Baby boomers squandered what the older generation were HANDED on a silver platter from LANL. A bunch of idiots trying to live out the movie Blood in Blood out, pendejo stupidos. I’m glad Espanola gets called out for the shit hole it is, city government has earned every bit of it. It’s not like they even care though. To them living in a double wide 5 feet from your neighbors is success. Shameless.

Bunch of losers, get jobs, get off the drugs, get back on your mental health meds. Stop blaming everyone

Using drugs and alcohol as a way to escape reality and be worry free is wrong and foolish. They won't fix your problems. Try having faith in God to guide you through hard times instead!!! Get closer to Jesus as you stay farther away from temptation and frustration!!! It's all about having and keeping a life!!!

Ow snap i know these guys 😅 😮

Ahhhh its been this way for ever ...😅 i grew up in chimayo. I miss Española N.M 😢. Been clean for 15 years maybe more.

My relatives live here many years ago I love espanola NM it hurts me how Espanola new Mexico has changed mas mucho sympatico per Tutto espanola la nuovo Mexico mas mucho beso massimiliano from maryland

I grew up north of here in the sticks Espa has always been trash even 25 years ago when I was like 10 I remember hearing stories, once I learned what drugs and that type of shit was we knew it was a bad spot. we went to get groceries, Walmart or Lowes generally I don't remember if there was anywhere else to go in town at that time. I always liked going because it meant I was probably going to get fast food and get to buy pokemon cards at walmart. For me seeing how bad this town was always made me super afraid of drugs I have never had any interest in trying them at all, but I can see how growing up in a place like that would grind you down.

Thnx for video. I worked for eight yrs in the emergency department of Española Hospital with great medical personnel. Hope springs eternal.

Bums typig paragrpahs is the comments 😂

Until we go after Doctors and pharmacies that give that first initiation to either meth or opioids substance abuse will be in the community

It's been like this for decades, what is new? Highest percentage of drug use in the country, multigenerational.

Trump supporters be like this.

This is a wonderful documentary, and these people in the video are heroes!!

It’s a Symptom of the Dumbing DOWN of Society as a WHOLE!!! I see it all the time!!! The destruction of Marriage & the Nuclear Family is the foundation of it! Liberal Progressive Agenda has obviously FAILED but no one will admit it!!!

My former Boss is from here & she told me it’s BAD cuz it’s multi-generational. I also had roommates from Espanola back in the 80s & I always wonder if they r still there AFTER they went back.

Does anyone know what became of Pedro Herrera? He tried so hard in the Chimayo area?

Is this still available?

Las drogas las permiten y fomentan los anglos para destruir a la población hispana p al menos reducirla a la más profunda miseria moral y espiritual y de seguido a su ruina material y económica. Los legítimos dueños de la tierra, son expoliados por depuradas técnicas sociales....desde la pérdida del idioma español, hasta las drogas........

Ralph Martinez is a good man! Im proud of him!

It's a blue state all blue states have the same problem It's needs to be changed

Living it up at the hotel Espanola......................

Democratic state that is horrible.

From my experience being from NEW MEXICO. When the people from MEXICO started really coming in. The drugs came in. And NEW MEXICO just like the rest of the UNITED STATES. Is a victim of losing our jobs. Our manufacturing. ETC. i BLAME WALLSTREET and the fact that our govt is being ran by the _ _ _ _. If it wasnt you could name them without fear of being banned by various internet platforms. GAB is the only free speech platform that doesnt bow down to them or has sold out to them.

I hate that city, been in NM 10 years, drive all over every day. I hate that place more than every other.

I bet if they investigate the police department they will find they are responsible for feeding the problem I’d start by checking on their bank accounts and lavish lifestyle well their community is in ruins this is all done by design keep them uneducated and you can keep feeding them drugs and living off of them keep them in the dark that’s what they’re doing wherever there is a community that’s in turmoil look at the officers first they’re not doing their jobs they’re selling drugs they’re coming up off the community

How sad I used to go from Alamosa Co to Espanola almost every week. Was a quaint little town.

Episcopalians have sucked up all the wealth. Late in his life they got control of Robert M. McKinney newspaper publisher in Santa Fe. The Shadow Organization. The Money Trust in Wall Street sponso4red by the English royal family. Bankrupting everyone outside their influence circles.

Wow I live there

The Curse brought me here

Who’s all from ESPANOLA and is tapping in?

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The biggest drug dealers in this world is our own CIA...corrupt as any "nondemocratic" country. And it sounds like N.M. has turned into a huge reservation basically. The government wants it that way, then the people are controllable. Keep them down...especially minorities. And they perpetuate the gang thing as well....as long as all the "minorities" fight with each other they wont revolt against our government. And as long as their addicted they wont wake up to what is REALLY going on in this country. And its hard to break the chain of OPPRESSION of which began with the COLONIZATION of this country. The Spanish that rolled over all INDIGENOUS people from Mexico to Northern Pacific coast of the U.S. And the "Pilgrims" rolling from the East. ALL peoples need to UNITE and collaborate on changing the current inequality that exists in our so-called FREE country!!! Before it is too late. I send love and prayers for the people of NM , from N. CA. We know what the "fire" tragedies are about. Many prayers for the victims and their families!!!

