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...Paso is redesigning the kilns of Juarez brickmakers to cut the soot from burning old tires; the twin cities have signed more treaties than their national governments can keep track of, let alone ratify. "The only way the cities in this region can make it," says Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, "is to forget that a line and a river exist here...
...concert, eagerly anticipated since scheduling conflicts prevented it last year, exists mainly as a “thank-you to our volunteers, mentors, faculty sponsors and contributors for the work they do,” said Daniel N. Elizondo ’02, coordinator of KidsCare, the in-house fundraising team. The money will go to specific projects to be employed throughout the year, although fund-distribution details haven’t yet been decided...
...Mexico from 1989 through 1998," says Tim Padgett, our Miami bureau chief, "but it wasn't until I revisited El Paso and Juarez for this story that I realized how strong residents' resentment toward Washington and Mexico City has become--how much, in the words of Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, they've begun to feel like a neglected 'third country.' The warning from leaders like Elizondo is that if the border buckles under the increasing demands of NAFTA, then NAFTA too will suffer." Elizondo punctuated that point during the interview by throwing a tea cookie across his office...
Local officials know that they are only tinkering at the edge of a crisis. They are urging Washington and Mexico City to form autonomous regional authorities, funded and staffed by both nations. "Our [federal] governments treat us like a third country," says Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, "so we might as well act like...
...Elizondo's mestizaje theology has found resonance beyond the Mexican-American community. "Every generation tends to build an image of Jesus in response to its deepest quest," he says. "When they are writing about Jesus, they are really writing about themselves...