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Mexico 1939

2020-07-29 elrichiboy Mexico, video Leave a comment
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CJNG on Display

2020-07-18 elrichiboy Mexico, Slider 2 comments

This is, purportedly, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, displaying their firepower in Mexico. Here they are in the town of

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People, Poverty, and Narco-Violence

2020-02-06 elrichiboy Mexico 2 comments

Here’s a good article examining the root causes of Mexico’s violent drug trade. The narcos I spoke with do not

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Orwellian Doublespeak

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider One comment

God bless those hardworking men and women protecting our nation’s borders. But this new biometric picture-taking program they have at

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Mexico’s Dirty U.A.

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting piece from Insight Crime. A pilot study in Mexico is showing promising results for measuring the frequency and

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The Storm That Swept Mexico

2019-04-27 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a cool two hour video that covers the history of Mexico, mostly the first half of the twentieth century.

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Battle for the Claw

2018-02-01 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, world news Leave a comment

No, that’s not the new logo of the El Paso High School PTA. That’s the logo of the Gente Nueva

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Rellenos

2017-12-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico Leave a comment

Despite Mexico’s reputation as a culinary destination, downtown Juarez lacks an abundance of great street food. Mostly the street food

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Mexican Tiger Trap

2017-11-03 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Mexico One comment

La Polaka, Periodismo en Caliente, reports a wave of retaliatory violence in Western Chihuahua following the arrest of the drug

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The CBC on the Mennonite Connection

2017-10-21 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, video Leave a comment

Here’s a show from the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate about our friendly neighbors to the south, the Mennonites,

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A Bar On Both Sides of the Border?

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Mexico, world news 2 comments

Maybe it’s just a PR stunt. From Mexico News Daily: They haven’t any permits yet but a Scottish brewery that

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Lucha Libre in Cd. Juarez on Sunday

2017-08-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico One comment

Here’s something for y’all jaded by the usual fare. This Sunday, August 8, there’s a big lucha libre match in

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Tarahumara Drug Runners

2017-08-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider 4 comments

This is a great story about an international humanitarian tragedy, out of Texas Monthly. Mexican cartels, meanwhile, recognized an opportunity

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Salud!

2017-07-13 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

I’m standing at the bar in a 97-year-old cantina in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. The whole bar is about fifteen feet

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Mexico’s Pot Initiative

2017-06-23 elrichiboy Mexico, world news Leave a comment

Did you read that Mexico has made medical marijuana legal? Here it is in the Washington Post: Mexican President Enrique

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Mexico Only Has Two Problems . . .

2017-06-08 elrichiboy Mexico, video Leave a comment

You, and everyone else. Here’s a video that takes a stab at Mexico’s chronic problems. Check it out.

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RIP, Javier Valdez Cárdenas

2017-05-16 elrichiboy Media, Mexico 2 comments

We’ve got it pretty good here. The water runs when I turn the faucet. When I’m hungry, I eat. The

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary Chapter 3

2017-03-25 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

In this final episode of Clandestino: El Cartel de Sinaloa, the documentarians take us up to and over the border

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary Chapter 2

2017-03-18 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Did you see Chapter 1? In Chapter 2, we get to meet a sicario and cop who explains his ties

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