Maritza Félix, Journalist: “We Have Been Thrown Tear Gas and We Have Been Insulted in the Protests Just for Speaking Spanish”

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Every time Maritza Félix (Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, 42) starts a talk, she invites the audience to close their eyes. She tells them a word: “border” and asks them to tell her aloud the first thing that comes to mind. Then you hear the answers, fired from memory and experience. In Washington, you hear “narcos”, “contraband”, “muro”. In other places, “weapons”, “trafficking”, “fear”. But in Arizona, where she lives and works, the border is define…