The cat and mouse game takes to sea: Narco`s new routes to

34 YEARS
of Publication
1976-2010
Vol.XXXIII
XXXIV No. 9
Vol.
Inauguran Exposición de Arte
Popular del CECUT en el Museo
Mingei
Arte popular mexicano en la exposición Viva México, héroes y
artesanos en el Museo Mingei de San Diego.
El Centro Cultural Tijuana presenta deció la generosa hospitalidad de
parte de su colección permanente de acoger la exposición, así como un
arte popular mexicano en la grupo invitados de ambos lados de la
exposición Viva México, héroes y frontera, el maestro Muñoz explicó
artesanos, que se inauguró el que ésta es “la primera vez que una
miércoles 24 de febrero en el Museo colección de esta naturaleza viaja
Mingei de San Diego.
fuera del Centro Cultural”.
Encabezada por la cónsul de
Compuesta por 101 piezas perMéxico en San Diego, Remedios tenecientes a la colección permanente
Gómez Arnau, y los directores del del CECUT, a las que se suman 11
Museo Mingei, Rob Sidner, y el piezas de la colección Roberto
Centro Cultural Tijuana, Virgilio Montenegro del Centro Nacional para
Muñoz, la apertura de esta muestra la Conservación y Registro del
en San Diego, donde permanecerá a Patrimonio Artístico Mueble del
lo largo de este año para iniciar Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes
después una serie de presentaciones (INBA), Viva México, héroes y
itinerantes, permitirá reapreciar la artesanos representa una de las
depurada calidad del arte popular mayores colecciones de arte popular
mexicano.
de nuestro país que se hayan pre“La exposición forma parte del sentado en San Diego.
programa de festejos del bicentenario
El maestro Muñoz explicó que el
de la Independencia nacional y el traslado de la muestra para su
centenario de la Revolución Me- exhibición fuera del país ha sido
xicana”, informó el director general posible gracias a la colaboración del
del CECUT, quien expresó su Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y
confianza en que con esta colección las Artes (Conaculta) y la cooperación
se dará a conocer en el extranjero la del INBA, el Museo Nacional de
maestría alcanzada por los artesanos Historia del Castillo de Chapultepec,
mexicanos en distintos campos de los museos Rafael Coronel y Franz
expresión.
Mayer, así como la revista Artes de
Ante directivos y patrocinadores
(vea Inauguran, página 5)
del Museo Mingei, a quienes agra-
La Prensa Muñoz, Inc., Publications
MARCH 5, 2010
The cat and mouse game takes to sea:
Narco’s new routes to California
Packages of marijuana are stacked for display during a presentation to journalists of approximately 15 tons (15,445 kilograms)
of marihuana at the Morelos army base on 23 February, 2010 in Tijuana, Mexico. The packages of drugs were discovered during a search of a trailer truck at a military roadblock. The man in the center is the driver of the truck. Photo - David Maung
By Mariana Martínez
Military personnel in Baja California recently announced the biggest
seizure of marihuana in state’s history; 15 tons of pot found inside a
trailer carrying a shipment of “Maria”
cookies; 12 tons had been found in a
similar case on February 7th, making
the grand total of 30 tons of pot seized
in less than a month.
What makes the seizures unique is
not just the volume, but their destination: you see, the drugs were not going north but where headed to the
Ensenada port instead, pointing to the
growing trend of drug traffic by sea.
Military Commander Alfonso
Duarte Mujíca, head of Tijuana military region, said the seizure was done
after a routine inspection at a military checkpoint at Federal Highway
3, around Chinero-Ensenada route.
Duarte added the shipment was
complete with false governmental
seals and the drug was not placed
under a false floor but instead was
poorly hidden behind a pile of “Maria”
cookie boxes, —the Mexican equivalent to animal crackers—.
The shipment was headed south,
from Mexicali to Ensenada passing
trough San Felipe, investigations lead
authorities to believe it was headed
to the US.
“[We believe] The drugs where
headed north by sea so we are putting up another military check point
at Ensenada Port and coordinating
with Marines so we have stricter examination of cargo ships before they
head to the US” said Duarte.
Despite claiming not to know which
criminal organization was hit with the
seizure, Duarte confirmed the drugs
seized had a black market value of at
least 18 million dollars.
The tuck used for transporting the
drugs had a sign in the cabin claiming
to be “under 24 hour satellite localization surveillance”.
The drug packages were all covered in brown tape and had names
and nicknames of possible owners;
Virus, Flor (flower), Vaca (cow), H5, L-V as well as numbers 8 and 9.
The driver who is in military custody is 34 year-old Mario López
Castro, born in Guaymas, Sonora,
who claimed to be living in Mexicali
when he was contacted to make a
trip to Ensenada and paid around $4
thousand dollars.
Vicente Sánchez Munguía, senior
Public Safety researcher for political
think thank COLEF, explains information about this new traffic tendency has not flowed to the public,
mainly because the secrecy of the federal forces.
“Since about five years ago we’ve
seen a growing tendency of traffic
trough the San Felipe port, —despite
it not being in the press, the Golf has
been commonly used as a land-sea
route for drugs, because it’s just a
stone throw away from Sonora” he
says, “it is widely known by fishermen
and even environmental researchers
that drugs are thrown from airplanes
into the sea, where they are picked up
by speedboats.”
(see The cat and mouse, page 2)
Chelsea King case raises questions Census: Masking Identities or Counting the
about Megan’s Law
Indigenous Among Us?
By E.A. Barrera
In the wake of the case of murdered Poway High school student
Chelsea King and the arrest of convicted sex-offender John Gardner
who lives in Lake Elsinore, the subject of “Megan’s Law” and what it is
supposed to do is once again in the
news.
The right of individuals to know if
a registered sex offender is living in
their area stems from the 1994 tragedy of Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old
girl living in Hamilton Township, N.J.
Megan was brutally raped and murdered by a neighbor who had been
convicted twice of sexual crimes
against young girls. The man was on
parole at the time and nobody in the
area was aware of his background.
In the aftermath of the horror, and
sparked by outraged parents who
wanted to know why such a man
could live in anonymity next to young
children, the New Jersey legislature
quickly passed a law requiring police
to notify residents that a high risk,
convicted sex offender was living
near them. It was coined “Megan’s
Law” after the young victim.
Under Megan’s Law only the
name, photo and vital statistics of the
individuals deemed high risk will be
made available. People won’t be
given a list with the addresses of all
registered sex offenders in the city
limits. They will be able to look-up an
individuals name to see if that person
is listed, but that is all we will release.
Supporters of the law say it is a valid
tool that can help police and parents
protect children. In California, the
Department of Justice in Sacramento
has prepared a CD-ROM with the
names of convicted sex offenders
who must register with police. This
information is provided to police agencies who have the discretion to decide which information will be released to the populace. To view the
CD-ROM, one should contact their
local police or sheriff’s department.
