Texto de Fiamma Montezemolo y fotografía de Rene Peralta para
“AULA 6: The New Mexico, edited by Geraldine Forbes Isais, Robert Gonzalez, and Rafael Longoria (Atrium Press, 2012).”
Day: February 22, 2013
Articulo de Enrique Gili para AEON Magazine sobre Tijuana y su renacimiento cultural, tuve el placer de ser el guia de Enrique en su visita!
A reputation for cross-border debauchery, desperate migrants and drug violence. Can the arts save this troubled city?
by Enrique Gili
Bright mural adorn the boardwalk beside the Tijuana-San Diego frontier. Photo by Hernan Cazares
“‘We are all artists in Tijuana,’ the architect and educator René Peralta said half-jokingly, when we discussed the city’s multiple, shifting identities. A son of the city and my guide for the day, Peralta gave me some valuable background. Tijuana’s origins are a quirk of history: in 1848, under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a line was drawn in the sand demarcating the US from Mexico. Only later did that dotted line on the map harden into an iron curtain.“