Bill Clinton outsmarted and outmaneuvered the radical right wing of the
Republican Party for so long and so often giving Republicans hope that
once out of office he would stop been such a bully. But it is not to be.
He has done it again. In 1995 Clinton laid the foundation for a National
ID card. Well, he sneaked it in the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 with the aid of Sen. Feinstein.
As Cyndee Parkerwrote in an article on the subject: “In
September of 1996, President Clinton signed into law, the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Buried
at approximately page 650 of the new national Defense Bill, also known
as Public Law 104-208, Part B, Title IV, the American public was given a
national ID card. With no fanfare, no publicity and no scrutiny, the
bill easily avoided the watchful eyes of even its most aggressive
opponents.”
By Elsa Salazar Cade
“Stars aligned???”
Are we depending on astrology now to guide our educational policy?
This doesn’t sound too scientific to me. Oops, I forgot science no
longer has any credibility these days. Educational reform is a
progressive thing and has a history based on scholarly efforts of both
educational researchers and school administrators and teachers. No one
has been waiting for star to “align”. And besides, by my math, Mr. Bush
in into his fifth year in office and things aligned in three years?
“The American people decided?”
After President Bush was “selected by the Supreme Court” and there
remained serious questions about why citizens had to stand for hours
after dark in order to vote on voting machines that didn’t produce proof
of the vote for the second term. He pushed policies in that in Texas
were a failure and full of deceit as evidenced in the “Texas miracle”.
This is where in Houston schools, dropouts were classified as transfers
by the same Rod Paige
Since its founding by Mexican settlers in 1781, Los Angeles has played
an important role in California politics. Even while the administration of
the state was concentrated in the north, Los Angeles continued to hold
sway over California’s political direction.
For the first seven decades of its existence, Los Angeles was guided
by Spanish and Mexican administrators. However, after the end of the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848), a series of Anglo-American and French
Mayors were elected to office, starting with Stephen C. Foster, a Yale
University graduate who had only arrived in Los Angeles in 1847 (as an
interpreter for the Mormon Battalion).
However,
since 1848 and the beginning of American control of Los Angeles, four
Latinos have served as Mayor of Los Angeles. The first three mayors had
the benefit of having served as administrators or council members of the
City before the American
By Marcela Miguel Berland
Although Hispanics are acknowledged as an important cultural force in
this country, many misconceptions about them prevail. I often hear people
say that Latinos are lazy, not interested in education, late to work, and
that they drink over weekends. Such ignorance, misunderstanding and
negative stereotyping are infuriating.
Like many immigrant groups, Hispanics believe in “The American
Dream.” Many come with no material belongings, only dreams and
aspirations in a land of opportunity that will allow them to improve their
lives, or at least, to give their children more opportunities than they
had.
While in many Latin American countries it is difficult to rise to a
higher social class, in the U.S. education and hard work are tickets to
success. Hispanics understand that education can provide their children
with the necessary tools to advance…
So here I am in North Lost Wages. Stop and think about it. It is the
only city in America built on losers. You come here and you leave (i.e.,
lose) your money and then the city grows.
Growth is an important issue here in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Amidst
all the wealth, however, there is this enormous poverty across the city
boundary between Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. Differences are obvious,
such as streets that are paved and those that have potholes. Differences
even exist between reasonable development and a sprawl that does not
provide any vision for how to take care of the needs of children and old
people. Of course, other differences include that North Las Vegas is
mostly brown, black and Asian, which accounts for something, I guess.
The Americas This Week
By Laura Carlsen
On October 6, 1976 a plane took off from Caracas carrying 73 persons,
including the members of a teenaged fencing team. The plane was blown to
bits shortly after departure, leaving no survivors.
The attack was the work of a terrorist bomb planted on board the
civilian jet. Months later, the Venezuelan police arrested the suspected
terrorists and put them behind bars to await trial for the massacre.
