THE NUMBERS ARE BOUGHT, BOTANA READY FOR SUPER BOWL LX

Got 'em Seahawks

New England Pats

Micheladas and porra bets

We got new guys

Tambien las babes

Y gamblers attempting to get paid

And karaokers thinking they're country stars

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, I love this bar

Forget the Cowboys

Forget those fuckers

Mistake-ridden fools and suckers

Sam the cow farmer

Mark selling numbers

Mama's botana on the burner

And vets lying about their battles and the war

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, I love this bar

Vente as you are

No esta muy far

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, gotta love this bar

Super Bowl 60's here

We've got your chair

High-backed bar stools

For lovers and fools

Y muchas, muchas babes

Even seen Pati emerge from her kitchen-cave

There's door prizes

Botana surprises

We might even have a drunk dance on the bar

Ooh, ooh, ooh, gotta love this bar

And we like it here, 'cause no vivimos far

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm,just love this bar

(Yes I do)

But I love this bar

It's my kind of place

At the back of  the burger joint

Shit eatin' grin on my face...

No esta muy far

Vente as you are

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, gotta love this bar

HHS SEC. KENNEDY: YOU AIN'T GOT NO SKINS IN THE GAME...

La Cebolla

WASHINGTON—In a firm dismissal of decades of scientific research and real-world data on the organ’s benefits and safety, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly questioned the efficacy of skin Wednesday while testifying before Congress.

 “Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said the self-proclaimed “membrane skeptic,” declaring that the ubiquity of skin in modern society, from the epidermis down to the subcutaneous tissue, amounted to little more than a “nefarious marketing campaign by the powerful people who manufacture skin.” 

“A lot of the public has lost their trust in skin, and for good reason. Skin is a significant contributing factor to skin cancer, being linked to it in nearly 100% of cases. One of the most common factors shared by those diagnosed with autism is that they all have skin on their bodies. That’s not a coincidence. What’s more, your muscles can easily suffocate if they don’t get enough exposure to the air.” 

“That’s why I cover my internal organs with a perforated raw beef hide, which a lot of research shows works even better than whatever skin is made of,” the secretary continued. “I mean, stratum basale, spinosum, granulosum—what the heck are these ingredients, and why are we letting them anywhere near our children’s bodies?” 

Kennedy added that skin was a relatively recent invention, citing the fact that the bones of prehistoric humans unearthed by archaeologists are consistently skinless.

WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE CHIMPS, IS GOOD FOR THE ORANGUTANS...

To be honest… Melania never looked so happy and kind…

 

FROM BROWNTOWN AND MATA WITH PATRIOT LOVE IN SUPER BOWL

PERFUME AND EXCUSES FROM TRUMP FOR INSULTING BLACKS, OBAMAS

By Michael Jochum

There is no gray area here. 

None. 

Depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes is not satire, it’s not “edgy,” it’s not an “internet meme,” and it sure as hell is not “fake outrage.” It is one of the oldest, most putrid racist tropes in the American sewer system, comparing Black human beings to monkeys in order to dehumanize them.

That imagery was used to justify slavery, segregation, lynching, and systemic humiliation for generations. Anyone pretending not to understand that is either historically illiterate or morally bankrupt. 

And when the President of the United States shares it, whether for one second or sixty-two, it isn’t an accident. It’s a signal. It’s a wink to the ugliest corners of his base. It’s a reminder that cruelty is still the currency of his political brand.

And then comes the inevitable chorus of enablers. The press secretary dismisses it as a meme. Staffers say it was “erroneously” posted. Allies urge everyone to calm down. 

This is the pattern. Every time he steps in something foul, the administration rushes in with perfume and excuses, as if the American public can’t smell what’s right in front of us. This is the same man who launched his political career on the racist lie that Obama wasn’t born in this country. The same man who has never found a kind word for anyone who challenges him, and rarely even for those who don’t. 

His rhetoric has always been a river of bile, but now it feels more unhinged, more desperate, like a man thrashing as the walls close in. When even Republican Senator Tim Scott calls it “the most racist thing” he’s seen from this White House, that should tell you something.

What makes this especially grotesque is the transparent distraction machine humming underneath it all. The same week credible voices are demanding accountability on the Epstein files, we get jungle-king cosplay and racist memes set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” 

The White House tells us to focus on “what matters.” Apparently what matters is not decency, not dignity, not the basic human respect owed to former presidents and first ladies, especially the first Black family to ever occupy the White House. 

Apparently what matters is protecting a man whose behavior grows more aberrant by the day, whose speech drifts into incoherence, whose physical decline is harder and harder to disguise, and whose response to pressure is always the same: lash out, demean, degrade.

This is not normal politics. This is not hardball. This is rot. And every Republican who shrugs, deflects, or whispers criticism without consequence becomes complicit in that rot. You cannot claim to love this country while excusing the deliberate dehumanization of its citizens for cheap applause. 