California enacted its own version
of the law in 1996. The law says that
the public has a right to know where
all those convicted of sexual crimes
are located. It requires police to notify residents when a high risk convicted sex offender moves into their
neighborhood. Furthermore, all buyers of homes must be notified where
they can access the Megan’s Law
data base.
Two other areas of offense besides
sexually related crimes require those
convicted to register with police.
Deemed psychological crimes, the
other two are arson, and certain types
of drug-related convictions.
In the case of arson, an offender
must register for life, as with sex offenders. In the case of drug conviction, depending on the seriousness,
one must register while on probation,
and then for an additional five years
after probation has been lifted.
However, violent crimes which do
not involve sex, are not considered to
be psychological crimes. Thus repeat
offenders of non-sexual battery and
other violent offenses are not required
to register with police.
The reason for this has more to do
with politics than public policy, according to Steve Allen, an attorney with
the Center For Common Solutions.
The CCS is an organization that assists victims of domestic violence and
sexual battery.
By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez only partially worked, because most
NEW AMERICA MEDIA
Mexicans in this country have never
been treated as “white,” or as full
It was when I first stood atop the human beings with full human rights.
Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan,
That era is long over, yet the fear,
Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able shame, denial, and semi-legal fiction
to grasp something my parents first of being “white” remains, perpetrated
communicated to me when I was five primarily by government bureaucrats.
years old; that my roots on this contiDespite the bureau policy of racial
nent are not simply Mexican, but both categorization, the Indigenous Culancient and Indigenous.
tures Institute in Texas, a Census
My red-brown face should have 2010 partner, has advanced an alterbeen enough to teach me this. How- native: It asserts that Hispanics, Mexiever, that was not the message I re- can Americans, and Indigenous
ceived in school at the time, nor is it people of Mexico are native or
the message little red-brown kids re- American Indian. After answering
ceive today.
Question 8, regarding whether one is
I experienced a similar kind of re- Hispanic or not, the institute suggests:
affirmation this past month when I “If you are a descendant of native
stood in front of the world-renowned, people, you can identify yourself (in
ancient Mayan observatory at Question 9) as an American Indian
Chichen Itza, on Mexico’s Yucatan in the 2010 Census… If you don’t
peninsula.
know your tribe, enter “unknown” or
Upon my return to the United “detribalized native.” If tribe or idenStates, I received a message from a tity is known, fill it in, i.e., Macehual,
colleague regarding the U.S. Census Maya, Quechua, etc.
Bureau. My mouth soured; another
This may not be the best option, but
decade and another story about how the bureau has never made it easy to
the bureau paradoxically insists that recognize the indigenous roots of
Mexicans are Caucasian. I will have “Mexican Americans/Chicanos” or
to explain to them again that Mexi- “Latinos/Hispanics.” The long and
cans are the descendants of those sordid history of the census has been
who built the pyramids at Teotihuacan to direct or redirect them into the
and Chichen Itza – that it was not white category, even—and espeCaucasians who built them.
cially—when they have asserted their
The genesis of this nonsensical indigenous roots or when they have
“misconception” goes back to the era checked the “other” race category.
when the United States militarily took (Since 1980, about half of Hispanics/
half of Mexico in 1848. At that time, Latinos have checked the “other”
the Mexican government attempted race category and are virtually the
to protect its former citizens by in- only group that chooses this category.)
sisting that the U.S. government treat This has been a standard practice of
them legally as “white,” so they the bureau since the second half of
would not be enslaved or subjected the twentieth century. Coincidentally,
(see Megan’s Law, page 2) to legal segregation. That strategy this is also when government bureau-
crats imposed the term “Hispanic,” a
tag that generally masks the existence
of indigenous and/or African roots in
many peoples of the Americas.
In 2000, the Census Bureau finally
recognized a Latin American Indian
category, but it did not create an educational campaign to go with it. The
bureau now recognizes peoples who
are traditionally viewed (using arbitrary criteria) as indigenous in
Mexico, Central and South America,
but it does not recognize those who
are considered “mestizo” –- peoples
who are at least part, if not primarily,
native. The mestizo category, borne
of a dehumanizing racial caste system in the Americas, is also a troublesome category, yet it is how most
people of Mexican and Central
American descent identify, comprising approximately 75 percent of all
“Latinos/Hispanics.”
The Indigenous Institute promotes
its idea as a means by which Mexican Americans or Latinos/Hispanics
can honor their indigenous ancestry.
If this option is widely embraced, it
remains to be seen how the bureau
will count this information. The same
question arises if people choose the
American Indian category and write
in “mestizo.”
Traditionally, the bureau has taken
a narrow view of who is indigenous,
because the “American Indian” category was designed not to ascertain
the indigenous, but to count “U.S.
Indians.” If a more expansive view
is embraced widely –- as advocated
by the institute -– it would result in
an increase from 5 million (the 2009
census estimate) to perhaps 30 to 40
(see Census, page 5)
PAGE 2
MÉXICO DEL NORTE
Jorge Mújica Murias
Ir Por Lana…
Extravagante. Esta es la
palabra más simple para
describir el ridículo destino de
millones de dólares, 17 por lo
menos, que se le confiscó
ilegalmente a centenares de
personas, la mayoría
inmigrantes, después de
enviarlos por Western Union.
La aventura de la lana
comenzó por allá por el 2004,
curiosamente como producto
secundario de la reforzada
vigilancia fronteriza en el
estado de California, la
famosa Operación Guardián
iniciada por el gobierno de
Bill Clinton, que desvió a
cientos de miles de
inmigrantes al vecino
estado de Arizona.
Entre Septiembre de 2004
y Octubre de 2006, Western
Union obedeció una orden de
las autoridades de Arizona y
confiscó millones de dólares
que clientes de 29 estados
trataron de mandarle a sus
familiares y amigos en ese
estado y el estado mexicano
de Sonora. El pretexto era
que la lana se usaba para
pagar “coyotes” en Sonora y
Arizona, que cruzaban
inmigrantes indocumentados
a Estados Unidos, y era parte
de la campaña de reforzar
la frontera.
La cosa es que la
confiscación del dinero no
tenía bases reales caso por
caso, la “sospecha
razonable” que marca la ley,
y ni Western Union se sentía
confortable haciéndolo.
Denunciaron las
confiscaciones como ilegales
e inconstitucionales, porque
ningún estado, dice la
Constitución, puede tomar
“acciones legales sin
fundamentación legal en su
contra”, ni confiscar
propiedades “sin un proceso
legal completo y justificado”,
ni tampoco limitar la “libertad
de realizar transacciones comerciales entre estados e
internacionales”, y
demandaron al Procurador
General de Arizona Terry
Goddard contra las
confiscaciones. Hace 8
meses la Suprema Corte de
Arizona le dio la razón a
Western Union en el caso de
Sonora.