Islamic extremism had nothing to do with this attack. But the same
kind of blind hatred and fanatic disregard for human life in service of a
“cause” motivated the killers. Luis Posada Carriles, the virulently
anti-Castro explosives expert considered the mastermind of the bombing,
escaped from the Venezuelan prison in 1985. Not only was he unrepentant,
but judging from his subsequent actions, he was determined to kill again.
On May 1, 2005, the British Sunday Times leaked a secret memo with the
minutes of a meeting dated July 23, 2002, indicating that President Bush
and Prime Minister Tony Blair had agreed to invade Iraq. The memo, written
by Mathew Rycroft –a Downing Street foreign policy aide- and obtained by
Michael Smith –a defense specialist writing for the Sunday Times of
London- was a huge story in the U.K., but went almost unreported in the
U.S.
The memo, labeled "secret and strictly personal –U.K. eyes only," contains
the minutes of the meeting and begins with the head of the British
intelligence service, identified as "C", saying "C reported on his recent
talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military
action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through
military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But
the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
COLUMN OF THE AMERICAS
By Roberto Rodriguez As we decry the spread of ignorance (many Americans continue to believe
that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 911 and that global warming is
a myth), something more ominous is also spreading: an extremely virulent
hate contagion.
Most people are not hateful. But something within most of us permits us to
make exceptions. Those exceptions are more often than not perfectly
rationalized. Other times, they are explained away, not as hate, bigotry or
racism, but as a justifiable response to a problem.
The problem before us is that the president has gotten us into a nonsensical
war. Through his logic, he is sacrificing American lives on a daily basis -
as part of an effort to take the war to the terrorists - rather than wage it
at home. On top of this, his tax cuts to the super rich are courting
long-term economic disaster…
By Manuel Hernandez/HispanicVista.com May 23, 2005
A twenty-two year old nephew
and a 2004 graduate at the University of Puerto Rico, on a recent visit to
the 2004 National Puerto Rican Day Parade to New York City, shared with me
some interesting impressions of the Puerto Ricans there and made a few
striking remarks about how his perception of a national identity had changed
once he left the Parade and reflected on what he had seen and experienced
while participating in the largest parade in the United States.
He was dazed at the sight of so many Puerto Rican flags
being waved along Fifth Avenue and proudly displayed on tee-shirts, nails,
hats, cheeks, heads and in other parts of the human body. In-spite of
majoring in Puerto Rican history, it was hard for him to understand how and
why Puerto Ricans in New York elected to celebrate and preserve culture
without apprehension.
By David Bacon
Proposals for a new temporary worker program are
popular in corporate America. Now they're popular in Congress as well.
President Bush a main proponent of temporary worker
programs since early in his first term. Bush, who opposes legalization for
undocumented workers currently here, calls instead for linking "willing
employees with willing employers."
Corporate pressure for these programs has grown so strong that even
bipartisan proposals for immigration reform now include them. The word in
Washington, D.C., is that no immigration reform is worth discussing unless
corporate America gets what it wants. Last week, a new bipartisan bill was
introduced by Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain, which includes a
program even larger than that proposed by Bush.
I don’t know
about you, but I’m a remnant kind of guy. Sometimes I feel like a thread
that is somehow out of place within the fabric of this nation. I’m not
woven into either of the two sweaters that have been made in the U.S.A.
that the left and the right are selling. I’ve come to accept
myself as a remnant. Webster defines a remnant as “a piece of fabric that
has been left over after rest of the bolt has been sold. A small remaining
group of people.” This definition fits me. I know I have lots of company
who have sized up this situation like I have. Let me explain.
As I read my Bible,
I am awestruck about how societies become polarized into left and right
characterizations.It’s a simple fact of human history.
Although the pundits in the U.S. have mistakenly led us to believe that we
have somehow cornered the historical market with this characterization. In
my Bible, the other fact that strikes me is the existence of a remnant
that lives in the midst of raging disagreements between the left and the
right.
