NO HOLDS BARRED IN GINA HINOJOSA VS. ABBOTT FOR GOVERNOR

"WITH THESE LEAK-PROOF LIDS, YOUR EMOLUMENTS WILL STAY FRESH..."

La Cebolla

WASHINGTON—Raising questions over the ethics of profiting in private business ventures while still holding office, a report released Tuesday found that President Donald Trump has made almost $1.4 billion in his second term selling Tupperware to friends. 

“Since officially reclaiming the presidency in January 2025, Donald Trump has used the multitude of connections associated with the presidency to move a massive quantity of food storage containers and other kitchen accessories,” the report concluded, citing a recent Cabinet meeting in which the president demonstrated the leak-proof lids of a three-piece bowl set and strongly advised everyone in attendance to purchase the containers, as well as a companion set of stackable tumblers. 

“Not only has Trump convened several emergency sessions of Congress to pitch the FridgeSmart storage four-pack to lawmakers, he’s also leveraged his position on the international stage. For example, he appears to be attending this week’s NATO summit solely because the member nations seemed amenable to purchasing millions of space-saving two-quart pitchers in exchange for increased U.S. support for Ukraine. Evidently, when you’re the president of the United States, you can pressure a lot of people into buying a lot of Tupperware.” 

At press time, a panicking Vice President JD Vance was reportedly struggling to come up with the $500,000 he had pledged for the hundreds of boxes of liquid-tight serving bowls that were now stacked in front of his home.

"DON'T STOP AT RIGHT OR WRONG, SAY THE ENTIRE QUOTE..."

"FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO IS TO KILL ALL THE COMMONISTS..."

"YOU KNOW, I LOVE SPORTS. I WAS VERY GOOD AT SPORTS..."

 

KENNEDY CENTER, REFLECTING POOL, WORLD CUP, REVOLVE 'ROUND ME

HOST NATIONS – U.S., CANADA, MEXICO – OUT OF WORLD CUP

 

OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (ODS): TRUMP SHOWS OBAMAS OWN A CONDOMINIUM IN HIS HEAD, POSTS RACIST MEME

Associated Press

US President Donald Trump has posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.

It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.

The latest image, posted on Sunday (local time), shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat's campaign slogan Yes We Can, Obama and BLM, short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase alhamdulillah, which means praise be to God or thank God.

The use of graffiti is a coded message to remind people of crime and urban decay and has been used in racist messaging against Black people in the past.

Trump has a years-long record of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas, and of using incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric. That included everything from feeding the lie that Obama was not born in the United States to crude generalizations about majority-Black countries and posts that have sparked anger on his Truth Social website.

VANDALS DID IT WITH A BOX CUTTER, FATHER. YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET....

BEER JOINT BLUES: LAS SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS DE LA CATORCE

It's called El Monkey's

The craig on a precipice 

Where the painted sirens sing

Writhing on shoals 

Of whirling briney foam

Lying in wait for 

Wayward souls

Across tempestuous 14th Street 

Charlie's bar beckons

And from the door

Circe's girls sing welcomes

And attend 

To rancho boys

And shrimp-boat hands

With flickering tongues they melt the wax

That had kept them safe and hiss:

Ven p'aca chiquito

Ya te esperaba y

Me tienes encalmada

Aquí

Y estan muertas

Las bironguitas

Como te gustan,

A ti

Lleguen bañaditos, y aquí lo peinamos

Shortchanged,

And overspent,

And kept at bay

Till closing time 

They, 

Turned pigs, depart 

Reeking of hothouse scents

Under the watchful eyes

Of hardened cops

Ready to stop

The swindled prey

As they emerge

From velvet styes

And out the back

The sirens fly

Fluttering jnto the dark, night sky

Lechusas

To sleep off 

The watered wine

With which they fleeced

Their lust-starved swine

Until next night

When once again

Painted and gay

They will entice 

Their willing prey

NO SE PUDO! NO SE PUDO! NI MODO. USA! USA! USA!

 NO SE PUDO!

USA FACES BELGIUM TODAY. USA! USA!

FLECHA FRESCA, PENDEYHO, WAY VONE, AND OTHER CARIÑITOS

Terry McCranor: Santana loves him too. His great song ‘Oh yeah Comb over’

Peter Gutierrez: Also call him WAY VONE and PANDEYHO

Dan Burd: They also call him Marty Cone

Brian Halverson: He is one big cool low…

"WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL..."

 HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

TRUMP CALLS IN BOMB THREAT TO COVER UP LOW FAIR ATTENDANCE

La Cebolla

WASHINGTON—Claiming there were strings of explosive devices planted throughout the National Mall, President Donald Trump reportedly attempted to cover up low attendance at the Great American State Fair this week by calling in a bomb threat. 

“There’s a series of explosives in unmarked duffel bags all across the fairgrounds, which are beautiful by the way, so you’d better evacuate everyone as fast as you can, don’t even bother stopping to count how many people there are,” Trump said from his Oval Office phone, pinching his nose in an effort to disguise his voice. 

“You’ll regret it big time if all the attendees, however many there may possibly be, don’t flee back to their homes this instant. This incredibly successful and beloved event is officially over!” 

According to sources, the president concluded the warning by casually stating his name was Sleepy Joe Biden and then hanging up the receiver.

BROWNSVILLE, MATAMOROS KEY CITIES FOR HUACHICOL FUEL CARTEL SCHEMES: WHO'S NEXT ON THE FBI LIST?

eltejanorgv.com

The bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros moves thousands of cars and trucks every day. Some of the fuel on those trucks is legal. A lot of it is not. A family with ties on both sides of that bridge has been linked to those criminal networks for years.

El Tejano has learned that Jesus Juraidini of Brownsville and Carlos Juraidini are relatives of the man Treasury froze on June 30, 2026. His name is Oscar Guillermo Juraidini Silva. He is a Matamoros accountant. Treasury says he ran the money side of CJNG. That is the Jalisco cartel.

Jesus Juraidini said in federal court he was the Gulf Cartel's main extortion man in the Rio Grande Valley. He paid $2.5 million in cartel cash for homes and buildings across Hidalgo County. A federal judge gave him three years of probation in November 2023. He did not go to prison.

His relative in Matamoros was building a fuel theft empire. For a rival cartel. On June 30, 2026, the U.S. froze every company he ran. Six firms in Matamoros. One shell company in London named Cucumber Sweet Waves.

Two cartels. One family. One bridge.

That is not the story Treasury told. This is the story behind it.

What the Government Knew and When

Six years before the June 30 sanctions, the FBI was already watching one of the men named that day.

In early 2020, a Mexican trucking firm called Jomadi Logistics and Cargo signed a deal with Venezuela. Jomadi would supply high-octane gasoline to Venezuela. In exchange for five million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil. Venezuela needed gas. Its leader, Nicolas Maduro, was blocked by U.S. sanctions. The deal was set up to dodge those sanctions.

By May 2020, a news report said the FBI and Treasury were looking at Jomadi and its boss, J. Refugio Ruiz Villagomez. They were looking at him for helping Maduro break U.S. law.

No charges. No freeze. No action.

Jomadi kept moving fuel.

By 2026, Jomadi had a new client. Same trucks. Same fake paperwork. Same border. But now the fuel was moving for CJNG. The U.S. called CJNG a terrorist group in February 2025.

The June 30 action left one question open. Why did it take six years to freeze a man and a company the FBI had already looked at?

How the Scheme Works

The fuel theft scheme in this case has a name. Huachicol fiscal. Fiscal fuel theft.

The whole scheme is a tax lie. Mexico charges a fuel tax called IEPS on every liter of gas sold there. Cartel traders found a way to skip it. Here is how.

Fuel traders in the United States buy gas and diesel at legal export spots. They load it on trucks, train cars, and ships. They drive it toward Mexico. At the border, they give agents fake papers. The papers say the load is "waste oil" or some other item that does not need permits. The fuel gets in. The tax never gets paid. The cartel keeps the tax money. The gas ends up at cartel-run stations.

The cash flows back north. Through trucking firms, cash exchanges, real estate deals, and shell companies.

Reports say between one quarter and one third of all gas sold in Mexico comes from fraud like this. Mexico loses $11 billion a year in taxes to it.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this is now the second biggest way cartels make money. Right behind drugs.

