mexican-american border region

Aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads a ragtag group of men into the Mexican desert in search of Pancho Villa in 1916, and after a brutal encounter in which most of his men are killed and he is spared only to be left for dead, Childs has time to think about what it means to choose a life of war.

Teacher's aide T?a Regina is helped by her nephew Gabo, who is studying to become a priest, a colleague and his grandfather, and a group of gangbanger students in her search for her brother Rafa, who she fears has become a victim of human traffickers operating on the border of Mexico and the United States.

The murder of a student at an all-boys Catholic school in the border city of El Paso, Texas, throws the lives of a diverse group of friends into chaos.

Presents a comprehensive history of Spanish rule in the Americas and Mexico's fight for independence.

Chronicles the true story of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the southern Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway, describing how the men struggled to survive the desert's harsh conditions and why only twelve survived the journey.

When Fabiola's sister Alexis joins her at Dos Rios High, she warns her away from the troublemaking superjock Dex Andrews, but Alexis does not listen, and soon it is up to Fabiola to make things right, even if it means breaking her sister's heart.

Study of what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the United States border.

Recounts the case of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a region called Devil's Highway and were betrayed by a smuggler.

Efforts by U.S. Major Richter and his high-tech special operations unit to control drug traffic and illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border are complicated by drug kingpin and migrant smuggler Ernesto Fuerza, a right-wing radio talk-show host, and the discovery that Fuerza is backed by Richter's long-time nemesis, Soviet terrorist Yegor Zakharov.

Describes, in text and photographs, some of the unique characteristics of the 2000 mile border region between Mexico and the United States, a region that blends the cultures from both sides of the border.