How Conrado Cantu, the sheriff of Cameron County, lived down to people’s expectations of South Texas law enforcement.
Texas Monthly, August 2006
Read MoreHow else to describe the murder and mayhem and fear that have gripped Nuevo Laredo for months - and are now spilling over into Texas?
Texas Monthly, August 2005
Read MoreAs U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza was supposed to be the right man in the right job at the right time, someone who would promote a new era of cooperation between the two countries. If only external events hadn’t intervened.
Texas Monthly, October 2004
Read MoreHector Perez loved his country enough to die for it. A year later, his family is still paying the price of patriotism.
Texas Monthly, July 2004
Read MoreDid Mexican authorities find the man who killed a crusading Nuevo Laredo editor? Or have they taken the easy way out (again)?
Texas Monthly, July 2004
Read MoreYou may never have heard of Ramón Ayala, but to his four generations of fans in South Texas and Mexico, he’s music royalty. He revolutionized norteño, a genre that reigns along the border, and - after more than one hundred albums - is still going strong.
Texas Monthly, April 2004
Read MoreTen years. More than three hundred women murdered. What is going on in Juárez? And why aren’t the Mexican authorities doing something about it?
Texas Monthly, June 2003
Read MoreThe most promising young fiction in Texas is Oscar Casares, whose tales of life in Brownsville have put him and his hometown on the literary map.
Texas Monthly, March 2003
Read MoreWidowed at 38, a Mexican citizen with no money and a sixth-grade education, she raised three proud American daughters and embraced life on her own terms.
Texas Monthly, February 2003
Read MoreThe U.S. Census Bureau says that Cameron Park, a Brownsville colonia, is the poorest community in America, and yet optimism thrives there. How do you explain to statisticians and demographers that poverty is a relative thing?
Texas Monthly, January 2003
Read MoreJulián and Joaquin Castro’s résumés look as similar as they do: degrees from Stanford and Harvard, billable hours logged at a tony law firm, and now, promising careers in San Antonio politics. Nothing could please their mother more.
Texas Monthly, October 2002
Read MoreWhen I moved to Houston two years ago, I was expecting little in the way of Hispanic culture. Who knew it was such a good city for Latinos - better, even, than San Antonio?
Texas Monthly, September 2002
Read MoreTo residents of Presidio and Ojinaga, the international border that separates them had always seemed irrelevant. They crossed it easily, spoke the same language, and considered themselves part of the same community. When Mexican authorities wrongly imprisoned a Texas grocer in April, that relationship changed dramatically - and it hasn’t been the same since.
Texas Monthly, October 2001
Read MoreIn March 1836, 342 men fighting for Texas independence surrendered to Mexican general José de Urrea. A week later they were shot on orders of Santa Anna. Was it a massacre, as generations of schoolchildren have been taught, or an execution? The question has divided a historic Texas town.
Texas Monthly, May 2001
Read MoreFor years my relatives have claimed that they were robbed of oil and gas royalties on Padre Island. Last May a Brownsville jury agreed, vindicating - for now - the family’s proud heritage and proving that, sometimes, the little guy does win.
Texas Monthly, January 2001
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