While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at
Category: Juarez
You and the Juarez Walking Tour
I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over
“The Eyes of Chihuahua”
Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will
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
Retrovision: Billares El Cid
This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in
The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez
Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If
The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years
So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a
La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso
by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a
Dead People
I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a
“Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”
Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar
Harry Mitchell, the Mint Café, and The Narcotic Trafficking Question, Part 3
By Bob Chessey This is Part 3 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part
Harry Mitchell, the Mint Café, and The Narcotic Trafficking Question, Part 2
By Bob Chessey This is Part 2 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here. The Valera
Harry Mitchell, the Mint Café, and The Narcotic Trafficking Question, Part 1
This is Part 1 of a three part series. “Harry Mitchell, owner of the Mint café, Juarez, and Rogelio Sanchez,
Border Theater
Yesterday the Mexican Army posted up on Avenida Juarez. What were they looking for? Fentanyl? Venezuelans? The approval of the
The Last Corrida
By James Sawtelle That Sunday afternoon I had time to cut loose and go with Richard Grenier (my high school
In Unprecedented Event, Juárez’s City Government Honors Dirty War Relatives and Survivors
By Kent Paterson Standing at the entrance to Ciudad Juárez’s old city hall, Judith Galarza recalled the days of yore
The Expected Environmental Catastrophe
Here’s a story (in Spanish) from La Jornada about the impending railroad accident that imperils Cd. Juarez and El Paso: