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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

    2026-04-23 Bob Chessey

    Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support groups, the nationwide de facto

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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

    2026-04-22 Rich Wright

    You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live. It was on the news.

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  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

    2026-04-21 Kent Paterson

    Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is Loretta Anderson and next to

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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy
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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 Rich Wright

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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“Fort Algiers”

2024-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments
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Ava Gardner and George Raft in “Whistle Stop”

2024-06-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Julian Assange: the Price of Truth”

2024-06-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Snow Lake, New Mexico

2024-06-28 Rich Wright Slider, Travel Leave a comment

by Rich Wright 25 June 2024 — There’s no one up here but us and the hosts, and we all

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Jack Palance and Ida Lupino in “The Big Knife”

2024-06-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

2024-06-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Once I Was a Champion”

2024-06-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“El Querreque”

2024-06-14 elrichiboy History, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a link to a audio interview that frequent El Chuqueño contributor Kent Paterson recorded for KUNM. Vicente Bautista is

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The Big Kid in Juarez, Part 2

2024-06-13 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

You can read Part 1 here. by Bob Chessey Part Two: DODGING PROHIBITION In mid-January of 1900 23-year-old Harry Shipley

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Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger

2024-06-11 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 5 comments

The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters

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A lower case “d” Democrat

2024-06-10 Xavier Miranda Opinion, Politics, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed.  However, the rationale for

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“Guilty Bystander”

2024-06-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)”

2024-06-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women

2024-06-06 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Politics, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as

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Arena Tours are Dinosaurs

2024-06-03 Rich Wright Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 2 comments

Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing

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“1984”

2024-06-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Market Organs”

2024-06-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States

2024-05-29 Kent Paterson History, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in

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Heather Wilson’s Folly

2024-05-28 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 6 comments

UTEP’s president Heather Wilson wants the County of El Paso to ask the voters of the county to give the

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Is El Paso Cool?

2024-05-26 Rich Wright Culture, Economic Development, Slider 12 comments

I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at

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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

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