By Kent Paterson Amid bots, bombast and border bullying, Mexico’s general election campaign kicked off March 1. An estimated 98.9 million Mexicans, up from 89.1 million in 2018, will be able to…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Chuqueño Blog – A Message From the Border
Check out this letter that appeared in the New York Times: To the Editor: Re “Political Rivals Aim for Gains at the Border” (front page, March 1): The border is not a…
El Chuqueño Blog – Humphrey Bogart in “In a Lonely Place”
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El Chuqueño Blog – Historical Spanish
From NYTimes.com: In most of the Spanish-speaking world, the principal ways to say “you” are the casual “tú,” and the formal “usted.” But in Colombia there is another “you” — “su merced,”…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WHERE IS A PACIFIER WHEN YOU NEED ONE?
Lately the opinion pages of the El Paso Times have been littered with folks like Henry Felix demanding a downtown arena, afraid our City might build one that is too small or,…
El Chuqueño Blog – “The Spy Who Saved D-Day”
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – KVIA PROVES HERNANDEZ LIED
Yesterday Rep. Cassandra Hernandez told Buzz Adams on his KLAQ Morning Show (starting at 1:45) that KVIA quoted her out of context when on May 9, 2023 she told reporter Lesley Engle…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CASSANDRA LIES TO BUZZ ADAMS, STILL WANTS TO BUILD AN ARENA IN DURANGUITO
Yesterday morning, our Chief Instigator joined Buzz Adams on his Morning Show to discuss the financial malfeasance of City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and the FBI investigation of City gas card use that…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – JOE MOLINAR’S CAMPAIGN LAUNCH FOR RE-ELECTION IS TODAY AT 5:30-7:30PM
Rep. Joe Molinar is definitely the most fiscally responsible leader ever to serve City District 4. He has consistently voted in support of the taxpayers and against fiscal waste. Between 1978 and…
The Border Chronicle – Open Thread: As we move towards November, what effect will a (presumably heated) presidential election have on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands?
Two people from the right-wing “Take Our Border Back” convoy near Quemado, Texas in early February. (Photo credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images) Well, today is probably a good day for this…