Pablo De La Rosa
ReporterPablo De La Rosa is a freelance journalist reporting statewide with Texas Public Radio and nationally with NPR from the Texas-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, from where he originates.
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A federal judge in McAllen on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Starr County officials brought by Lizelle Gonzalez, a South Texas woman who was unlawfully charged with murder after a self-induced abortion. -
SpaceX is currently seeking approval from the FAA to begin launching 25 times per year from the Rio Grande Valley and land its Super Heavy booster right on the beach launch tower, rather than into the Gulf of Mexico. -
A bipartisan group of U.S. legislators recently signed on to a letter urging “designated funds” be withheld from Mexico if it does not comply with a long-standing treaty that says it must periodically release water from the Conchos River in Coahuila into the Rio Grande watershed. -
Irada Akhoundova entered a guilty plea to a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent for the country of Azerbaijan. Henry and Imelda Cuellar have pleaded not guilty on all charges. -
Ariel Ruiz Soto, senior policy analyst at Migration Policy Institute, said they 'could have consequences that actually raise the pressures and boiling points that raise issues for migrants and for local communities.' -
The declarations are the next step in an effort to conserve water locally, ask the state for resources and assistance, and work with the U.S. government to influence Mexico to deliver water owed to the region under an international treaty. -
The 62nd annual International Friendship Festival Parade in Eagle Pass on Saturday would have normally featured floats and school marching bands from Piedras Negras, but this year Customs and Border Protection (CBP) denied permission to some from south of the border to participate. -
It's also the first lawsuit to claim that SB4 violates constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as cruel and unusual punishments. -
Priscilla Martinez’s husband, 35 year old Aaron Martinez, was allegedly killed last year in Kaufman County by a neighbor, Trevor McEuen, who had expressed anti-Latino sentiments at the couple. -
The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.
