Everybody knows that one of Johnny Cash’s malevolent alter egos shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die, but it’s less frequently remembered that another of his gritty creations was overtaken by the authorities — after snorting cocaine and shooting his unfaithful woman — down in Juarez, Mexico. (He made a good run but he run too slow.)

And few probably take much time to note that the namesake of El Paso’s southern neighbor, Benito Juarez, stands tall on a large-ish traffic island at the intersection of New Hampshire and Virginia avenues, triangular to the Watergate Complex and Saudi Embassy.