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‘Exit Wounds’ (2024), awarded the 2025 Juan E. Méndez Book Award from the Duke Human Rights Center
An interview with anthropologist Ieva Jusyonite on her book ‘Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border’.
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My story for OPIS on how installations from TotalEnergies, INEOS and SABIC UK obtained $127 million in free carbon allowances despite their plants being inactive or emitting as little as 78 metric tons of carbon in a year.
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My story on how Settegast residents - the neighborhood with the lowest life expectancy in Houston - plan to transform a defunct event venue into a health care facility.
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My review for NACLA on a movie that marked a historic moment in Latin American - and world - history.
My story on how three different companies - CF Industries, BP and Spirit Energy - were issued millions of dollars in UK carbon allowances despite their plants being offline for the entirety or part of 2022.
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My analysis and interviews on how the current geopolitical situation in Europe will affect the European Union’s emissions allowances - the price of carbon - as it seeks to wean itself off from Russian fossil fuels.
Read MoreI discuss the process by which PM Rishi Sunak was “elected” to 10 Downing Street, the increasing pressure to temper the cost of living crisis and what the first non-white PM in Britain’s history means and represents - or not - in post-Brexit Britain.
Read MoreA mayor’s edict in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood of Mexico City whitewashes rótulos, the iconic designs of street vendors that have adorned city streets for generations.
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Desde Iztapalapa.
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Waco, Tejas
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The port of entry at the Laredo - Nuevo Laredo crossing on Nov. 7.
For nearly two years during the pandemic, Mexicans could not cross the Rio Grande for shopping, tourism, or family visits. Border cities dependent on their business were hit hard but have hope now that the travel ban has been lifted.
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This 2020 Netflix documentary examines the origins and development of Latin American rock and the role it has played in the region’s history and politics.
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Credit: TresPM.mx (source: https://www.trespm.mx/cultura/origen-y-significado-de-las-serpientes-y-escaleras )
From the book I’m planning to write.
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On returning
I thought I knew these skies.
Read MoreÁngel Mártinez knew no English when he arrived to Texas A&M’s Division I swim team back in 2015. This month, he is in Tokyo for the swim meet of his life.
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Mexican and English humor. Healing cynical hearts since 1966 and 1970.
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It’s been a weird few weeks.
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The stench of dying flames confirms my fabrications.
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This is part of a series on South-South Globalisation and getting stories from a diverse group of students at the University of Oxford on identity, race, nationality, language and all the gritty and undefined areas in between all of these.
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Unrelated.
Short stories, shorter nonsense.
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