Por otra parte, Western
Union buscó una
organización de inmigrantes,
la Coalición de Derechos de
Inmigrantes y Refugiados de
Illinois, ICIRR, para que
presentara una demanda
de clase, de todos los
afectados, contra el Fiscal de
Arizona.
MARCH 5, 2010
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
New Cartel War Erupts
Frontera NorteSur
A long-simmering conflict
between drug cartels exploded
into violence in the Mexican
state of Tamaulipas bordering
Texas last week. Shoot-outs,
explosions, kidnappings and
reports of large convoys with
armed men freely roaming
streets rattled a broad swath
of the state, especially in the
area stretching from Reynosa
south to Matamoros known as
the “Little Border.”
By Friday, February 26, more
than 16 people were dead and
11 injured, according to Mexican and US officials. However,
based on residents’ accounts
of scores of victims, it’s likely
the official figures are low.
Amid an atmosphere of local
media blackout, isolation and
fear, false stories spread about
high officials kidnapped and
killed.
On Wednesday, February
24, the US Consulate in
Matamoros issued a travel advisory for US citizens in and
around Reynosa. Further, the
US government announced the
temporary closure of the
Reynosa Consular Agency until additional notice. To the
south, Brownsville Police Chief
Carlos Garcia cautioned US
residents who did not have urgent business about crossing
into neighboring Matamoros.
“It’s best not to go,” Garcia
said.
Last week’s violence hampered commerce, border
crossings, school attendance
and other routine activities in
Reynosa, Valle Hermosa,
Miguel Aleman, San Fernando,
Matamoros, and other cities.
By week’s end, the state education department acknowledged that school attendance
had dropped by 60 percent in
several cities.
Panic spread to the state
capital of Ciudad Victoria,
where schools were emptied
by worried parents and businesses shuttered by frightened
owners fearing armed encounters. Jaime Rodriguez
Inur-rigarro, Tamaulipas state
attorney general, later denied
that gun fights had broken out
in the capital city.
Tamaulipas Governor
Eugenio Hernandez Flores
appealed on the population
to ignore Internet-spread rumors he insisted had caused “a
lot of damage in Tamaulipas”
in recent days.
A primary gubernatorial candidate for the National Action
Party, Mexican Senator Jose
Julian Sacramento, had a different take on the situation.
“Tamaulipas is at war, and if
there is no coordination between state and local governments, then the federal
government will have a hard
time waging a frontal attack on
organized crime,” Sacramento
said.
Although clashes were reported between Mexican soldiers and suspected cartel
gunmen, a good deal of the
violence was linked to a conflict between the long-dominant
Gulf Cartel and its former
armed wing, Los Zetas.
Similar in some ways to an
internal corporate power
struggle —in this instance over
the control of a vast enterprise
known as “The Company”—
tensions between the two
groups have been escalating
for more than one year. Besides illegal drug dealing, human trafficking, product piracy,
oil diversions and other lucrative activities are up for grabs.
Currently, US authorities are
seeking the arrests and extraditions of individuals associated
with the leadership of “The
Company.”
In the lead-up to this week’s
widespread fighting, preliminary skirmishes in which civilian vehicles were commandeered to use as street
barricades, broke out February 8 and 19 in Reynosa and
Nuevo Laredo, respectively.
The violence could mean a
new round of bad times for
Nuevo Laredo, which has been
relatively quiet in the past few
years since an underworld pact
largely halted a war that earlier devastated the city. In an
unusual move, Nuevo Laredo
Mayor Ramon Garza Barrios
asked Roman Catholic Bishop
Gustavo Rodriguez Vega for
assistance in calming the
nerves of the local population.
Last week’s violent showdown was practically announced, when the Gulf Cartel, La Familia and other
smaller cartels unveiled narcobanners in several Mexican
states earlier this month announcing an alliance against
Los Zetas. Presumably authored by Los Zetas, narco-banners posted in Tamapaulipas
and four other states this week
sarcastically challenged the
purported alliance.
Other actors may be part of
the latest fray, too. In other
presumed Zetas’ banners
posted in 26 cities across
Mexico last February 11, the
authors blamed alleged Sinaloa
Cartel leader “Chapo” Guzman
for recent atrocities in Ciudad
Juarez and Torreon. The messages also accused Mexico’s
federal government of protecting Guzman.
As last week’s fighting un-
folded, reports surfaced that
members of Michoacan’s La
Familia drug cartel were sent
to Tamaulipas to reinforce their
allies in the Gulf Cartel.
In Tamaulipas, the consequences of years of press intimidation by organized crime
and government officials, the
murders of reporters, official
inaction in prosecuting attacks
against journalists and media
self-censorship were evident
this week as local residents had
little solid information from local news sources about what
was happening on the street.
Conversely, Mexican national
and US border news outlets
provided better information
about the local situation.
But the big news development came from civil society.
For better or worse, Tamaulipas residents turned to social
networks like Twitter and
Facebook. A writer on Twitter
complained the circumstances
in his hometown were almost
like Somalia.
The websites of national
media organizations quickly
became forums for writers
claiming to be from Tamaulipas. Many messages
harshly criticized government
officials for downplaying conditions on the ground, and
some even provided details of
the emerging situation.
Posting on the La Jornada
website, Manuel Garcia credited social media for keeping
the population of Reynosa informed.
Garcia wrote: “Hasn’t (Reynosa’s mayor) ever seen the
vehicles that drive in broad
daylight with CDG (Gulf Cartel) or XX initials? The checkpoints that these men install at
the entrances and exits to the
city? The pickups with armed
men, sometimes escorted by
the municipal police?”
On El Universal’s site, a
woman identifying herself as
Martha from Tamaulipas
wrote that the shooting had
spread to the coastal area of
Tampico-Madero.
The latest outbreak of violence coincided with the February 25 sentencing of former
Gulf Cartel kingpin Osiel
Cardenas Guillen on drug trafficking charges in a Texas federal court. Observers were
surprised by Cardenas’s 25year sentence, which was considered relatively light in view
of the charges against the defendant. Important Texas media outlets blasted the decision
of Judge Hilda Tagle to bar the
public from the proceedings
and permanently seal the trial
records.
Like violence-torn Chihuahua to the north, the narco-war
in Tamaulipas occurs in a state
election year for governor and
other officials. Another important parallel could be drawn
between the situation in
Tamaulipas and the one in
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. In
both instances, major incidents
of “spill-over” violence have
yet to materialize on the US
side. Several Texas law enforcement agencies reportedly
mobilized their forces this
week to monitor any potential
threats to US territory.
In response to the Tamaulipas trouble, the Mexican navy
dispatched marines to hot spots
like Reynosa. As in the states
of Guerrero and Morelos far
to the south, the marines are
increasingly used to carry out
tasks formerly the domain of
the army.
