Podcast: "The Hard Country."

Talking cartels, Mexico, and the border.

This wild land: the Texas-Mexico border south of Presidio-Ojinaga. Photo by author.

We’ve got a new podcast up at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, called “The Hard Country” — a conscious and rough translation of the Spanish for the Trans-Pecos region, the despoblado — and I’d like to share it with you here. My colleague Melissa Ford and I talk about cartels, the border, Mexico, culture, history, and more. Give it a listen, or a watch as you prefer.

There is much more to come.