tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post8373240662914475422..comments2024-03-29T06:03:26.512-07:00Comments on IEPI: Straddling BordersTon van 't Hofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887032597668813687noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post-91378504364900220432007-01-18T13:32:00.000-08:002007-01-18T13:32:00.000-08:00Linh, the El Paso Times video documenting Subcoman...Linh, the El Paso Times video documenting Subcomandante Marcos visit to Juarez is available again at <br />http://www.elpasotimes.com/search/ci_4588343<br />It's a very interesting video. The US Homeland Security helicopter rose up over us just as Marcos began to speak.<br />BobbyBobby Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post-75716740196082952442007-01-18T11:37:00.000-08:002007-01-18T11:37:00.000-08:00Bobby Byrd sent me this note after my post appeare...Bobby Byrd sent me this note after my post appeared:<br /><br />"There are 2 border literatures, one written by the people who have lived here (the fronterizos) and the other by parachutists, folks coming in from elsewhere and writing about the border. This is curious because, oddly enough, the US/Mexican border has always been a peculiar part of the US and Mexican psyche. So you have writers like William Carlos Williams, Kerouac, Graham Greene, Carlos Fuentes, Paco Taibo II , Cormac McCarthy, etcetera, writing about the border, and then you have the fronterizos writing about the border. Going south the border is a place to escape into sort of romantic kerouacian surrealism, going north the border is a place to escape into economic possibility (security). In the movie Perros Amores, when the guy gets on the bus, he tells his girlfriend he’s going to Juárez. And that’s the end of the movie."Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.com