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BY CINDY GONZALEZ WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER RELATED STORY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- » Immigrants go home for holidays 'Twas approaching midnight on South 24th Street and a group of gift-laden passengers had gathered at Jose Montañez's storefront. Surrounded by bags, Felisardo Suares waits outside Montañez's storefront on South 24th Street Dec. 10 for the van that was taking him and other Omahans to Mexico. It's part of an annual Christmas migration back to Latin America for thousands of Midlanders. Up pulled a pair of jumbo vans with cargo trailers. Parents, singles and young people who had been waiting climbed aboard the coaches that...

Mary and Joseph's futile search for a room at the inn in Bethlehem might ... seem an unlikely inspiration for skits about police brutality, class inequities and job discrimination in Santa Monica. SNIP "Cholo!" roared one youth playing the role of a police officer, as he scuffled with Jesse Tovar, a 16-year-old student from University High School in Los Angeles, cast as an "innocent person of color." "You're from a gang, huh?" "Racista!" retorted Tovar, the son of Mexican immigrants. Later, he said he identified with the rejection faced by Mary and Joseph as young, poor migrants from another land....

Juan R Posadas, one of the World’s strangest political thinkers, was no ordinary Trotskyite; socialists from outer space, the benefits of nuclear war and communication with dolphins were all part of his revolutionary programme. We think of UFO cults, typically, as being naïve, fancy-dress Californian affairs, scary religious Doomsday sects, or even neo-Nazi groups convinced that flying saucers operate from a secret Antarctic base. But there was one UFO cult at the opposite end of the political spectrum: a Trotskyite UFO cult. They called themselves the Posadists after their founder Juan R Posadas and, like many UFO cults, they bore...