You cannot preach faith while laughing at imagery that echoes centuries of racial hatred. And you certainly cannot hide behind the word “meme” when the poison is that obvious. History will not be confused about what this was. It will not file it under humor. It will file it under disgrace.

LA FIRMA REPLACES LOS INVASORES FOR SOMBREROFEST 2026

By Shirley Escobedo

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Valley Central) — Sombrero Fest has announced “La Firma” as its new Saturday headliner for its 2026 main stage.

This announcement comes after Los Invasores de Nuevo León canceled their performance at the Sombrero Festival main stage on Feb. 28.

“Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, the group had to cancel their performance at this year’s Sombrero Festival. “Our team is hard at work to find a replacement, and we will announce them Los Invasores de Nuevo Leónas soon as they are confirmed,” Sombrero Festival, Ltd. Board Chair and CEO Olga Gonzalez said.

The Sombrero Festival will be held at Washington Park, located at 700 E. Madison St. in Brownsville.

The three-day festival will take place Feb. 26 through Feb. 28, during the Brownsville Charro Days festivities.

The full lineup and ticket information for the event are available on the Sombrero Festival website.

THEY HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT LORD THE GOOD THEY DIE YOUNG....

African and Black History African Archives's Post:

Medgar Evers was only 37 when he was assassinated in 1963. By that age, he was already the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi, organizing voter registration drives, investigating racial terror, and challenging segregation in one of the most violent states in the country for Black activism.

Malcolm X was killed in 1965 at 39. In barely a decade of public life, he transformed himself from a street hustler into one of the most powerful and globally recognized Black voices of the 20th century. His thinking was still evolving. His politics were still changing. He was just beginning to broaden his vision beyond the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr. was also 39 when he was assassinated in 1968. By that age, he had already led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech, and played a central role in the passage of landmark civil rights legislation.

None of them reached 40.

They are often remembered as finished figures, as if their work was complete. It wasn’t. They were young men still growing, still debating strategy, still imagining what freedom could look like in a country that resisted it at every turn.

What they accomplished in such short lives is extraordinary. What was taken from them—and from the movements they were shaping—is just as important to remember.

GUERRA'S FAKE "VICTIM" ACT FLOPS, TRIGGERS BACKLASH

Special to El Rrun-Rrun
It's a page taken straight out of the PRI campaign playbook.

Here's poor (not so) little Brownsville Navigation District Steve Guerra complaining about being abused by his opponents in the race for Cameron County Judge and vowing to take the high road instead, specifically singling out supporters of incumbent Eddie Treviño, since the other candidate in the race is former Cameron County Sheriff Eric Garza, who political observers say was put into the race as a stalking horse to throw the race into a runoff.

Guerra's self-serving ads claiming he would endure his opponent's "smear tactics" and remain on the high road despite the sticks and stones against him by those mean Treviño supporters are nothing short of disingenuous.

While he hides his hand, his supporters – through anonymous social media accounts (like Brownsville and Valley News) – attack and ridicule Treviño and accuse him of personal enrichment and of single-handedly giving away Boca Chica Beach to Elon Musk's SpaceX.

But despite his hand wringing and protestations, honesty and transparency aren't Guerra's forte. No martyr is he.

He forgets to mention that Treviño's vote is but one of three needed to have a majority to approve any county vote. Treviño's single vote cannot pass anything without the support of a majority of the commissioners' court. But Guerra knows that going after majority would backfire, so his anonymous supporters are content to demonize the incumbent in social media and accuse him – without providing proof – of allegations of criminality and wrongdoing.

In one of the social media attacks, Treviño is ridiculed in a Photoshopped meme and a caricature showing a rat-like Treviño on a leash and accusing him of single-handedly selling Musk Boca Chica Beach in return for bags filled with cash. They say that they want to "send Musk's pet rat back to the sewer" and vote for Guerra. Again, they offer no proof or put their names behind the accusations.

But they neglect to tell their followers that the Texas Legislature – with the support of the late Rene Oliveira and the House and Eddie Lucio Jr. in the Texas Senate – were the ones responsible for pushing through bills allowing Musk – through the county –  to close access to the beach. Treviño was actually the only one on the commissioners Court who was opposed the state move to approve the handing over access to Boca Chica, bypassing the county, to Musk's new city, Starbase.  

But this mudslinging backfires and has unintended consequences, too. None other than Cameron County Sheriff Manuel "Manny" Treviño issued a strong statement against these "smear" (that word again!) tactics being used by Guerra and his proxies in social media. 

"Statement from Sheriff Manuel Treviño: 

"I have worn a badge for many years, and with that badge comes a responsibility to stand up for truth, fairness, and integrity. That is why I am angry and disgusted by the tactics being used against Eddie Treviño Jr. in this campaign. Anyone who believes this kind of behavior is acceptable leadership should be ashamed.

What we are witnessing is not debate. It is not accountability. It is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public through guilt-by-association and recycled insinuations. Hiding behind fake social media accounts to attack others is an act of cowardice. That’s not what a real man does!

