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El Paso–Juárez borderland ESPN writer Roberto.Andrade@espn.com https://robertojoseandradefranco.substack.com

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Periodic reminder that Mexico barred Texas from participating in the Bracero Program, largely because Texas Rangers were lynching Mexicans

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
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After having a few stories fall apart, research begins for the new one

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06.03.2026 20:40 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Randyberto Season

06.03.2026 20:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nacho Alvarez's solo blast gives Mexico the lead and he is FIRED UP!

06.03.2026 18:37 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 7

A Mexican man named Nacho Jr. just homered off the Brits.

06.03.2026 18:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Mexico plays the Brits today in their first WBC game.

Verdad de dios

06.03.2026 16:51 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

04.03.2026 23:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Strides in Recovery On Sunday March 8, 2026, I'll be running the Los Angeles Marathon to raise money for Strides in Recovery. This nonprofit helps clients in addiction treatment programs throughout Los Angeles County tra...

5 days away from the Los Angeles Marathon and I’m raising money for Strides in Recovery. This nonprofit helps clients in addiction treatment programs throughout Los Angeles County train for events ranging from 5Ks to full marathons.

fundraisers.hakuapp.com/jaime-falcon-2

03.03.2026 17:41 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

5’9” Mexicans notorious for taking advice from 6 footers

27.02.2026 19:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Again, Mexicans leading the way on proper AI use

27.02.2026 16:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watched first one with a friend who wasn't a boxing fan.

I told him despite the "Fight of the Century" promotion, it was probably going to be a boring fight because of Mayweather's style.

He said he understood.

Fight ended. And even though I had warned him, I still felt need to apologize.

23.02.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao II coming in September.

Coincidentally, that rematch was the 4th sign of the apocalypse.

23.02.2026 21:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
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Have We Underestimated El Paso All Along? The site of revolutionary ferment, intellectual tumult, and a radical ethic of caring, El Paso has always been a glorious mosaic.

Good review but who is “We”?

Certainly not the countless that have recognized El Paso as the Paris of the Southwest for centuries

www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

18.02.2026 16:40 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’d forgotten how bad it was to walk up hills and mountains to class when the air quality is shit

17.02.2026 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Postponed to new date

17.02.2026 16:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Some vicious knock outs

16.02.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alv

16.02.2026 02:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Don’t know what story is but I always wanted to write something about cigars

15.02.2026 22:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Went to the El Paso Museum of Art reopening that had a Frida photograph exhibit.

Saw this other painting of some guy hitting a bell with a hammer and every one begging him to stfu

15.02.2026 20:01 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Ghostface Killah taught me Buck 50 meant something else.

15.02.2026 16:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show featured two boxers. Here's why During the Super Bowl Halftime show, Bad Bunny gave a subtle nod to the 90-year-old heated rivalry between Puerto Rico and Mexico's top boxers.

www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

14.02.2026 16:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m in a chat with several Mexican public intellectuals

13.02.2026 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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The Ongoing Rivalry Between Two San Marcos Local Legends How Frisbee Dan and the Sun God came together (and fell out) in Sewell Park

Over 4,000 likes on Instagram and nearly 1,000 likes on Facebook. People really like this story. Maybe you will too.

SUN GOD vs FRISBEE DAN

By Ian Dille for @texashighways.bsky.social

texashighways.com/travel/the-o...

13.02.2026 16:06 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Join me and other writer this year in Archer City…. Workshops in fiction, book proposals, nonfiction, memoir and more #writing

13.02.2026 14:34 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

They’ve really fallen off a cliff.

Thought maybe it was just here but I had it in New Mexico a few months ago and it was also bad

13.02.2026 03:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ayyyyy papa

13.02.2026 03:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

1947 Roswell reading this

11.02.2026 18:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s a non-zero chance that the airport got shut down because some in federal government think El Paso is part of Mexico.

11.02.2026 14:24 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1