Posted on 02/17/2010 4:01:10 PM PST by AuntB
There are 35 members of OAS, including the USA.
http://www.oas.org/en/states/member_states.asp
More from NaFBO's M3 Foreign news report.
El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 2/16/10
“The first Hispanic President” (YES, USA PRESIDENT)
[full transl. of op/col. by Jorge Ramos, titled as above]
I am convinced that the first latino President of the United States has already been born. But that Hispanic, male or female, will have to go against the current to reach the White House. His life, without doubt, will be more difficult than that of the majority of the country. Nine of every 10 latinos do not have a college degree. Those 9 are out of the White House and of millions of jobs. A third of latinos doesn’t even finish high school for very different reasons – financial problems, lack of family support, low expectations. And thus they kill their future.
A short while back I met with a group of young people who left school. One had to work to support his brothers. Another one got into selling drugs to survive. One other was bored in school, and his parents weren’t able to convince him to go on with his studies. None had reached 20 years of age, but their faces were already lined with pessimism. They already perceived that their life, without high school, would go from bad to worse.
The first female latina president is going to have to overcome the terrible tendency of our young people who drop out of school and who don’t go to college. The first male latino president is also going to have to fight to not get gravely ill. According to a University of Texas study, half of all the latino babies are going to develop diabetes in their lifetime. One of every four Mexican-American children is obese. Combining hamburgers, hotdogs and pizzas with tacos, tamales and burritos is (like) a bomb for one’s health (and for any stomach.)
Hispanics eat poorly, not because they want to, but because it’s cheaper. Sixty-eight percent of the calories eaten by the poorest children of the United States (among which are the latinos) come from pizzas, potato chips, hamburgers and soft drinks.
The first Hispanic president is going to need that his parents help him (her) eat healthfully to keep from dying of a heart attack in the middle of a political career. That is part of the message of the new campaign against obesity by the First Lady, Michelle Obama.
But despite the educational and health problems among Hispanics, the future is promissory. There are more of us than ever before. The census this year will confirm that there are more than 50 million latinos, and that inside a century (from now) we will be a majority in the United States. It’s true that we have very little political representation. We have only one senator (Mel Martinez in New Jersey,) only one governor (Bill Richardson in New Mexico,) and a bit more than 20 congresspersons. But we have already broken all the barriers. Several latinos have reached space. Sonia Sotomayor is the first latina judge in the Supreme Court of Justice. We are only lacking the White House.
The argument is simple: there are more Hispanics than Afro-Americans in the United States, the Afro-Americans already have Barack Obama as their first president, then it’s the Hispanics’ turn. It’s the politics of what’s possible. There are few moments in history when what seemed impossible materializes and, suddenly, the country fills with hope. It happened with the election of Obama in 2008, and of Ronald Reagan in 1980. It also happened with Vicente Fox in Mexico and with Nelson Mandela in South Africa. They are “magic” moments.
I am sure that another of those “magic” moments awaits us when the first latino wins the presidency of the United States. And we are preparing for that moment. One of the things that most moves me when I travel to promote my books in the United States is that families take me to their children during the presentations and tell me, ”Look, this is Alexandra and she is going to be the first Hispanic president of the country,” or “What do you think of Jose for President?”
I think it is fine. It’s, simply, the power of an idea at the correct moment.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 2/16/10
“We are Mexico” [portions of an op/col. by Jose Manuel Gomez, titled as shown]
We Mexicans have been changing. What one day was despondency, (and) apathy begins to change and it is taking on a new mode in the social leaders who have been developing by themselves. Every day, there’s a new social group that presses on to obtain the changes that Mexico clamors for and demands with urgency. It is up to the government to deal with this popular clamor. It is the government’s duty to attend to the social unrest, because, if it ignores it, it will be unable to contain the social irritation. And every time we are more, we are many, many more, WE ARE MEXICO. -------
El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 2/16/10
More inhumanity in Sinaloa
The beheaded and dismembered remains of five persons were left on a street corner in Palmillas, near Escuinapa, Sinaloa. This is just a block away from where two other human heads were left in front of a restaurant and a grade school last week (M3 Report of 2/10/10) “The heads were left on the sidewalk of the old tortilla shop and the dismembered bodies were placed on the street next to the others.” (Other than the preceding, the following are headlines from the Sinaloa police news section)
* Two young men who were abducted in Guamuchil are executed * Police officers carried off in Campo Esperanza are found executed * One city policeman is assassinated and another one is wounded * Municipal police agent is shot to death
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 2/16/10
An acid process
Near Tequila, Jalisco, an anonymous call led police to locate a plastic barrel full of liquid acid. Also inside the barrel: human remains “in a severe state of decomposition due to the acid in the barrel.”
