![]() The women would make these small items to sell to visitors. You put an insect like an ant in it and as the ant moves inside, the legs move. One of the items I have from my boyhood is a wooden object that looks like a 2 inch pig about the size of your thumb and has legs that move. ![]() They spoke no English and only limited Spanish. These are the Tarajumara and the women would sell handcrafted wares to American tourists. Both cities were quiet and Juarez would feature Indian women from the mountains about a hundred miles to the south and west of the city of Chihuahua. The trips were side excursions from auto trips to California traveling the road before IH 10 was built. The coming year, 2023, will be extremely important for Mexico, the Border and all of the United States.Īs a young boy in the 1950’s, I traveled with my parents to Juarez twice and once to Tijuana. It contains historical memories of visits to Mexico, my two decades of research in the border regions and in Mexico with the State of Texas and the Federal Government of Mexico as well as my current thinking about issues in Mexico. This site was created with the publication of my book on Mexico and the Border 9 years ago (2014).
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