Environmentalists want northern New Mexico forest to reverse course on oil and gas drilling (Canadian Business)
Susan Montoya Bryan November 20, 2008 - 12:15 a.m. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - U.S. Forest Service officials are being asked to reverse a recent decision by the Carson National Forest that environmentalists claim will lead to ramped up energy development in northern New Mexico.

In Mexico a new and frightening cult spreads among the wretched (Guardian Unlimited)
A report from the drug wars in last week's New Yorker (the issue that is not about the parousia) starts with an art exhibition and ends with an account of a grim and spontaneous religion emerging there: On the first day of every month, at the Tepito metro stop in downtown Mexico City, a new breed of pilgrim can be observed inching his way on his knees out of the stop and down a filthy ...

Navajo Nation opens its 1st casino in New Mexico (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Navajo Nation opened its first casino Wednesday just east of Gallup, N.M., hoping that slot machines, poker and bingo will inject new income into the tribe.

EPA panel asked to consider new Desert Rock info (Las Cruces Sun-News)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—An appeals panel with the Environmental Protection Agency is being asked by New Mexico's top prosecutor to consider new evidence in the case of a proposed $3 billion coal-fired power plant.

Mexico sells $400 million in foreign reserves (Miami Herald)
Mexico's central bank has sold $400 million in foreign currency reserves to prop up its tumbling peso.