“I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.” ThinkingKnowsKindMeanCoupleAreasWesternTragicMexicoBackwardsMatthewMontanaColoradoWyomingNew MexicoCouple Things Author:John Hickenlooper
“I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.” WorldBelieveDoneI BelieveSecurityAreasTerrorismMexico Author:Vicente Fox
“Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.” DiesExampleSummerCreatingAreasEnvironmentalSizeFishesMassiveValleysSquaresMexicoPollutionOxygenDeprivedJerseyCoveringWashingMississippiNew JerseyNitrogenGulf Of MexicoFarmland Book:Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
“La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."” WorldWantHeartKindRealFilmMotherGirlBehindsDangerousAreasGlassesIronyMy TimeSarcasmFree WillReal WorldThank GodMexicoCagesProstitutionOutlaw Author:Michael Glawogger
“I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.” FirstsHandsBigsUsedAreasArmyUsed To BeJournalistBordersMexicoDevotedAgriculturePublishHand In HandGuardedPoppiesCartels Author:Noam Chomsky
“BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.” ThinkingFoundDifficultSituationSupportEventsAreasBritainTragicMexicoDifficult SituationsGulf Of MexicoTragic Events Author:Vladimir Putin
“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.” UsedLossTreeOceanLowsAreasMovedFilledTinyShoreMexicoTidesFloridaShallowJerseyMeadowsParkingNew JerseyBackyardsParking LotBay AreaGulf Of MexicoShoreline Author:Sylvia Earle
“The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensStatesWholeSidesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesViolenceSeeingMembersAreasBordersFrightenedDividedMexicoComing BackFamily MembersSiegeSaddenedSpaniardsUnder SiegeI Feel Sad Author:Sandra Cisneros