In Giffords’s District, Tension Is Not New - NYTimes.com: "... tensions have long run high in the Eighth Congressional District of Arizona, (the district of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded on Saturday) (It is) a classic swing district that shares a 114-mile border with Mexico.
... over the past year, Ms. Giffords struggled in a brutal re-election campaign during which her opponent appeared in a Web advertisement holding an assault weapon. The district has become a caldron of divisions over government spending, immigration, health care and Barack Obama." Jan. 10, 2011
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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