The Matamoros Money Machine

Oscar Guillermo Juraidini Silva is 41 years old. He was born in Tamaulipas. He is an accountant. The U.S. says he built the money system for CJNG's fuel ring.

His companies had different jobs.

Centro Cambiario La Peseta opened in Matamoros in 2012. It is a cash exchange. A cash exchange inside a cartel network does one thing: it makes dirty money look like clean business income.

OF Transportes ran a white truck fleet. Ogui Fletes ran a blue freight line. Its trucks roll through Matamoros with the company name on the door.

OJ Living Trust, RK Real King, and Soma Transporte y Servicios handled real estate and money services.

All six are in Matamoros. All six are now frozen.

The seventh company was in London.

Cucumber Sweet Waves Ltd was set up in London on September 2, 2024. The address: 27 Old Gloucester Street. Juraidini was named its director on January 8, 2025. A UK firm checked his ID in January 2026. The company filed papers that same month saying it did no business. A cartel accountant. A London shell company. Filed as dormant. Then frozen on June 30, 2026.

The Brownsville Side

Jesus Juraidini pleaded guilty in federal court in McAllen on March 22, 2021.

Court records show the scheme ran from January 2010 through November 2018. He paid more than $2.5 million in cash to a Mission builder named Delfino Gaona. Gaona bought and built at least six homes and shops in Hidalgo County with that cash. He broke the cash into smaller amounts. That way no report had to be filed.

A lawyer for a co-defendant said in open court that Jesus Juraidini told the FBI he was the Gulf Cartel's main extortion man. He also washed millions for them. The government did not push back.

Jesus Juraidini helped the FBI. He agreed to pay back $2,519,000. He gave up 10 properties in Hidalgo County.

The FBI, DEA, Texas DPS, the Hidalgo County Sheriff, and police in McAllen and Pharr all worked it.

On November 9, 2023, Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Jesus Juraidini to three years of probation.

He did not go to prison.

$7 Billion. Brownsville Named First.

After a May 2025 alert, banks filed 160 reports in one year. All tied to CJNG's fuel ring. Those reports covered $7 billion in suspect cash. Texas was the top state. Florida was second.

In Texas, the reports were heavy in border cities. Brownsville was listed first. Then Mission. Then Eagle Pass. Then McAllen. Most of the businesses flagged were in oil, gas, and trucking.

The South Texas Homeland Security Task Force led the case. The DEA, FBI, HSI, the IRS, and Border Patrol all worked it.

CJNG's top boss died in February 2026. The money machine did not stop. It kept running. It does not need any one boss. It runs on money men and truck firms. On cash shops and fake companies. On false papers and border crossings.

Two cartels. One family. Six years of watching Jomadi. One bridge.

The FinCEN report named Brownsville first.

El Tejano will continue to follow this story.

To visit news site, click on link: https://www.eltejanorgv.com/a-fake-company-named-cucumber-sweet-waves-was-hiding-cjng-money-south-texas-is-in-the-middle/

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THE U.S. ARMY AND STILLMAN: "THE LAND DIDN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY..."

  

(Ed.'s Note: Ever since we were children, we have been told that when Gen. Zachary Taylor arrived on the site of present-day Brownsville, he found nothing but barren land and upon that land he built Fort Texas, afterwards named Ft. Brown for Major Jacob Brown, killed after being struck in the knee by a Mexican cannon ball that bounced off  a wall. Brown did die, but when the U.S. Army came upon the land, there was a prosperous rancho, growing cotton, sugar cane and beans, etc., and at least 12 "substantial" buildings and strong fencing. The U.S. entered into a rental agreement with its owner Miguel Salinas, who now lies buried in the Santa Rosalia Cemetery.

Army engineers used his fencing to fortify the earthworks, and then, to prevent Mexican soldiers from using the buildings as cover, they demolished them. Neither Salinas nor his heirs ever got paid for his land, the buildings or for the crops destroyed by the soldiers at Ft. Brown. Below is a record of the hearings before the U.S. House Committee on War Claims on the Salinas family claim, some 40 yeas after the government took their land. Then Charles Stillman and his lawyers tied up the title in court and eventually sold the land without clear title to establish the town. We thank Dr. Marie Theresa Hernandez Ramirez, Professor and Researcher of World Cultures and Literatures from the University of Houston for providing us with this document.)

