During the summer we usually see a lot of charities and churches doing work in Mexico. Violence has scared many U.S. volunteers away from the Mexican city Juarez. But a unique program that teaches ballet to children in this bloody border city is still going strong.

Continue reading "Juarez Barrio Ballet: Grace under fire."

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Mexico's President just sent an additional 1500 troops to the violent border city Juarez. It's all part of "Operation Chihuahua" launched more than a year ago to curb drug violence. But the troop surge has done little to stop a wave of kidnappings and that crime has spread beyond the big cities to rural Chihuahua.

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It may not be your idea of a get summer getaway but groups are making their way here to the border for a tour of sorts known as the "border awareness experience."

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There's a nationwide shortage in ammunition and here on the border it's especially severe. Is the drug cartel turf war in Mexico partly to blame? It's a contributing factor but it's hard to know the size of the impact.

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Border Czar Alan Bersin visited an El Paso bridge to get a first hand look at a strategy to combat powerful drug cartels. But in this case the officers were checking cars headed across the border into Mexico.

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Juarez, the city battered by drug violence, has something to celebrate: a cinderella soccer team that advanced 4 in Mexico's semi-finals.

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A June 1st deadline looms for U.S. citizens who are required to have a passport to return home by land or sea. Many people living in Border States opted for the new, cheaper, wallet-sized passport card. And some are just learning those documents also have a time saving feature that can expedite border inspections.

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To keep their arsenals well stocked drug cartels in Mexico recruit people from the U.S. to buy and smuggle their weapons across the border, among their top picks: women .

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Mexico's health Secretary says the number of flu cases is waning so authorities will allow government offices and many businesses to reopen Wednesday. Most school closures will extend through May 11, next Monday.

Continue reading "As flu cases stabilize, Mexico begins to return to "normal""

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Standing near visibly sick, sniffling, coughing people of all ages -- you get a real sense of the magnitude of this health threat. I spent the day at a mobile clinic in Mexico City with photographer Hugo Perez. This specially equipped medical van is part of a fleet of 110 roving Mexico City screening for swine flu.

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