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23 WINTER OLYMPICS
The most interesting man in the world:
Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe
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23 WINTER OLYMPICS: The most
interesting man in the world:
Mexican skier Hubertus von
Hohenlohe
22 OUR PRIDE: Establishing a
e is a German pop
star who has put
out eight albums,
with his newest record featuring the single, “Higher
Than Mars.” He’s also an
award-winning photographer whose work has been
featured in galleries and commercial campaigns. Fluent
in five languages, an heir
to an automotive fortune,
55-year-old six-time Olympian Prince Hubertus von
Hohenlohe (he is a descendent of German royalty) is
representing Mexico on the
Alpine ski course in Sochi.
He has never medaled, but Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe will be Mexico’s only athlete competing for the country during the Winter Olympics
in Sochi, Russia.
von Hohenlohe is the secinteresting man in the world.
spent the first four years of his life there.
ond-oldest Winter OlymAlthough he grew up in Europe, von He has dual citizenship in Austria and
pian ever in the history of the Games.
Von Hohenlohe is the real-life most Hohenlohe was born in Mexico and the Latin American country, which
allows him to represent Mexico at the
Games.
The prince began competitively skiing
while a student in Austria, and at 21, he
won the university downhill championship and then began participating in the
World Cup circuit. In 1981, the citizen of
the world founded the one-man Mexican
Ski Federation and then represented
Mexico at his first Winter Games in the
1984 Sarajevo Games. “I hope Mexicans are proud to have
someone at the Olympics and, through
that, hopefully they get to know who I
am,” Von Hohenlohe said.
Von Hohenlohe has become more
known for his popular garb on the slopes
than his final Olympic results, though. In
Vancouver, he wore a ski suit inspired by
Mexican banditos, which featured fake
pistols and bandoliers. Last week, he
showed off his newest outfit -- a Mariachi-style ski uniform that he will wear in
this year’s game. The skier said the suit is
meant to pay homage for the country he
is representing.
“We in Mexico are 100 million people
and the only chance we have of winning
a medal is up to me, but we don’t have
to look at it like that, you have to see it
as I’m an ambassador of this country, an
ambassador with style and a human force
that goes beyond the result,” he said.
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21 STATE: House of Representatives
passes ‘Real Hope Act’ for
immigrant children
19 RELIGION: Pope opens critical
week for reforms, family issues
18 HEALTH LITERACY: Medicaid
now covers dental services for
adults
17 LATIN AMERICA: Venezuela
leader expels US officials
16 SPORTS: Sounders complete
sale of Montero to Portuguese
team
16 NATIONAL: Mexican brands that
have crossed borders
15 COLUMN: From my Balcony:
Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Ciao, Olá,
Habari, Hallo, Hej...
15 COLUMN: Dave Says: Balance
transfers don’t do much
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OUR PRIDE
Establishing a connection with the community
By Arlette Rodriguez
Yakima tu Decides correspondent
M
ore than 35 years ago, Julio
Romero and his family made
the decision to immigrate to
the United States in search of new opportunities. But when Julio Romero set foot
in the United States, he did more than
just work to sustain his family. Romero
has built a legacy of community involvement and change for his people and his
community. Now he is once again reaching out by establishing a business in
Yakima, Washington to connect with the
community.
“I started like all of us who come as
immigrants to this country, looking for
new opportunities for my family,” says
Romero.
Romero started working in the fields
and also attended a class of basic education for adults. That class taught the
basic skills that adults needed to know,
such as filling out applications, how to
make appointments and in general how
to adapt to the valley as a whole. From
there, he began reaching out into the community and becoming
involved with multiple
organizations.
“I was the president
of the board for the
Child
Development
Center in Toppenish.”
He was also a member
of the board of directors and president of
other community organizations. Romero has
always loved working
with the community,
and especially reaching
out to the Latino community and helping
their voice be heard.
As he reflects proudly
on his past, he knows he wants to continue to reach out.
“Five years ago I started doing taxes,”
says Romero.
From the experience he has gained
doing taxes, he has established his busi-
Julio Romero
ness for that and more. The business,
located in Yakima is called Connection Hispana and has been open since
January of this year. Romero intentionally meant for the business name to be in
“Spanglish,” a mixture of the cultures in
the valley.
“We want to make this office like a
connection with the community.”
He wants community members to be
able to go to him and use his business as
a resource for their needs and questions.
In this time of the year, the business
thrives with community members who
are getting their taxes done, but after that
Romero will continue to work with the
community and provide his services. For
example, on Saturdays from 4 pm to 5
pm, Romero offers citizenship classes at
his business location.
With his passion for helping others
and being there for his fellow comrades and neighbors, Romero looks to
the future of his business with a positive outlook. He will do his best to help
the community and be the resource they
need. Romero has acquired the community’s recognition over the years, and
thus already has many clients and community members who are aware of his
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21 February 21st, 2014
STATE
House of Representatives passes ‘Real Hope Act’ for immigrant children
grams for immigrant students, enough to
finance college-need grants for some 800
ill 6523, better known as the to 1,200.
