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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 elrichiboy

    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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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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El Ojo del Chuco

2022-03-15 elrichiboy History, Juarez 2 comments

This isn’t my first blog. If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have said it is, but today I stumbled

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2CELLOS – Thunderstruck

2022-03-14 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Ongoing Class War

2022-03-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Have I ever mentioned that it feels like the City of El Paso, and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce,

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The October Man (1947)

2022-03-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Celtic Worship – How Great Thou Art

2022-03-13 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Petroglyphs

2022-03-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Last weekend we went to see some petroglyphs. They were out there past the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-10. By

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The Case of Phil Spector

2022-03-12 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mutiny!

2022-03-11 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Endurance wreck: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found off Antarctica

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Antonio Badu in “Las coronelas”

2022-03-08 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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9 Years Ago

2022-03-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider, Veronica Escobar One comment

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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James Mason in The Upturned Glass

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jara Bolivia – El amor de Dios

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Music One comment
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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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Greetings From Cyberspace

2022-03-02 elrichiboy Slider, Support El Chuqueño, World News Leave a comment

Lately El Chuqueño has been attacked by Russian bots. Lots of bots. Maybe it’s because last week in the comments

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City of Dust – Drawbridge, California

2022-03-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

My Mother Was the Marshland My mother was the marshland. My father was the railroad. I was born in 1876

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Maria Victoria and Lola Beltran in “Pensión de artistas”

2022-03-01 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Belated Happy Birthday, El Paso

2022-03-01 Rich Wright Downtown, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

On February 28, 1859, Anson Mills submitted this street plat for the town that was to become El Paso. And

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Vote for David Stout

2022-03-01 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse political candidates. I’ve had my heart broken too many times. But this time I’m making an

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Don’t Forget to Undervote

2022-02-28 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider One comment

Tomorrow is Primary Election Day. On the ballot are lots of candidates vying for lots of positions. You’ve never heard

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The People Speak!

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  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
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  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Jessamyn C Young on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Aroop Mangalik on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Sinister Publications on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”
  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”
  • “Now We Know Their Names”
  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

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