Monica Ortiz Uribe

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Mónica is a correspondent for the public radio network Fronteras: The Changing America Desk and covers New Mexico, west Texas and northern Mexico. Over the last four years, her reporting has focused on the deadly drug violence in her Mexican sister city, Ciudad Juarez. Her stories air regularly on National Public Radio, Public Radio International and Radio Bilingue. Monica got her start in journalism at the Waco Tribune Herald newspaper in Waco, Texas. She graduated with honors from the University of Texas at El Paso and has studied at La Sorbonne in Paris and the School for International Training in southern Mexico.

Mexicans Returning From U.S. Find Challenges at Home

Migrahack

7 years ago

Mexicans Returning From U.S. Find Challenges at Home

Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed due to the economic downturn here and...

Monica Ortiz Uribe