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The limbo of the Diablos, the firefighters from the US-Mexico border Nicholas Dale Leal
Adrián Valdez rides his horse slowly into a clearing on the bank of the Rio Grande — or the Río Bravo, depending on which side of it you’re on. At 50, with a gray mustache and cowboy boots with spurs that mark the pace of his brown-and-white horse, he doesn’t seem to know what hurry is. Time bows to him and his animal. But that’s only because this Tuesday he has no job to be at. For virtually his entire adult life though, it has been two that have kept him and his family afloat.Seguir leyendoPho
4 May 2026 at 08:59

The limbo of the Diablos, the firefighters from the US-Mexico border

4 May 2026 at 08:59

Adrián Valdez rides his horse slowly into a clearing on the bank of the Rio Grande — or the Río Bravo, depending on which side of it you’re on. At 50, with a gray mustache and cowboy boots with spurs that mark the pace of his brown-and-white horse, he doesn’t seem to know what hurry is. Time bows to him and his animal. But that’s only because this Tuesday he has no job to be at. For virtually his entire adult life though, it has been two that have kept him and his family afloat.

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Eleasar Martínez Ureste during his workday at the construction site in Boquillas del Carmen.

Juan José Romero, in La Noria, Boquillas, on April 14.

Adrián Valdéz, of the Diablos fire brigade in Boquillas del Carmen, Coahuila, on April 14.

Photos and video:

Aggi Garduño

Design and layout:

Mónica Juárez Martín and Ángel Hernández

Visual editing:

Mónica González