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From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia by Derrick Hindery (review)

seems to have been conducted primarily in the early 2000s, with some updated interviews in more recent years. Still, his (countless) references to the “new” border can sound a bit like old news a decade later. By the same token, at least one of his major assertions—that Barrio Libre youths move fluidly back-andforth from the tunnels between ambos Nogales and the “real” Barrio Libre in Tucson—strike me as dated. Tucson’s Barrio Libre up until the mid-century was indeed a downtown neighborhood; home primarily to Mexican and Mexican-American residents, and in those early decades of the 1900s was regarded as a “free” district where illicit activities flourished, just as Rosas claims. However, that Barrio Libre was slowly replaced over the last four decades, due to the destruction of vast swathes of the Barrio during urban renewal and the departure of Mexican-American families who either chose to leave their downtown adobes and flee to new suburban homes in Tucson, or were driven out by gentrification processes. Since the 1970s, Barrio Libre has been known as Barrio Histórico, and is now home mostly to middle class Anglo professionals and a diverse mix of young urbanites. (There is a second Barrio Libre in Tucson that is further from downtown and is a neighborhood primarily of indigenous Yaqui residents). Another minor concern is the book’s tendency to exoticize the border ubiquitously and unreservedly as a violent and dangerous place. Although Rosas occasionally acknowledges that most people have legal ways of making a living, in reading this book it would be easy to forget the millions of people growing up in the northern border region, going to school, holding down jobs, and leading “normal” lives, despite the waves of violence that assuredly have reshaped the urban landscapes of the border. In short, it would have been useful for Rosas to present a more nuanced context in his book. Finally, this is a very good book in need of very good editing. The excessive redundancy (terms such as “nightmarish,” “neoliberal,” “oozing” and “seeping” are used dozens of times, often multiple times in the same paragraph or page) and use of jargon obscures rather than renders accessible the key arguments of the volume. Barrio Libre is an excellent book that shines a bright light through the dark passageways running under the Mexico-U.S. border and, like it or not, shows us what is there.