EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The controversy began when a vehicle carrying the governor of Chihuahua popped a tire going over a pothole while visiting Juarez, Mexico, last week.
Gov. Maru Campos posted the damage on social media along with a not-so-subtle message for the mayor of Juarez to “get to work” fixing the streets.
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Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar’s comeback not only highlighted a partisan divide between the two government spheres but also questioned one of the state’s largest investments in Juarez in years.
“I know you fell in a pothole and that troubles me,” Perez Cuellar said in a video posted on X. “But if instead of spending so many millions on this piece of junk of no use to the people of Juarez you had spent it on streets maybe you wouldn’t have fallen in a pothole.”
The mugrero or “piece of junk” he was referring to is the new 20-story Sentinel Tower in the heart of downtown Juarez. It will be the tallest building in the El Paso-Juarez area once it opens next spring.
Sentinel Tower taking shape high above Juarez
It’s also slated to be the nerve center of intelligence gathering and security camera monitoring in a Mexican border state with well-documented drug cartel activity…