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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

Tea, Tears and Sisterhood: What One Controversial App Reveals about Dating, Danger, and Female Solidarity

Tea, Tears and Sisterhood: What One Controversial App Reveals about Dating, Danger, and Female Solidarity

Vivien Noe, Writer September 30, 2025

Today’s dating era is NOT for the weak. The situation is getting out of control, and instead of inspiring romance we have pop singers like Sabrina Carpenter writing lyrics like “There’s nobody’s...

Remember My Words: Gen Z Poets Navigate Emotional Landscapes Through Writing

Remember My Words: Gen Z Poets Navigate Emotional Landscapes Through Writing

Rumi Sevilla-Hernandez September 25, 2025

Nationally, El Paso is often defined by its border headlines more than it is by its creative pulse. Headlines are inundated with the death toll of migrants, militarization of the border, and violence coming...

RISE & GRIND: Local Entrepreneurs Cultivate Business in the Sun City

RISE & GRIND: Local Entrepreneurs Cultivate Business in the Sun City

Vianah Vazquez September 23, 2025

It can be surprising how, amidst a seemingly dry and still desert, life not only exists — but flourishes. In much the same way, the minds of this new generation are thinking bigger, creating careers...

The Rhythm Resistance: Borderland DJs Amplify Community and Inclusivity through Queer Nightlife

The Rhythm Resistance: Borderland DJs Amplify Community and Inclusivity through Queer Nightlife

Marco Hinojosa, Editor-in-Chief September 18, 2025

Strobe lights flashing, bass throbbing, moving bodies lost in the rhythm of the beat. For a few hours, nothing else matters— just the music, movement and euphoria. It feels like freedom.  Nightlife...

Emotoción: Las mujeres Motociclistas Abren Camino a la Conexión y la Comunidad

Emotoción: Las mujeres Motociclistas Abren Camino a la Conexión y la Comunidad

Sofia Sierra, Copy Editor September 16, 2025
Es el agarre firme del manillar mientras el viento golpea más fuerte. Es el olor de las llantas quemadas que te llena la nariz. Es el rugido del motor al alcanzar velocidades mas altas: para los motociclistas, estas sensaciones son lo que la adrenalina de conducir puede provocar.  
Calling All In: One Man’s Journey to Bring Justice to Those Forgotten Pt. II

Calling All In: One Man’s Journey to Bring Justice to Those Forgotten Pt. II

Dominique Macias, Editor-in-Chief September 2, 2025

The Documentary By 2017, Hernandez’s search had taken on its first permanent form with the release of All They Will Call You, a book that pieced together what truly happened that day in Los Gatos...

The Time is Always Now: One Man's Journey to Bring Justice to Those Forgotten

The Time is Always Now: One Man’s Journey to Bring Justice to Those Forgotten

Dominique Macias, Editor In Chief August 29, 2025

The Erasure. The Crash. On January 28, 1948, a DC-3 aircraft carrying 32 persons on board crashed into Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California. On that day, 32 people fell from the sky...

Friends to Adults: What Kind of Friend Are You?

Friends to Adults: What Kind of Friend Are You?

Dominique Macias, Editor In Chief August 22, 2025

Between You & Me,   Can we just talk about the frustrating process of maintaining friendships in our 20s? These are the people who have been with us since high school or elementary; those who...

PSA:  Put Down the Phone

PSA: Put Down the Phone

Rumi Sevilla-Hernandez, Web Editor August 15, 2025

Between you and me, it would be a lie if I said I haven’t depended on my phone as much as I have. But it would be a greater lie if I didn’t admit my simultaneous dissatisfaction with how these tiny...

Confessions of an El Pasoan: The City That Won't Let Go

Confessions of an El Pasoan: The City That Won’t Let Go

Dominique Macias, Editor-in-Chief August 8, 2025

Between You & Me,   I can’t wait to leave El Paso. I write that with no resentment for this city, but with the pure, unadulterated fact: despite the large population, I keep bumping into everyone...

The Radical Resistance of Kind Joy

The Radical Resistance of Kind Joy

Dominique Macias, Editor-in-Chief July 25, 2025

Between you & me,    There was a moment in the first month of 2025 when the world felt like it was going to shatter.  On January 31, after weeks of relentless headlines—from the LA fires...

What Distance Has Taught Me

What Distance Has Taught Me

Rumi Sevilla-Hernandez, Web Editor July 11, 2025

Between You and Me….   Sometimes I wonder if the heaviness we feel about distance is something we created ourselves. Long distance relationships, estranged family dynamics, and friendships that...

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