Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become the murder capital of the world. Most vulnerable are Los Ninis, young men and women who earned their name from “ni estudian, ni trabajan”—those who neither work nor study.
The War Next Door
Published September 28, 2011
Photojournalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco was interviewed by Krys Boyd on KERA News' "Think" about his reporting on the situation in Ciudad Jaurez.
Dominic Bracco grew up near Ciudad Juarez and has recently reported on the increasingly deadly situation there. Ciudad Juarez has become the murder capital of the world due in large part to the ever-growing bloody drug war plaguing Mexico's especially border cities. Bracco and Pulitzer Center grantee Susana Seijas recently reported on "Los Ninis," young men and women between the ages of 14 and 24 who do not work or study. Bracco said the largest group of "Los Ninis" reside in Juarez and are the most vulnerable sector of society--the most likely to be lured by drug cartels.
Listen to the interview on the KERA News website.
Bracco's exhibit “The War Next Door: Narco-Violence and the U.S. Mexico Border” is on view at the University of Texas at Arlington through December 15.
Photojournalist Dominic Bracco II visits Davidson College to discuss his reporting on Juarez's Ninis—youth with little education and no job prospects living in the midst of Mexico's drug wars.
A former school drop-out, Esteban Ruiseco is the type of teenager Mexico's drug cartels prey upon. And he might have joined them, if the clarinet hadn't given him hope for a better future.
Grantee
Dominic Bracco II specializes in documenting the effects of Mexican and North American policies on the border region where he was raised. He has degrees in journalism and Spanish literature from The...