By Juan Montoya

51st Congress, First Session

April 21, 1890.

Committee on War Claims

The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. B. 3433) for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Salinas, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report:

This bill was presented in the Fiftieth Congress, first session, and favorably reported from the Committee on War Claims. The report of that committee is concurred in and adopted by this committee. Miguel Salinas was the owner and occupant.of a large plantation on the Rio Grande, in Cameron County, Texas, and had been for twenty years prior to 1840. That year, in the month of March, the United States troops, commanded by General Zachary Taylor, encamped upon this plantation, which
was an exceedingly valuable one, and at this time, as in prior years, in a high state of cultivation. 

The lands were very extensive, and at the time of occupation by the Army, as above stated, had growing upon them very large crops of cotton, corn, sugar cane, beans, about half matured.

There were also twelve houses, and built of concrete brick, some of them being very large and commodious, and all of them substantial and serviceable. Three of these were the permanent residence of Miguel Salinas and his family, and the others were used by the servants and for store-houses. There was also a wind-mill, a large and very strong cattle-pen, a great amount of fencing in perfect condition and with upright posts, together with farming utensils and other belongings necessary for conducting the operations of so large a ranch.

The troops took possession of all the houses on the plantation, and on the 14th of April, 1846, Capt. G. H. Crossman, assistant quarter-master U. S. Army, rented seven of them, by contract with Miguel
Salinas, at $1.50 a day each, for as long a time as the Government thought proper to occupy them. This contract was approved by the commanding officer General General Zachary Taylor, and the original is now on file with the Comptroller's office; a copy herewith.

It was also further stipulated in the said contract that if any alterations were found necessary to be made while occupied by the Government, it would only be done with the consent of the owner, and should not detract from their value. A fort was built upon the plantation of said Miguel Salinas; and called Fort  (Texas), later Brown, after the officer in command. In order to render it bomb-proof, Assistant Quartermaster Captain Crossman ordered all the fences on the place hauled to the fort and used by Captain and Engineer Mansfield for that purpose. The work gave great protection to the troops, and part of the fencing was also used by them for fuel.

There was also one cattle pen or corral used by the troops, which was of the best material and strongly built. The houses were used for the storage of supplies for the troops, officers' quarters, hospital purposes, and quarters for the men who were not furnished with tents. In the attack upon Fort (Texas), Major Brown who was in charge of the fort, ordered the destruction of these houses as a matter of safety to our men who were then working on the fort.

This was done with the approval of General Taylor, who had previously given instructions to Major Brown, before the battle of Palo Alto was fought, to destroy these houses if he found they were in  anywise an impediment to the operations of the fort.

The occupancy by the United States Army of the plantation of the said Miguel Salinas, the building of Fort Brown thereon, the burning of his houses, together with the destruction of his crop, fences, and
corral, etc., nearly beggared him, and he was compelled to procure a home for himself and family in Matamoros, as everything on his plantation was swept away completely.

He was in undisputed possession of the said lands for twenty years previous to the Mexican War, and yet but $11.12 (and that amount was paid in pork by Captain G.H. Crossman) did he ever receive from the Government for or on account of rent of his houses or compensation for damages and loss of all his property.

While litigation has caused delay to determine ownership of several undivided interests of the grant of land of which his plantation is a part, and the Government has hitherto declined to pass on his accounts for rent notwithstanding its contract with the said Miguel Salinas, it is conclusively shown that the latter acquired his right by purchase and his claim against the United States has continuously remained unchallenged, by anyone.

At the close of the war with Mexico a permanent garrison was established on a portion of these grounds. In 1848 the Government refused the first-time payment of rent for the same, as there were numerous claimants for title. The contestants went into court, and the matter was not finally adjudicated until October, 1879, when time United States Supreme Court decreed in a favor of Cavazos (see volume 100, page 138, of United States Supreme Court Reports); and Miguel Salinas holds title to his land from Cavazos by Purchase. Salinas again presented this claim in 1849, only to be again advised that settlement of disputed title caused further delay. 

