
March 2011
Ghost Town »
Inside the vicious cartel war in northern Mexico—and one family’s struggle to survive.
February 2011 by Cecilia Ballí
Spill Way »
When people ask me if cartel violence will find its way into Texas, I tell them it already has—and it’s going to get worse.
October 2010 by Michael Lauderdale
Back to the Future »
A trip through South Texas in search of the ghosts of borders past—and a vision for what comes next.
November 2010 by John Phillip Santos
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