En busca de la mina de oro: Empresarios mexicanos prueban su suerte en El Paso

En busca de la mina de oro: Empresarios mexicanos prueban su suerte en El Paso

Por Miguel Orta Read it in English   Amediados de octubre de 2012, el empresario mexicano Álvaro Esparza se vio obligado a cerrar su negocio familiar en el centro de El Paso, Flautilocas, por motivos económicos y logísticos a solo tres años de haberlo abierto. Esparza dice que abrió su negocio en...
Sorry, I don't speak Spanish: Hispanics deal with the loss of Spanish fluency

Sorry, I don’t speak Spanish: Hispanics deal with the loss of Spanish fluency

By Guerrero Garcia Léelo en español  Brian Garcia and his grandmother sit at the kitchen table to share a meal, caldo de res con arroz y tortillas de maíz (beef soup with rice and corn tortillas). The steam from the soup evaporates as his grandmother gives thanks and blesses the...
Early awakenings in the South Pacific: A student's month-long account of his stay in Indonesia

Early awakenings in the South Pacific: A student’s month-long account of his stay in Indonesia

By Alejandro Alba Léelo en español   Foreign hymns played as I slowly opened my eyes to an unfamiliar setting. I was wearing the clothes and fatigue from the previous day, and I found myself questioning if I had really traveled for three days to get to the other side...
La descarga sin cargos: Estudiantes buscan alternativas gratuitas para libros en la red

La descarga sin cargos: Estudiantes buscan alternativas gratuitas para libros en la red

Por Miguel Orta Read it in English  Para Valeria Reyes, cada centavo ahorrado cuenta. La estudiante de primer año en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso paga aproximadamente 3,600 dólares de colegiatura semestralmente de su propio bolsillo y le resulta difícil además pagar por libros de texto. Estudiantes en...
Bullied: Juventud paseña recuenta acoso en la comunidad LGBT

Bullied: Juventud paseña recuenta acoso en la comunidad LGBT

Por Andrés Rodríguez Read it in English   Acaba de empezar el año escolar y Zachalyn Elizares se está mudando a Hawaii. Su hija se niega a regresar a Andress High School así que ella y su hermano ya se encuentran allá, mientras Zachalyn sigue en El Paso encargándose de...
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An artist’s driving force

Overcoming a physical barrier Yvianna Hernandez-Mora, who graduated from UTEP as an honors student in 2010, has had to confront a physical challenge as an artist, one that has altered her creative inspiration. Since she was a young girl, Yvianna has had a passion for drawing. While other kids chose different paths in life, during...

Reina “Drag”, una forma de expresión personal

En el escenario parece una reina de belleza, cubierta de diamantes, cabello falso y pestañas postizas, pero la actriz en escena es una creación del imitador de mujeres, Nathan Knight Jones. “Soy muy coqueta cuando actuó. La música que elijo es por lo regular música que me va a permitir interactuar con quien sea en...

Amor en tiempos de guerra

Hace tres años, Martha Carroll, una estudiante de cuarto año de enfermería, fue a un partido de fútbol americano en el Sun Bowl de UTEP. Ella estaba lejos de imaginar que ahí conocería a Robert, un  joven militar que luego se convertiría en su esposo. Cuando Martha y Robert se vieron por primera vez, ocurrió...

From the Editor – Fall 2011

MINERO MAGAZINE was created to focus attention on the issues that affect El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and the UTEP community. While we continued that theme in this issue, we added an extra emphasis on the differences and similarities that result from the blend of cultures in our region. The stories featured in this magazine focus...

Spring 2012

Minero strives to focus on a variety of culturally diverse issues that are important to UTEP students, faculty and staff, as well as to the border community. The stories featured in this magazine are illustrative of the everyday issues that are relevant to the lives of border residents as well as to the UTEP community....

MÁS ALLÁ DEL 2012 EL FIN DEL MUNDO O UN NUEVO PRINCIPIO

De acuerdo al Calendario Maya, el 21 de diciembre de 2012 será una fecha trascendental para la humanidad. Una gran cantidad de personas creen que ese día será el fin del mundo, pero para los mayas, el arribo de esa fecha no significa una calamidad, sino el inicio de una nueva  conciencia cósmica y la...

UNA MIGRACIÓN SILENCIOSA

Editor’s note: The following is the Spanish version of the main story from Mexodus: a class project written by UTEP students. The project’s goal was to explore the exodus of the Mexican citizens to the El Paso region due to the drug-related violence that is raging across the border.  The article gives an overview of...

INDIOS VS PATRIOTS: 16,000 – 1,000

By Aaron Martinez Just a few miles separate El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, but the sports scene in the two cities are worlds apart. While Indios soccer games across the border bring in fans from both cities, the El Paso Patriots struggle to attract supporters from their own hometown. Diane Garcia-Gaytan, senior electrical engineering major,...

Battles on the Border: Comic Book Artists Conquer A New Frontier

By Michael Galindo Most people have heard of comic book or graphic novel heroes such as Wolverine, Batman, Superman or the Green Lantern, but many others have probably never heard of Dallas Stoudenmire, Gabriel de La Cruz, Leopold Curtis or Matt Cuba. If you haven’t, it’s because they are all comic book characters from comic...

Digital Memories:

File management and storage concerns By Michael Galindo The family photo album used to be where memorable occasions, such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, were physically preserved for future generations. They consisted of photos that were captured in one or maybe two attempts and some of them have become so fragile because they predate color photography....

También a Ellos

Desórdenes alimenticios Nicole Chávez José Meléndez nunca supo lo que era la ropa de niño. Cuando aún cursaba la primaria tenía que usar ropa y zapatos de adulto. Sus camisetas eran extragrande y la mayoría no le gustaban. Sus compañeros de escuela dicen que se sentaba en las sillas al fondo del salón de clases...

Health vs Legality:

Marijuana and alcohol concerns By Jesus C. Martinez Consuming large amounts of alcohol and smoking marijuana are actions that were once familiar to senior public relations major Gilbert Acosta. He has dealt with the repercussions of the legal and illegal usage of those substances, and he feels that alcohol is the worst of the two....