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by Brewing America | Dec 2, 2020 | All, brownsville, coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Joe Biden, Medicine, News | 0 |
In early July, as COVID-19 cases surged in the Rio Grande Valley and hospital beds filled with patients struggling to breathe, Congressman Filemon Vela reached out to his lifelong friend, Robert Rodriguez, for help. It wasn’t...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 19, 2019 | All, Breakfast Tacos, brownsville, Food, machacado, southmost, sylvia's restaurant, Tacos, tortillas de harina, Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que | 0 |
My first visit to Sylvia’s Restaurant in Brownsville didn’t start as planned. “No,” said the waitress when I requested two breakfast tacos. “I’ll let you eat one,” she said in Spanish. “If you’re still hungry after that, you can...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 19, 2019 | All, Asylum, brownsville, Immigration, Matamoros, News, Politics, rio grande valley | 0 |
It’s an early summer morning in Brownsville as Elisa Filippone loads supplies from her car into Therese Gallegos’s red wagon. She tucks clothes next to rolls of toilet paper and tosses in a few snacks and toys. Before they set...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 18, 2019 | All, brownsville, market square, Travel | 0 |
The farther afield you venture from our urban bastions, the more likely you are to encounter folks who feel that their patch of the Lone Star State is unappreciated, misunderstood, or ignored. You hear it on the High Plains and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 17, 2019 | All, Asylum, brownsville, Immigration, Matamoros, migrant protection protocols, News, remain in mexico | 0 |
At their first court appearance in the United States, the Zavaletas—a family of three from Guatemala—had a simple request for immigration judge Daniel Gilbert. “Is there any way we could stay in this country so we can hire a...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 12, 2019 | All, brownsville, department of homeland security, filemon vela, Immigration, Matamoros, migrant protection protocols, Trump administration | 0 |
On Thursday, just half a block from the “Welcome to the United States of America” sign that greets people entering Brownsville via the international bridge, two Department of Homeland Security agents guarded a chain-link gate. ...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 27, 2019 | activism, All, alton, Art, Border, brownsville, encuentro en la frontera, mcallen, rio grande valley, The Culture | 0 |
On a recent balmy afternoon in Brownsville, Texas, the Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center opened its doors—and windows—to feature works from artists in the Rio Grande Valley and the neighboring city of Matamoros, Mexico....
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