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'Ugly Betty's' TV
Triumph is Colombia's Shame
El Tiempo
(Colombia) - January 24, 2007
It is sad that the only way Colombia can excel in the United States is through a soap opera. A prize
recently won by "Ugly Betty" has been reason for joy for Colombia. "Half the Golden Globe is
mine," affirmed the writer of Betty la Fea
[Betty the Ugly] Fernando Gaitan.
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Craft-sellers
Supported With Credits
De Frente (Mexico) - June 2, 2006
With the aim of driving orderly tourist development, Governor
Eduardo Bours Castelo and
municipal president Ramon Martinez Gonzlez
presented credit supports of 1.5 million pesos so that retailers of crafts
may modernize the curio market established here.
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Wasting
Water, the Principal Problem of the Shortage
De Frente (Mexico) - June 2, 2006
ÒThe next wars between nations will be for a valuable life-giving liquid, waterÓÑso said the experts
when World Water Day was celebrated in Mexico City.
Many states in the region, and the country in
general, are suffering for the shortage of this vital liquidÑwell, not to
mention us: Many colonies of Puerto Peasco suffer for this shortage of
water. But why does this happen, if most of us pay our water bill on time?
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At Least Strikers
in America DonÕt Get Shot
El Universal (Mexico) - May 2, 2006
Yesterday was a day of exceptional work. In Mexico, a great number of
workers from different unions expressed their demands for the resignation of
Labor Secretary Francisco Javier Salazar, to heal relations between the
government and unions, and to demand an explanation for the deaths of two
unionists during a government assault on striking steelworkers in Lazaro Cardenas in Michoacan,
on April 20.
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Washington Admits
its Anti-Drug Crusade is a Failure
El Tiempo
(Colombia) - April 19, 2006
While we wait for legalization, let's try not to
destroy Colombia.
A report just disclosed in Washington
reveals that, in spite of the massive fumigations, in spite of the sacrifice
of 82 members of the public security forces in the last five years and the
waste of hundreds of millions of dollars, today we have 26 percent more coca
plantations than we had before.
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For Latino
Migrants, All Eyes on Washington
El Comercio (Ecuador) - April 4, 2006
The photographs of this
weekendÕs marches in New York make eloquent portraits of the situation of
illegal immigrants in the United States, who now detect a hardening of the
already restrictive policies of recent decades, in a country that has been
characterized since its inception by the welcoming of great waves of migrants
that are now an integral part of its identity and diversity.
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Chavez
Says Hitler a ÔBabe in ArmsÕ Compared to Bush
El Universal (Mexico) - February 4, 2006
On the national radio and television network, President
Hugo Chavez addressed his followers congregated on Bolivar
Avenue and insisted on the truth of the
espionage accusations against U.S. Embassy officials, assuring that there is
"a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army" whom
"I have hunted."
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