As a law-enforcement officer, I know the difference between facts and smear tactics. I also know that trying to destroy someone’s reputation without evidence is wrong — and it speaks volumes about the character and judgment of the people doing it.

If a candidate is willing to distort the truth and poison public discourse just to win an election, then they are not fit to hold public office." 

Likewise, Cameron County Pct. 1 Commissioner Sofia Benavides issued her endorsement of Treviño and chided Guerra's proxies for their childish antics and urges voters to vote for "the adult in the room." 

"It seems like his opponents are acting like spoiled kids who think dirty politics and shady social media posts are a magic wand that will somehow get them elected. Instead of doing the hard work – showing up, learning the job, and offering real solutions – they hide behind fake outrage and dumb, false narratives pushed online  

"That kind of behavior isn't bold or clever; it's immature and irresponsible. Cameron County isn't a game, and leadership isn't earned through smear pages or cheap tricks. This job demands discipline, experience, and respect for the people – not shortcuts or nonsense."

Therein lies the rub. 

Guerra and his anonymous proxies hadn't counted on triggering the ire of two popular elected officials with a lifetime of experience and loyal constituents who can see through the smear and detect Guerra's attempt to hide his hand after slinging the mud trying to make himself a victim and instead having his tactics coming back to bite his ample behind.

THIS IS A LIST THAT TRUMP'S DEPT. OF JUSTICE CAN'T CONCEAL

"FOR WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE SHOULD GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?" MARK 8:36

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

Megyn Kelly: "Raping fourteen-year-old girls is not really pedophilia, so relax." 

Karoline Leavitt: "They were neighbors, so it’s OK." 

Todd Blanche: "You can party with Epstein no problem." 

At this point, MAGA—how much of your soul is left to sell?

DONALD STALIN: “THOSE WHO VOTE DECIDE NOTHING. THOSE WHO COUNT THE VOTE DECIDE EVERYTHING."

 

REMEMBER BROWNSVILLE''S RACIST PAST ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Texas Southmost College Chair Adela Garza: "Our Scorpion community gathered outside the historic Regiment House for the unveiling of the Buffalo Soldier Historical Marker. We honored the legacy of the African American troops at Fort Brown, recognizing both their contributions and the injustices they endured. This marker is an important step in securing their place in our local history."

Narrative to application for Texas Historical Commission marker at Ft. Brown for Buffalo Soldiers. At the local level applications were handled by Gene Fernandez, Commissioner and Chairman of the Texas State Historical Marker Program.

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

The reason for the commemoration of the “Buffalo Soldiers,” through their involvement with Fort Brown and the South Texas environs throughout the second half of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th Century, is abundantly meaningful. This honorable recognition is claimed, based upon facts of numerous actual ties that occurred to connect the soldiers and their fort intrinsically together.

Extending beyond the realm of Historians, and into the consciousness of open society, the fame of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers is far and wide among us.

Since their initial formulation in 1866, as a grouping of African American-based regiments of cavalry and infantry, they accumulated a notable heritage which is firmly seated within the annals of American military history.

The theaters of operation include such historical episodes as the Indian Wars of the Great Plains, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Mexican Border War, World War I, World War II.

To accurately track the specific regiments which followed the original lineage of these soldiers, One must center on certain “companies” of the following regiments: (United States Army) 9th Cavalry, 10th Cavalry, 24th Cavalry, 25th Infanytry.

In the broad range of events, all of these regiments were composed of almost exclusively African Americans, with the exception of a White officer corps. Absolute evidence of the presence of Black soldiers (U. S. Colored Troops, “USCT, or USC”), can be observed, sadly enough, in the roster of those who were buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Brown.

It is well understood that combat fatalities were not that great in South Texas throughout the period of the Civil War, in particular, whereas the primary cause of death was attributed to pestilence and other health-related causes. The poor living conditions on this Border outpost, abundantly documented, surely contributed largely as well.

The ravages of the cholera epidemic of 1866, and the yellow fever scourges of 1867, 1882, and 1883 took heavy toll of soldier and citizen alike.

Another monumental accounting which establishes the presence of colored troops in the area comes from the rolls of the famous 25th Infantry, Companies B, C, and D, who were involved in the infamous “Brownsville Affair” of 1906. These troops followed an interesting, if not illustrious path that took in assignments ranging from the Spanish-American War service in Cuba, under Theodore Roosevelt, to obvious Indian engagement in Nebraska, Oklahoma, and then on to Brownsville.

Of those regiments, and the companies thereof, conforming with what were known to be legitimately “Buffalo Soldiers”, having seen direct military action in the Indian Wars of the Great Plains, there is direct evidence to support the claim that there were elements of troops which went on to receive assignments at Fort Brown.

The period of greatest direct tie to these veterans having spent time in South Texas ran from 1870 through 1880, according to general accounting of research on these regiments, understanding that the entire period of the Native American Indian conflicts ran from 1866 through the 1890’s. Tragically, They were all discharged dishonorably by Roosevelt after the Brownsville Afair although no proof existed that they had been involved in the fray.

