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Juan Arjón López en una de las fotos subidas por Notiface, el medio de noticias de Facebook dirigido por su querido amigo Jesús Gutiérrez, cuando desapareció el 9 de agosto.

El periodista sonorense Juan Arjón, asesinado en agosto, ha sido objeto de una campaña de desinformación, dijeron ex-colegas, culpando a los funcionarios de la ciudad de San Luis Río Colorado, la ciudad fronteriza donde trabajaban. México es uno de los países más peligrosos para los reporteros. Read more»

Dr. Karina Bechtol of Chiricahua Community Health Clinics Inc. checks a student at Douglas High School who is showing COVID-19 symptoms in late February 2022. The school has a significant population that is binational from Agua Prieta, Sonora.

Chiricahua Community Health Clinics in Douglas started a binational infectious disease monitoring program - just as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold - and coordinate with hospitals in Sonora to track and treat infectious diseases on both sides of the border. Read more»

Morley Avenue en Nogales, que normalmente sería bulliciosa en esta época del año, es una fila de tiendas cerradas y escaparates vacíos la primera semana de noviembre.

​​Después de 19 meses, Nogales, Arizona, una ciudad fronteriza, reabrió el lunes 8 de noviembre para los viajeros no esenciales de México, dando esperanzas a sus 20,000 residentes y los negocios podrán regresar a la pre pandemia normal. Read more»

The Nogales Port of Entry on Morley Avenue has been closed to nonessential travel for 19 months. That changes Monday for visitors who are vaccinated.

After 19 months, Nogales reopened Monday to fully vaccinated, nonessential travelers from Mexico, giving its 20,000 residents hope that business – and life – may return to pre-pandemic normal and just in time for the holidays, normally a booming time of year for merchants. Read more»

Dozens of people wait to enter the U.S. at the Dennis DeConcini border crossing in Nogales, Sonora in September.

Pandemic restrictions at the Mexican and Canadian borders will be lifted in November for travelers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, allowing travel by tourists and separated family members who've been unable to cross since March 2020. Read more»

El Pascua Yaqui se unió con los líderes de los pueblos indígenas y afro-mexicanos de México para escuchar una disculpa del presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obredor por los crímenes cometidos por el estado mexicano y su acuerdo con el Plan de Justicia del Pueblo Yaqui.

El presidente mexicano AMLO pidió disculpas a Pascua Yaqui y otras tribus por crímenes históricos en una reunión un Sonora Read more»

The Pascua Yaqui joined leaders of Mexico's Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples to hear an apology on from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obredor for crimes by the Mexican state and his agreement to the Pueblo Yaqui Justice Plan.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obredor issued an apology for "crimes of the state" committed against Native tribes, including the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, in a meeting last week. North of the border, President Biden became the first U.S. leader to proclaim Indigenous Peoples' Day. Read more»

The Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Az is hosting 'Donde Mueren los Sueños' or 'Where Dreams Die' until Oct. 14. The show features artists from both Mexico and Arizona whose art is critical of policies at the border, but the curator emphasized the theme of spirituality in the exhibit's artwork.

The Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Arizona is showing an exhibit, "Donde Mueren los Sueños" or "Where Dreams Die," focused on immigration and border policy at the U.S. Southwest border, and It's curator, Michele Maggiora, said the exhibit's artists are doing so by first arousing a sense of spirituality and love of nature in its audience. Read more»

La Capilla de San Francisco Xavier in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, México.

En Magdalena de Kino, una historia reciente de violencia ha dejado frío y amenazador un lugar que alguna vez fue cálido y familiar. Maritza L. Félix escribe sobre cómo es visitar su ciudad natal en Sonora. Read more»

The San Francisco Xavier Chapel in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico.

In Magdalena de Kino, a recent history of violence has left a once warm and familiar place cold and threatening. Maritza L. Félix writes about what it's like to visit her hometown in Sonora. Read more»

A crowded Nogales border crossing in 2007.

Mexican authorities in the state of Sonora are closing the U.S.-Mexico border to non-essential travel starting with the July 4 weekend to avoid further spread of COVID-19 amid increasing cases on both sides. Read more» 1

Andrea Contreras, right, tests the glucose levels of Maria Borquez, 50, as part of the Ventanilla de Salud effort to provide preventative care to immigrants. Standing are student volunteer Dasy Resendiz, left, and community liaison Rosa Maria Escalante.

Bandages, blood pressure machines and other medical supplies clutter a folding table as student volunteers from the University of Arizona provide patients with much needed care they might not otherwise get. Read more»

A still from the video captured by the family that shows one of the Chevy Suburbans still smoldering after an ambush by gunmen killed 9 people, including three adults and six children near Rancho La Mora, about 70 miles southeast of Douglas, Arizona.

Gunmen ambushed members of a Mormon community near a town in northern Mexico on Monday morning, killing three women and six children, and wounding five other children. Read more»

Padrés' official photograph as governor of Sonora.

The arrest of an Hermosillo man for firing guns into the air led to the investigation of nearly two dozen members of Sonora's government, unveiling an alleged deal between a businessman and cocaine smuggler to funnel money into the campaign of Gov. Guillermo Padrés in exchange for rigged construction deals. Read more»

Roberto Romero López, a former member of Sonora's state government in Mexico, and his wife were arrested Monday by Homeland Security Investigations agents in Tucson. The couple are wanted in Mexico on corruption charges connected to a planned aqueduct in Hermosillo. Read more»

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