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West Texas Cactuses in Danger
by Charles K. Wilson, El Paso Times
Reprinted with the permission of the El Paso Times

The demand for wild cactuses to create native desert landscaping in the Southwest may come at the expense of some Chihuahuan Desert species, and El Paso may be at the center of a lucrative legal and illegal industry for the plants, a study of the ecosystem's trade and conservation uses has concluded. Continued . . . 

Ten Years of Border Femicide: Computers, Physical Appearance and Drugs Common Threads as Juarez-Style Women's Killings Reach Tamaulipas State

Even while news broke about fresh serial killings in Cd. Juárez in February 2003, evidence emerged that similar murders are spreading to other parts of Mexico. Besides Chihuahua City, recent murders in Tamaulipas state had eerie similarities to, and coincidences with, many of the Cd. Juárez cases. Standing out is the killing of 16-year-old Olga Lidia Osorio in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Continued . . . 

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