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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A couple days before the presidential election in Mexico, I spent a day in Ciudad Juárez talking to ordinary people about voting.
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New Mexico plans to crack down on driver's license fraud with a punch of technology. -
On Sunday, voters delivered a robust victory to Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. -
Impostors beware! Starting July 1, the state of New Mexico is going after chile fraud. -
Arrests have been made in a multi-state operation accused of selling New Mexico driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. -
The El Paso City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday asking for the release of an American trucker detained in Mexico.
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