Wupatki National Monument
Peshlakai Etsidi made the 400-mile "long walk" to Fort Sumner in New Mexico. When he returned in the 1860s he settled at what is today Wupatki National Monument.
Navajo Family Fights To Stay At National Monument
In the 1800s the Navajo moved among various camps across vast areas to herd sheep and farm. A few families settled on what is today a national monument. And one family would like to remain, but the National Park Service won’t allow it.
“It’s not fair,” Helen Peshlakai Davis said. “What I don’t like is why the Park Service is telling us we cannot live here because this is our home. This is why we’re fighting for it.”
But Kayci Cook Collins, superintendent of Flagstaff area national monuments, said Wupatki was never even Navajo land.
Report Highlights Serious Errors At Nuclear Waste Facility
An underground nuclear waste facility in southeast New Mexico must address serious mistakes identified by investigators after a February radiation leak before it can reopen.
The errors are highlighted in report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The report reveals that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, outside Carlsbad lacked staff with sufficient expertise in nuclear waste management. As a result, 21 workers were exposed to radiation.
Mexico Forbids Drug Lord's Extradition Even As Negotiations With US Continue
On Feb. 22 the world’s most wanted drug trafficker — Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, known as "El Chapo," or "Shorty"— was captured in a joint U.S.-Mexico operation.
As applause over the joint cooperation between two historically wary neighbors subsided, the United States and Mexico began discussing the possibility of extraditing Guzmán to face charges in the U.S.
Now, Mexico’s Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam says he won’t even consider allowing Guzmán's extradition to the U.S.
That's not a total surprise. But some believe the attorney general's explanation is.