He made subsequent applications, but met with no success.

This claim was presented in 1849 to Quartermaster-General Thomas S. Jesup and in August of that year that officer wrote to Major Crossman, who made the contract with Salinas for the renting of the buildings requesting him to furnish information regarding this claim and others for rest of grounds.

After the receipt of the above report from Major Crossman, General Thomas S. Jesup (Quartermaster General) writes to Conrad, Secretary of War, under the date of August 13, 1852, as follows, in reference to this claim:

"As far as the public agents entered into contracts we are unquestionably bound in good faith. to fulfill  them, but the contracts were limited to a compensation of $1.50 a day for the houses and cattle-pen on the land when it was occupied and these contracts probably terminated with the destruction of the buildings; but, having rented them, it is a question whether we are not bound to pay for them, they having been destroyed by order of the commanding officer.

I submit a report of Major Crossman giving the facts in relationship to the original establishment of the troops upon the site and the contract with Mr. Salinas; also a report of Major Crossman in relation to the arrangement with Mr. (Charles) Stillman, whose title has merged in that of Mr. Cavazos."

The heirs of Salinas, being wholly unfamiliar with the English language, and having to depend upon the attorneys for Cavazos, who were also interested in the suits, and the incidental change of' counsel by death, removal from the country, and other circumstances, left claimants wholly at their mercy and the delay by the Government in the settlement of the accounts of the claimants is one which otherwise can be regarded than seriously unjust, and should be immediately remedied, as the title to the ownership of the various claimants to the land has been settled by a recent opinion of the Attorney General, and which pretext the Government has availed itself of heretofore refusing payment.

Then, in January 31, 1891, the Committee on Military Affairs contradicted the 1846 contract and earlier report by Quartermaster Crossman and the value of the Salinas ranch, buildings and improvements by stating that: 

(To read about the theft of Miguel Salinas' land by the U.S. Government, and later, by Charles Stillman, click on link below. The author, Sara C. Bronin, is a property law professor at Cornell University and a direct descendant of Miguel Salinas.)

https://www.latinobookreview.com/8203land-grab-the-untold-story-of-fort-brown-by-sara-c-bronin--latino-book-review.html

MCALLEN ATTORNEY, 5 CO-DEFENDANTS, INDICTED FOR ENGAGING IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, FORGERY OF COURT DOCUMENTS, PERJURY

By Juan Montoya

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive..."

And then you get indicted.

The Cameron County courthouse is abuzz with the indictments and arrest of  McAllen attorney Nacer Aounallah and five other defendants, including a notary public and other confederates, who – if the charges filed against them by the the Cameron County District Attorney's Office prove true – knowingly engaged in criminal activity to forge an affidavit and submit it to a district court.

Court records indicate that Aounallah – now free on $40,000 bond –  was indicted by a grand jury this June 24, 2026 with his fellow defendants Ron Chamberlain, his law office employee, alleged false witnesses Robert Foehringher and Erica Lynn Peña, Esmeralda Gonzales and notary public Maria Candelaria Medina, on one count of engaging in criminal activity, three counts of forgery of a government instrument (a false affidavit), and one count of aggravated perjury.

The charges in the criminal case (2026-DCR-01686), stem, innocuously enough, from an affidavit filed by his divorce attorney to a trial court cause styled 2025-DCL-02175, in Cameron County before 404th District Court presided by State District Judge Ricardo Adobbati. The affidavit was provided by Nacer Aounallah to his attorney and represented as having been made and signed by Nacer Aounallah's wife Dennis.

Records indicate that part of the record in that case indicates that Aounallah was arrested by Palm Valley Police March 1, 2025, on a charge of assaulting a 14-year-old child (his son). Aounallah posted a $25,000 cash surety bond and was released.

