Standing in the sand looking south, it looks like many beach towns around the world. The deafening slow pulse of the ocean overwhelms the voices of the hundreds of people and the squawking seagulls. A boardwalk separates the beach from the seaside shops, hotels and homes, which, looking north, abruptly ends in the Friendship Park. A monument of colorful oversized letters spell “Tijuana — Aqui Empieza la Patria.”

It is the beginning and the end of two homelands; two corners which make up an international border. A place where the separation of land and sea is crossed by steel slats joined as one to create an impenetrable border wall.

Presented by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature and Club Austral, Fresno State alumna Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana will hold two public lectures on “The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project” on Monday, Feb. 10 at the Henry Madden Library (Room 2206). The English presentation will begin at 1 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. Spanish presentation. It will cover the development of The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project, which is part of her U.C. Davis doctoral dissertation.

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