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Ciudad Juarez

Cop Shouldn't Have Done This On Camera

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2013 | Latino Voices

Ciudad Juárez police are investigating a video of a cop kicking a woman, the El Paso Times reports. It’s not clear why the cop lashes out at th...

Abducted Children Reunite With Mom After Year In Kidnappers' Clutches

AP | Posted 03.22.2013 | Crime

WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- A California woman and her two sons are back together after the boys were kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico for more than...

Searching For God In Ciudad Juárez

Ryan J. Bell | Posted 05.08.2013 | Religion
Ryan J. Bell

Nowhere is the human toll of our American consumption more obvious than in the United States/Mexico border region. And nowhere is the border nightmare more clearly visible than in Ciudad Juárez. Also obvious is the passion and resilience of the residents.

Arrests, Falling Crime Rates Disguise Mexico's Raging Drug War

Reuters | Posted 01.28.2013 | World

By Dave Graham and Julian Cardona CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Inside a notorious Mexican prison where armed convicts use...

Feeding the Femicide Machine in Mexico

Vanessa Perez | Posted 01.26.2013 | Latino Voices
Vanessa Perez

The rapid population growth and the burgeoning transient and migrant population have made it difficult for the city to create the proper infrastructure and social services to meet the needs of the people. Is it too much to ask that corporations do more to protect their employees and help solve these crimes?

Mexican State Prints Images Of Missing On Tortilla Wrappers

AP | RICARDO CHAVEZ | Posted 01.13.2013 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A border state in northern Mexico has launched a campaign it hopes will be more effective than photos on milk cartons to...

Time to End Impunity in Mexico

Frank Jannuzi | Posted 12.17.2012 | World
Frank Jannuzi

While the Mexican government claims credit for reducing the level of violence and restoring order to major cities, too often progress on one aspect of law and order -- drug cartels -- has come at the expense of another: the government's respect for basic human rights.

9-Year-Old Boy With Massive Tumor Plucked From Dangerous Mexico City By U.S. Feds

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 07.21.2012 | World

U.S. federal agents plucked a 9-year-old boy with a massive tumor from a dangerous city in Mexico and transported him in an armored vehicle across the...

Mexico Ships Gang Leader To U.S. On Charges He Ordered Assassination

Reuters | Posted 08.29.2012 | Crime

MEXICO CITY, June 29 (Reuters) - Mexico has extradited a drug gang leader to face charges that he played a key part in the daylight execution of a U...

Matt Sledge

Pot Supporter Wins Texas Congress Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.30.2012 | Politics

A Texas congressional candidate who favors marijuana legalization beat eight-term incumbent El Paso Rep. Silvestre Reyes Tuesday in the Democratic pri...

Border Bullet Bust: 268,000 Rounds Seized From Truck Entering Mexico

AP | Posted 04.18.2012 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Mexican customs inspectors seized 268,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition found in a U.S. truck at a border crossing in Ci...

Matt Sledge

Two Democrats Square Off Over Drug War In Fierce Texas Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.19.2012 | Politics

As Rep. Silvestre Reyes finishes up his eighth term representing El Paso, he is facing an unusual challenge: an experienced, credible primary opponent...

Popular Mexican Band Banned For Songs About Drugs

AP | Posted 03.13.2012 | Home

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The capital of Mexico's Chihuahua state has indefinitely banned the famous norteno group Los Tigres del Norte from playing in...

Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art

Posted 03.06.2012 | Latino Voices

While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest...

Mexico Sends Message to the United States: No More Weapons!

Lisa Haugaard | Posted 04.24.2012 | World
Lisa Haugaard

Just a few steps south of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Calderón unveiled a towering billboard last week wielding a message written in plain English.

Mexican Bullet Hits Woman Pushing Stroller In Texas

Reuters | Posted 05.24.2012 | World

By David Crowder EL PASO, Texas, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A woman pushing her child in a stroller in downtown El Paso, Texas, was struck by ...

WATCH: 'Angels' May Be Cause For Drop In Violent Crime

Posted 02.12.2012 | Latino Voices

Christian youth are standing up to the drug trafficking violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city -- where 5,000 people were murdered in t...

Drug Cartel Threatens To Kill An Officer A Day Until Police Chief Resigns

GlobalPost | Posted 04.04.2012 | World

By Simeon Tegel, GlobalPost Even by Ciudad Juarez's grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the ci...

Boy, 6, Ticketed For Reckless Driving After Toy Motorcycle Hits SUV

AP | Posted 01.13.2012 | Weird News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Police in this border city repented Thursday over ticketing a 6-year-old boy for reckless driving, driving without a license ...

Gunmen Ambush Ambulance, Slay Driver And Patients

AP | Posted 02.07.2012 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen attacked an ambulance in this border city Wednesday, killing the driver, two patients and a fourth person in the ...

One Season to Go: An Introduction

Michael Evans | Posted 02.06.2012 | Home
Michael Evans

I love basketball. Well, I don't really love the strategy, the competition, or even actually playing the game. I love the camaraderie a player has with his teammates, and I love the role a coach can play in a kid's life.

Fashion & Art Come Together To Support Juarez In Project Paz

The Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.04.2012 | Impact

For a group of young professionals in New York in early 2010, the drug violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico was more than a distant news story. It was pe...

Violent Mexican City Tells The World It Is Not A Hamlet Of Terror

AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Posted 12.13.2011 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The city notorious as the most dangerous in the hemisphere is throwing a party to tell the world that life here is getti...

MIT Promotes 'Positivism' In Mexico Cities Associated With Drug Violence And Despair

Posted 11.19.2011 | Latino Voices

It’s not everyday you hear good news, and lately, it feels like good news is especially in short supply coming out of Mexico. Luckily for the citize...

9/11 Memorial Expresses Solidarity With Victims Of Mexico Drug Violence

AP | Posted 11.10.2011 | Latino Voices

MEXICO CITY -- A U.S. Embassy official used a memorial ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack to express solidarity with Mexicans ov...