Mayor Dee Margo, who I believe to be a Republican Trojan Horse with the ultimate goal of Republicanizing liberal-leaning El Paso, has always advocated for the destruction of Barrio Duranguito. As a businessman sitting in the mayor’s seat, he is leading the charge to tear it down and begin building the obscene monument to fiscal stupidity and wholesale historical malpractice on behalf of his wealthy downtown property owning friends...
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This graphic editorial by Jud Burgess / James No Bond includes the face of City Attorney Sylvia Borunda-Firth who is leading the charge along with the mayor and City Council to destroy Duranguito and its irreplaceable El Paso history.
The El Paso Times understandably would not print it with Borunda-Firth’s face, so I revised it and it printed without her face.
Senator José Rodriguez: Our people are not disposable and our history is not replaceable
There are many issues casting a dark shadow on the city push to erase the historic Duranguito neighborhood and replace it with an arena. One is the removal of residents, some of whom have been living there for decades, and who were used by the city to jump start the development process now leading to their evictions...
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