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What’s wrong with this headline (SD U-T May 11, 2008), “Drug raid has SDSU (San Diego State University) concerned on image”? How about being concerned about the young adults who lost their lives to drugs instead of the University’s image? How about the rampant usage of drugs not only on the SDSU campus but in so many other high school and university campuses? How about the over 17,000 annual deaths due to drug usage in the US? And, how about the carnage taking place on a daily basis in Mexico due to its war against organized crime attempting to keep drugs out of US users’ hands? |
By Mark Stevenson Drug
cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across
Mexico: Join us or die.
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(sic) Anyone reading anything about México in the past few months has seen a steady increase in the violence level in every passing day. 2,700 Mexicans died in the drug wars in 2007. This includes drug personnel in their wars between the cartels, police at all levels, Mexican army casualties and civilians caught in the crossfire. This year, as of 1 May, the figure is around 1,200.
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(sic).. As an example, when I brought up the subject of bad and poisoned food imports from China (like the pet food scandal), the comment was "Yeah, that's the problem with NAFTA". But what does NAFTA have to do with China? What the general US media is doing is only putting forth cherry picked "facts" to spout positions instead of trying to educate the public in an even handed manner to better understand issues. Printing only one side of facts adds up to the same as simple lying in my opinion. |
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Los Zetas: The Ruthless Army Spawned by a Mexican Drug Cartel |
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The murder of the acting chief of Mexico's federal police amid an unprecedented wave of drug gang attacks on security officials will soon become a major issue in the U.S. presidential candidates' escalating war for Hispanic votes. Until now, Republicans and Democrats had tried to make as little noise as possible about the Bush administration's Mérida Initiative, a request for $500 million to help Mexico fight its drug cartels. |
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(sic).. How do you talk to people like this -- Hussein Massawi, the former leader of Hezbollah, an officially branded terrorist organization that has killed Americans in Lebanon and is funded by Iran says this about Americans: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you." To properly understand the context of the argument, "Hamas has expressed "hope" Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential elections and "change" America's foreign policy. |
Movie Director Rob Reiner (AKA Meathead) objected to my presence in the same room as he pushed for his cigarette-taxing Proposition 10, ten years ago, to the California Parent Teachers Association. … Reiner emotionally, almost tearfully spoke about how California poor children would benefit by taxing cigarettes 50-cents a pack. Reiner’s tax scam passed by 1% of over 7-million votes and raises about $580 million annually with 80 percent going the county commissions and 20 percent to the state commission. |
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By Robert Miranda Uniform voting privileges, standard government issue voting ID cards, and a government processed state-wide voter registration list almost sounds like some public television documentary of Communist China or the policy of some two bit dictatorship in a God forsaken underdeveloped nation in some obscure part of the world. Leave it to the reactionary conservative Republican majority in the Assembly to initiate a law that would require American citizens to present an ID at the voting polls. |
| Immigrants Assimilating Faster | A Symphony in Black and White |
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By Linda Chavez A new study out this week by the Manhattan Institute should dispel a few myths on immigrant assimilation. The study looked at a range of factors -- economic, cultural, and civic -- to assess whether today's immigrants are becoming part of the American mainstream. But it also compared this generation of immigrants to the Great Wave who came to America's shores in the early part of the 20th century. The good news is that… |
By Joe Olvera (sic)… For some of us, who have always been neutral about racial issues, in fact, welcoming everyone into the fold, the bitter contest between the two combatants is forcing the racist elements in the United States to crawl out from behind the woodwork, where the cockroaches normally live.
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By Roberto Lovato Justeen Mancha's dream of becoming a psychologist was born of the tropical heat and exploitation that have shaped farmworker life around Reidsville, Georgia, for centuries. The wiry, freckle-faced 17-year-old high school junior has toiled in drought-dry onion fields to help her mother, Maria Christina Martinez. But early one September morning in 2006, Mancha's dream was abruptly deferred.
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By Roberto Lovato The battle for immigrant rights rages daily in the heart, mind and lanky 10 year-old frame of Chelsea resident and May Day marcher, Norma Canela. Norma's mother Olivia illegally crossed the borders of Guatemala, Mexico and the U.S. almost eleven years ago from Honduras. Born shortly after her mom came to the U.S., Norma says attending one of the over 200 May Day marches for immigrant rights made her feel "good, like we could help people get their papers!" |
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By Laura Carlsen On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses.
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It could be said that Latin America will come of age politically the day that Pemex, Mexico’s oil behemoth, ceases to be a state monopoly. Until that happens, the psyche of many Latin Americans will be beholden to the mythical notion that government-owned natural resources are the custodians of national identity. That is why President Felipe Calderon’s efforts to open up the oil sector to private investment in Mexico have profound cultural implications. |
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By Jesse Fimbres While waiting for over an hour in line at the Otay border crossing, late on a Tuesday night, it made me think and somewhat angry. No, actually very angry. It is ludicrous that our politicians, Washington officials, customs and border protection management, are thinking about opening a third border crossing when they are underutilizing the current infrastructure. |
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Pew Hispanic Center Releases Statistical Portrait of Hispanic Women |
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By Marcelo Ballve No one has bragging rights over the Latino vote, not
yet. And after the massive immigrant rights marches of 2006, the old token
"tamale politics" won't work — if they ever did. |
in the U.S. Annual births to Hispanic women in the United States exceeded one million for the first time in 2006, and one-in-four children in the U.S. under the age of five is Hispanic, according to new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics now make up 15.5% of the U.S. population, and nearly two-thirds (62%) of their population growth in 2006-2007 came from births rather than immigration-a reversal of the growth pattern in the 1990s,… |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com