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Cordoba Bridge Research Paper

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We have the Bridge of the Americas, known as the Cordoba Bridge or Free Bridge in borderland parlance, carries more than just commercial trucks and routine travelers between the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. Over the years the border crossing over the Rio Grande has also served as a bridge between social movements and political ideas with transcendence in Mexico, the United States and across the globe. Those of us that have work in the countryside confront a grave economic crisis. The prices for electricity, diesel, gasoline and fertilizers what we use for producing food for the whole population are very expensive. This situation affects all of us who plant and produce food, the transporters, and those of us who
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