EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Juan Carlos Llorca, a veteran Associated Press journalist who covered immigration and the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border, and whose reporting on illegal international adoptions helped prompt national reforms in Guatemala, has died at age 40. Llorca spent years reporting on illegal international adoptions in Guatemala, becoming one of the first journalists to uncover a smuggling trade in which infants were placed for adoption with unsuspecting couples, mostly from the United States. Authorities discovered evidence of fraud that was later revealed to include false paperwork, fake birth certificates, women coerced into giving up their children and even child theft. In addition to covering Mexico's drug war and the border town of Ciudad Juarez — when violence there was at its worst — Llorca honed his photography skills, becoming a journalist who was able to report, write and shoot photos for his stories.