Rancheros from Michoacan.
Migrant women in Jaripo, Michoacan marching during that village's annual fiesta. (Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream)
A statue of Juan Soldado, unofficial patron saint of illegal immigrants at the shrine over his grave in Municipal Cemetery #2 in Tijuana
"The most original writer on Mexico and the border out there."   San Francisco Chronicle
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WHAT'S NEW   ...     This site, for one, recently redesigned. Also ...

• Tell Your True Tale is an experiment in storytelling. Everyone has a story to tell. Write yours. Send it in.

• Teachers: Read how a Univ. of Iowa history prof shaped a class around Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream.
(journal of american ethnic history)

• The Photos page now has photo essays from my books. Up now: the Alameda park break-dance scene in Mexico City, and velvet painters from Juarez and Tijuana. Also new photos of Antonio Carrillo, from Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream.

• An interview on PBS' Maria Hinojosa: One on One.

• A story in Foreign Policy on Mexico's drug war.
"...a tireless reporter, fascinated by the stories that lie behind an ephemeral headline."
The Economist
A Beth Penny photo
Rodolfo Duran is one of the pioneer yeseros, the plaster workers who supply border vendors with statues of Mickey Mouse, bulls, Spiderman and the Virgin of Guadalupe, in Tjuana's Colonia Libertad near the border crossing.