Their acts of bravery attributed to the formidable warrior spirit of these soldiers, are resident in legend and history. From the origins of the actual name which was given to them by Native American Indians, they were said to have “fought like a cornered buffalo”, which lends an allegorical realism to their image. 

Speaking for this bravery, there were twenty-six Medal of Honor recipients from the ranks of their regiments from 1866 through 1918. This is not taking into account the continuance of their line as it yielded its metal into World War II.

Their indomitable courage has impacted music, television series, movies, novels, and artworks throughout their active range, and shall continue to do so well into the future.

For this and all other noble reasoning, Fort Brown needed to extend its arms in homage to these worthy military men, at long last.

BUT IF YOU'RE "STOPPING THE STEAL," WE'LL PARDON YOU, OF COURSE..."

GUERRA TIED DIRECTLY TO HUACHICOL OIL TRANSACTIONS: Y EN QUE TRABAJA EL MUCHACHO?

Olivo graphic

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

After months of denying any link between him and the illegal importation of petroleum products into Mexico, documentation from the Mexican government, the Texas secretary of State, and district court records have directly linked Brownsville Navigation District chairman Steve Guerra  to shipments between his Warrior Fuel Traders Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) and Pyrodiesel Del Cento SA de CV, named by the Federal Criminal Intelligence Center of Mexico as a principal in the smuggling of fuel.

Guerra was first elected to the BND board in 2018 and appointed chair in 2022. He was reappointed to the position in May 2024. He is currently a candidate for Cameron County Judge in the Democratic Party primary.

These revelations were first published in Frankie Olivo's Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/FrankieOlivo10/posts/this-is-how-steve-guerra-is-linked-to-huachicol-he-was-buying-diesel-in-the-us-a/1221688939939605/ outlining a debt of Guerra's LLC to non-payment to Key Performance Petroleum Company of Navasota, Texas.

In that lawsuit, Key Performance president Mark Jackson filed an affidavit October 26, 2022 in support of his company's lawsuit demanding payment of an outstanding balance of $333,484.47 and attached copies of 24 invoices totaling shipments of diesel and other petroleum products they had shipped at Warrior Fuel Traders' request over a two-month period in 2020 that had not been paid. Guerra was served the next day, October 27.

In Cause No: 2022-DCL-5154-I plaintiff Key Performance lists a systematic record of transactions that make up the outstanding balance of Warrior Fuel Traders, LLC.

Government investigations revealed that Warrior Fuel Traders/Steve Guerra was in direct business with Pyrodiesel Del Cento SA de CV. Pyrodiesel has been named as a principal in fuel smuggling activities (huachicol) of petroleum by the Federal Criminal Intelligence Center of Mexico. https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/huachicoleros-controlaban-puertos-pa%C3%ADs-060000638.html

Invoices to Warrior Fuel Traders from Key Performance indicate the diesel and petroleum products were shipped through Eagle Pass, Texas and delivered to Pyrodiesel. The Warrior Fuel Traders LLC was registered with the Texas Secretary Of State April 13, 2020 and its certification was forfeited June 24, 2022.

"The identification of the modus operandi: First modus operandi, the fuel is purchased in the United States and then imported into Mexico, where it is sold to various companies. These companies are responsible for distributing it through marketing and transportation companies, selling the fuel at a lower price than the one established in the national market.

"To this end, they use cloned gasoline and diesel import declarations to simulate the legal origin of the hydrocarbons, allowing them to legitimize the multiple sales they make," the Federal Center for Criminal Intelligence (FGR) analysis details.

COMING TO A BARRIO NEAR YOU...DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU IT WON'T HAPPEN HERE. IT ALREADY IS.

ICE makes arrest at Morton and International Blvd. in Brownsville

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND THEY ARE OUR OWN S. TEXAS ICE

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

BREAKING: AT LAST! The CPB agents who killed Alex Pretti are FINALLY NAMED — and the cover-up looks worse by the day.

For weeks, the Trump administration hid behind masks, silence, and talking points.
Now the names are out.

Government records reviewed by ProPublica now identify the two federal agents who fired the shots that killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA ICU nurse gunned down during a chaotic federal sweep in Minneapolis. Their names are Jesus “Jesse” Ochoa, a Border Patrol agent, and Raymundo Gutierrez, a Customs and Border Protection officer.

Both were deployed under Operation Metro Surge, Trump’s aggressive immigration dragnet that sent armed, masked agents flooding American cities far from the border—and even farther from accountability.

The details matter.

Ochoa, 43, joined CBP in 2018 after years of wanting the job. According to his ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa, he graduated from the University of Texas–Pan American with a degree in criminal justice and spent much of his life in the Rio Grande Valley dreaming of becoming a Border Patrol agent. By the time the couple split in 2021, she said, he had become a gun enthusiast, owning roughly 25 rifles, pistols, and shotguns.