“Real Hope Act,” was overThe following is the complete list of
whelmingly approved by the the names of each state representative
Washington State House of Representa- and how they voted on Tuesday night:
tives by a margin of 75-22. The vote took
Voting Yea: Representative Appleton,
place in Olympia on Tuesday night.
Bergquist, Blake, Carlyle, Chandler, ClibSenate Bill 6523, which was also born, Cody, Condotta, DeBolt, Dunshee,
approved by the State Senate by a vote Fagan, Farrell, Fey, Fitzgibbon, Freeman,
of 35-10 on January 31st, provides some Goodman, Green, Gregerson, Habib,
$5 million for college financial aid proHaigh, Haler, Hansen, Hawkins,
Hayes, Hudgins, G. Hunt, S. Hunt,
Hunter, Hurst, Jinkins, Johnson,
Kagi, Kirby, Kochmar, Kretz,
Lytton, Moeller, Morrell, Morris,
Moscoso, Muri, Nealey, Ormsby,
Ortiz-Self, Orwall, Pettigrew,
Pollet, Reykdal, Riccelli, Roberts,
Robinson, Ross, Ryu, Santos,
Sawyer, Seaquist, Sells, Senn,
Short, Smith, Springer, Stanford,
Stonier, Sullivan, Takko, Tarleton,
Tharinger, Van De Wege, Walkinshaw, Walsh, Warnick, Wilcox,
Wylie, Zeiger, Mr. Speaker
Members of the State Senate vote on Bill 6523 (Real Hope
Act) on January 31, 2014, in Olympia, Washington.
Voting Nay: Representative
B
OLYMPIA, Washington
Buys, Christian, Dahlquist, Hargrove,
Harris, Holy, Hope, Klippert, Kristiansen, MacEwen, Magendanz, Manweller,
Orcutt, Overstreet, Pike, Rodne, Schmick,
Scott, Shea, Taylor, Vick, Young
Excused: Representative Parker
Results from the State Senate vote
from January 31st, 2014:
Voting Yea: Senator Bailey, Becker,
Billig, Chase, Cleveland, Conway, Dam-
meier, Darneille, Eide, Fain, Fraser,
Frockt, Hargrove, Hasegawa, Hatfield,
Hill, Hobbs, Keiser, King, Kline, KohlWelles, Liias, Litzow, McAuliffe, McCoy,
Mullet, Nelson, O’Ban, Parlette, Pedersen,
Ranker, Rolfes, Schoesler, Sheldon, Tom
Voting Nay: Senator Angel, Braun,
Brown, Dansel, Ericksen, Hewitt, Honeyford, Padden, Pearson, Rivers
Excused:
Senator
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RELIGION
Pope opens critical week for reform, family issues
P
VATICAN CITY (AP)
ope Francis on Monday opened
the most critical week of his
year-old papacy: Two commissions of inquiry on Vatican finance are
reporting their recommendations for
reform and preparations get underway for
a summit on family issues that will deal
with the widespread rejection by Catholics of church teaching on contraception,
divorce and gay unions.
In between, Francis will preside over
his first ceremony to formally welcome
19 new cardinals into the elite club of
churchmen who will eventually elect his
successor. In typical Francis style, the new
cardinals hail from some of the poorest
places on earth, including Haiti, Burkina
Faso and Ivory Coast.
The first half of Francis' busy week is
being devoted to the third meeting of his
"Group of Eight" advisers, the senior cardinals representing every continent who
Francis appointed to help him govern the
church and overhaul the antiquated and
inefficient Vatican bureaucracy.
On Monday, the G8, the pope and his
No. 2 heard recommendations from a
panel of experts on rationalizing the Holy
See's overall financial and administrative
structures. On Tuesday, they will hear
from the commission of inquiry studying
how to reform the troubled Vatican bank.
Francis was elected with a mandate to
reform the Roman Curia, as the Holy See
administration is known, to make it more
responsive to the needs of the 21st-century Catholic Church. He wants to make
the curia more of a support to bishops
trying to spread the faith rather than an
obstacle, and this week's meetings are a
clear indication that improving the Vatican's financial structures is a core piece of
that reform.
Francis has placed particular priority on
overhauling the scandal-marred Vatican
bank, long accused by Italian authorities
as being an off-shore tax haven for wellconnected Italians and, more recently, a
place where money could be laundered.
On the eve of the G8 meeting, the head
of the Vatican bank pleaded his case to
Francis' hometown newspaper, telling
Argentina's La Nacion daily
that his process of reform
hadn't yielded any "systematic violations" of the Vatican's anti-money laundering laws but just some "black
sheep."
One of those black sheep
is
Monsignor
Nunzio
Scarano, an accountant in
the Vatican's finance ministry who is currently on
trial for allegedly trying
to smuggle 20,000 euro
($26,000) from Switzerland
to Italy.
On a slightly more accelerated timetable are plans
for the October meeting of
bishops at the Vatican on
family issues. A broader
group of cardinals are
expected to discuss the
summit in the second half of
the week and then the main
planning group gets down
to work early next week.
