By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña Ana County Commission will meet
“El Querreque”
Here’s a link to a audio interview that frequent El Chuqueño contributor Kent Paterson recorded for KUNM. Vicente Bautista is
The Big Kid in Juarez, Part 2
You can read Part 1 here. by Bob Chessey Part Two: DODGING PROHIBITION In mid-January of 1900 23-year-old Harry Shipley
Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger
The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters
A lower case “d” Democrat
by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed. However, the rationale for
Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women
By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as
Arena Tours are Dinosaurs
Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing
Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States
By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in
Heather Wilson’s Folly
UTEP’s president Heather Wilson wants the County of El Paso to ask the voters of the county to give the
Is El Paso Cool?
I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at
Corruption and the Decline of El Paso
Some people would have you believe that El Paso’s apogee was 1950, and we’ve been in steady decline ever since.
HARRY NELSON SHIPLEY: THE “BIG KID” OF THE JUAREZ PLAYGROUND, Part 1
by Bob Chessey During the 1920’s Juarez was a bustling adult recreational destination flaunting legal alcohol, saloons, cabarets, legal prostitution,