Posts Tagged ‘Tijuana’
Mass Wedding for Undocumented at the Border
12:48 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Lifestyle|mexico · Comments Off
19 Feb 2008
Over 600 undocumented immigrant couples — some of the planning to enter the U.S. and others returning from the U.S. — were married in a mass ceremony at the border between Tijuana, Baja California and San Diego on Valentine’s Day.
As a live band blasted out sugary Mexican love songs in the border city of Tijuana, a short walk from the busy San Ysidro crossing into California, a judge simultaneously married a crowd of couples whose ages ranged from 16 to 65.More than three-quarters were migrants returning from, or trying to get into, the United States.
“Isn’t she gorgeous? I love her!” said Inocencio Felix of his new wife Angelica Perez, 36, dressed in a flouncy white wedding gown. Perez was deported by U.S. immigration officials two weeks ago from the state of Oregon, where the couple met.
Reuters reports that some couples made the dangerous decision of returning to Mexico just to participate in the ceremony.
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Tijuana : Border City and Art Center?
5:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|Events|Los Angeles|mexico · Comments Off
8 Feb 2007
When most people think of Latin American art, big cities like Buenos Aires and Mexico City come to mind. An exhibit currently on exhibit at the Santa Monica Museum of Art features 50 works by 20 contemporary artists from the art center of Tijuana, Mexico. The border city popularly known more for its pharmacies and night clubs than for its visual arts, is full of experimental visual artists.
Maps and scale models play a prominent role, allowing artists to move freely between their imaginations and reality. Photo-collages and dioramas by Guatemala-born architect and urban planner Teddy Cruz suggest a flexible future in which recycled things increasingly meet the needs of a growing population. A more ominous future is evoked by the surveillance-style video projected onto a topographic model of the border region by Torolab, an artist collective founded by Raúl Cárdenas-Osuna in 1995. “The Region of the Transborder Trousers” uses humor and GPS technology, sewn into the pants of five participants, to track their movements over five days in 2004.
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