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Uncharted Territories

The River Dispute That Nearly Killed the Presidents of the US and Mexico

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Tomas Pueyo
Sep 18, 2024
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This is the story of how Mexico and the US fought over a piece of land for a century, to the point where their presidents nearly got killed, all because they didn’t know how rivers work.

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