“Mexico’s Red Days” by Charles Bowden in GQ on the escalating Juárez, Mexico murders:

The killings have the cold feeling of butchery in a slaughterhouse, and they are everywhere: done in broad daylight, on streets, in markets, at homes, and even in Wal-Mart parking lots. Women, children, guilty, innocent—no one is safe.

These are red, endless days.

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
013 Crossing Borders— From Mexico to US
Host— Marcos Martinez of KUNM-Alberquerque
Airdates— 5/28/2008 - 6/4/2008

A Tale of Two Countries: In “Sasabe,” a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants on their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona. Luis Alberto Urrea reads from his books Vatos and The Devil’s Highway, about death in the desert. Guillermo Gómez-Peña imagines “Maquiladoras of the Future,” fantasy border factories. “And I walked…”, by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler, is a sound-portrait of Mexicans who risk their lives to find better-paying jobs in the United States. And sounds from the Quiet American’s one-minute vacation.

Crossing Borders (54:00 mp3):

Author Charles Bowden on the border, © 2008 Julián Cardona: