Dispatches From Aztlantis! Life and Death on the Border
In this Dispatch, Tlakatekatl reads and discusses a recent Washington Post article on the troubled legacy of the Texas Rangers along the border communities of South Texas. The article explores the story of ethnic Mexican men on their way down to a to wedding on the Mexican side of the river. State agents allege that they were smugglers who shot at them first, but their families have always maintained that they were targeted for being ethnic Mexicans. In the aftermath, 3 of the traveling men died, including the groom who was the one to be married.
Tlakatekatl then reads the introductory essay…
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