Author Archives | Tom Barry
Tom Barry is the author of Drones Over the Homeland and numerous books on U.S.-Latin America relations and the U.S.-Mexico border. His latest book is Border Wars (MIT Press, 2012). Barry is now working on a book on climate change and the coming water wars in northern Mexico and southwestern United States. Barry, who lives near Silver City, NM, blogs at: borderlinesblog.blogspot.com.
He is available for media interviews and can be contacted at tombarry@ciponline.org, or 575-313-4544 (U.S) or 011-52-1-636-699-8167 (Mexico).
Politics of Climate Change in Chihuahua
In Mexico climate change is a given, it's the rule of law that's murky. Borderland journalist Tom Barry explores the increasing tensions amidst dwindling water supplies just south of the border.
Continue reading...The Coming Water Wars in Mexico – Part 2
10. June 2013
Mexican farmers and indigenous group join forces to protest illegal wells and tourism encroachment in northern Mexico.
Continue reading...Magic and Realism in a Homemade Chihuahua Museum
23. May 2013
A chance encounter opens a portal into an eclectic world of prehistory, Mexican rural history, and a vision of homegrown environmental sustainability.
Continue reading...Changing perspectives on U.S.-Mexico relations
03. May 2013
It’s unfortunate that the two presidents chose to hold their May 2-3 summit in Mexico City. Both nations and Presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto would have been better served by a meeting at the border – where the grim reality of neighborly relations would not be masked by the pomp and circumstance of the grand presidential residence of Los Pinos.
A meeting at the customs building in Ciudad Juárez – the site of the first Mexico-U.S. presidential meeting in 1909 between Porfirio Díaz and William Taft – would have likely resulted in a more memorable and productive summit of the current heads of state, Enrique Peña Nieto and Barack Obama. As it is, this meeting will likely be soon forgotten – lost in protocol, predictable rhetoric about interdependence, and the photogenic smiles of the two presidents...
Continue reading...The Coming Water Wars in Mexico
14. April 2013
Once forbidden as a transgression of God’s natural laws, irrigated agriculture backed by increasingly deep wells and the most advanced farming machinery has become the norm. Mennonite farmers are meeting—and taking advantage of—the challenges of climate change and intensifying drought cycles by embracing the most unsustainable practices of capital-intensive, resource-depleting agribusiness...
Continue reading...Obama’s political framing of immigration reform lacks depth
11. April 2013
President Obama’s understanding of immigration and border policy is fundamentally political. For Obama, immigration reform makes good sense politically. As such, the president’s vision of immigration reform is framed by political platitudes and slogans – such as the stress on combatting transnational crime, deporting and excluding “criminal aliens,” and fortifying border security.
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23. June 2013
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