District Attorney Office investigators presented evidence to the jury that the notarized affidavit purportedly signed by his wife was false and included alleged self admissions and false statements where she admitted that:

1. The charges of assault against his son were false.

2.  That she was having an affair with the Palm Valley officer who arrested him on the assault charge

3. That she was consuming and possessing cocaine with the officer's knowledge.

An affidavit for warrant of arrest filed by CCDA's Office investigator Albert Toriz, June 3, indicates that Aounallah's co-defendants in the organized criminal activity and forgery case – through interviews and videotaped recordings –have admitted that they knew the affidavit filed in court April 2025 had not been made or signed by his wife Dennis and that she had not been present when the document was signed by someone else.

Also introduced into Toriz's affidavit were text messages and consensual recorded conversations between Aounallah and some of the defendants where he allegedly coaches some of them on how to respond to police and on just giving police copies of the false affidavits they signed at his direction to deceive the court.

"Based on the Affiant's (Toriz's) training, experience, interviews, recordings, and evidence, Nacer Aounalah orchestrated, authored, or produced the false...affidavit...and had it notarized with the assistance of Esmeralda Gonzalez and Maria Candelaria Medina, (and allowed) his attorney Ruth Serra, to introduce the fasle affidavit knowing it was false. (He) further allowed his attorney...to call Ron Chamberlain to stand and be sworn under oath...knowing that (he) was also committing aggravated perjury and lying to the court." 

MAGAS LOVE TRUMP AND HATE FREELOADERS, AND ARE ON WELFARE

SPACEX, D-27 TEXAS SEN. HINOJOSA CELEBRATE 2ND ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY AT BOCA CHICA BEACH

 

WAS NAVARRO A TRUE-BLUE TEXAN, OR A DUPE OF ANGLO FILIBUSTERS?

Lonestar Receipts

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

Fifty-nine men signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Only two of them were actually born in Texas.

José Antonio Navarro was one of them.

Born in San Antonio on February 27, 1795, Navarro came into a world where his city had already changed hands multiple times and would keep changing. During his lifetime, Texas lived under six different governments — a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, an American state, a Confederate state, and then an American state again. Through every single one of them, Navarro stayed. He was Texas. Texas was him. 

He taught himself law. Built himself into a successful merchant and rancher. Became a trusted ally of Stephen F. Austin. And when the moment came to choose between safety and principle, he walked to Washington-on-the-Brazos and put his name on a document that was, if the Revolution failed, a death warrant.

Of all 59 signers of the Declaration of Independence, Navarro and his uncle José Francisco Ruiz were the only men born in Texas. They had the deepest roots, the most to lose, and nowhere to run. Surviving Anglos could potentially return to the United States if the war was lost. For Navarro and the other Tejano signers, there was nowhere to go.

He signed anyway.

He was the only man to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, and the Constitution of the State of Texas. Three founding documents. One Tejano from San Antonio who was there for all of it. 

But the story doesn't stop at independence. In 1841, Navarro joined the ill-fated Santa Fe Expedition. It was a disaster. He was captured, put on trial, sentenced to death, and imprisoned for years in the most dreaded prison in Veracruz — a place known as a prison of living death. 

His captors gave him a way out. Denounce Texas. Swear loyalty to Mexico. Walk free.

He refused. He told them: "I have sworn to be a free Texan, and I shall never forswear." 

Those words are carved into the entrance wall of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin today.

He eventually escaped, made his way back to Texas, and was received as a hero. He served in the Texas Congress. He was the sole Tejano delegate to the Convention of 1845 that brought Texas into the United States. He spent the rest of his life fighting for the rights of Tejanos in a Republic and then a State that didn't always want to honor them.

When he died, the editor of a local newspaper wrote: "To none of her greatest statesmen nor to her many eminent patriots is Texas more indebted for her existence than to José Antonio Navarro." 

Navarro County bears his name. So does a street in downtown San Antonio, a school, and a state historic site at the home where he lived and died. His descendants still gather every year to celebrate his birthday.

He was born Texan before Texas existed. He signed it into existence. He bled for it in a Mexican prison. And he never once considered being anything else.

USA MNT BEATS BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, FACES BELGIUM MONDAY IN ROUND OF 16

By Chuck Booth
CBS

It's been 24 years since the United States won a knockout stage game at a World Cup, and despite needing to finish the match with 10 men due to a red card to star player Folarin Balogun, the US Men's National Team kept their composure to win 2-0. Balogun scored right before the half, hitting the LeBron James silencer celebration, and it seemed like the USMNT would be off and running, but they'd have to face adversity after a strong start in order to see the match out.

