Los Chicharrines Return to the Borderland
Los Chicharrines are back! Well, sort of.
For those of you who may remember, Los Chicharrines were brothers aptly named Chicharrin and Chicharin. Their show, El Circo de los Chicharrines was a huge hit back in the day here in the borderland. Although clowns kind of creeped me out, it was actually one of my favorite shows to watch! They were hilarious and super entertaining!
Los Chicharrines would broadcast out of Juarez, but then moved on to bigger stations in Monterrey. For awhile, it seemed like they faded away, but a while back I learned that they were still out there, performing and bringing smiles to people s faces.
new york times. now, in a new op-ed he writes this. here s part of it. the el paso massacre, and that s what it is, it s not a mass shooting but a premeditated massacre, was the inevitable by-product of the trump era s anti-immigrant and anti-latino invective which has poisoned our nation. el paso-juarez is a big, bustling desert city of over 2 million, straddling the u.s. and mexico. my hometown has virtually zero modern history of ethnic strife. el paso alone is over 80% hispanic. we switch from english to spanish without skipping a beat and we are fine with that. but the trump era is not. richard, we talked a little bit before we came on. you watched what the president said today from the white house, and it s safe to assume you were not satisfied with that? no one should be, frankly. i can t imagine that people in el paso will be after this.
community is. what has been the reaction since this horrific massacre happened now just over nine hours ago? well, it s been reported. we ve had significant blood donors this. is a very generous community. it is a community that goes back 350 years and people just don t understand. we have we are a close-knit we are a large and close-knit, the largest community of our type on the u.s./mexico border. there is nothing in north america that can equate with what we have here with el paso juarez. this is totally unexpected and as i said probably never would have occurred within el paso. you must be heartened to see those long lines of donors, of blood donors coming out to donate blood. there have been calls to for people to sign up online. what can people do to help the community right now? well, we ve set up the the
community is. what has been the reaction, since the horrific massacre happened just nine hours ago? it s been significant. this is a generous community. it s a community that goes back 350 years. and people don t understand. there s the largest on the u.s./mexico border. there s nothing that can equate with what we have here at el paso-juarez. probably never would have occurred in el paso. you must be heartened to see the long lines of donors coming out to donate blood. there s been calls for people to sign up online. what can people do to help the community right now? the el paso donation website has set up a website. and continuing to tell people to