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To Vote, a civic responsibility

Adriana Ramos Last week some of the Candidates for the presidency, as well as some Senator and Congressman, decide to confront the real public in “Your Tube” debate, call "Citizen Tube". Not only because the politicians have realized that this new Generation is completely tech-online, but because the statistics bring high ratings to their future voters, now each one of the candidates have their own "You Tube" propaganda media. Many of the questions the general public address, were the real problems the country lives today, how to activated the economy, how we can keep the war in Iraq, if the Country should impeach the President Bush and Cheney, and so much important real problems from real people, Teachers, Parents, Accountants, Secretaries, Students, Farmers, etc. But the last … [Read more...]

Olvido

por Adriana Ramos Relaciones Internacionales Los pequeños placeres que una persona adquiere con los años, son difíciles de olvidar, como leer un buen libro, ir a ver las películas favoritas, tomar un buen vino, acompañar a un amigo en una tarde lluviosa. Este placer mío de escribir lo había dejado en el olvido ese compromiso que me hice a mi misma, de escribir, escribir, escribir. Sólo por el simple hecho podría tomarme menos de 30 minutos, unos pensamientos o unas cuantas letras, sin embargo nuestras obligaciones diarias nos apartan de esos placeres. Heme aquí, tratando de retomar el tiempo que estos meses me han llevado lejos de este rincón, y que nuevamente recuerdo al recibir un correo de una amiga… Grandes cambios han sucedido mientras pasan los días. Intentos de … [Read more...]

Annual Conference of The National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

Miami, FL. 21-23 of July The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations (CBOs), NCLR reaches millions of Hispanics each year in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. NCLR is recognized as the most effective, influential, and respected Hispanic organization in the country, serving as a voice in Washington, DC for Hispanic Americans. NCLR's Annual Conference is the largest gathering of its kind in the Hispanic community, serving as the meeting ground for over 20,000 community organization leaders, activists, and volunteers; elected and appointed … [Read more...]

Hasta pronto, Miami

por JORGE LOMONACO Publicado en el Nuevo Herald 07/10/07 Cuatro años en Miami pueden pasar muy rápido, aun con huracanes. Sin embargo, estos no han sido años cualesquiera, al menos no para mí: he tenido el honor de representar a México en Miami durante algunos de los tiempos más interesantes, tanto para Miami como para los mexicanos en esta región de Estados Unidos. En un periodo relativamente corto, Miami resistió satisfactoriamente la desaceleración que afectó a la economía estadounidense a principios de siglo, en parte como resultado del influjo de capitales proveniente de países latinoamericanos en problemas; disfrutó --y sufrió-- una de las expansiones inmobiliarias más extraordinarias --donde fueron canalizados la mayor parte de esos capitales y cuyas … [Read more...]

What happen with the Immigration Law?

By Adriana Ramos Why the New Immigration Bill didn’t pass? For many specialists was a brutal call from the inefficient federal bureaucracy. This come as a difficult taste to many candidates of new green cards, it seems no one to rely in the future in immigration for a common agreement to fix the problems. This came as a respond from the State Department in June announcing that many of these future green cards will be in hold, leaving hundreds and thousand without solutions to fill on time the new paper work. After issuing a bulletin to prod Citizenship and Immigration Services, the bureaucracy that handles immigration applications, to get cracking on processing the new paper work was going to appear in thons, 182,694 green cards have been squandered since 2000 because it did not … [Read more...]