Introduction For centuries humanity has engaged in the ingestion of plants with mind-altering properties as a pathway to communicate with the world of the supernatural. The ingestion of sacramental plants called entheogens was a common practice in the ancient Mayan…
By John Burnett and Marisa Penaloza Over the past 41 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been buying up land on the lower Texas-Mexico border to protect one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America from…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. and Mitchell A. Kaplan Ph.D. For five hundred years, Indigenous-American and Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs have mixed with highly superstitious sixteenth-century Spanish Roman Catholic beliefs and practices. The emergent ‘combined’ religions are most notably Mexican Brujería, Santeria…
Over great lengths of time, streams of snowmelt carved channels through limestone crags,always dutifully flowing toward the Gulf of Mexico. Continually descending, the great rivermeandered, sparing no land, obeying no government, splitting, and merging repeatedly. It spunoff tributaries, arroyos, and…
The University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College CONGRESO POR LOS DERECHOS DE LA INFANCIA Y LA ADOLESCENCIA Hacia una Nueva Gramática de los Derechos Humanos en Tamaulipas Zavaleta-Reid, Antonio, and Rodrigo Vera Vázquez, 2016, Inmigración infantil en…
Brownsville's recognition as the city with the second most important history in Texas is cause for considerable pride. However, it should be noted that the designation does not take into consideration an equally significant pre-history. While much of Brownsville's history…
By Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.[i] and Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D.[ii] INTRODUCTION From 2010 to 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented rise in undocumented immigration along the Texas-Mexico border.[1] The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector saw the…
The story you are about to read is true. It details a personal fable that has followed me through life and, at times, directed me. So far, it spans more than fifty years and has a life of its own,…
The U.S.-Mexico Border In 2010, it was reported that 23,000 Mexicans had been murdered since 2006. In an article attempting to examine and define "spillover violence," Texas Monthly magazine stated that "Yet despite fears to the contrary, the violence has…
This is the unlikely but entirely true story of how a 16-year-old Saint Joseph Academy boy met a 16-year-old prostitute-sex-slave from the village of Yerba Buena in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico. They met in the infamous Matamoros Boy’s town in 1963…