Borders of the South Border is an urgent meditation on the profound changes taking place—often on Indigenous, communal land—in the Yucatán Peninsula and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Download Borders of the South BorderThis essay by Abbdel Camargo Martínez and Sergio Prieto Díaz proposes a series of interpretative principles from which to approach the borders of the south border.
The authors argue for the urgent need for renewal in how we think about the border between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize so as to account for how processes of industrialization in southeast Mexico interact with bordering efforts that serve the geopolitical interests of the United States.
This essay is presented here in translation for the first time.
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