A Street Festival in defense of an El Paso neighborhood under threat of demolition to build a Wal-Mart and a strip mall. It is one of the oldest Chicano barrios in the United States and despite its poverty is full of cultural vitality. www.pasodelsur.com
The inauguration of a the largest equestrian statue in the world commemorating the brutal conquistador Don Juan de Oñate divides the city of El Paso, Texas.
Two Doña Ana county commissioners, a priest from the Segundo Barrio, and a group of concerned citizens from Las Cruces, El Paso and Juárez visit a Juárez neighborhood surrounded by barbed wire and armed thugs hired by powerful binational developers.
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El segundo foro en Lomas de Poleo, Ciudad Juárez, es bloqueado por un grupo de choque bajo ordenes del Grupo Zaragoza que ha terrorizado a los colonos desde el 2003. La policia municipal no hace nada para prevenir los abusos. Para mas informacion www.pasodelsur.com.
Father Bill Morton, a Columban missionary who was deported from Mexico for his advocacy work on behalf of the colonos of Lomas del Poleo, Ciudad Juárez shares his testimony at a UT El Paso forum on November 21, 2007. For more info www.pasodelsur.com.
Bowie High School students paint a mural in the Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, and speak out against the demolition of their community to build a Wal-Mart. For more infor: www.pasodelsur.com
Lomas del Poleo resident Petra Medrano speaks at a UT El Paso forum about human rights abuses at the hands of paramilitary guards hired by power Juárez developers who want to forcibly relocate them. The forum as titled "Lomas del Poleo-Segundo Barrio Under Siege. For more info www.pasodelsur.com
Residents of Lomas del Poleo and Segundo Barrio connect their struggle against powerful binational developers who are carrying out displacement and land expropriation in the name of redevelopment. "It is the love for our barrios and the love for our place that unites us," says Segundo Barrio resident Lupe Ochoa. For more info www.pasodelsur.com
Hector Murguía, mayor of Ciudad Juárez from 2003-2007, discusses his connections to binational developers behind a plan to displace thousands of people on the border including Lomas del Poleo, where residents have been put under siege by armed thugs for the last four years. For more info www.pasodelsur.com.
Father Ronald Gonzalez, assistant pastor of Sacred Heart Church, talks about a plan by the city of El Paso to demolish the heart of the Segundo Barrio, both a living community and a historic Mexican American neighborhood, to build a Wal-Mart and a "Lifestyle Outlet" center. The art mural behind him offers a countervision of this demolition plan. www.pasodelsur.com.
An El Paso neighborhood fights for dear life against binational investors who want to demolish thirty acres of their community to build a Wal-Mart. El Segundo Barrio is not for sale! See www.pasodelsur.com.
A slideshow of current and historical examples of displacement and dispossession on boths sides of the U.S.-Mexico border?El Paso's Segundo Barrio, Juarez's Lomas del Poleo and Chavez Ravine. For more info www.pasodelsur.com
Lomas del Poleo residents in Ciudad Juárez tell stories of violence, intimidation and murder at the hand of the Zaragoza Fuentes family, a powerful group of binational developers on the U.S.- Mexico border. For more information: www.pasodelsur.com
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