Friday, September 14, 2012

international streetcar crossing between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico



Given the problems that the US has these days with Mexican gangs, drug smugglers and illegal migrants, the border facilities here seem quite basic and perfunctory and would not be viewed as adequate now.  Juarez is now regarded as the world's most dangerous city with 10 - 20 murders a day.

The tram crossings lasted into the 1970s, an interesting history of them here

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