Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño

Category: Slider

Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

2025-10-01 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Culture, Juarez, Slider One comment

While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at

Continue reading

The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

2025-09-30 Rich Wright Deck Park, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 7 comments

Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on

Continue reading

“Park Plaza 605”

2025-09-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

Social Engineering Chuco-Style

2025-09-26 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.

Continue reading

Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

2025-09-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and

Continue reading

Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

2025-09-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over

Continue reading

“The Pretender”

2025-09-21 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

2025-09-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Water, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale

Continue reading

“The Eyes of Chihuahua”

2025-09-18 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will

Continue reading

The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson Project Jupiter, CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña

Continue reading

El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

2025-09-15 Rich Wright Deck Park, Economic Development, El Paso Matters, Slider 2 comments

Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:

Continue reading

Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Sunland Park, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider One comment

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.

Continue reading

“The Fat Man”

2025-09-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider One comment
Continue reading

Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

2025-09-05 Kent Paterson Sunland Park, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest

Continue reading

“He Ran All the Way”

2025-08-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

“BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

2025-08-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

Leave It to the D.A.

2025-08-26 Rich Wright District Attorney, El Paso Police Department, James Montoya, Slider One comment

Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition

Continue reading

Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2025-08-25 Rich Wright Slider, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 69 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative, and help a brother out.

The People Speak!

  • Rudy Gonzales on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • randy on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • eghsdtbht on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • Andre on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
  • Laurel on City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico
  • Mark Z on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Guilty Bystander”
  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”
  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary
  • “Short Cut to Hell”
  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

Stuff we talk about