Editorial New York Times
The arrival last week of a sweeping, bipartisan
immigration proposal in Congress brought forth the usual conflict between
those who want a solution and those who just want an emotional issue to howl
about. But this latest and most comprehensive package has already started
earning support from Republicans and Democrats, business groups and unions,
and several key Hispanic organizations. President Bush, who has been
promising action on immigration for years, should quickly join them.
The long-awaited legislation comes from Senators John
McCain and Edward Kennedy and Representatives Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe, both
Republicans from Arizona, and Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois.
Senator McCain said as he introduced the bill that it embraced the goals set
down by Mr. Bush: making the borders more secure, filling jobs no American
will take and finding a route to legality for workers who are already here
illegally.
Congressmen front and center on illegal alien problems, please. We now
have a serious bipartisan immigration bill in Congress that will organize
a system that may solve the illegal alien problem for all time.
THE SECURE AMERICA AND ORDERLY IMMIGRATION ACT is sponsored by United
States Senators John McCain (R) and Ted Kennedy (D) in the United States
Senate and House members Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe (both Republicans) of
Arizona and Puerto Rican Luis Gutierrez (D) of Chicago in the House of
Representatives. Joining these original sponsors are Senators Joseph
Lieberman (D-CT), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) and House members Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republicans. Where are Darrell Issa and Duke
Cunningham?
By Rob Moritz Hispanic voters in the state are beginning to wonder if there is any
difference between Democrats and Republicans, state Democratic Party leaders
were told Saturday.
Angela Schnuerle, who works for U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., told the
Democratic Party's state committee that the party must address the concerns
of Hispanics in the state or they could lose their votes in future
elections.
The state committee met Saturday at the Peabody Hotel, and new party
chairman Jason Willett discussed the party's current state and its goals for
the future. Saturday night, the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner was held
and the keynote speaker was to be U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn.
In today’s high paced world, a single person
has many options when it comes to getting a date. We no longer need to go
to the supermarket and crash a shopping cart into another when the person
pushing the cart is someone you wish to know. In today’s society we have
the Internet. We have matchmaking services such as Kiss.com and Date.com
just to name a few. Being able to do specific search on a possible date
or future mate is as simple as putting out $19.95 for a one-month trial to
such a service.
What can one expect is to be able to chat on line or
email the prospect that you have taken a fancy to by viewing their picture,
a complete profile, age, likes and dislikes, etc. including a paragraph or
two about who they are and who they are looking for, and the reason they are
on the online matchmaking service, some might be in it for fun, sex, casual
relationship, serious relationship with possible marriage later, or for
marriage.
By Joseph Taves, Hampden Macbeth andPhilip
Morrow.
1. Luis Posada Carriles
2. Deteriorating U.S.-Mexico Relations
3. The Brazil-Argentina Rivalry
Treatment of Posada Will Test Integrity of Washington's
Anti-Terrorism Crusade
The Bush administration's response to the Luis Posada
Carriles case brings to mind its similar mishandling of the 2002 attempted
coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The White House cheered the
temporary downfall of the democratically-elected Chávez, despite its
commitment to the "spread of democracy."
"AMLO" is the short name used for Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, the recently beleaguered mayor of México (City). After all of the
doubtful charges against him have been dropped, the mayor has announced
that he would resign his mayorship on 31 July in order to make a run for
the presidency of México. Under Mexican law, you don't run for another
office while holding another. It is felt that a candidate cannot devote
the energy to the office that he was elected to while campaigning for
another. If you want to run, resign and devote your full time to the
campaign. Are you listening up there in the US?
