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El Paso and Ciudad Juárez from the ISS, 2014. El Paso–Juárez, also known as Juárez–El Paso, the Borderplex or Paso del Norte, is a transborder agglomeration, on the border between Mexico and the United States. [4]
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Juárez has four local newspapers: El Diario, El Mexicano, El PM and Hoy. El Diario de Juárez , [ 79 ] is the founder of El Diario de El Paso . El Norte was a fifth, but it ceased operations on April 2, 2017, following the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach , [ 80 ] the paper explained, the recent killings of several Mexican journalists ...
Map of the Chamizal settlement of 1963. The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from 600 to 1,600 acres [240–650 ha; 2.4–6.5 km 2]) along the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. [1]
1826 — Town named "Villa Paso del Norte." [3] 1846 The Mexican–American War begins; The Battle of El Bracito is fought nearby on 25 December; 1848 – Across the Rio Grande, El Paso becomes part of the U.S. state of Texas per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. [4] 1865 — HQ of Benito Juárez the 26th president of Mexico, 1858–1872. [2]
This week we launched a special report, "'La pérdida - The loss’: Deadly disaster at El Paso, Juárez border." The series, the culmination of a year of reporting, tells the human story of the ...
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History: El Paso was first city in US to make the use of marijuana illegal. ... This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Juárez cartel boss 'El 80' pleads guilty in US marijuana case.