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Despite a rise in killings, the Mexican city has taken on a daunting task - to reinvent itself as a tourist destination. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - In the early 1970s, Richard Wright, a native of El Paso, Texas, began crossing...

On Wednesday, John F Kelly, the head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the department tasked with implementing President Donald Trump's immigration policy, laid out the administration's vision before Congress.

In Oaxaca, the battle over education - and the view of Mexico it presents - has often turned violent. Oaxaca, Mexico - It is November 2, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and the family of Anselmo Cruz Aquino...

As construction of the border wall continues, so does the flow of undocumented migrants hoping for a better life. On the night of Halloween in 1999, Carmen Caballero, who was then eight, and her three-year-old sister put on witches' costumes...

The decline and growth of the private prison industry in the United States. Last August the US Department of Justice released a statement that they would begin the process of phasing out private prison contracts in federal prisons, some 30...

New Mexico commemorates the anniversary of a supposed alien spacecraft crash in 1947 and an alleged government cover-up. Roswell, New Mexico - Each summer, thousands of people descend upon the town of Roswell, New Mexico, for the annual UFO Festival,...

Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala – At the Cofradia de Conception in Santiago Atitlan, Juan Ramirez, 28, sits pensively on a wooden bench, his outstretched leg held gently by Don Juan Pacach, a Mayan priest and bonesetter.

Albuquerque, New Mexico - In January 1972, Rito Canales and Antonio Cordova, members of the Chicano youth organisation known as the Black Berets, were killed in a barrage of gunfire by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and New Mexico State...

New Mexico, US - Outside Tony's Rock Shop in the sleepy town of Magdalena, in New Mexico, Ben Valentino Otero stands amid a menagerie of animal statues, two wooden eagles, a merry-go-round horse, a metal sphinx and a variety of...

New Mexico, US – During the mining boom of the 19th century in New Mexico, thousands migrated to remote parts of the state, establishing towns to exploit the region’s rich mineral wealth.

New Mexico, US - Twenty-four kilometres south of Santa Fe, the now defunct Penitentiary of New Mexico, or "Old Main", sits in managed decay, its imposing exterior rising above the plains that stretch southeastwards from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains,...

New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into the heart of New York City, inundating lower Manhattan with...

Seventy years ago last August, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay released its 4,000kg load over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the sudden loss of weight jolting the US aircraft violently upwards as the pilot banked hard to escape...

A day after graduating from high school, Renea Gray left the Inyabito Chapter of the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico and headed west to Las Vegas, Nevada.

New York City – Like many children of undocumented immigrants, Lupe Martinez has lived a precarious life. Lupe’s parents migrated to the United States by way of Oaxaca, Mexico, living without the legal status that their daughter attained at birth...

New York City, United States - Standing in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Frank Mills puffs on a thinly rolled marijuana cigarette, exhaling a long thin stream of smoke towards downtown Manhattan.

Flagstaff, United States – On the southwestern corner of the Navajo reservation, Twin Arrows Casino Resort towers over the empty Arizona desert, its lurid neon lights drawing travellers from the historic Route 66 highway to its bright Las Vegas-style gaming...

New York City, United States – More than 300,000 people converged on New York City to attend what organisers called the largest single climate change march in history.

Occupied East Jerusalem - For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose room he was forced to destroy earlier this year, to...

In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body.

Mounds of radioactive waste dot the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation in the US state of New Mexico. The earthen monoliths contain contaminated material from the more than 250 abandoned uranium minesthat once provided the raw materials for the...

The FBI's arrest of 18 current and former Los Angeles prison staff in a sting operation earlier this month casts light on alleged "brutality" and civil rights violations in some parts of the US judicial system, analysts have said.

On December 4, the council of the American Studies Association (ASA) voted unanimously to endorse the call from Palestinian civil society for an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions (USACBI), becoming only the second academic association in the US to...

Jerusalem – The Holy Basin – containing Jerusalem’s Old City and its surrounding territories – may be the most contested piece of property in the world.

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners, some held in Israeli jails for more than two decades, were released to their families in a “gesture of good faith” by Israel’s government.

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Hundreds of people have gathered along a closed-off street on a Friday morning to watch a street racing event. Among the drivers are four women representing the “Speed Sisters”, the first all-female racing team in...

He was greeted with posters saying, “Dear Barack Obama: Don't bring your smartphone to Ramallah. You won't have mobile access to the Internet. make sure to only do as instructed, not more.

At least four protesters were arrested on Thursday near East Jerusalem’s Old City at a demonstration against plans to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral lands in Israel’s Negev desert.