(see New Cartel, page 5)
Al gato y al ratón pero en el mar:
Las nuevas rutas del narco hacia California
Mariana Martínez
El decomiso record de 15
toneladas de marihuana, fueron
realizado por el ejército en Baja
California, en un cargamento
de galletas “Marías”. Apenas
el 7 de febrero se había presentado un decomiso de 12
toneladas de marihuana, en la
misma zona de “El Chinero”,
sumando las casi 30 toneladas
de marihuana en menos de un
mes.
Pero lo que llama la atención
no es solo la cantidad, —la más
…Y salir Trasquilado
grande de la historia de Baja
Donde el caso se vuelve
California— sino su rumbo: la
terriblemente extravagante,
marihuana no iba hacia el
es porque hace un par de
norte, sino tenía como destino
semanas Western Union
al puerto de Ensenada, poanunció un “acuerdo” con
niendo en evidencia la creArizona, según el cual le
ciente tendencia de tráfico de
drogas por vía marítima.
(vea Ir Por Lana, página 5)
El comandante de la segunda
zona militar, Alfonso Duarte
Mujica, anunció que el
La Prensa San Diego
651-C Third Avenue
cuantioso decomiso, que fue
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realizado durante una insPh: (619) 425-7400
pección de rutina, en un retén
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militar ubicado en la carretera
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: www.laprensa-sandiego.org federal 3 en el tramo El Chinero-Ensenada.
Duarte Mujica dijo que el
cargamento contaba con sellos
gubernamentales apócrifos y la
droga no estaba escondida con
pisos falsos u otros objetos,
Founded: December 1, 1976
sino una pequeña cantidad de
San Diego, California
cajas de las populares galletas
Founder/Publisher:
Marías, equivalentes a las galletas “de animalitos” en los
Daniel L. Muñoz
Estados Unidos.
Editor:
El cargamento se dirigía
Daniel H. Muñoz, Jr.
desde Mexicali a Ensenada por
La Prensa San Diego was adjudicated a la ruta Mexicali- San Felipenewspaper of general circulation for the City Ensenada, lo que apunta a que
and County of San Diego, Fourth Judicial District
of the Municipal Court of San Diego. File la droga podría ser destinada a
#4137435 of May 9, 1978.
traficarse por mar a Estados
Press releases, photos, and advertisements are Unidos.
accepted. Submit by mail, fax or email. La
“Ya adoptamos medidas para
Prensa San Diego reserves the right to accept
que, si esta droga fuera trasor reject material sent.
ladada vía marítima” dijo
La Prensa San Diego
Duarte, “por ello ya se haya
is a wholly owned subsidary of
La Prensa Muñoz, Inc.
puesto otro filtro [militar] y
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labores de coordinación para
que sean autoridades navales
los que lleven a cabo la revisión
de los transportes que llegan
al puerto para su salida para el
vecino país del norte”.
Duarte dijo no saber a qué
organización criminal pertenece el cargamento ya que
esta droga todavía no ha sido
puesta a disposición de la PGR
para continuar la investigación,
pero detalló que la droga tiene
un valor estimado en el mercado es de 231 millones de
pesos mexicanos o 18 millones
de dólares americanos.
El trasporte, resguardado en
el cuartel militar en Tijuana,
tiene una leyenda arriba de la
cabina del tráiler se lee “Localización Satelital 24 horas”.
Los paquetes de droga envueltos en cinta canela y
envoltura plástica estaban
marcados con distintos nombres o apodos de los presuntos
destinatarios: Virus, Flor, Vaca,
H-5, L-V y los números 9 y 8.
El chofer detenido, Mario
López Castro, de 34 años de
edad, originario de Guaymas,
Sonora dijo a las autoridades
vivir en Mexicali, donde había
sido contactado para realizar
un viaje de Mexicali a San
Felipe y Ensenada, por el cual
le habían ofrecido 50 mil pesos por el viaje.
Vicente Sánchez Munguía,
Investigador del Departamento
de Estudios de Administración
Pública del Colegio de la
Frontera Norte (COLEF)
considera que aunque la
información sobre las nuevas
tendencias es bastante limitada, —debido a que la
autoridad federal es opaca
al respecto—, si se puede
adivinar una búsqueda de
nuevas rutas de trasiego de
drogas.
“Desde hace al menos cinco
años atrás se tienen datos de
desembarcos en la zona de
San Felipe y esos rumbos,
aunque no salga en la prensa,
alto golfo es una zona de
desembargo y trasiego que
combina marítimo con terrestre dada la cercanía de la zona
de Sonora” dijo el investigador,
“es sabido de mucha gente de
pesca e investigadores ambientales que es común que la
droga sea tirada por avionetas
hacia el mar y recogida por
lanchas”.
Pero lo nuevo no es lo que
sucede al sur de la península,
ni siquiera el uso de botes
de alta velocidad, que son
interceptados en aguas internacionales por marinos
mexicanos y la guardia costera
de EU sino la posible utilización
de grandes barcos de carga
que llegan directamente a
puertos de alto trafico como
Los Ángeles y Long Beach.
Con esto, el narco parece
estar emulando las técnicas
utilizadas para introducir efedrina a México y corrompiendo
a autoridades de aduanas en
zonas costeras.
“La efedrina que entra en
México, que es una droga base
para las meta-anfetaminas, se
ha encontrado en los puertos
de Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, así que
tiene sentido usar este antecedente. La revisión es más
aleatoria en los contenedores
y si se suma a un contacto hay
más éxito, del nuevo juego que
se podría estar ensayando”.
Megan’s
Law
“A sex offenders criminal
record is available to the general public in courthouses. The
point of the law is community
protection and it does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s expost facto provisions,” Tribe
said in a May 3, 1995 article
for the New York Times.
Elizabeth Schroeder, former
associate director of the
American Civil Liberties Union
of Southern California said
that at some point we have to
have a notion that punishment
is over.
“What these public notification laws do is place a big scarlet letter over someone’s
chest,” said Schroeder during
a 1999 interview. “The whole
notion of rehabilitation has been
lost in this country, particularly
for sex offenders.”
And the attorney for Megan
Kanka’s family warns that no
law can supplant the vigilance
of parents and responsible
adults to protect children.
“Pedophiles seek unwatched
children. It is important that
parents take responsibility
about their children’s whereabouts,” said New York attorney Geoffrey S. Berman in
1994, who represented the
family of Megan Kanka. “The
danger of even the most stringent sexual offender laws are
that they lull people into a false
sense of security.”
The cat and mouse
(con’t from page 1)
“The legislature has probably
never considered the issue of
registering repeat non-sexual
violent offenders,” says Allen.
“There isn’t the type of advocacy and lobbying groups for
non-sexual violence as there
are for the other areas of
crime.”
Arguments that Megan’s
Law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Ex-Post-Facto rules of
additional punishments for
those who have already been
sentenced, have met with deaf
ears. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit upheld
Megan’s Law on Feb. 23,
1998.