Gutierrez, 35, joined CBP in 2014 and works for the Office of Field Operations. He’s assigned to a special response team—a high-risk unit modeled after police SWAT teams. Records show both men were brought in from South Texas to enforce a crackdown that turned Minneapolis into a militarized zone.

CBP refused to release their names. DHS blocked state investigators. Body-camera footage remains hidden. And while Trump officials rushed to smear Pretti—branding him a threat and worse—video evidence shredded the official story.

(At right: Greg Bovino spotted in Downtown McAllen last night )

Footage shows Pretti calmly filming federal agents roaming a popular arts district. It shows a masked agent shoving a woman to the ground. It shows Pretti stepping in to help. It shows pepper spray blasted into his face, agents piling on, and then a volley of gunfire — around ten shots — as onlookers screamed.

Pretti was legally armed. Multiple analyses suggest an agent removed the gun from his hip before shots were fired, contradicting claims of imminent danger.

Only after days of protests and bipartisan outrage did the Justice Department announce a civil rights investigation. Even now, key evidence remains locked away.
This isn’t just about two agents.

It’s about a system that sends anonymous, heavily armed federal teams into U.S. cities, escalates encounters instead of defusing them, and then hides the truth when an American citizen ends up dead.

Alex Pretti had a name, a family, and a life devoted to caring for veterans.

The men who killed him tried to keep their identities secret.

Now that the masks are off, accountability can’t stop at identification. It has to climb the chain of command that made this tragedy possible.

Q-ANON, MAGAS: ADMIT IT, IT WASN'T ABOUT THE CHILDREN

By Rubia Garcia, J.D.

Dear QAnon/MAGA:

You were right about one thing: powerful people were abusing children in secret. Where you wrong —catastrophically — was who you believed was responsible.

The people who fed you the fear, the breadcrumbs, the panic — weren’t whistleblowers.
They were LIARS laundering their OWN crimes through your paranoia and conspiracy.

They handed you a monster story so you’d never look at the monsters within them holding the mic.
They weaponized your disgust, redirected your rage, and turned moral horror into political loyalty.
While you hunted invented villains in basements and pizza shops, REAL victims were buried under NDAs, sealed indictments, and power.

You didn’t expose a cabal. You became its shield.
And the final obscenity?
You crowned the people who convinced you it existed.
You didn’t save the children. You elected the cover-up — and called it a landslide.

And when anyone tried to show you the evidence — when journalists, survivors, prosecutors, or reality itself got too close — you didn’t listen.

Anyone who could prove you wrong was written off as “TDS.”
Evidence became hysteria.
Facts became loyalty tests.

You silenced the proof, mocked the warnings, and went further right; convinced the elites on the Left were the only responsible party.
Then, you did the one thing that guaranteed accountability would never come: you elected the predator and chief perpetrator to be President of the United States.

So here’s the test you can’t dodge anymore.
If it was ever about the children — then believe them now.
Because those children grew up. They are women now. They are the daughters of this country.
They are names, timelines, receipts, and scars — not symbols, not conspiracies, or anonymous posts—but lived reality.

You may have failed them once.

You may have mocked them, dismissed them, or called them liars when it was convenient.
But history begs you do not fail them again.
Because if you only “believe the children” when it flatters your politics — if you dismiss all these women as liars, plants, or TDS — then it was never about protecting kids.
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It was about power.

It was about loyalty.
It was about who you were willing to excuse.
And if you choose denial again — if you close ranks, attack the witnesses, and protect the accused — then you are not bystanders.
You are ACCOMPLICES.

So here’s your choice now:
Believe the women;
Or admit, finally and publicly, that it was never about the fucking children.

It’s about power, and who you’re willing to sacrifice to keep it — even when the cost is the truth, the victims, your own damn soul, and the integrity of a nation.
These are your choices.
Decide.

BATTLE OF THE FLORES: CHENTE; THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY....

By Eric Lee Tunchez

Corpus Christi Cronica

The Republican primary for Texas Congressional District 34 is getting nastier by the day, with frontrunners Eric Flores and Mayra Flores now locked in a legal battle that has voters wondering "Is this a race for Congress or a legal drama?"

Let's recap the fight: On December 30, 2025, Eric Flores' legal team from O'Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Mayra Flores, accusing her of publishing "false and libelous statements" on social media.

The letter demands she immediately stop disseminating "criminal, corrupt, or unethical conduct" claims about Flores, remove the posts and issue a retraction or face a lawsuit under Texas law.

It's a high-stakes escalation in a primary where Trump's endorsement for Eric has already turned allies into enemies.

Mayra, who has positioned herself as the "America First" candidate, hasn't backed down.

Her campaign has fired back with questions about Flores' past service as a prosecutor under the Biden administration during the height of "catch-and-release" border policies and his father Kino Flores six felony count convictions on tampering with government records and perjury charges linked to undisclosed income from contracts as political favors.

Public filings show Eric Flores' family remains involved in his campaign, adding fuel to the fire for voters who demand transparency.

Both candidates live in McAllen outside District 34. That fact alone has fueled ongoing debate about whether voters want representatives who already live and work in the communities they serve or outsiders who only move in if elected.

