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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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How Americans See Mexico

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario editorializing on how Americans see Mexico (hence the title to this post): Speedy Gonzalez

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Internal Migration in Juarez

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in El Diario reports that nearly 100,000 people have changed residences within Juarez because of increasing insecurity in

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Bruce Lee and the One Inch Punch

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

But maybe more impressive is Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchakus.

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The CIA, Smart Bombs, and the War Against the FARC in Colombia

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about the CIA’s role in taking down the FARC insurgency in Colombia. The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed

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Police Gone Bad

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a headline you don’t want to see in your local paper: Troopers: Kobuk policeman asked girl for sex in

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Sniffer Dogs Get It Wrong. A Lot. Part II

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

This story tells about a suit filed in state court in Nevada, that claims that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

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Sniffer Dogs Get It Wrong. A Lot.

2013-12-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from down under claims that, according to official figures, Australia’s sniffer dogs register false positives 80% of the

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Will Obamacare Cover That?

2013-12-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If I’m coming back from Juarez, and the brave men policing our border decide to do a little investigative colonoscopy

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I’ll Drink to That

2013-12-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an article in Mother Jones that claims a new test proves the drinking alcohol boosts your immune system. To

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UMC and Forcible Penetration

2013-12-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

By now you’ve read this story about the New Mexico woman who was probed and x-rayed after a drug dog

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Putin Envies Obama

2013-12-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Vladimir Putin gave his annual press conference yesterday. Among all the answers about Russian civil rights was this quote: “I

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The Saudis, George W. Bush, and 9/11

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Relatives of the victims of 9/11 are clamoring for 28 censored pages of the official report which allegedly link the

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The 10 Most Corrupt in Mexico, According to Forbes

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this article in Forbes Magazine, the ten most corrupt people in Mexico includes four former state governors who

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You could be next: Non-violent Protesters Charged Under Anti-Terrorism Law

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on FireDogLake.com, two non-violent protesters of the Keystone XL Pipeline were arrested under an anti-terrorism law

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The Medical Examiner Called it Homicide

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Part 2 of the Arizona Republic’s reporting on the public impunity of Border Protection Agents. It covers the killing

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Why Weren’t the Bankers Held Accountable?

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story by a United States District Judge postulating on why no bank executives were tried for what appears

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Nothing is Beyond the Reach of Our Government Snoops

2013-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

. . . and they brag about it. (read the whole story at the Vigilant Citizen.)

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That Must Be Rough, Dear

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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JFK’s Revolution

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Border Patrol Lacks Accountability

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a report for the Arizona Republic detailing the investigation and disciplinary policies of the Border Patrol in cases where

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