I was visiting my parents in Dallas when the El Paso Times called to have me get on a jet from there to Mexico City to cover the earthquake in 1985. After spending a day wandering among flattened buildings, there was a huge aftershock of 7.9 on the Richter scale. Scary!
These are some ruins in Chihuahua, Mexico. It was a cold sunny morning, and we drove about two hours from Juarez to get there. Can’t remember much more, or who took the picture.
The Mexican Army was burning some dope they’d seized. So I jumped in the car with Joel Salcido to get the story. Dasco was my nickname from an infamous typo in my byline that got published. The wind blew the smoke from the dope onto my parked car and I was sure I would get pulled over by U.S. Customs in El Paso.
David M. Hancock, border reporter. Standing on a hill in Juarez, with El Paso in the background. Either Joel Salcido or Rudy Gutierrez shot this, I can’t remember.
Much of the action in “Tricks Gone Bad” is set in El Paso and Juarez, where a young, blond reporter who works for the El Paso Times gets into a pickle, as we say in Texas.
Interviewing the PAN mayor of Juarez, Francisco Barrio Terrazas, during a protest on the international bridge. I think Rudy Gutierrez took this one. Possibly Vic Calzada.
I was an extra in the movie “Extreme Prejudice” with Nick Nolte. I wrote an expose about the life of an undercover extra on the movie set. The casting director called me in tears when it ran and fired me off the movie. Shot by Rudy Gutierrez.