The following is an open letter to AMLO:
Dear Mister Mayor:
We congratulate you on your victory against the obvious phony
charges leveled against you in order to eliminate you as a candidate…
By Rachel McHugh
Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC)
Since the start of U.S.-Mexican relations in the border
area, water has been the source of conflict and concern, yet political and
infrastructural barriers historically have blocked the effectiveness of
dealing with water issues. Population growth, trade, and development in the
border area are raising demands on water resources and related
infrastructure throughout the region. Continued drought and strain on the
resources has led to recent initiatives from organizations, universities,
and regional authorities that could alter perceptions and management of
border water. These initiatives build on the underutilized concepts of
appreciation for the impacts on complete water systems, transboundary
approaches to water management, and binational cooperation…
Patrick
Osio, Jr. has written a short but intensive manual on the Mexican
perspective on numerous issues between our two countries. The manual is an
in depth primer on the culture and protocol for better understanding
Mexicans that in turn allows establishing personal and business
relationships, and how to avoid the most common faux pas that can ruin
relationships and business deals.
The manual is available through Electronic delivery for $9.95
making it possible to download the manual to save on your hard
drive, printing its entirety or particular sections while
reaping considerable savings over printed copies.
Washington Post Staff Writers
In its final exuberant days, the campaign of Antonio Villaraigosa was
electrified by the buzz of history in the making, polls outlining his
strong shot at becoming the city's first Latino mayor in modern times. But
as the results came in late Tuesday, the high school dropout-turned-state
Assembly speaker had made history of a completely unexpected kind.
Analysis of Tuesday’s vote by the National Association of Latino
Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund, the nation’s
leading organization that empowers Latinos to participate fully in the
American political process, in collaboration with Lopez & Cheung, Inc.
demonstrates significant shifts in the city’s political landscape. The
Mayor Elect made significant inroads in the African-American community
compared to four years ago and white voters became the swing vote in this
election.
The politics of the great American cities are ever the politics of
ethnic succession and recombination. As the focal points for the great
waves of immigration, foreign and domestic, that continually reshape the
nation, it's our cities where races historically collide, and coalesce.
Today, when we think of Fiorello La Guardia sweeping to power in New
York's 1933 mayoral contest, with his inimitable municipal version of the
New Deal, we see his victory as an unalloyed progressive triumph.
So let's see. The United States first backed former Salvadoran
president Francisco Flores to be the new secretary general of the
Organization of American States. Venezuela's left-wing demagogue Hugo
Chavez and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro backed Chilean socialist
and former interior minister Jose Miguel Insulza
The Flores move went nowhere, so Washington then backed Mexican
Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez . The lefties kept pushing
Insulza. In a stunning vote last month, the 34-nation OAS met and
deadlocked 17 to 17.
The Sleepy Lagoon trial took place in 1942, just months after Japanese
Americans were detained and put into internment camps. After a fight at a
party in southeast Los Angeles near a reservoir nicknamed “Sleepy Lagoon,”
José Diaz, a young Mexican national, was found dead. Local media outlets,
most notably the Hearst-owned Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Times,
blamed Diaz’s death on a “crime wave” led by Mexican American
“zoot-suiters” or “pachucos.”
Shortly after Senators McCain and Kennedy and Representatives Flake,
Gutierrez, and Kolbe held their press conference last week to introduce
the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 (H.R. 2330/S.
1033), organizations from the right, left, and center began issuing
statements of support.
Among them was a letter of support from a coalition of conservative
leaders and business trade association representatives. The letter, which
is attached, says in part:
Reuters reports that Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy
have introduced an immigration reform bill that would allow some of the
estimated 10-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to get
legal jobs and eventual citizenship.
According to Reuters, the McCain-Kennedy legislation, the 2005 Secure
America and Orderly Immigration Act, does the following:
By Chris Strohm The U.S. Border Patrol needs thousands more agents and is considering
how to effectively use volunteer citizen patrols, a senior homeland
security official told House lawmakers Thursday.
"We need more Border Patrol agents, there's no question about that,"
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert Bonner told members of
the House Government Reform Committee. CBP is in charge of the Border
Patrol.
ByGuillermo X. Garcia Texas Catholic bishops have launched a statewide effort targeting
lawmakers, many of them Catholic, whom the bishops believe can be
persuaded to vote for an expanded school voucher program, lobbyists for
the church acknowledged Wednesday.
