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U.S., E.U. hit Russia with more sanctions Penalties for actions in Ukraine stop short of targeting country’s broader economy. PAge A-3
ex-SWAIA leaders plan new market Venue for event has yet to be announced; August dates will overlap By Anne Constable and Uriel J. Garcia
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John Torrez Nez, above, and other former SWAIA employees are organizing the Indigenous Fine Art Market. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Three former officials with the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts announced Sunday on Facebook that they are creating a new market that will be held the same weekend as the 93rd Santa Fe Indian Market in August. The Indigenous Fine Art Market will be headed by John
Torres Nez, the former chief operating officer of SWAIA, who resigned March 31, citing his “fiduciary duty.” While the group hasn’t agreed on a site for the market, officials say they have been eyeing the Santa Fe Indian School campus. Torres Nez and Jemez Pueblo Gov. Joshua Madalena made a presentation recently to the school’s board about using that property on Cerrillos Road, said
Plaza plan ‘is not ready,’ Public Works panel says
By Steve Terrell
Gonzales, who did not attend the committee meeting, issued a statement that said he would continue to strive to work with the community. “I’d like to thank the councilors and the public for sharing their opinions on the Plaza,” he said. “I am committed to working with the Council to find a compromise and consider ways to make the Plaza more safe and inviting for everyone.” In announcing his proposal earlier this month, Gonzales had couched it as part of a “People to the Plaza” initiative aimed at making the historic square more inviting. But the
Taxpayers spent more than $20,000 on out-ofstate travel for Gov. Susana Martinez, her staff and her state police security detail last summer, according to information released Monday by the state Department of Finance and Administration in response to a public records request. Nearly all the travel during the period between June and September was for political trips to states including Florida, Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, New York and Pennsylvania, records show. Martinez’s increasing out-ofSusana state travel last year reflected her Martinez status as a sought-after Republican star — not only because she is the country’s only female Hispanic governor, but because she is a Republican governor who was able to win in 2010 and maintain good poll numbers in a state that gave Barack Obama healthy margins in the past two presidential elections. And, as was the case with Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson before her, the number of fundraising events for Martinez’s re-election campaign reflects a candidate actively recruiting out-of-state contributors. The information provided Monday was in response to a public information request by The New Mexican in September 2013. In November, the Governor’s Office, in response to the request, provided a list of out-of-state trips Martinez made between early June and late September. The finance department, however, did not provide information on the travel costs until Monday. The finance department did not provide actual receipts or travel vouchers for the individual trips or the individual travelers. Instead, it released a list of total expenses by month for the governor and her staff, and a separate list of expense totals for the governor’s security detail. The administration contends
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Roque Garcia, a longtime Plaza vendor, speaks Monday against closing the Plaza to motorized traffic. ‘Been there 30 years and never seen nobody hurt,’ said Garcia, who owns and operates Roque’s Carnitas. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Committee makes no recommendation after hearing mixed response to resolution that would ban vehicles from square By Chris Quintana
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ost Santa Fe residents who sounded off at a Monday night hearing about Mayor Javier Gonzales’ proposal to close the downtown Plaza to motorized traffic oppose the idea. The city Public Works Committee ultimately made no recommendation on the resolution, which Gonzales amended to say that vehicles should be banned only between Memorial Day weekend in late May and the Monday after the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe in early September, a peak period
Verdicts in latest mass trial expected to be overturned
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for tourism and Plaza activities. The resolution, which had been endorsed by two other city committees, now heads to the city Finance Committee and the Mayor’s Committee on Disability before consideration by the full City Council. “This resolution is not ready,” said City Councilor Ron Trujillo, who chairs the Public Works Committee. The other four councilors on the panel — Patti Bushee, Bill Dimas, Carmichael Dominguez and Chris Rivera — unanimously agreed, raising questions about who could benefit from the closure without hurting those who use the Plaza the most.
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Reservation saw 42 slain last year — more than in Boston or Seattle FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — New FBI statistics show the vast Navajo Nation saw a sharp increase in the murder rate in 2013 and finished the year with 42 homicides, eclipsing major metropolitan areas with less space and far more people, like Seattle and Boston. About 180,000 people live on the reservation that spans 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. It’s a place where culture and language thrive but where jobs are scarce, alcoholism is among the greatest social ills, and cycles of violence and lack of access to basic necessities can stifle people’s spirits. When those facMcDonald tors combine, “you’re Rominger always going to find higher crime rates,” said McDonald Rominger, head of the FBI’s northern Arizona office. “There’s a correlation.” The number of people killed on the Navajo Nation increased from 34 in 2012, representing a per-capita murder rate of 18.8 per 100,000 people — four times the national rate. The FBI has not yet released a national murder rate for 2013. Not a single day passed last year before the first incident of deadly violence was reported on the Arizona
Superintendent Roy Herrera. But Madalena said Monday that the plan would need the approval of New Mexico’s 19 pueblo governors. Tailinh Agoyo, who stepped down as SWAIA’s marketing director on April 18, will be director of marketing and creative services for the new event. And Paula Rivera, who was in charge of artists’ services at SWAIA until
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MINYA, Egypt — The Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and more than 680 other people were sentenced to death Monday stemming from last year’s post-coup violence in the latest mass trial that was denounced in the West and by human rights groups as contrary to the rule of law. In a separate ruling Monday, a court banned the April 6 youth group — one of several that engineered the 2011 uprising against longtime leader Hosni Mubarak that set off nearly three years of unrest. It ordered the confiscation of the group’s offices.
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The sentences for the 683 defendants were announced by Judge Said Youssef at a court session in the southern city of Minya that lasted only eight minutes. The verdicts are not final and are expected to be overturned. Under the law, once the defendants who were tried in absentia turn themselves in — which is all but 63 of the accused — their trials will start over. The mass trials were linked to riots in which supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi allegedly attacked police stations and churches in retaliation for security forces violently breaking up Cairo sit-ins by Islamists in August that left hundreds dead. The
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An Egyptian woman holds a photo of her son Monday after a judge sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen. ROGER ANIS/EL SHOROUK NEWSPAPER
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