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A collection of my best clips. Hezbollah, Mexican organized crime connection debated By Jazmine Ulloa Austin American-Statesman Ex-associates in Corpus Christi called Manssor Arbabsiar a joke, a...
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Human trafficking: A look into a shadowy trade
Austin shelter for sex trafficking survivors under development By Jazmine Ulloa Austin American-Statesman A local nonprofit is leading efforts to create a shelter in Austin for sex trafficking...
View ArticleNarcos, drugs and the toll of a war
Major narco leaders not among FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted? By Jazmine Ulloa Austin American-Statesman Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – the man labeled the world’s most powerful drug trafficker — is not...
View ArticleA Night at Chico’s
Savoring an institution from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. By Jazmine Ulloa Texas Monthly Chico’s Tacos sits on Alameda Avenue in a humble area of El Paso known as the Lower Valley. Though a chain of five...
View ArticleOn the road with my crazy mother
My younger sister and I grew up in my mother’s red, beat-up little Escort, traveling the 15-hour plus ride between Texas and California, back and forth. Twelve childhood years packed up in brown,...
View ArticleAn intro to the cops beat
The first time I rode in a police car I was 15, maybe 16. And I was in the backseat. I wasn’t in handcuffs, but I was in trouble. I’d broken curfew by crossing back into my hometown of El Paso from...
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Hello out there
By Jazmine Ulloa I picked up my pink, Pocahontas diary one day in January, and as my opening line, in jagged letters wrote: “I have six boyfriends, Andrew, Michael, Sean, Paul, Stephen and Mark.” I was...
View Article“¡Hasta la madre!” — “We have had it!”
By Jazmine Ulloa Mexican poet Javier Sicilia and fellow activists under the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity are expected to descend upon the steps of the state Capitol Sunday in protest of...
View ArticleA long way to go on crime so close to home
By Jazmine Ulloa The girls Ellen Parsons wants to help don’t tell. They don’t trust adults. They don’t use words like pimp or prostitute. And they don’t view themselves as victims of an ugly,...
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Legal notes from inside and outside the courtroom. Ex-football player Erxleben arrested again on fraud charges By Jazmine Ulloa Austin American-Statesman Eight years after his release from prison on...
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