As part of that effort, San Antonio Archbishop José Gomez wrote to a
number of Bexar County lawmakers last week saying it was his "personal
expectation" that they would support voucher programs.
President Vicente Fox, the champion of Mexican migrants, is taking to
the airwaves to convince Americans he isn't racist. An interview on U.S.
civil rights activist Jesse Jackson's radio program Sunday will be Fox's
first public comments about a firestorm he ignited a week ago by saying
Mexicans take the U.S. jobs that "not even" blacks want.
The statement roiled already tense relations between U.S. blacks and
Hispanics, and angered the U.S. government.
Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP National Board of
Directors, has invited Mexican President Vicente Fox to address the annual
NAACP Convention, which meets from July 10-14 in Milwaukee’s Midwest
Airlines Center.
In a letter to President Fox, Bond said: “Your recent
comments about Mexican migrants doing work that ‘not even blacks want to do’
have understandably caused great concern…
Openness, Listening Win Friends as He Holds Ashcroft Line
By Dan Eggen
New Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has urged Congress to renew
the controversial USA Patriot Act, has jumped into the fierce partisan
battle over judicial nominations and has rejected Democratic demands to
appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture against
U.S. detainees.
These and other positions are not much different from those taken by
Gonzales's sharp-tongued predecessor, John D. Ashcroft.
Gopal K. Khanna, who led the modernization of business processes at
the Peace Corps as chief information officer and then chief financial
officer, has joined the White House staff effective May 8 as chief
financial officer of the Executive Office of the President, Peace Corps
director Gaddi H. Vasquez announced May 6.
Vasquez said Khanna, initially appointed by George W. Bush as chief
information officer of the Peace Corps in June 2002 and named CFO in 2003,
during his three years as CIO and CFO "distinguished himself as a
visionary leader, with a well-planned strategy to build the global support
infrastructure for the Peace Corps of the 21st century."
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic
civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today applauded the
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce for
approving the "School Readiness Act of 2005" (H.R. 2123) yesterday. This
legislation reauthorizes Head Start, our nation's premier early childhood
and education program.
"We are delighted to see such strong support from both Republicans and
Democrats for a program that is vital to helping our children succeed in
school," said Janet Murguia, NCLR President and CEO.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney fight an inexorable tide that
pushes their goal of restoring presidential and national power farther
away even as they accelerate their efforts to reach it.
They swim against a tide of the global fragmentation of power in all
its forms -- economic, political and military. More nations today possess
the ability to make and sell inexpensive, good-quality shirt buttons than
ever before. The same is true for costly but workable nuclear weapons.
Senators McCain and Kennedy, and Representatives Kolbe,
Flake and Gutierrez, joined by Senators Brownback and Lieberman today
introduced The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005. The
legislation follows months of thoughtful debate and negotiation, which has
resulted in bipartisan, bicameral, comprehensive border security and
immigration reform…“The status quo is unacceptable, and we need to modernize
our broken immigration system to meet the challenges of the 21st Century…
Senators at odds on
immigration reform voiced during joint hearing
By Kat Huang
The Senate subcommittees on immigration and homeland security held a joint
hearing Tuesday on the national-security threat posed by the unchecked
passage of illegal aliens into the United States.
Amidst proposals to increase patrols on the borders and put new limits on
who can enter the country, several experts emphasized a need to develop
comprehensive policies.
"That investment will be undermined if we do not develop complementary
strategies for controlling the illegal flow across our vast land borers,"
said former Undersecretary of Homeland Security for Border and
Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson…
Illegal immigrants would be able to get a specially marked license
that could be used for driving on California roads under a bill that
passed its first committee Thursday.
The measure would set up a two-tiered system for driver's licenses in
the state.
A recently approved federal law will require states, among other
things, to verify a person's legal residency status before issuing a
license that can be used for federal identification purposes, such as
boarding an airplane.
California will have to change its current licensing operations to
comply with that law, known as the Real ID Act….
For as long as he can remember, Jesus Munoz has been trying to right a
historical wrong.
