Mónica Ortiz Uribe
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Mónica Ortiz Uribe (Las Cruces) is a native of El Paso, Texas, where she recently worked as a freelance reporter. Her work has aired on NPR, Public Radio International and Radio Bilingue. Most of her stories examined the effects of drug-related violence across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in history.
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It was a violent weekend in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Police discovered two separate crime scenes involving multiple victims.
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The federal immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas is breaking in a new intercultural faith center, which officials said is the first of its kind in the country. -
The faces of young women missing in Ciudad Juárez are now imprinted on tortilla paper wrapping. It ensures this serious problem gets daily attention, but it may be too little, too late. -
Tortilla factories in the Mexican border city of Juárez are participating in a campaign to help find missing women and children. -
A federal judge in El Paso sentenced former county commissioner Willie Gandara Jr. to 6.5 years in prison on drug charges. -
An American truck driver detained in Mexico on charges of smuggling ammunition may soon go free.
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