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Below all the other layers of workers come the pepenadores, the rubbish pickers, who swarm like rats through the reeking mountains of garbage in the main city dump, the Santa Fe. There are about 2,500 regulars there, roughly one for each ton of trash dumped daily. By picking through the pile for resalable bits of metal or plastic, they, hope to earn enough to survive. Says Pablo Téllez Falcón, 45, the chief of the dump: "They regard us as the shabby people who work in the slime with a bottle of tequila in the back...
This Indian's people, the Santo Domingo tribe of the Pueblo, one of 19 Pueblo tribes in the state, had been buzzed during an important dance by a low-flying photographer from up the road in Santa Fe. In another day, some of the more outraged Pueblo might have divided him into several parts. In these litigious times, they sued for $3.65 million. How quaint the tale appeared from afar. (Damages? "Infertility." Sex or soil? "Both.") And how levelheaded and 20th century it turned out to be from the ground. (Damages? "You can never put a monetary value...
...acres. Through the property runs the Rio Grande and Interstate 25. The Indians sold the right of way for the highway for $1.4 million. When they are not negotiating rights of way for roads, railroads, power lines, phone lines and gas lines, they can be found in Santa Fe or Albuquerque selling their jewelry or their property or Navajo blankets they have traded for. They also farm and tend cattle and celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. When they have satisfied the demands of their own ancients, they dance for the good of humanity. One day in late January, while dancing...
Directly, Bennie Atencio, the tribal secretary and brother of Domingo Atencio, called on Albuquerque Attorney Scott Borg. The photographer had been identified as Michael Heller, who had published the photographs of the Santo Domingo in the New Mexican, a Santa Fe newspaper. Atencio told Borg that "they wanted to sue them and sue them to make them hurt...
...surprising if Reagan's Justice Department requires more than token adjustments in the new $50 billion Socal-gulf company. Reagan can claim no significant anti-trust prosecutions during his tenure--despite the mergers that have resulted in 30,000-mile railroad giants like Norfolk Southern and Southern Pacific-Santa Fe, and the recent rumblings in the steel industry where U.S. Steel, Republic Steel and LTV Corporation, three of the five biggest steel companies in the country, are planning mergers and acquisitions...