This infighting couldn't come at a worse time for the GOP. With the district redrawn to favor Republicans, the nominee should be cruising to victory against Democrat Vicente Gonzalez. But if the primary drags into a messy runoff in May, it could drain resources and fracture turnout.

JUDGE RELEASES 5-YEAR-OLD: CHIDES ICE QUOTAS AND "PREFIDIOUS LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER...BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY."

By Zoe Sottlle, Elizabeth Wolfe, and Ed Lavandera
CNN

A federal judge has ordered the release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, according to a ruling obtained by CNN.

Liam and his father, Adrian, were taken by immigration agents from his snowy suburban Minneapolis driveway and sent 1,300 miles to a Texas detention facility designed to detain families. They have been detained for more than a week.

The order specifies the preschooler and his father be released “as soon as practicable” and no later than Tuesday as their immigration case proceeds through the court system. The ruling, shared with CNN by the judge’s courtroom deputy, was first reported by the San Antonio Express-News.

“We are now working closely with our clients and their family to ensure a safe and timely reunion,” the family’s lawyers said in a Saturday statement. “We are pleased that the family will now be able to focus on being together and finding some peace after this traumatic ordeal.”

In a scathing opinion, which at times read more like a civics lesson, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery admonished “the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” and quoted Thomas Jefferson’s grievances against “a would-be authoritarian king,” saying today people “are hearing echos of that history.”

Liam’s detention – and the striking photo of an agent clutching the boy’s Spider-Man backpack as he stared from under a cartoon bunny hat – fed mounting outrage over the Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and renewed the question: What happens to children when their parents are abruptly taken by ICE?

In another diversion from the norms of judicial writing, the judge included the now famous image of Liam at the end of his opinion, under his signature, along with references to the Bible passages Matthew 19:14 and John 11:35.

Liam’s case, Biery wrote, originated in “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” wrote the judge. “And the rule of law be damned.”

To read rest of story, click on link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/us/liam-ramos-judge-release-ice-detention

GEORGE YEPES' VIRGEN DOLOROSA MURAL DEPICTS UVALDE VICTIMS

https://www.georgeyepes.com/gallery/new-works/

La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe altar to honor the 21 victims of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting.

La Uvalde Dolorosa bears the pain of 21 bleeding wounds for the 21 victims: Her Sacred Heart skewered with 7 daggers and 14 large swords piercing her chest and abdomen. The Uvalde banner is draped across her lap.

La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe wears the crown of thorns from the crucifixion. Behind La Dolorosa is her flaming aura of La Virgen de Guadalupe.

La Dolorosa's green cloak of La Virgen de Guadalupe has turned to ultramarine blue with white stars. The bleeding stripes that flow from her Sacred Heart and the sword wounds have turned into the red and white stripes of the US flag.

Above and behind La Dolorosa is the cross of the crucifixion carved into the Uvalde oak tree from the City Seal of Uvalde, Texas.

The 21 Doves above La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe are the ascending souls of the Uvalde victims.

JUDGE EDDIE TREVINO'S RESPONSE TO GUERRA FAKE POLL

By Judge Eddie Treviño

Our opponent published his poll — and honestly, it’s hilarious. So, we had to join the fun.

When a campaign is built on graphics instead of voters, you can make the numbers say whatever you want. But let’s be clear: the only poll that matters is Election Day, when real people show up and real votes are counted.

We’ll stick to meeting voters, sharing facts, and earning support the honest way. See you at the polls.
And yes… Elvis beat us — because in Texas, legends never lose!

THE DECEIVING GRAPHIC PUBLISHED BY GUERRA CAMPAIGN

RUNNING SARITA CHECKPOINT: A SMUGGLER'S TALE OF LOVE

By Juan Montoya

The second time Chato ran the checkpoint at Sarita, it was for love.

(The first time was to take 15 pounds of pot to North Carolina, but's a story for another day.)

After he had returned home from the military and then finished college, Chato landed a job working as a clerk for a local elected official. He would write his correspondence, answer constituent complaints, and prepare his statements on issues relating to the office.

It was in the mid-80s when Cameron County, at the very tip of South Texas, was inundated with Central American refugees. After making their way through Mexico and being abused and ripped off all along the trip, they crossed the Rio Grande and into Brownsville, Texas.

In particular, they crowded into empty lots next to the Casa Romero off Minnesota Road. 

Hundreds of them lived in makeshift tents or cardboard shelters in an empty lot next to the overfilled refugee shelter. That, in turn, generated a backlash from nearby residents who complained about the trash generated by the Central Americans as they awaited their permits from the INS to travel north.

Among them were people from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and sometimes even as far south as Nicaragua. As a county employee, Chato had to deal with the problem and try to soothe the feelings of the residents who lived nearby. A resident group had even built a watchtower in an adjoining lot to keep an eye on the crowded tent city that had sprouted as more and more refugees arrived.