The Court stated that Megan’s Law could not be considered additional punishment,
because the state was imposing no restrictions on a person’s
ability to live and work in a
community, to move from place
to place, to obtain a professional license or to secure governmental benefits.
According to Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, the law
gives practical effect to what
is already theoretically in
place.
(con’t from page 1)
What’s new is not what’s
happening south of the Peninsula, not even the use of speedboats commonly stopped by
both Mexican Marines and US
Coast Guards, what’s new is
the possibility of traffic trough
cargo ships going directly to
high traffic ports like LA or
Long Beach.
With this, Baja narcos appear to have learned techniques used to smuggle ephedrine into Mexico and aiming
to corrupt port authority officials due to closing doors in
other federal agencies.
“Ephedrine coming into
Mexico, —a base for metaamphetamine production—has
been found in the ports of
Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, so it makes
sense that they would use this
as a possible route; scrutiny is
less likely compared with by
land and if you mix that with
corruption success rates might
be higher, this might definitely
be a new game they are trying
out.”
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
MARCH 5, 2010
Minority Groups More Open to Taxation to
Fix California Budget Gap
By Annette Fuentes
NEW AMERICA MEDIA,
California’s looming $20-billion budget hole should be fixed
by slashing spending, say voters in a new multilingual Field
Poll survey on state government.
But taxation as part of the
solution found more favor
among the state’s diverse
populations of Asians, Latinos
and African Americans. They
were more likely to prefer a
mix of spending cuts and taxation as a way to shrink the deficit.
The aim of the poll, which
was co-sponsored by several
policy institutes, was to gauge
public views on governmental
reform at a time when various
proposals have been floated.
While an effort to put before
voters a ballot initiative to call
a constitutional convention has
faltered, other reform proposals are still active.
The poll also asked its respondents whether the state constitution should be changed, in
particular the rule requiring a
two-thirds majority to pass a
budget and the simple majority
required to amend the constitution.
While an overwhelming majority of voters of all ethnic and
racial groups report dissatisfaction with how state government
works for them, most felt that
the solution was for legislators
to work together, not to change
the way government works.
But there were significant
differences among voters
along ethnic and racial lines.
Among Asians, there were
some differences based on
ethnicity. Chinese Americans,
for example, were less supportive of taxation as a strategy to raise revenues and close
the budget gap than other Asian
groups, and more supportive of
spending cuts. Thirty-five percent said spending cuts alone
were the way to go, with just
nine percent choosing mostly
taxation and some spending
cuts.
Korean Americans, on the
other hand, leaned toward taxation, with 52 percent supporting
solutions that included at least
half tax increases with spending cuts. Their attitudes on the
budget fixes were comparable
to those of African Americans,
49 percent of whom favored
solutions that were also based
at least half upon tax increases.
For Latinos, that number was
46 percent, reflecting a greater
reluctance to cut spending on
government programs and services.
Perhaps the most notable difference was revealed in the
survey question about the idea
of eliminating the two-thirds
requirement for budget votes.
Many reform advocates
believe that gridlock in Sacramento is owed in large
measure to that rule because it allows one party to
block budget changes with a
minority vote. Although a minority in the Legislature, Republicans wield the power to
veto any spending proposal.
While the poll results found
that just 43 percent of voters
surveyed thought the twothirds rule should be changed
to a simple majority rule on
budget votes, the idea found
greatest favor among African
Americans. By 63 percent they
liked that idea, complementing
their views that also favored
taxation with spending cuts as
a way to tame the deficit.
Survey findings also revealed
significant differences between
respondents who were questioned in English and those
questioned in their native language. The Field Poll surveyed
sub-samples of voters in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese,
Korean and Spanish. Those
who responded in their native
language were two to three
times more likely to be uncertain about how they view the
state government and the proposals to change government
than English speakers.
The poll surveyed more than
1,200 registered voters by telephone and included samples of
voters from the different ethnic subgroups. It was co-sponsored by Next 10, a nonprofit
policy group in San Francisco;
Stanford University’s Bill Lane
Center for the American West;
UC Berkeley’s Institute of
Governmental Studies; and
Sacramento State’s Center for
California Studies.
PAGE 3
It’s Time to End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
By Louis Caldera and
Chris Contreras
On March 11, 2003 Staff
Sergeant Eric Alva, a proud
Latino and a proud Marine who
led a crew of 11 in Iraq, stepped
on a landmine, which caused
him to lose his leg. He was the
first American injured in Iraq
and he was awarded the Purple
Heart for his service to our
country. Staff Sgt. Alva is also
gay.
The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
ban on openly gay men and
women in the military forced
Staff Sgt. Alva to hide a part
of his identity throughout his
military service. After his service, he began to speak out
about his identity and how
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has kept
talented and committed men
and women from serving our
country with integrity.
Nearly 14,000 gay and lesbian service men and women
have been discharged from
military service since 1993.
And Defense Department statistics show that Hispanic
servicemembers were 1.4
times more likely to be dismissed under Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell than their non-Hispanic
peers in 2008.
Women face an even more
disproportionate effect of this
policy. Although only 14 per-
cent of servicemembers are
women, they made up 30 percent of 2008 Don’t Ask Don’t
Tell discharges. The numbers
are even worse in the Army,
where 36 percent of DADT
discharges were women, despite the fact that they make
up 14 percent of soldiers.
Military service does not only
represent a strong commitment
to our country. It also offers a
path to the middle class for
many families. The educational
opportunities through the GI Bill
and skills learned in military
service can be helpful to jobseekers in this time of 12.6
percent unemployment in the
Latino community.
The military has also served
as a path to citizenship for
many foreign-born Americans.
Over 10,000 men and women
served their country and
earned their citizenship in 2009
alone.
The “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
policy closes off all of these
opportunities to gays and lesbians of all races, without regard for their ability to serve
their country. They cannot try
to advance themselves and
their families.
The Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael
Mullen, testified on February
2 to his “personal belief” that
allowing gay and lesbians to
serve openly is “the right thing
to do.” He also revealed that
he and “[e]verybody in the
military” have served with
gays and lesbians “and we understand that.”
Staff Sgt. Alva experienced
this, as well. Many of his fellow Marines did not treat his
sexual orientation as a big deal.
Our men and women in uniform understand that in the
midst of combat, sexual orientation is not important. It’s
whether or not you can do your
job that counts.
And that is the most important argument for an end to the
“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” ban.
Our country is in the midst of
two active wars, and we need
every volunteer that can help
the military complete the mission without being excluded,
whether on the basis of race,
ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Louis Caldera is a Senior
Fellow at the Center for
American Progress and was
the Secretary of the Army
under President Clinton’s
administration. Chris
Contreras is an intern at the
Center for American
Progress. Reprinted from
Latinovations (http://blog.
latinovations.com/)
SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL 5th ANNUAL MARIACHI SHOWCASE
featuring Special Guest JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
March 12, 2010 at Balboa Theatre
San Diego High School’s 5th Annual Mariachi Conference
PHONE: 619-993-5778
FAX: 619-286-2231
founded by Serafin Paredes, Music Director of San Diego High School and Mariachi
Juvenil de San Diego.
