Port Isabel residents protest against ICE raids in front of the city’s lighthouse in February 2025. (Photo credit: Gaige Davila) Subscribe now It was one of the biggest surprises of the 2024…
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El Chuqueño Blog – Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It
This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October 2021, Armando Navejas wandered…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – POLK AND MATA CONDUCT FIRST JOURNALISTIC INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR, PREDICTS ANOTHER TAX INCREASE FOR FY 2027
[[{“value”:” Andrew Polk of KVIA and Reyes Mata III of El Paso Inc conducted the first journalistic interview of Renard Johnson since he became Mayor of El Paso on January 7. Unlike…
El Chuqueño Blog – “The Glass Wall”
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El Chuqueño Blog – Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD
The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam video: The guy was asking for help. “Call 9 1 1,” he…
The Border Chronicle – Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22
Subscribe now This Week in The Border Chronicle: Share The Border Chronicle More News from the Border: A Stryker combat vehicle deployed in the National Defense Area in New Mexico. (Photo credit:…
El Chuqueño Blog – An Economic Forecast
Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó siete por ciento en junio. Sin embargo,…
The Border Chronicle – Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”
Subscribe now Asking for peace in front of the border wall in Brownsville, Texas. (Photo by Todd Miller). Share L. J. was outside her house, about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border…
El Chuqueño Blog – The Purge is Coming
Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list. Read: Read More