The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez

The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez

Mary Mata July 29, 2013

By Debbie Nathan, The Texas Observer It’s 5:45 a.m. on a Monday, and we’re stuck in traffic, slowly inching northward on a bridge that joins Mexico to the United States at […]

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs, Part 5

Mary Mata August 31, 2012

Editors note: This article was published by the Phoenix New Times in July. With their permission, News Taco is reprinting it in five installments throughout the week to inspire debate […]

Human Rights Conference: Mexico Lives in ‘Evil’

Mary Mata May 3, 2012

By Joseph J. Kolb, Catholic News Service EL PASO, Texas — The haunting image of the husband and wife, their heads and faces draped with black cloth, describing torture at the […]

News Taco To Go: Dead Kids, NPR, Libya, Ché And Juárez Violence

Mary Mata March 9, 2011

Seven children aged 7 months to 11 were killed in a barn fire in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania. A former NPR executive was taped by the same guy who […]

Enough With The War On Drugs Already!

Mary Mata March 4, 2011

Twenty year-old Marisol Marisol Valles García took over as police chief in a small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez after no one else would last […]

New Juárez Documentary: “8 Murders A Day”

Mary Mata December 28, 2010

A new documentary called “8 Murders A Day” chronicles the human rights disaster that followed Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s declaration of war on the drug cartels in 2006. The story […]

Ciudad Juárez Violence Breaks Record, 340 Dead in October

Mary Mata November 1, 2010

Molly Molloy and El Diario de Juárez report that there were 340 killings in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in October of this year. A This is a new record, beating out 338 […]