The conference’s mission is to expand students’ skills and knowledge specific to
mariachi music by providing them the opportunity to perform in a formal concert.
Special guest Javier Rodriguez began his musical studies at age 8 and a few years later
started developing his talents as a trumpet player. During his studies at university, he
was a member of the Mariachi Los Toritos de Ramon Ibarra as well as other
orchestras. Mr. Rodriguez is currently a member of the Mariachis Los Camperos de
Nati Cano.
$20.00 General Admission. Call 619-570-1100 for more information.
Tú puedes hacer progresar
tu comunidad en unos 10 minutos.
Contestando 10 simples preguntas para el Censo ayudarás a que tu comunidad reciba los fondos que
necesita para mejorar infraestructuras, escuelas y hospitales. Y tranquilo, la ley federal protege tus
respuestas. El formulario llegará en marzo y estará disponible en español.
Visita 2010CENSUS.GOV
PARA PROGRESAR LO TENEMOS QUE ENVIAR.
Pagado por la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos.
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MARCH 5, 2010
Community Notes:
Our Forum for Chula
Vista’s 1st Ever Elected City
Attorney Candidates
When: March 8th, 6:00pm to
7:30pm
Where: Civic Center Library
Auditorium,
370 ‘F’ Street, corner of 4th
and ‘F’ Street
Northwest Civic Association
will present a Chula Vista City
Attorney Candidate Forum on
Monday March 8th at 6 p.m.
at the Chula Vista Civic Center Library Auditorium (4th
Ave. & F St.). Candidates
committed to attend are Joseph
Casas and Glen Googins. In
June 2010 Chula Vista voters
will have the opportunity to vote
for the city’s first elected City
Attorney. The event is free &
everyone is welcome. For information: (619) 307-3460 or
www.northwestchulavista.org.
Chicano Park to Celebrate
40TH Anniversary on
Saturday, April 24
The 40th annual Chicano
Park Day will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:00 am
to 5:00 pm, in historic Chicano
Park, located in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego.
Established by Chicano activists on April 22, 1970, Chicano Park has received international recognition as a major
public art site for its commanding mural paintings of the past
and present struggle of Mexican and Chicano history.
For further information, call
(619) 563-4661, or visit us on
the web at: www.chicanopark.org
The RecruitMilitary
Opportunity Expo will take
place on Thursday, March
11, 2010
Qualcomm Stadium (Home of
the San Diego Chargers)
9449 Friars Rd - San Diego,
CA 92108
11AM to 3PM
The Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2008
has been instituted, and veterans are actively seeking educational opportunities with
which to leverage these enhanced GI Bill benefits. The
¡NO SE DEJE!
Por Lic. Jess J. Araujo
upcoming RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expo in San Diego,
sponsored by Virginia College
and the Golf Academy of
America will be a great chance
for veterans to connect with representatives from institutions
that specialize in a wide range
of career interests: The Golf
Academy of America, Virginia
College, DeVry University, ITT
Technical Institute, New York
Film Academy, Grand Canyon
University, The Art Institutes,
and more.
In addition, veterans looking for employment will be
able to interview with an all-star
team of National, Regional, &
Local employers such as General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Home Depot,
Northrop Grum-man, Schlumberger, Southern California
Edison Co., Arizona Public Service Company, Military Sealift
Command, TSA Transportation
Security Administration, U.S.
Customs & Border Protection,
U.S. Department of State, U.S.
Secret Service, Walgreens, and
more!
National City Council
Working Meeting- General
Plan Update
City Council Chambers
1243 National City Boulevard
National City, CA 91950
This will be an introduction
and overview of the General
Plan Update, consultants and
their roles, the vision and guiding principles, and results of
public input received so far.
March 30th – This will be
an overview of the following
elements: Land Use/Community Character, Circulation, and
Housing. This meeting will also
include an introduction to the
approach to the Land Use Code.
April 27th – This will be a
joint meeting with the school
board. Topics to cover include
Open Space/Agriculture, Conservation/Sustainability, and
Education. This meeting will
also include an introduction to
the Climate Action Plan.
May 25th – Topics to cover
during this meeting include
Safety, Noise and Nuisance,
and Health and Environmental
Justice. (Budget and CIP will
be discussed during the first
hour – the GPU topics during
the 2nd hour.)
June 22nd – This meeting
will include a discussion about
implementation and monitoring.
We will talk about Neighborhood Action Plans, the Land
Use Code, Climate Action
Plan, and indicators. It is also
anticipated that the next group
of fellows will be introduced at
this meeting. They will be in
charge of organizing the neighborhood action committees and
reviewing/revising the Neighborhood Action Plans based on
the community’s implementation priorities.
Learn Why Your Life Story
Is An Important Part of History
You might not think your life
story has the makings of a
bestseller, but sharing it provides an important link to the
history of your family and community. The County of San
Diego Library is hosting a conference offering tips and
hands-on demonstrations to
teach people how to document
their lives.
The Oral History Conference is Saturday, March 6,
from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
San Marcos Senior Center at
111 West Richmar Avenue. The
event is hosted in partnership
with California State University San Marcos National
Latino Research Center. Highlights include:
• Keynote speaker Victor
Villaseñor, author of the bestseller “Rain of Gold,” which
shared his family’s story from
war-torn Mexico during the
Revolution through present day
• Writing workshop by Los
Bilingual Writers, a local nonprofit literary organization that
mentors young creative writers and encourages seniors to
tell their stories.
• Photography workshop
• Digital story stations, showing how to incorporate various
types of media
The event is free and includes lunch. Free child care
is also available. It is part of
the County Library’s Big Read,
encouraging people to read and
attend programs related to
“Grapes of Wrath.”
To register, contact Ana
Ardón at (760) 750-3505 or
[email protected].
Census Takers Begin Hand Delivering 2010 Census
Questionnaires to 12 Million U.S. Addresses
About 56,000 census workers today began hand delivering 2010 Census questionnaires
to roughly 12 million addresses
across the nation, mostly in rural areas where people do not
receive mail at the same location as their residence. Most
of nation’s 120 million households, about 90 percent of the
U.S. population, should look for
their 10-question forms to arrive by mail mid-March.
Residents are encouraged to
fill out and mail back their census forms — using the enclosed pre-paid envelope — as
soon as possible.
“Regardless of whether your
census form gets dropped off
at your front door or you receive it within a few weeks in
your mailbox, it’s important that
you fill it out and mail it back
as soon as possible,” said Census Bureau Director Robert M.
Groves. “With only 10 questions, the 2010 Census should
only take about 10 minutes to
complete.”
In 2000, about 72 percent of
the population mailed back their
census forms — halting a
three-decade decline in the national mail participation rate.
