In the 1990’s when El Paso’s Hispanics were beginning to assert political power in the city, several Latinos emerged as power players. One of them was Alicia Chacon. The other four Latino […]
The “Vicious Lies” of Ray Mancera
Segundo Barrio: Decades Of Gentrification
To understand the battles to protect Segundo Barrio and Duranguito from eradication to make way for the proposed multipurpose arena, it is important that readers understand the history of the decades of […]
Bob Moore And The 2022 Elections
Last year El Paso Politics published several articles about the rise of El Paso Hispanic’s political engagement in the 1990’s and the creation of a leadership group designed to empower Latinos more […]
What The Twenty-Year Battle For The Plaza Theater Teaches Us About The Downtown Arena
As we discussed in our previous article, public policy in El Paso is driven by a small group of individuals who use wealth to control the city’s politics. In recent years, Paul […]
The Hispanic Sports Arena: The Catalyst To Duranguito Controversy
Readers may be surprised to learn that there was another sports arena, before the current one, that was proposed for El Paso. Unlike the one in 1938 and the current one, the […]
The Corruption Of Ramiro Guzman And Hispanic Political Power In El Paso
As readers explored in the case of the Hispanic Leadership Institute (HLI), it is not that El Paso Hispanics are not engaged enough to wield their population numbers to assert control over […]
Who Rules El Paso? No Not That One.
Editor’s note: This article was updated to add the purchasing link for Oscar Martinez’ book on Amazon on December 4, 2021. In the book Who Rules El Paso? by the Community First […]
The Downtown Sports Arenas And “Vision”
The ongoing controversies over the downtown sports arena and gentrification in El Paso is not new to El Paso’s politics. Economic development through “vision” strategies go back to at least 2000 when […]
Plan El Paso
In 2011, Plan El Paso was awarded the Smart Growth award as a model for making cities more compact. Smart growth has being dubbed as the future of America’s urban cities. However, […]
The Smart Growth Philosophy And The Downtown Sports Arena
The idea of using Smart Growth in El Paso goes back to November 2002 when the Caballero administration dubbed their growth strategy as “Smart Growth”. The Caballero philosophy suggested that the role […]
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