Minerva Canto
Minerva Canto covered immigration and U.S.-Mexico issues for the Register from 1999 to 2004, reporting in both countries on topics such as the effects of Mexico's crackdown along its border with Guatemala, unemployment in the maquiladora industry and Vicente Fox's presidential campaign.
From 2004 to 2005 she was a local columnist. She is a native of Mexico City and was a former staff writer for The Associated Press in Los Angeles and San Diego and worked for daily newspapers in New Mexico, Washington state and Oregon.
Recent Posts by Minerva Canto
Women of Juarez
An eight-part series about survivors in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a community that has lost hundreds of women to unsolved murders in the past decade. Originally published in the Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), in 2004.
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