Mailing back the forms save
taxpayers money, as it reduces
the number of census takers
that must go door-to-door to
follow up with households that
failed to do so. The Census
Bureau saves about $85 million
in operational costs for every
percentage point increase in the
national mail response rate.
“It costs us just 42 cents in a
postage paid envelope when
households mail back their
2010 Census forms,” Groves
said. “The Census Bureau will
spend about $25 per person if
we have to go out and knock
on the doors of households that
don’t mail them back.”
All census responses are
confidential. The Census Bu-
reau takes extreme measures
to protect the identity of individuals and businesses. By law,
the Census Bureau cannot
share respondents’ individually
identifiable answers with anyone, including tribal housing
authorities, other federal agencies and law enforcement entities.
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sday
83rd Annual
Venta de prendas usadas
Sáb. 13 de Marzo y Dom. 14 de Marzo
9 a.m.
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
10 a.m.
Balboa P
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k Activity Center
Par
ark
(Cerca de Veteranos Museum y Park Blvd. en President’s Way)
Entrada y Estacionamineto Gratis
¡Grandes ofertas de mercancia
nueva y usada!
La venta más grande de artículos
usados en San Diego
Beneficia a 15 agencias locales de caridad
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Presidente Obama Cancela Ley de
Trabajo Anti-Immigrante de Bush
Las leyes de Inmigración de
Estados Unidos permiten que
los agricultores contraten
trabajadores temporales
agrícolas de otros países. La
mayoría de estos trabajadores
son Latinos y la mayoría de
ellos son de México. Estas
leyes fueron aprobadas para
asegurar que los granjeros
Americanos puedan encontrar
y emplear suficientes trabajadores para sembrar, cultivar
y recoger sus cosechas prontamente. Los trabajadores
extranjeros son permitidos
porque los granjeros insisten
que no pueden encontrar
suficientes trabajadores locales
que estén dispuestos a hacer
estas tareas. De hecho, los
granjeros deben mostrar que
han intentado encontrar
trabajadores locales antes que
se les permita contratar trabajadores agrícolas temporales
extranjeros.
La ley también contiene
regulaciones para garantizar
que estos trabajadores reciban
al menos el salario mínimo
apropiado para esa industria y
por su localización. Los patrones también tienen requerido
proveer condiciones de trabajo
seguras e higiénicas así como
agua fresca e instalaciones
sanitarias. Los trabajadores
agrícolas y organizaciones que
los apoyan se quejan rutinariamente que los granjeros y los
contratistas violan frecuentemente esas leyes laborales y
explotan a los trabajadores
extranjeros. Dicen que los
cultivadores lo hacen porque
saben que los trabajadores
extranjeros no denuncian las
violaciones por temor a perder
sus trabajos.
Estas leyes de protección al
trabajador agrícola han estado
en efecto por décadas para
reducir los abusos y para
castigar a los granjeros y
agricultores que no cumplen.
El 17 de Enero de 2009, solo 3
días antes de dejar la presidencia, George W. Bush
firmó una nueva ley que
quitaba muchas de las más
importantes protecciones para
los trabajadores agrícolas.
Como resultado los granjeros
y agricultores podrían pagarles
a los trabajadores agrícolas
tanto como $2.00 menos por
hora. El Presidente Obama y
su Secretaria de Trabajo, Hilda
Solís han reinstalado las leyes
de protección al salario y al
trabajador que George Bush
quitó en los días finales de su
presidencia.
Los Mayores Beneficios
Provistos Bajo el Programa de
Obama de Trabajadores
Extranjeros Incluyen:
• Exige a los patrones que
paguen los máximos niveles
previos de salarios mínimos;
• Prohíbe a los patrones
utilizar deducciones inapropiadas de los salarios para
evitar pagar el mínimo legal;
• Exige a los patrones que
reembolsen a los trabajadores
extranjeros el costo de sus visas y el viaje de sus casas al
lugar de trabajo del patrón
(Bush había cambiado esta ley
para exigirle a los patrones que
solo pagaran los costos de viaje
de la embajada de EE.UU en
el país del trabajador);
• Inspección obligatoria de
las instalaciones de alojamiento
de empleados en el tiempo que
el trabajador obtenga su visa
para garantizar que estas son
seguras e higiénicas;
• Los patrones deben revelar
los términos del empleo de
trabajadores extranjeros, en
lenguaje entendible, antes de
obtener sus visas;
• Los Contratistas de Labores Agrícolas deben proveer
una fianza de cumplimiento que
les pagará a los trabajadores
agrícolas el dinero que les es
adeudado si el Contratista se
marcha sin pagarles;
• Los Contratistas de Labores Agrícolas deben proveerles
a los trabajadores agrícolas los
nombres y direcciones de los
Cultivadores, los lugares donde
trabajarán, y las fechas de tal
empleo.
Esta última regla es extremadamente importante. El
Gobernador Schwarzenegger
de California vetó una ley similar el año pasado. Sin esta ley,
los trabajadores agrícolas y sus
abogados no pueden saber a
quien demandar por salarios
adeudados. Como podemos
ver, realmente sí importa quién
está en la Casa Blanca. ¡No
Se Deje!
El Lic. Araujo es experto
comentarista sobre asuntos legales.
Su bufete se especializa en la
representación de personas
lesionadas en accidentes de trabajo
y en general. Puede comunicarse
con el Lic. Araujo al 1-800-248-4100
Web Site: http://www.jessaraujo.com
You share a family name.
A history.
A healthcare center.
Wherever you are in life, we’re here for you.
Whether you need cervical cancer screening, birth control, or information
about preventing sexually transmitted infections, Planned Parenthood is
here for you offering low- and no-cost services through 14 centers in San
Diego County.
For the center nearest you, visit www.planned.org or call 1-888-743-PLAN.
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
MARCH 5, 2010
Inicia el Artista Enrique Chiu Nuevo Mural
Frente al Parque de la Amistad en Otay
Inauguran
Exposición
(con’t de página 1)
México y el Consulado de
México en San Diego.
Añadió que con la presentación en San Diego de Viva
México, héroes y artesanos
inicia un programa de exhibiciones itinerantes que
continuará en Los Ángeles,
California, para trasladarse
luego a otras ciudades estadounidenses.
La exposición, cuyo propósito
es, entre otros, mostrar cómo
los artesanos mexicanos alimentan la memoria histórica del
país y la proyectan más allá de
su tiempo y espacio, ampliará
el rango de difusión de la
artesanía mexicana, lo que
permitirá ratificar el prestigio
internacional alcanzado por la
maestría de sus piezas, la
imaginación de sus diseños y el
colorido de sus acabados.
