I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Governor Bill Richardson is getting some praise as well as some pushback on his proposal to create a dialogue between Cuban exiles and the government of Cuba, according to The Miami-Herald.
Richardson told the Miami-Herald that he has approached some Cuban-American leaders about the discussions and some have agreed to participate, though he would not name which leaders.
The governor visited the communist nation in late August.
Marcelino Miyares, spokesman for Consenso Cubano, a “moderate exile organization” told the Miami-Herald that the United States government should keep trying to have a dialogue between the Cuban government and opposition, but that Richardson’s plan is “too public.”
“This type of thing historically is done in a third country, almost in secret,” Minaya said.
Orlando Gutiérrez, National Secretary of the human rights group Democratic Directorate, was even more dismissive, saying, “I think now he’s seeking publicity and commercial and entrepreneurial opportunities for New Mexico. He’s had bad publicity and needs good publicity with this diplomatic stuff.”