I lived in Espanola for a few years. My family is originally from California and my maternal grandmother was from New Mexico. I had my son in school there. I remember growing up we moved to Southern Colorado. I used to go on family outings to Espanola. My family loved to take trips to Chimayo to the Santuario and also for Lowrider shows. When both my parents passed,i loved going to Espanola because it was my safe haven. I am in a relationship with a guy from Espanola and he was the one i lived with there the few years I was there. I loved the lowriders, the culture and the heritage, but when I moved there and seen the addiction of people through out the city was sad and disgusting,but what i seen was the families make a normal thing in their life and basically looking at these problems through the blind eye. To many or most of the population there are on some kind of assistance and half if not all the grandparents are raising their grandkids. Sad part is the parents don't have their own children with them and the children are being raised by the grandparents and the parents are using the assistance on themselves. The whole system there is screwed up and a lot are involved, but don't admit to it. I believe if drugs were really the answer to everyone's problems, wouldn't everybody be on them. God gives us choices and I seen first hand that addicts have made it an illness and now these programs they have for addiction make it seem that way as well. Its bs! Take away the assistance that they receive and guarantee they will have to work and drugs won't be such an issue. Stop condoning the bad . Start making parents pay the consequences. It was so bad when I lived there and also very disturbing, that I don't like to go visit anymore. Its sad to see our people going down a path of distruction instead of the path of righteousness. I've had many people from there tell me that I don't know what it's like to be a heroin addict or on drugs and my response is no i don't because I love myself so much that I wouldn't be so stupid to try something that I don't even know where it's coming from. Family values and morals are gone and like i said they've made all the bad of this city become a normal instead of abnormal. I hate it there now and I continue to pray for all,but everyone can turn blue in the face repeating ones self and if they don't want the change for themselves,then one is just wasting your breath trying to tell them over and over again. God bless the children pray that one day Espanola will be cleaned up. Don't support a cause, because drugs caused this big mess.

Sobriety is a exciting spirituality of its own.

Perfect

Nice, What a the name of the apartments?

Born and raised Española girl here, I’ve barely discovered this documentary now in 2023 and I have to say, it hasn’t improved 3 years later. Fentanyl is the number one here these days. Recently that had a hand in my uncles death. A cousin of mine had become addicted and has stopped communicating with our family. Everyday you see people walking the streets losing little bits of themselves to these drugs. Everyone in this town is affected by drugs, either by becoming an addict or being close to someone who is. In my own family each aunt and uncle has one child who is an addict, my brother has struggled with addiction for over a decade, I have a few young cousins who were born addicts, my mom works as a case manager for drug addicts, and I’ve had a few ex friends and old classmates I see walking the street. The gun violence too like with Cameron Martinez (Sadly his father passed a year after he did of a heart attack. The remaining family are healing and his brother is expecting a new addition to the family this year), who isn’t the first person I had personally gone to school with who ended up killed that way. A year or so before Cameron passed, a classmate of mine died in a gang related shooting, last year another classmate was killed in a robbery at the lotaburger, his death also is a deep scar on this town. It honestly feels like we’ve been written off as a hopeless case and everyone I’ve met from the the surrounding cities seems to think we’re the worst, which all sucks, bc Id like to hope one day this community can heal and pick itself up.

I grew up in espanola. The drugs,domestic violence, crooked disgusting cops goes on for decades. Look at former espanola mayor Lucero and his love for child sex while former espanola police chief Richard Guillen let happen and just watched the wretched pig. Espanola is no place to raise kids. It's pure hell now dishonest hell

Can you send me some chimayo red chili powder, some green chili, some Dee Dees beef jerky. That is if Dee Dees hasn't been broken into again.

I lived there in 2002-2003. I never seen a heroin epidemic before and it was bad. Needles all over the highways.

Life is hard. Drugs make it harder.

I really wanted to bring a massive art show here. I grew up in Alb. I wanted to much to bring the love, the money the art,, but your gov is with the cartels.

I was thinking of traveling to Espanola to expand my business, I will rethink. What is your local government doing besides aiding and abetting the enemy?

@ 14:20 the fbi is probably responsible for those crimes. It seems like it now since they have become so corrupt.

I would love any one bedroom with windows everywhere for around 2800 maybe three if I’ve got a stretch let me know if you have anything in that realm. I also would like a Loft if I can’t find anything else but basically the same prerequisites floor to ceiling windows, open floor plan, high ceilings, yada yada

I don't think they have a jail there.

Thank you for sharing this! Very necessary

THE BIG CASINO IS HAUNTED AS HEĹL . MY BK AND SHOULDER WERE SHOVED. A MAINTANCE GUYS LADDER WAS PUSHED OFF ROOF WITH HIM ON IT A SECURITY YOUNG MAN WAS MENTIONING.

I grew up in Raton and it has declined, no jobs so they have a drug problem....

Espanola was once a nice place, very prideful, home of the low riders. very very sad