Angela Kocherga: June 2009 Archives

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.

>> Continue reading: Kidnapping Backlash in Mexican Border State

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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."

>> Continue reading: Border Reality Tours

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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.

>> Continue reading: Border Ammo Shortage Severe

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