By RON MEXICO
Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - In an effort to attract the expected hordes of college students descending on nearby South Padre Island for Spring Break, the City of Brownsville is promoting its poor Southmost neighborhood as something "just about as good as being in Mexico." This comes one day after officials with the state's Department of Public Safety issued warnings to vacationing students interested in going to neighboring Matamoros, Mexico, where life is cheap and gunfire comes from one second to the next.
"It's just creative marketing," said a city tourism official who requested anonymity. "We don't mean anything by it. Southmost is just, well, a unique part of Brownsville. Where else can you see a two-tone 1957 Chevy, or women in pigtails and tire-sole huaraches, or homes in bright colors? Huh, where else?"
Ongoing warfare between rival drug gangs in Mexico has all but stopped travel by Americans into the once-electric Mexican bordertown. Gone are the long, long nights for animals at the fabled disco Blanca White's. It's a new criminal dawn in Mexico.
Still, not many locals are happy with the city's plan to dress-up Southmost in a distinctive Mexico way. "Planting taco stands in every corner is a bit much," said Southmost resident Eliud "El Otro" Hernandez. "And I'm sure hiring portly, unemployed Mexicans to play abusive soldiers will not go down well with my neighbors. It's another lame-brain idea born in the air-conditioned bunkers of City Hall, where those dreaming up this bullshit have nothing better to do."
The brochures, went the rumor, were being circulated in college campuses upstate.
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5 comments:
Tell me what is the deal with all of the suggestive pictures of voluptious women on this blog. Number one, one naked women that has never done a sit up, than the back of another woman, than there is a girl in bikini flaunting her physique. Than a girl wrapping her leg on to a man. And now you throw a picture of a taquito.
Tell me, do I sense a feetish here???
Your comments are strange. Women are a part of Brownsvile, are they not? Our photos do not expose them to ridicule or suggestion. We merely include them in the conversation, as we should. As for the taco thing, well, there are quite a few of them in town, as well. We can promise this: no pornography and no looking the other way on all things Brownsville...
Oh please be serious, if those photos aren't suggestive I have two villas in Laredo I want to sell. Quit playing with semantics.
I understand they are part of the landscape, so is this blog portraying Brownsville scenery??
The tacos occassionally I will eat one maybe two.
I still say feetish is in someones blood. Someone on this blog.
This "feetish" conversation has expired. Please begin a new one... - Editor
Chainging the commentaries from politics to beauties, who is the gorgeous beauty in the red bikini??? Please, "it isn't the moon godess"!!! The last time I saw moon godess flaunting something as skimpy as that, the garment was made of paper mache.
Back to my question, who is the beauty??? Maybe Alcatraz can identify her for us bloggers.
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