This Indie Rocker-Turned-Congressman Is Ready to Make His Name on …

Published May 23, 2013

This Indie Rocker-Turned-Congressman Is Ready to Make His Name on …

Filed under: El Paso Drug Use

Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat. The city of El Paso (in his district) and Ciudad Juarez (in Mexico) are so inextricably linked that O'Rourke says he basically sees them both as one city. Thousands of Ciudad Juarez citizens cross the border each day to work …
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Colorado killer's reprieve sharply criticized

Filed under: El Paso Drug Use

In his reprieve order, Hickenlooper said the death penalty is used inconsistently across Colorado, and he cited problems in obtaining the drugs required for lethal injection, the execution method mandated by state law. He also said many states and …
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Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes Film Festival

Filed under: El Paso Drug Use

CANNES, France (AP) – The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary …
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