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Mexican American Identity And El Paso Identity

By Martin Paredes on April 1, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Author’s note: The concepts of Mexican American Identity discussed here are primarily taken from a 1973 presentation made by UTEP professor Ellwyn Stoddard. See primary source note below for more information. Likely […]

El Paso: No Mexicans Allowed

By Martin Paredes on March 30, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

In the 1940’s and in the early 1950’s signs reading “No Mexicans Allowed” still existed in El Paso. [9] Many El Pasoans tend to believe that El Paso is a friendly and […]

The Tom Lea Legacy And How El Paso Can Both Hate AND Love Mexicans

By Martin Paredes on March 26, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Our Adair Margo article elicited an email from a reader who called themselves “Tom Lea,” obviously a reader unwilling to provide their real name. The email included three PDF attachments and an […]

Editorial: In The Duranguito Battle, Where Are The Proletariat?

By Martin Paredes on March 18, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

I realize that this editorial will likely upset some and others will just be angry, but it is something that needs to be asked – where are El Paso Hispanics in defense […]

Chihuahuita, Duranguito and Segundo Barrio Explains El Paso’s Economic Failure

By Martin Paredes on March 16, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Chihuahuita’s population “are potential assets of enormous value to El Paso and it is dangerous and wasteful to neglect” that community in El Paso’s economic strategy. (1925 El Paso City Planners) El […]

Adair Margo: Politics At The Expense of Segundo Barrio – The Story Of When Segundo Barrio Helped To Elect A Republican Governor

By Martin Paredes on March 14, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

There is a political adage in El Paso that Republicans do not win elections. To be elected in the city some Republicans run as Democrats “in name only”. In 1998, a Republican […]

El Paso’s First Progressive Politics: Prostitution As An Economic Driver

By Martin Paredes on March 11, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Before El Paso became known as the Sun City it was known as Sin City. The reason was because alcohol, gambling and prostitution filled the city’s coffers. But Sin City held an […]

In Unprecedented Order Judge In Children’s Hospital Malpractice Case Orders Affidavit Sealed

By Martin Paredes on March 7, 2022 • ( 11 Comments )

As previously reported by El Paso Politics, El Paso Children’s Hospital has asked the judge in a malpractice lawsuit involving the death of a three-year-old girl to seal the affidavit attached to […]

Strange El Paso Politics: From Carpet Baggers To Bank Robbery

By Martin Paredes on March 4, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

El Paso, like most cities, has its share of political characters. This last election was not any different in that it had its share of political sagas and characters. There was the […]

El Paso 2022 Primary Winners

By Martin Paredes on March 2, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

According to the unofficial results published by the El Paso County Elections Department, the following are the results in the 2022 El Paso Primaries. Although this was a primary to determine who […]

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