After a VAR review, Balogun was sent off in the 64th minute after a challenge on a Bosnian player but between Sebastian Berhalter and Ricardo Pepi entering to provide balance and the USMNT keeping their attacking midset, it was enough to see the game out as late, Malik Tillman caught Bosnia and Herzegovina keeper Nikola Vasilj cheating on a free kick to give the USMNT a much needed insurance goal.

Christian Pulisic and Sergino Dest weren't at their best, and the USMNT finished with 10, but this is the kind of game where their mentality under Pochettino shows. They never gave up despite adversity, and now they've accomplished something that hasn't been done since 2002 under Bruce Arena, while having the pressure of playing on home soil on them. Now, they'll play in the round of 16 on July 6 at Lumen Field in Seattle, facing a familiar foe in Belgium.

THE SHOOTER WAS TO BE TACKLED BY THE SECRET SERVICE SPLASHING ACROSS THE REFLECTION POOL!

Assassination Cancellation due to small crowds.

 

SUMMER SURPRISE: GOP J.P. CANDIDATE RICARDO ALEJANDRO WITHDRAWS FROM NOV. 3 GENERAL ELECTION VS. MARY ESTHER SOROLA

(Ed.'s Note: Incumbent Camron County Justice of the Peace Pct. 2, Place 3, Mary Esther Sorola got a pleasant Summer Surprise this June 23 after her Republican Party challenger thought better of it and withdrew from the Nov. 3 election. This means that Sorola will run unopposed and guaranteed the win. Sorola, one of the hardest working JPs in the county, is probably breathing a sigh of relief that she won't have to undergo the ordeal of a summer-long campaign heading into the Fall.) 

 

ROAR ON THE FOURTH: JOIN INAUGURAL 4TH OF JULY FREEDOM RUN!

 

CAPT. BOB THE CATCH OF THE D.A.? WHAT DID HE DO NOW?

(Ed.'s Note: No, we looked in the Brownsville Police Dept. blog and there was no sign of Robert "Capt. Bob" Sanchez among the inmates. Apparently, it was "fake news" that he had been caught by Cameron County D.A. Luis Saenz – the catch of the D.A. – as one of our readers thought the marquee in front of his restaurant implied. We hope this post doesn't jinx the good captain. Puro fun, Bob!)  

EL TRI TO THE ROUND OF 16, PLAYS SUNDAY VS. ENGLAND OR THE CONGO: USA PLAYS TODAY VS. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Mexico's Raul Jimenez (9) celebrates with teammates after scoring their second goal during the World Cup round of 32 soccer match between Mexico and Ecuador in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 30, 2026.Silvia Izquierdo/AP

By NPR

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — The 40-year wait is over. Mexicans had learned to live with defeats in the knockout stages of the World Cup. On seven occasions, El Tri fans were left heartbroken at this stage.

Not anymore.

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez scored within a nine-minute span in the first half and Mexico defeated Ecuador 2-0 on Tuesday night to break a four-decade drought in the knockout stage and progress to the Round of 16.

Quiñones opened the scoring in the 22nd minute and Jiménez added a goal in the 31st for the Mexicans, who had not won a knockout-stage match since defeating Bulgaria in the round of 16 when they hosted the tournament in 1986. Mexico coach Javier Aguirre was one of the starting midfielders in that '86 team.

Mexico lost seven consecutive times at that same stage from 1994 to 2018 and didn't advance past the group stage in 2022.

Jiménez scored his second goal of the tournament and has 47 with the national team to break a tie with Jared Borgetti. He is five away from tying "Chicharito" Hernández as the all-time leading scorer for Mexico.

Mexico will play another home match Sunday against the winner of Wednesday's match between England and Congo.

Playing at the iconic Azteca Stadium, the Mexican squad boasts an undefeated record across 10 World Cup matches. Mexico has just two official losses at the venue — the last being a World Cup qualifying defeat to Honduras on Sept. 6, 2013.

The USA Men's National Team will play Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight at 7 p.m. to try to break out of the Round of 32 to make the Round of 16.

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