The ones from El Salvador had the easiest time. Since their country had been in the throes of a civil war, their claims for asylum due to the war were routinely approved and they stayed for a few days before money from relatives arrived and they would leave on a bus headed north.

But it was the Hondurans who faced the most difficult time and who had nowhere to go. Many young women found work as domestic help in local homes or through churches. Others found work in local restaurants and bars hoping to make enough to reach their eventual destination. Some struck relationships with local residents and married, choosing instead to remain in South Texas.

The elected official had hired a young Honduran woman to take care of his young daughter while his wife worked. In his role as his assistant, Chato would sometimes have to stop by the house and deliver things that were needed there. He struck a friendship with Tina (Ernestina), who, as it turned out, was from a town near Tegucigalpa and had family in the large Honduran populations of Houston and New Jersey. 

That friendship eventually turned romantic and on their days off they would go visit her Honduran friends still in the city and take in a movie or long drives to Laguna Atascosa or South Padre Island. But they stayed away from Boca Chica Beach and the mouth of the Rio Grande, unwilling to tempt the devil.

Tina was short, with black curly hair and a skin tone closer to copper than to brown. As Hondurans tend to be, she was very sentimental and warm. "Yo te quiero un monton," she would tell him in their tender moments. When she was mad, she would sometimes ask him: "Y a que se debe ese gran bocho, Chato?"

Eventually, her relatives in Houston sent her enough money to pay a coyote to take her around the Sarita checkpoint and to the city. She called Chato days later to tell him about the long walk in the dark through the rattlesnake-infested and cactus-filled llano around Sarita trying to avoid la migra.
"Ya no aguantaba los chamorros," she said. "Me tuve que estar acostada dos dias cuando llegamos."

 Despite Tina not being in Brownsville, they remained in touch through telephone calls. Sometimes, when attending to county business in Houston or Austin, Chato would call her. Over time, the calls became less frequent. As a county employee, Chato had the use of a county vehicle. The car came equipped with a radio to communicate with the work crews who serviced the county roads and Boca Chica Beach.

One day Chato got a call from Tina asking for his help. A nephew from her native city in Honduras had gotten to the border and his Honduran girlfriend had come down from New Jersey to take him back with her. They had been a couple in Honduras and they wanted to marry and settle down in Jersey. She was a legal resident, but he was here illegally and could be deported if he was caught on the bus without papers. Could Chato help them?, Tina asked him. From the tone of her voice, he could tell she was near tears at the thought of him being caught by la migra.

He thought about it long and hard before he went to the hotel where the couple was staying. After talking to them, he came up with a plan.
The nephew was of classical Mayan stock. Not too tall, dark-complected (but not black), with dark hair that stuck out of his head (con los pelos parados). He would have to change his look to a point where the trained eye of the Border Patrol would not make him out at first sight.

He took the nephew to a barber who cut his hair to a decent length, bought him plenty of hair gel, and loaned him a white dress shirt to go with a dark suit they found at a local segunda. After dry cleaning it and making some adjustments, it fit him nicely. He decided to run Sarita with Antonio (his name) himself.

He also put on a suit with a coat and tie and after grooming Antonio to look like a typical Mexican American from South Texas, had him hold a clipboard with some real county correspondence on it.

He then took a piece of paper with the Sheriff's logo, folded it, and pinned it to the sun visor so that the star showed when it was flipped down. He draped the radio microphone over the rear view mirror and laid it on the dashboard. They took the girlfriend and put her on a bus to Kingsville and told her to get off the bus and wait for them at the convenience store along US 77 that served as a bus stop before entering Kingsville. They saw her off in Brownsville and then set out on the road themselves giving her about two hours head start before departing.

When Antonio's girlfriend saw him decked out like like an investigator with his coat and tie, his neat hair and clipboard in his hand, she swooned.
"Ay mi amor, parece un licenciado!," she exclaimed before she got on the bus.

On the road north, Chato slowly and patiently instructed Antonio to act nonchalantly and not to panic when they approached the checkpoint in Sarita.
"Como que vamos en negocio," he told Antonio. "Si no tienes que decir nada, no hables. Has como que ivas leyendo los papeles en el clipboard."

As they approached in the county vehicle, he flipped down the sun visor so that the sheriff logo could be plainly seen and adjusted the cord on the radio so that it looked as if they had been using it. Still, Chato knew that one slip would probably mean his arrest and a long jail term in a federal prison, never mind losing his job. He steeled himself and rolled to a stop by the standing Border Patrolman.

The officer, seeing the county vehicle, the sheriff logo on the sun visor, and two apparent deputies in coat and tie – one of them putting down the clipboard he had apparently been reading – glanced at them and waved them through. Chato waved and made a point of looking at the drug-sniffing dogs on leashes as they passed through. He stopped at the rest area past the checkpoint until he stopped shaking and breathed a long sigh of relief.

They picked up Antonio's girlfriend and had an uneventful trip to Houston. When they arrived at Tina's apartment, she burst out crying when she saw her nephew, the first relative she had seen from her home in years. They hugged and cried together for a long time. She then hugged Chato and tearfully whispered her thanks in his ear for helping her nephew.

