Eliza Barclay’s Posts

• Stuck in the Middle with Fuel

  As its neighbors back biofuels, Central America gears up for business 0

  Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

  Driving down either of El Salvador's two principal highways, you're almost sure to end up braking behind a pickup truck that's jammed with people standing shoulder to shoulder. Occasionally these rural taxis are new vehicles, but most are rickety, rusted, and running on antiquated engines and exhaust-spewing diesel.

  Even though 48 percent of Salvadorans live below the poverty line, according to the United Nations Development Program, the huge influx of remittances from migrants in the United States means that more Salvadorans are buying cars, formerly a luxury reserved only for the very rich. And El Salvador is not alone: while… Read More

• Law and Border

  Immigration scuffles threaten wildlands along the U.S.-Mexico border 7

  Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

  In the three-way struggle between the U.S. Border Patrol, illegal border crossers, and the natural environment, it's never clear who's winning.

  

  A U.S. Border Patrol truck on the
  move near Douglas, Ariz.

  Photo: Congressional Immigration Reform
  Caucus.

  If you ask the Border Patrol, they will tell you they apprehended nearly 1.2 million illegal crossers in fiscal year 2005, and that it was an increase from the previous year. They won't mention that roughly double that number managed to elude them over the last five years.

  Meanwhile, Enrique Enriquez of… Read More

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