JE#5 how borderland history repeats itself

'Bodies on the Border' brings to light the unspoken horrors of displacement that are not talked about, especially by those who are more responsible for these displacements (i.e. governments, colonizers etc...). The article and the small documentary focus on the thousands of cold bodies found dead, spit out by the border without a life, since 2001, though deaths on the border are not a new concept. Yet, when government officials (especially U.S. officials, since they have assumed all power over the border as promised by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) discuss the need for tighter border control and patrol, they do so with a blind eye and a silent tongue towards the dead Mexican bodies that continue to appear, as if they are not relevant to the discussion on border politics. On a more symbolic level, Concha and the other characters undergo the traumas of displacement through their lives in 'The Flower in the Skull'. Concha is physically displaced from her native community and ends up on the other side of the border. What is left to die as she makes her way from one side to the next isn't her physical body, but the unique matriarchal culture that raised her and that has become a intimate part of her. And this slow dying of her culture continues beyond Concha and affects her daughter, and thus instead of carrying their culture on their backs, they carry its corpse that weighs them down, haunts them, and makes their life a living nightmare as the women are face the rostro of assimilation. Thus, these women face the struggle  of identifying the culture of migrants that perished while attempting to cross illicitly from Mexico into the United States.