Posted inEl Paso
Censorship in El Paso: The Debbie Nathan Factor
Author’s note: this article begins a series exploring who writes El Paso’s narrative, where we explore how censorship controls what the community hears. Debbie Nathan is a journalist who has written for several outlets, including The El Paso Times, Newspaper Tree and most recently the El Paso Matters. She is one of the moderators of […]
Posted inArt
Artist Marcos Rey’s Spiritual Work
by Miguel Juarez In June 2020 El Paso News celebrated Pride month by focusing on local LGBTQ artists. We published ten articles devoted to Pride last year. This year, we will continue to explore how creatives dealt with the pandemic and how they and their art making was affected? To gauge how artists fared during […]
Posted inCOVID-19
El Paso About To Achieve Herd Immunity?
The Texas Health and Human Services COVID-19 dashboard shows that 43.21% of the Texas population is now fully vaccinated against Covid, as of this morning. To be considered fully vaccinated, an individual must have received one dose of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) or the two required doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines at […]
Posted inGovernment
Texas Attorney General “Looking Into” Children’s Hospital
On May 28, 2021, El Paso Politics received the following message from the Texas Attorney General’s Office about our quest to force the El Paso Children’s Hospital to comply with the Texas Public Information Act. According to the Texas Attorney General’s office, they are “looking into this issue with the El Paso Children’s Hospital and […]
Posted inImmigration
Remember The Immigrant Soldiers This Memorial Day
Memorial Day is an America day honoring the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. Memorial Day this year is on Monday, May 31. Memorial Day, which began after the Civil War, became an official holiday in 1971. Before then, the day was commemorated as Decoration Day. Decoration Day was […]
Posted inMexico
Meet the author of “Duarte, the Corrupter: Testimonials of a Business Leader in Mexico” local businessman Carlos Chavira
With David Marcus, CPA and Jim Darnell, Criminal Attorney The intriguing new book exposes the corrupt (former) Governor of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico that involves the Mexican Federal government, the Mexican consulate in El Paso, the US State Department in Washington and the FBI along with President Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the […]
Posted inPolice & Law Enforcement
El Paso Border Patrol Chief Turns Blind Eye To Abuse
Author note’s: some content in this story is graphic in nature and may be offensive to some readers. In July 2019, Border Patrol Agent Gustavo Zamora was indicted in Tucson on three counts of felony sexual assault charges, in addition to another charge of kidnapping. At the time of Zamora’s indictment, his wife, Gloria Chavez […]
Posted inBorder Patrol & Customs
The Criminal Minds of Border Patrol Agents
On May 4, 2021, John Daly III was arrested on charges of being the East Valley Rapist. According to Mesa police, Daly has been tied to “eight cases” of sexual assault between July 1999 and October 2001. Three of the eight cases were linked together by DNA evidence, according to the court records. Daly had […]
Posted inNews
Texas Attorney General Gives Children’s Ten Days To Respond
As readers may remember, last month El Paso Politics filed a request with the El Paso County Attorney asking them to request an opinion from Texas Attorney General on whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is a governmental body for the purposes of the Texas Public Information Act. We believe that the children’s hospital is […]