Ciudad Juarez
Four musicians grapple with the same question: What is home?
“Movement,” a one-hour special from The World, brings you stories of global migration through music. Together, host Marco Werman and Ethiopian American singer Meklit Hadero blend song and narrative in a meditation on what it means to be American. We follow a once-undocumented singer in San Francisco on a long-awaited trip back to Mexico, reflect on the experience of exile with a Syrian DJ and hear a Sudanese American artist play his first-ever show in Sudan — all guided by Hadero as she reflects on her own American story.
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Trump administration 'seems disinclined to cooperate,' says former US ambassador to Mexico
The former US ambassador to Mexico says the Trump administration is "an administration that seems disinclined to cooperate."
How Ciudad Juarez is bracing for more migrants under US ‘remain in Mexico’ policy
The border city is a case study in how Mexican municipal and state-level officials are charged with handling the effects of increasingly restrictive US immigration policies largely on their own.
Workers in Mexico's border factories say they can barely survive, so they're turning to unions
Factory workers in Ciudad Juárez now make only 40 percent of what Chinese factory workers do, on average. For the first time, efforts to unionize are meeting with some limited success.
Juárez is tearing down a huge reminder of its bloody past
Officials in the Mexican border city Ciudad Juárez are hoping that removing the 'No More Weapons!" sign, which is made of confiscated guns, will help attract tourists and serve as a sign of good faith toward the United States.
How do you fight organized crime in Mexico? With small business loans and after-school programs
For the last six years, a little-known infusion of American tax dollars has played a part in the fight against organized crime in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Part of the money for the Merida Initiative is used to keep young people out of drug cartels and help boost the economy.
Drug lords pay this Mexican-American singer to write their ballads
American musician Edgar Quintero gets paid to write folk ballads about Mexico's drug wars. He doesn't ask his clients too many questions and often gets paid in cash.
Nightlife returns to Ciudad Juarez as drug violence is more contained
In Juarez, Mexico, the once-bustling nightlife had been dead for years as violence erupted in the city. But, in recent months, as police have setup checkpoints and drug violence has stabilized and perhaps even subsided, the nightlife is returning.
The Return of Nightlife in Juarez
Tired of staying in their homes for fear of becoming a victim of the drug violence, the people of Ciudad Juarez are triggering the revival of business for the city's once dormant nightclubs and restaurants.
Mexican Drug Cartel Targets Police
The police force of Ciudad Juarez is under siege: Every cop on the force has been ordered to move into well-defended hotels. A drug cartel has been carrying out its threat to kill one policemen a day.
Mexican City Fighting to Restore its Image
The Geo Quiz visits a Mexican city where business leaders are fighting to restore an image that's been damaged by years of drug violence and crime.