The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

Sorry, I dont speak Spanish: Hispanics deal with the loss of Spanish fluency

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

February 13, 2013

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)....

Bullied: Juventud paseña recuenta acoso en la comunidad LGBT

Bullied: Juventud paseña recuenta acoso en la comunidad LGBT

February 12, 2013

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...

Anarchy in the Sun City: Protestors experiment with black bloc tactics

Anarchy in the Sun City: Protestors experiment with black bloc tactics

September 13, 2012

By Jasmine Aguilera, Alejandro Alba and Amber Watts Editor's Note: this article was produced in collaboration with Borderzine.com. Early in the morning in late April, a young protestor walks up to the...

Generación I: La vida inmersa en la tecnología

Generación I: La vida inmersa en la tecnología

September 13, 2012

Por José Castro  Amanda Acevedo ha recibido un mensaje de texto a su celular. Ella corre a su cuarto por un juguete con la esperanza de que su hijo Matthew, de 2 años, le suelte el teléfono y ella...

When the majority becomes the minority: EPs 18% non-Hispanic learn to assimilate

When the majority becomes the minority: EP’s 18% non-Hispanic learn to assimilate

September 13, 2012

By Andrés Rodríguez Editor's Note: Jacob Wendell contributed to this story. Courtney Carpenter began to wake up with an upset stomach and a knot in her throat after taking her first job, at the age...

Luces, cámara...poca acción: Los retos de cineastas locales

Luces, cámara…poca acción: Los retos de cineastas locales

September 13, 2012

Por Andrés Rodríguez En su más reciente guión cinematográfico, Oscar Moreno entrelaza los sueños de dos adolescentes vecinos. Pero es todo lo que el estudiante de cuarto año de creación literaria...

I just want to dance: The lifestyle of ballet

I just want to dance: The lifestyle of ballet

September 13, 2012

By Alejandro Alba With every step and turn of the performance, elegance, passion and delicacy must be carried through when presenting the venerable and established art of ballet. Dating back to the...

El Paso: secret corridor for modern-day slavery

February 14, 2012

By Jasmine Aguilera   After 15 years of domestic servitude and never seeing a dime from the $50 a week she was promised, a woman was finally freed from enslavement. This did not happen in some foreign...

UTEP Ice Hockey

February 14, 2012

Pinned between the Franklin Mountains and the Chihuahuan Desert is El Paso, Texas, a border city known for a few things:  200 days of yearly sunshine, scorching summer heat and long rainless droughts....

An artist’s driving force

February 14, 2012

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...

Reina “Drag”, una forma de expresión personal

February 14, 2012

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...

Amor en tiempos de guerra

February 14, 2012

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,...

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