Last October, my husband and I crossed the US-Mexico border in a VW campervan, heading southbound from California to Argentina.

BBC: Camping through Mexico and Central America

For those that can remember, the contract, which named Boeing as a prime contractor to build a security fence on the US- Mexico border, was terminated in 2011, because it was considered to be too expensive and ineffective.

FORBES: An increase in border security could result in more M&A

Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-US border, is one of the world's most violent cities.

BBC: Mexico prison shooting: 17 dead in Ciudad Juarez clash

While Martinez and Graham are modern artists, Gonzalez uses a 17th Century Baroque style to paint scenes of violence along the Mexico-US border.

BBC: Narco-tourism in Mexico City

At the same time, new outbreaks of dengue fever on the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border had US officials worried that the virus would slowly spread north.

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