{"id":139,"date":"2007-09-29T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malcs.net\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-09-29T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:45:25","slug":"the-disasters-of-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2007\/09\/29\/the-disasters-of-border-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disasters of Border Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/arts_culture\/item\/20070916_the_disasters_of_border_crossing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">By Rosalinda Fregoso<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Piedad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father was a border crosser who died the year she turned 15.  She was watching television on the morning her uncles appeared with news of his death, and much later she would be tormented by the day of his return.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s corpse arrived in a cardboard package tied with plastic bands, like a large addressed mail package.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He was one of those pilgrims Eduardo Galeano writes about, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shipwrecked by globalization,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who left because he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make a living in Mexico.  After years of crisscrossing the U.S.-Mexico border the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerous way,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d led by human smugglers in the hike across the perilous Sonora desert, he slipped and drowned in four feet of water, near Escondido, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years after her father died in 1996, I traveled to the colonial city of Queretaro (in central Mexico) to see the Colectivo Malaleche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest project, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Muerte X Agua\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (literally \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Death by Water&#8221;), an installation on display at the Museo de la Ciudad, the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s museum.  Piedad is a member of Malaleche, a collective of women artists who design memorials to denounce the explosion of violence and human rights violations against women, migrants and other vulnerable groups in Mexico&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rosalinda Fregoso Piedad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father was a border crosser who died the year she turned 15. She was watching television on the morning her uncles appeared with news of his death, and much later she would be tormented by the day of his return. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s corpse arrived in a cardboard package tied with plastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":703,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/05\/01\/mexico-moves-to-protect-migrants-at-border\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":0},"title":"Mexico moves to protect migrants at border","author":"la Webjefa","date":"May 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"La C\u00c3\u00a1mara de Diputados aprob\u00c3\u00b3 la minuta del Senado por la cual se expide la nueva Ley de Migraci\u00c3\u00b3n, con lo que se busca frenar agresiones en contra de migrantes, y obliga a las instituciones del Estado a respetar los derechos humanos de los indocumentados. 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