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Torres: We need to address the needs of disadvantaged small farmers
Border Business Posted Sunday, April 12, 2026 10:18 pm HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability is committed to create new small producers, to enhance the ability of current farmers to stay in agriculture, and to keep farmland as working land.” HARLINGEN, Texas - Salomon Torres is president of Harlingen-based Soluciones Consulting, and projects and grants advisor to Holistic Organic Practical Education (H.O.P.E.) for Small Farm Sustainability.
Torres: Agriculture in the RGV is going to be a footnote if we don't help small farmers
Good morning. I believe this woman (Diana Padilla-Garcia) is very humble and she's eloquent, always eloquent. That's why HOPE has become such a success, because she's been able to express, not just passion, but with clarity, how our local communities can be very good partners with the federal government to accomplish real community-wide benefits. My role is to advise on projects and grants.
Torres: Where is Sam Houston? – Rio Grande Guardian
It is April 17, 1836, and Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna once again cannot go to sleep. He has split the Mexican Army of Operations for the Tejas Campaign into three fronts. All have the same mission: suppress and end the Texas Revolution movement. The Army retook the Alamo in Bejar (i.e., San Antonio) on March 6. The campaign will not be complete until General Sam Houston and the remaining Texas militia is captured or forced east across the Louisiana border into the United States.
Editorial: Congratulations to Non-Profit TV, Down By The Border, and Denny's – Rio Grande Guardian
SAN BENITO, Texas – The Rio Grande Guardian International News Service is proud of its partnership with Valley TV RGV, a public space TV network run by local entrepreneur Anthony Sarelli. Valley TV RGV has helped us out with video production at news events in the past while we offer our original news reporting to the network. The network can be watched at most Denny’s across the Rio Grande Valley.
Torres: Time to end Texas Primaries as we know them
It is time to end the Texas primary system as we know it. For too long, party affiliation has dominated the preferences of voters. Voters should have the freedom to select who they believe is the most qualified. But, in Texas if who they prefer is of the other party, then they face a dilemma that is undemocratic. If elected the new senator for Texas Senate District 27, I will recommend that the Lyndon B.
Torres: Why I am running for Texas Senate District 27
Texas is great but it can be greater.The potential of our state to be a national leaderhas always been there.We need to work hard and smart in the Texas Legislature to allow this potential to rise. The challenge is to have real dialogue and real debate on how we help our state. Salomon Torres In too many areas – education, health care, infrastructure, to name a few – we lag and we do not lead.
Torres: Santa Anna’s Report from the Buena Vista Battlefield
1 of 2 South of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico lays the former battlefield site of the Battle of Buena Vista (also known as “La Angostura”) that took place on February 22-23, 1847. General Zachary Taylor with an army of nearly 5,000 marched to this site after taking the Mexican stronghold city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Torres: Ulysses Grant with U.S. Army of Occupation in Texas
Future U.S. Civil War General (1861-1865) and future U.S. President Ulysses Grant (1869-1877) was a 24-year-old Brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry when he travelled in early March 1846 under the command of General Zachary Taylor from Corpus Christi to Point Isabel as renamed by the general. (Formerly named El Fronton de Santa Isabel and now named Port Isabel). Second Lieutenant Grant (pictured above) intended to march on foot with the rest of the infantry brigade.
Washington Post shows interest in our upcoming 'To Conquer. To Defend.' conference
1 of 2 I am pleased to lead the Rio Grande Guardian in this new initiative. By focusing on history we believe it has the potential to promote economic development and tourism in the Valley communities, large and small. The event is a full-day conference On December 9, at the Port Isabel Event and Cultural Center. It is going to commemorate the 175th Anniversary of the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848. This war was fought between two relatively young countries.
Torres: RGV is fertile soil for more voters
As of November 2020, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s office the Rio Grande Valley as a region had 657,073 registered voters.
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