Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: "Border Wars" on Nat Geo

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"Border Wars" on Nat Geo

Learn about border issues in the area of Nogales, AZ, and Nogales, Sonora, by watching Border Wars on the National Geographic channel on Thursday, March 7, at 9 pm (Pacific Standard Time). Afterward you can access the show through the Nat Geo website and through YouTube.

http://natgeotv.com/ca/border-wars

Covering 2,800-square kilometres of unforgiving desert battleground in a rugged and remote frontier, CBP agents discover a high-level tunnel leading straight into downtown, confront drug cartel foot soldiers in the dead of night, and seize over U.S. $1.5 million in heroin.

Border Wars patrols Nogales, Arizona, on the U.S.-Mexico border. Witness a Black Hawk helicopter team rescue illegal immigrants abandoned by their guides in the desert, ground agents encounter night-time gun fire, and officers dismantle vehicles in search of hidden compartments filled with drugs or other illegal contraband.

See also this LA Times review of the first year of this reality television series about border patrol officers, immigrants, and drug traffickers:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/05/entertainment/la-ca-monitor-20100905

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.