Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/new-mexico/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/new-mexico/ 144 144 This New Mexico Bookstore Started a Drive to Bring Bilingual Literature to Immigrants on the Border https://remezcla.com/culture/new-mexico-bookstore-starts-book-drive-immigrants-border/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:15:45 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=274219 In New Mexico, Latina author Denise Chavez started a book drive to provide bilingual titles to children and adults awaiting their immigration cases on the U.S.-Mexico border. Libros Para el Viaje, or books for the journey, aims to provide people with literature that could inspire and comfort them on their immigration journeys. “Our commitment is

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]]> Book Shelves Books organized in bookshelves. Photo by Dong Wenjie / Getty Images These Powerful Photos Humanize Latino Survivors of Drug Addiction & Incarceration in New Mexico https://remezcla.com/features/culture/photos-humanize-survivors-drug-addiction-incarceration-new-mexico/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:46:42 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=272750 Drug addiction and street violence often show up as statistics in news stories or warning signs about a part of town gone wrong, but photographer Frank Blazquez wants to change that. He doesn’t aim to do this by skirting around the situation but rather by sharing the stories of people who lived through it. He’s

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]]> Carlos_fb Photo by Frank Blazquez. Courtesy of the photographer One of the Busiest Roads in Albuquerque Will Soon Be Renamed After Activist Dolores Huerta https://remezcla.com/culture/dolores-huerta-road-new-mexico/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:53:19 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=271435 Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta will soon have a road named after her in one of New Mexico’s busiest areas. This week, commissioners in Bernalillo County, the Southwest state’s most-populous county, voted to change a part of Bridge Boulevard in Albuquerque’s South Valley to Avenida Dolores Huerta. Avenida Dolores Huerta is expected to run from

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]]> Activists Hold International Women’s Strike Rally In Los Angeles Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, 88, marches during an International Women's Strike rally on March 08, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images El Paso Restaurants Step Up to Help Feed Central American Asylum Seekers in Need https://remezcla.com/culture/el-paso-central-american-asylum-seekers/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:52:16 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=252080 The Central American immigrants traveling toward the United States will confront xenophobic behaviors all across their journey. But on some occasions, they’ll be met with warmth and hospitality, like in shelters in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico. There, restaurant owners from the area have fed immigrants and have put out a call

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]]> President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Mexico Border Policy Stirs Controversy And Confusion U.S. Border Patrol agent Ray Provencia informs Angelica and Karla (who didn't want their last names used), along with Ruben Garcia, director of the Annunciation House, (R) who was helping them cross, that they will have to wait at the top of the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, where the U.S. and Mexico border meet, for space to open up at the border processing center so they can ask for asylum on June 20, 2018 in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images