During the Great Depression, the United States forcibly expelled his
three young brothers and his grandfather to Mexico under a massive
deportation program. His brothers were U.S. citizens, and his grandfather
was a legal resident.
Legislation aimed at redressing the grievance is scheduled to be heard
today in the state Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento. "It was
exploitation of people who didn't understand what was happening,' said the
75-year-old Yucaipa resident on Sunday. "We speak about our country being
democratic and fair and equal, but our government has yet to officially
admit that an injustice was done to the Mexican-American community.'
A growing number of states are refusing to wait for
Congress to raise the minimum wage above the $5.15 an hour set in 1997. This
year, five state legislatures boosted their rates 30 cents to $1, bringing
to at least 16 the states with minimum wages above the federal level.
Connecticut and Hawaii this year approved their second
hike above the federal minimum. A buck-an-hour minimum wage increase for
Minnesota workers passed this month, and the new $6.15 hourly wage will take
effect Aug. 1. Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey (D) signed a law in
April to increase the minimum wage to $7.15 an hour over the next two years.
By M.E. Sprengelmeyer
For the third time, the House has rejected a bid by Rep. Tom Tancredo to
withhold homeland security funds from state and local governments that do
not share information with federal immigration officials.
The amendment to a Department of Homeland Security
appropriations bill failed Tuesday by a 258-165 vote.
Findings Refute Idea of “Mommy Wars,” Show Commonalities among
Mothers, and Point to Elements of a Mothers’ Agenda For Social Change
The findings of a groundbreaking, large-scale national study of
mothers’ beliefs and concerns paint a picture in sharp contrast to the
portrait of U.S. mothers in much of the current public dialogue...
The U.S. government charged aging Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles
yesterday with entering the United States illegally, as the Justice
Department mulls whether to deport the former CIA-trained operative to
Venezuela, which wants to try him on terrorism charges.
The case presents a dilemma for American officials, because Posada, a
77-year-old anti-Castro Cuban, has been charged by Venezuela with blowing
up a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Secretary of Foreign Affairs
for Mexico Ernesto Luis Derbez Bautista today signed a partnership
arrangement to improve access to USDA rural development programs for
eligible Mexicans in the United States.
"USDA looks forward to continuing to work with Mexican authorities to
enhance outreach to the Mexican community," said Johanns. "USDA
administers
43 rural development programs designed to assist rural residents and
communities increase their economic opportunities and improve their
quality of life…
Legislation takes on critical need to promote English and civics
among immigrants
The NALEO Educational Fund, the nation’s leading organization that
empowers Latinos to participate fully in the American political process,
today offered praise to the bipartisan leadership of Senators John McCain
(R-AZ), Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), and Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ),
Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) in introducing The Secure
America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005.
The National Restaurant Association today praised Senators John McCain
(R-AZ) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Jeff
Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) for introducing the "Secure America
and Orderly Immigration Act" in both the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives. The Association commended the lawmakers for recognizing
the need for a meaningful solution to reform the nation's immigration
laws.
Alliance for Justice (Sponsored by Democratic
Party)
From Kendra Sue Derby As you likely already know, this week, the process leading up to the
nuclear option. He brought the nomination of Priscilla Owen for the Fifth
Circuit to the Senate for debate. He has threatened that, if Democrats
filibuster Owen as they have before, he will use procedural tricks dubbed
the "nuclear option," by former Majority Leader Trent Lott because it will
destroy the Senate as we know it. The nuclear option would eliminate the
right to filibuster on judicial nominations.
Tough words for opponents in labor and sugar lobby
By Greg Robb
The Central American Free Trade Agreement will ultimately be approved
by Congress because members will want to provide a helping hand to the
fragile democracies in the region, said former U.S. Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick.
"I am confident that in the end the Congress of the United States will
not turn its back on Central America and the Dominican Republic," Zoellick,
now Deputy Secretary of State, said in a speech at the Heritage
Foundation, the conservative think-tank.
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