Ciudad Juárez

It was another day in Hawaii , but I was so happy because for the first time in 10 years I was going back to my country Mexico. It was my first time in a airplane, I was so scared i felt that the plane would fall off the sky at any time, all I did was pray to Jesus Christ my lord to stay with me and protect me through the whole flight. 3 hours through the flight I was annoyed and tired of sitting down I just wanted to get off already. After 6 hours of waiting the plane finally landed in LA,…

laws”. This showing the war was more about an attention battle than an actual war for a real cause because the war posters were not advertising the actual cause. The government eventually couldn’t take it anymore and retreated to the main cities of Juarez and Mexico…

Stories are great. Who doesn’t love a good story. We have been telling them passing them around spreading them for as long as humans have been around. The best way to spread a story, so it can reach thousands even millions of people is through the internet. The internet may be one of the best inventions so far. You can buy 1,500 live lady bugs on Amazon and get it the next day, if you forgot to watch the latest episode of Scandal on ABC 7 you can illegally watch it online a few hours later, you…

My community is well known for being multicultural since we consider El Paso, Tx and CIudad Juarez, Mexico, to be a big united city. As Americans, here in El Paso, we are all proud to be able to speak perfect English and Spanish as well as to be part of both cultures. Many people from El Paso,TX and from Juarez cross each day to the opposite city where they work, go to school, or visit family. That is why we consider both cities, to be a big city that is just divided by an international border.…

Like mentioned, drug organizations have been around for decades, and there’s been much more violence since then in Mexico. Unfortunately, between 2006 and 2012, there happened to be over 60,000 killed due to drug-related violence when former President, Felipe Calderon, was president for those 6 years. However, fortunately, the numbers have slightly decreased since the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, took the presidential position.3 Aside from this decline, in history there have been seven…

terminating plants and multiple relocations to vastly different geographic and social areas. From 1930 to 1988, the RCA corporation relocated to four different geographic cities, including Camden, Bloomington, Tennessee, and internationally in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. As a result, RCA was one of the primary companies who followed the pattern of industrialization in America, which possessed positive standards for the consumer and company as a whole, yet directed individuals and employees to a…

To illustrate, Javier Rosas’s song, “En la sierra y la ciudad (La China)” praises Calderon Ojeda for being unique, as she has become self-dependent and powerful: “señoras y señores ahora el canto es diferente/ahora va pa la las mujeres, pa una dama muy valiente/donde llega se respeta, lo que diga/en la sierra y la ciudad, yo soy la China/quien dijo que las mujeres no podían…” (2013). It can be argued that Calderon Ojeda is worthy of recognition…

West Texas, in the area where Mexico, New Mexico and Texas meet. As of 2018, the population estimate from the US census was 686,077. El Paso shares four border crossing with neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, making a strong player in the international trade business. Unfortunately, Ciudad Juárez has been called "the most violent zone in the world.” Despite having such a notorious neighbor, El Paso ranked among the safest large cities in U.S. for years. El Paso also offers a diverse and…

2010, there have been three thousand six hundred twenty-two shootings, stabbings, and deaths by torture. As a journalist in Ciudad Juarez, Julian Cardona has often heard and witnessed beheadings. Julian also quotes that not many white people come through the town of Juarez, because fifty percent of the time they get robbed or killed. There are gunfights going on daily in Juarez and many of the gunfights result in the damage of buildings Just across the border in the Santé Fe, California. Drugs…

What is courage? Every person exhibits courage in their own way throughout their lives. One of the most recognizable examples of courage is bravery in a military setting. Other examples include facing dangers for the sake of others, facing social ridicule, and being fearless in the face of death. People such as Chris Kyle, Cecilia Balli, Caitlyn Jenner, and Austin Armstrong have shown courage with these methods. Courage is a less complicated term than perceived; courage is facing a fear or…