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.
The New York Times reports that the Obama Administration is allowing Mexican forces to stage operations against suspected drug traffickers from the American side of the border.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry blasted out a statement opposing the new reporting rules for multiple semiautomatic gun purchases in states bordering Mexico. “Singling out border states and targeting legal gun sales and sellers will have little or no impact on the Mexican cartels transporting drugs, guns and cash to and from major cities throughout the U.S.,” he said.
Former mayor of the border town of Columbus, Eddie Espinoza, 51, pled guilty Tuesday to charges that he helped smuggle guns to Mexico to drug gangs. He faces 65 years in prison. He pled guilty on one count of conspiracy, three counts of making false statements in the acquisition of firearms and three counts of smuggling firearms from the United States.
The border town of Columbus has eliminated its police department, citing fiscal problems. However, former Police Chief Angelo Vega, mayor Eddie Espinoza, trustee Blas Gutierrez and 10 others were charged were charged with gun-running into Mexico in an 84-count indictment last March. The three-person police force for Columbus, population 1,765, will be replaced by the Luna County Sheriff’s office.
Conservative former Mexican president Vicente Fox has joined calls for broad drug legalization, arguing Sunday that “radical prohibition” has failed and that legalization would undermine the power of criminal cartels, reducing gang violence and the corruption of Mexico’s political…
The significant violence occurring in Mexico in recent years is due to fighting among drug cartels, New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman said to radio reporters yesterday, and one solution is to stop weapons and cash going from the U.S.…
The Albuquerque Journal takes a look at why La Mesa elementary school third graders are at higher proficiency levels than their fourth- and fifth-grade counterparts. The students at La Mesa meet the federal poverty guidelines and most of the…
Ciudad Juárez is getting 3,000 more army troops, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports, in an attempt to prevent drug cartels from completely taking over that city, if not Mexico itself.
Within two weeks, 8,000 anti-drug cartel combatants —…
The renewable energy sector is feeling the credit crunch, including some Albuquerque-area companies. Declining demand is a factor, but the biggest problem is lack of credit, according to Monique Hanis, spokeswoman for the Solar Energy Industries Association in…
Businesses in the Mexican border city of Juarez not only are closing and cutting back hours because of a steep drop in tourism, but say they are also being forced out of businesses because they are paying extortion money to…
Tourism is dead in the once-popular Mexican border town of Juárez.
That’s the pronouncement of a story put together by the Las Cruces Sun-News and Associated Press summarizing the uncontrolled violence that has killed more than 1,100 people this…
