Grigulevich would have found Jewish soul brothers and kindred spirits at Capital Pharmacy

This is 82 E. San Francisco St., once the site of Capital Pharmacy — the first Santa Fe drug store with a soda fountain, ice cream and a juke box. The photo looks west to where Zook’s was. When I took this photo in 2018, it was home to Simply Southwest Trading Post. Today, it’s the Maya Gallery. Photo by Tom Sharpe

Santa Fe, 1938-1940, part 2. Grigulevich might have found friendship at both Capital Pharmacy and Zook's, but the idea that either became a safe house does not square with the facts.Zook’s wasn’t the only drug store Grigulevich got to know in Santa Fe. Eight doors away was Capital Pharmacy, 82 East San Francisco (now the

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How I stumbled onto the story of a secret agent waiting in Santa Fe to kill Trotsky in Mexico

Laura Araujo Aguilar and Josif Grigulevich on their way to Brazil about 1946.

Josif Grigulevich was a Soviet assassin, saboteur and master manipulator of the media and politics in Latin America, Spain, the United States and Italy, 1933 to 1953. During his stint in New Mexico, mid 1938 to early 1940, he laid low, hung out at two pharmacies near the Santa Fe Plaza and might have had a fling with the daughter of one of the owners.

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T or C property tax to pay off G.O. bond debt will go down—from 4.5 mills to 3.5 mills

Photo of Bosque Advisors Managing Principal Mark Valenzuela courtesy of their website

Property taxes versus utility bills to pay off debt to improve infrastructure--which would you rather pay? Both money sources are being used to address critical water and wastewater and road repairs by the City of T or C. Property taxes don't hurt the poor as much as utility rate increases.

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What you need to know, September 12, 2025: Since when … ?

Clip from the President's posting of a video showing an open motor-launch before being destroyed by a US Navy drone fired missile.

On September 1, our Navy bombed a launch in the Caribbean headed towards Venezuela. Our President released a video of the killing. We see the open boat with the people we killed and very little cargo; though our President said the boat was loaded with narcotics bound for the USA.

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