Drug mules, nipples, and NAFTA: Beto O’Rourke’s alt-weekly attempt to overhaul El Paso’s image – IOTW Report

Drug mules, nipples, and NAFTA: Beto O’Rourke’s alt-weekly attempt to overhaul El Paso’s image

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Beto O’Rourke’s first foray into politics was publishing a quirky alt-weekly newspaper in his home town of El Paso in 2002. It was a short-lived tabloid that published dispatches from a teenage drug mule, featured copious coverage of the local hipster music scene, and even included a couple of erotic-themed stories in the Valentine’s Day issue.

The paper Stanton Street lasted just four months, a total of 17 weekly issues, before O’Rourke pulled the plug due to lack of ad revenue. But during its short run it sought to be a youthful, left-leaning alternative to the El Paso Times, the city’s daily paper that Stanton Street criticized as “reactionary” and overly “Anglo” in one cover story.

Two of its cover stories were penned by an anonymous “Virginia X,” a teenage girl who claimed to work as a drug mule trafficking drugs between Juarez and El Paso, and described overdosing multiple times on cocaine and heroin and being sexually assaulted by a group of men.

“I’m too busy trying to kill myself. I’ve spent the last month or so trying to collapse every vein in my body. It’s amazing how many different places there are to shoot up that no one would notice,” wrote Virginia X in one article.

In another cover story, headlined, “Teenage Mule: Addicted to my summer job: Running drugs and getting high,” Virginia X claimed she was paid $1,500 by a cartel member to carry drugs into the U.S. The story described her picking up kilos of heroin at a Juarez bar and shooting up drugs in a bathroom before crossing back over the border to El Paso. more here

10 Comments on Drug mules, nipples, and NAFTA: Beto O’Rourke’s alt-weekly attempt to overhaul El Paso’s image

  1. Hardly shocking for the guy that thought hey I just lost a senate race I know I’ll run for POTUS!
    But seriously, Cruz’s campaign should have been able to take this loser reprobate completely out. I don’t know if it was just that he really didn’t think he needed to do much to win but I suspect if he comes back to run against Cornyn there probably is a lot more to find and publish about our little Irish piranha.

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