(A separate item in this paper included a report from the Jalisco office of Mexico’s “PGR” (equiv. to the Dep’t. of Justice.) It detailed activities for the month of January in Jalisco, but was written with enough ambiguity to cause doubt as to certain figures. We can report that over 7 tons of marihuana, 92 hand guns, 21 “long barrel” firearms and 2,077 rounds of ammo were seized and that 965 persons were arrested.)
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 2/16/10
Reynosa in the news
Mexico’s “PGR” (see above) reported the following operational results in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, during the month of January:
* 132 firearms, 23 grenades, 11,000 rounds of ammo and 349 clips seized * 15 tons of marihuana seized * 204 arrests made
——————————- Prensa Libre (Guatemala) 2/15/10
Vigilante justice
A mob from a small community in the state of Sololá, Guatemala, lynched three men who had previously assaulted a bus, robbed the passengers and wounded one of the bus attendants who later died of his injuries. The mob trapped the suspects, lynched them and left their bodies on a road leading to the local cemetery, “without the intervention of the authorities.”
Their screwing around in Honduras wasn’t enough?
This is demographic warfare.
When they come , they will want your wife, your gun and your dog, in that order.
The left will be happy as long as they keep their hands of the beer.
Freeking Idjits. McCain at the head of them here in the USA.
open borders?..no problem as long as they declare “open season” too.....
The purpose of open borders is anarchy and the destruction of national sovereignty, particularly aimed at the U.S.A.
Half the population in the Middle East want to emigrate - leave the ME, either to Europe, Canada, or the U.S.A. Forty million Mexicans want to emigrate to the U.S. God only knows how many people in India want to come here.
We must have borders and control access. To fail to do so will destroy our Nation.
America has borders? Who knew?
Move them all to this jackass’s neighborhood
Then check back with him a few days later for his second opinion
“We must have borders and control access. To fail to do so will destroy our Nation.”
Ah, ya sound like one of them there ‘nativist’ types.
I love you!
I still haven’t forgotten the Invitation Chavez offered to Iran about muslims immigrating to Venezuela.
These idiots in the OAS have no concern for what happens to little people be they citizens, legal or illegal immigrants. Its easy to throw little people to the wolves when you live in the security of gated communities somewhere.
There is a way to have open borders. They can apply to become part of the United States, and their government can step down. Otherwise they should shut up.
I say Hell to the No!
Well, what they're eating is far from the cheapest food in America. That problem is not cost, but food choices, or parents who won't prepare healthier food from scratch.
“Well, what they’re eating is far from the cheapest food in America. That problem is not cost, but food choices, or parents who won’t prepare healthier food from scratch.”
Yes, the hair on the back of my neck stood up when I read that one. I can’t afford fast food ! But then, I live within my means, unlike most. But in the new ‘we are the world’ society we’re expected to bear the burden of THEIR food choices.
“open borders?..no problem as long as they declare “open season” too.....”
:<)
You can bet if and when some deal like this transpires, US citizens (maybe Canada) won’t be allowed to go anywhere they want in these 35 nations.
I hope they try, I just hope they try.
The purpose of open borders is wealth redistribution. Ours to them, until everyone is a miserable peasant.
Oh, cool! Everyone from south of the border down to the tip of S. America will move to the US. I can’t wait to meet my new neighbors.
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