Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño
  • 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

    Continue reading
  • 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.

    Continue reading
  • 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

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

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

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

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • 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

    Continue reading
  • 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

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

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • (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.

    Continue reading
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • 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.

    Continue reading

“Intrigue”

2025-06-29 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

2025-06-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

2025-06-23 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation

Continue reading

“The Spider”

2025-06-22 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

2025-06-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider 2 comments
Continue reading

“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright Slider, War Crimes Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

Continue reading

I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Politics, Slider 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

Continue reading

Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

Continue reading

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a

Continue reading

“Outside the Law”

2025-06-15 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

2025-06-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Drugs, Juarez, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

Continue reading

“The League of Gentlemen”

2025-06-08 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“1964: The Year That Changed America”

2025-06-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
Continue reading

Dr. M. C. Melanson’s One-Track Mind

2025-06-06 Bob Chessey El Paso, History, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey Narcotic traffickers aim to profit by delivering contraband across geopolitical lines; however, there are physicians who trespass

Continue reading

El Paso is a Small Town

2025-06-02 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider 3 comments

Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try

Continue reading

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

2025-06-01 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

“Mr. Polaroid”

2025-05-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
Continue reading

El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

2025-05-30 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, population, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long

Continue reading

CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 200 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!

  • John G. Dungan on Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Richard Moore on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
  • elrichiboy on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • 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

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”
  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso
  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

Stuff we talk about