Pope Francis delivers his blessing to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s
Square at the Vatican to attend the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014.
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LATIN AMERICA
Venezuela leader expels US officials
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
P
resident Nicolas Maduro's government on Monday gave three
U.S. Embassy officials 48 hours
to leave the country, accusing the Obama
administration of siding with student protesters that Venezuela accuses of inciting
violence.
The announcement by Foreign Minister
Elias Jaua came amid fears that renewed
clashes could erupt Tuesday when both
pro- and anti-government activists hold
demonstrations in the capital.
Jaua said the senior U.S. consular officers were trying to infiltrate Venezuelan universities, the hotbed of the recent
unrest, under the cover of doing visa outreach. Repeating charges by Maduro, who
has expelled American diplomats twice
before, Jaua said the U.S. is conspiring
with opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez
and student activists in an attempt to oust
the socialist president.
The U.S. denied the charges, and is
expressing concern about rising violence
that led to three deaths last week during
anti-government demonstrations and about the
government's attempts to
block peaceful protests.
Secretary of State John
Kerry said Saturday that
Lopez's arrest would have
a "chilling effect" on Venezuelans' right to free
expression.
More than 1,000 students, who have spent the
past week on the streets
alternating
between
A demonstrator covers her mouth with a rag to prostest government
peaceful protests by day censorship,
during a march in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb17, 2014.
and battles with police
at night, marched on
onstrators and security forces backed by
Monday to Venezuela's telecommunica- armed pro-government militias.
tions regulator to demand it lift all restricThree people were killed during those
tions on the news media's coverage of the clashes last week — two students and a
unfolding political crisis. There were no pro-government demonstrator. News
reports of new disturbances.
videos and photographs taken at the
Several journalists have been harassed time indicate at least one of the students
and detained. Colombia's news channel was killed when pro-government militia
NTN24 was taken off cable television members fired directly at protesters.
while covering protests Wednesday that
Maduro accuses Lopez of being behind
ended in a battle between student dem- the violence and of leading a "fascist" plot
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by a landslide. At a rally with thousands
of supporters Saturday, Maduro dared
Lopez, a Harvard-educated former mayor,
to turn himself in after a court ordered his
arrest on charges ranging from homicide
to vandalism of public property.
Lopez said he doesn't fear going to jail
to defend his beliefs. In a video message
Sunday, he called on supporters to march
with him in white shirts Tuesday to the
Interior Ministry, where he'll deliver a
petition demanding the government
protect citizens' rights to peacefully
protest.
"I haven't committed any crime," said
Lopez, who hasn't been seen in public
since a Wednesday night news conference
after the bloodshed. "If there is a decision to legally throw me in jail I'll submit
myself to this persecution."
To avoid another violent clash, Lopez
aides have rerouted their Tuesday protest
away from the central plaza in Caracas
where a competing march of pro-government oil workers will take place.
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Dave Says
Balance transfers
don’t do much
Dear Dave,
ebrate it with pride!
I’m trying to pay off my credit card and
get out of debt. Do you think I should
transfer the balance to
one with a lower interest
rate while I do this?
On our little planet there are roughly 6,000 lan-
Kelsey
guages, but it hurts me to think that as many as
Dear Kelsey,
That is how we can continue to greet each other,
but no matter your native tongue, keep it and cel-
half of them are in danger of extinction. Therefore also threatening our richness in education
and cultural identity.
But we at least have one day to reflect on the
great richness that we have! Knowing full well of
the importance of keeping alive those sounds
that have allowed to communicate among each
other, February 21st was proclaimed, in November 1999, as Day of the Mother Language by the
General Conference of the Organization for Education, Science and Culture of the United Nations
(UNESCO.) In May 2007, they also encouraged all
of us to “promote the preservation and protection of all of the languages of the world,” and
in the same resolution, it proclaimed 2008 as
the International Year of Languages, to promote
unity and diversity, along with international comprehension.
In the Tri-Cities, we are home to some 30 different ethnic groups and languages. Do you know
people of other nationalities and with different customs? This Sunday, February 23rd, the
Three Rivers Folklife Society will be celebrating
the International Day of the Mother Language at
the Battelle Auditorium in Richland. Come and
I’m not against this
Dave Ramsey
idea, as long as you
understand that you’re
not really accomplishing much. All
you’re doing is moving money around,
and maybe saving a tiny bit on interest. If you were planning on keeping
the debt around for 30 years it would
become a big deal. But if you’re talking
about a few months, just until you get it
paid off, it’s not that much money.
The problem with balance transfers is
that you feel like you took a big step
forward when you really didn’t. Lots of
times this causes people to lose focus
on other things they can do to get out
of debt, like picking up an extra job or
selling a bunch a crap they don’t want
or need. That kind of stuff, along with
living on rice and beans and a strict
written budget, is 98 percent of the
battle when it comes to getting out of
debt!
—Dave
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by participating in this free event where various
groups will be showing off their native outfits and
customs from their homelands. Don’t miss this
exciting event!
Have a happy week, and God Bless!
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