"Verdad que mi amor se parece un licenciado?" the girl friend kept repeating.

Chato later found out from Tina, who had since married and started a family of her own, that Antonio and his girlfriend had arrived in New Jersey and that he had found work at the same factory where she worked. They had married and had started a family.

Chato lost contact with Tina after her husband objected to her calling him. But he knew that somewhere in Houston and in New Jersey, love had flourished for two families of refugees because he had run Sarita for love.

TRUMP AND HIS ICE GOONS FLUNK DEPORTATION 101

He didn't arrest US citizens, violate the Constitution, kidnap asylum seekers in court, use children as bait, or sanction and lie about murdering US citizens. They also didn't wear masks.

IF YOU'RE WATCHING A MAJOR LEAGUE GAME AND THERE ARE NO LATINOS PLAYING, YOU'RE NOT WATCHING EL BEIS

Getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't easy. Fernando Valenzuela failed to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in voting by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee in Orlando, Florida and won't appear on a ballot again until 2031 at the earliest.

The late Dodger pitching star received less than five votes in December 2025 from the 16-member committee, which consisted of seven Hall of Famers, six baseball executives, including Angels owner Artie Moreno and former Dodger assistant general manager Kim Ng, and three veteran media members or historians.

Carlos Beltrán, Andruw Jones, and Jeff Kent comprise the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2026, with inductions scheduled for July 26, 2026, in Cooperstown, NY. Beltrán (84.2 percent ) and Jones (78.4 percent  were elected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America BBWAA, while Kent was elected via the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee. A player needs to reach 75 percent to enter the Hall of Fame.

CAMARGO PREDATED U.S.,TEXAS, AND BROWNSVILLE; WAS ORIGIN OF 1ST SETTLERS OF CITY AND CAMERON COUNTY

By Juan Montoya

Twenty-seven years before the the 13 colonies issued their Declaration of Independence from England, a full 87 years before Texas broke away from Mexico, and 104 years before Brownsville was incorporated in 1853, Camargo, Tamaulipas already existed.

This March, Camargo – and Reynosa downriver – will celebrate the 277th anniversary of their founding.

The first settlement to be founded on the Lower Rio Grande was that of Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana de Camargo.

Camargo is located almost directly across the river from Rio Grande City.

It was founded on March 5, 1749, with the dedication to Señora Santa Ana by captain Don Blas Maria de la Garza de Falcon at the eastern edge of the San Juan River near its confluence with the Río Grande.

The foundation had 85 families – a total of 531 persons. Most of the settlers for this township came from Cerralvo, Cadereyta, Monterrey and surrounding townships

Following that, another settlement, Reynosa, 10 leagues downriver, was founded by Colonel Jose de Escandon. Reynosa was named after the Spanish town of Reynosa located in Cantabria (Spain).
The new settlement was dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Reynosa was established on 14 March 1749, in an extensive fluvial plain. Most of the initial settlers were from the New Kingdom of León.

In 1846, when Zachary Taylor invaded Mexico through the Nueces Strip, Camargo was occupied by the US Army.

This river port served as a jumping off point for the invasion on Monterrey and Saltillo. The Army was transported via steamboats from the mouth of the river area, and Matamoros. Disease plagued the troops and it is said that hundreds of U.S. soldiers were buried in Camargo, and between that city and Monterrey, in unmarked graves. The command was said to have made the fatal mistake of establishing camp below the confluence of both rivers, where raw sewage and waste from the city drained into the water they used to drink.

Since the Battle of Palo Alto just north of present-day Brownsville in May 1846 signaled the beginning of the Mexican American War, the town of Camargo has close historic ties with our city.

In fact, the founder of the first ranch in Cameron County came from there. Rancho Viejo was established by Salvador de La Garza in 1770 and the King of Spain gave him the royal grant in 1781.

His daughter, Doña Estefana Goseascochea de Cortina was born in Camargo in 1782 (the Rio Grande wasn't a border then) and died in 1867 on her El Carmen Ranch ( named after her daughter) at 85 years of age.

Carmen Avenue connected these two ranches. Santa Rita (now Villanueva, and the first seat of Cameron County) was also founded by Doña Estefana. The marker indicates where her ranch cemetery – which was destroyed with the building of the river levee along Military Highway – used to be.

She had three sons, Sabas Cavazos, and his half brothers Jose Maria and Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, the latter known as the rebel who  defied Texan authorities following the loss of Mexican territory north of the Rio Grande after 1848. Sabas was one of the wealthiest land owners in the new entity and Jose Maria was elected treasurer of the newly established Cameron County.

In September 1959, Juan "Cheno" Cortina would battle a militia from Brownsville, Texas, the Texas Rangers and U.S. forces. He once occupied the border city looking for the enemies of the Mexicans, but after several "wars" was exiled to Mexico City by dictator Porfirio Diaz at the request of U.S. authorities, where he died.