The Colombia-Venezuela border is a lawless and dangerous place — but it’s also tightly controlled. For the first episode of Border to Border, we dove deep into the criminal underworld that thrives in one of most fascinating borders on the planet.
When governments close down a border, that doesn’t mean people stop crossing — it just means crossing comes at a terrible cost. For Border to Border (Colombia-Venezuela: Part 2), David Noriega explores one of the largest mass displacements in modern history.
The Troubles were fought over the existence of the Irish border. The war is over now, but Northern Ireland is a place where the past is never far behind. For the third episode of Border to Border, David Noriega explores Ireland’s invisible — but not forgotten — border.
Northern Ireland has come a long way since the Good Friday Agreement opened the Irish border. But borders come in many forms, and Brexit has brought many of the old divisions back into relief. For the fourth episode of Border to Border, David Noriega explores the present and future of identity in Northern Ireland.
Kenya and Tanzania’s border, which Europeans drew in the 19th Century, has had Africans adapting ever since. We see life on a de-facto open border and examine the colonial history of wildlife conservation.
Episode 6 of Border to Border returns to Kenya-Tanzania to explore burgeoning routes for criminal smuggling—of drugs, wildlife, and people—on the Indian Ocean. But is it really possible to secure a border that never made much sense to begin with?
Americans are obsessed with the idea that Mexico is full of dangerous, violent people, and the border is there to keep them out. But the truth is much more complicated. In episode 7 of Border to Border, we explore how violence in the borderlands is a two-way street.
Like all borders, the line between Mexico and the US was once virtually open. Then the US embarked on a decades-long, bipartisan, and entirely futile quest to secure it. In the 8th and final episode of Border to Border, we explore the human costs of border militarization.