Newspaper bridges Mexican border for Kansas immigrants

“Tiempos publisher Wintilio Ortiz has found that covering the local news for Hispanic readers in Wichita also means covering the local news in the Mexican towns of Guadalupe Victoria, Durango and Miguel Auza, Zacatecas.

A large majority of Mexican immigrants living in Wichita come from those two Mexican states, Ortiz said, and they want to keep up with the local happenings back home as well as in Wichita.

So Ortiz hired correspondents in those Mexican towns to cover the local news there, and he buses 400 copies of the Wichita-based newspaper to the towns so relatives back home can keep up with their families in Kansas.”

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