La exposición presenta las
piezas catalogadas en tres
rubros principales. El primero,
titulado A la búsqueda de la
New Cartel
Wars
(con’t from page 2)
The growing tend of employing navy personnel as the favored front-line fighters in the
drug war was reinforced this
week with the appointment of
Captain Hector Garcia Aguirre
as the new head of the federal
attorney general’s office
(PGR) in Ciudad Juarez. A lawyer by training and a veteran
of previous civilian law en-
LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones
de Hispanos
Por Anjanette Delgado
El Secreto
Por: Paco Zavala
Estamos a punto de poder
admirar el trabajo pictórico del
artista tapatío Enrique Chiu,
“una muestra de colores”, un
nuevo mural frente al Parque
de la Amistad. Es un trabajo
de grandes proporciones que
se está realizando en Blvd,
Otay Constituyentes, Plaza de
la Amistad No. 7505, frente al
Parque de la Amistad, por la
Zona de Otay en Tijuana,
promovido por la Fundación
Nacional de Artistas Independientes.
Esta nueva muestra de la
capacidad de Enrique Chiu, inició
el pasado 19 de febrero y
terminará el próximo 10 de
marzo, fecha de la inauguración.
El artista y Licenciado Enrique Chiu, nació en la Perla
Tapatía, estudió Diseño, Artes
Audiovisuales y una Licenciatura en Derecho en su tierra
natal, posteriormente se traslada a Los Angeles, CA. y ahí
estudia: Diseño Gráfico, Arte,
Pintura, Fotografía, Electricidad, Soldadura, Mercadeo y Negocios, en distintas
escuelas de Long Beach y
Santa Ana, CA., sitios en
donde radicó por más de 15
años.
En el medio Latino, Enrique
Chiu, representa una fuerte
figura, además es un activo
promotor al sur de California,
Argentina, México, El Salvador, Perú, España y Medio
Oriente.
Cuenta en su haber con
importantes representaciones,
tales como: Director de Arte
del CID Gallery en el Distrito
de Arte de Long Beach, Ca.
Desde 2003; Fundador de la
Fundación Nacional de Artistas Independientes (NFIA)
desde 2006, organización
donde colaboran más de 30
artistas locales; Coordinador
de Galerías del Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de
Tijuana, encargado de Coordinar las exposiciones y artistas
en las Casas de Cultura de-
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Trabajo pictórico del artista tapatío Enrique Chiu, “una
muestra de colores”, un nuevo mural frente al Parque de
la Amistad.
pendientes de esta institución.
Además coordina eventos en
varias ciudades del estado de
Baja California.
Su trabajo ha sido exhibido
en varias ciudades de la Unión
Americana, ha participado en
varias exposiciones colectivas,
compartidas e individuales en
varios países del mundo.
Algunas de sus pinturas se
exhiben permanentemente en
diversos museos del mundo, su
trabajo ha sido exhibido en más
de 280 exposiciones.
Sin duda alguna Enrique Chiu
es un exitoso artista mexicano,
premiado y galardonado por
muchas instituciones y medios
de comunicación.
Se nos está comunicando
que los trabajos de Enrique
Chiu, participarán en: La Casa
del Té, en la colonia Cacho de
Tijuana, el 12 de marzo, en una
exposición colectiva con las
universidades, desde las 3:00
pm., el 13 de marzo en la Casa
de Cultura de Zamora, Miidentidad, recoge el papel del
artesano como cronista de
sucesos históricos, de los
cuales tiene noticia a través de
la tradición oral, y que en este
caso se relacionan con personajes, símbolos y episodios
de la lucha por la Independencia y la Revolución
Mexicana. Destaca en este
punto la reelaboración del escudo nacional como símbolo de
identidad, que los artesanos
mexicanos han confeccionado
con diversos materiales y en
distintas etapas históricas, cuya
evolución se muestra en la
exposición.
Un segundo rubro, denominado “Vida y uso cotidiano”,
agrupa objetos de hoja de lata,
y ejemplos de cerámica y
alfarería, cuya calidad es proverbial en varias regiones de
México. Estas piezas muestran
las relaciones entre los objetos
y su uso en la vida diaria de las
comunidades donde tienen
origen.
Finalmente, el rubro “Religiosidad, fiestas y ritos” recoge
el vasto universo de objetos en
los que se expresa el espíritu
religioso del pueblo mexicano.
forcement functions, Garcia
was sworn in at a February 26
ceremony attended by former
senator and current PGR official Francisco Javier Molina
Ruiz in Ciudad Juarez.
Coming at a time when the
Calderon administration has
pledged to invest major resources in restoring order to
Ciudad Juarez, the Tamaulipas
violence represents a serious
challenge to the Mexican state.
Indeed, given the potential of
the fighting to rapidly expand
and engulf other states, the
Calderon administration once
again faces the prospect of
choacán, en Exposición
Tríptico de Enrique Chiu y el
lunes 15 de Marzo en el Centro
de la Cultura de Morelia, Mich.
Aprovechando la nota
Enrique nos comentó, que para
celebrar el mes de la mujer en
la Ciudad de Tecate, habrá un
colectivo promovido por la
National Foundation of Independent Artists (NFIA) y
Centro de Cultura de Tecate
(Cecutec), que se llamará
“Mujer con corazón” con la
participación de: Daniela de
la Puente, Bibiana Vega,
Marina Alaníz, Celia Ríos,
Selene Vázquez, Araceli
Soliano, Guillermina Casas,
Cuata Grosso, Margarita
Guadana, María E. Rodríguez, Norma Michel, Rocío
González, Ale Barahona,
Karla Barrera, Vivian Mireles y Elba Rhoads.
Enrique Chiu, es un artista,
Licencaido en Derecho y un
activo y dinámico promotor
cultural.
¿Puedes guardar un secreto? No, no. No contestes
automáticamente.
Si tuvieras que hacerlo,
¿podrías guardar un secreto del
tamaño de una isla? ¿Un
secreto de proporciones históricas, internacionales y, sobre
todo, familiares?
Si eres periodista, lo más
probable es que la respuesta
sea un rotundo “no”. De hecho,
si eres periodista, guardar un
gran secreto va en contra de
la fibra misma de lo que
comenzó como una profesión
y terminó siendo tu sacerdocio.
Pero cuando Juanita Castro,
la hermana exiliada del
gobernante cubano Fidel
Castro, le confió a la periodista
mexicana María Antonieta
Collins su intención de plasmar
en papel sus memorias y le
pidió, no sólo su ayuda, sino
también su discreción, esa fue
exactamente la pregunta que
Collins, “Colinche”, o sencillamente MAC, como la
conocen sus allegados, tuvo
que contestar.
La respuesta fue un rotundo
sí y el resultado de más de diez
años de colaboración entre
estas dos mujeres fuertes,
Anjanette Delgado
bargo, tan conocidos que son
íconos de la conciencia global,)
y confiesa la desgarradora
cadena de despedidas que
trazaron su vida convirtiéndola
en una secuencia compuesta
del antes y el después. Antes
y después de la muerte de su
madre. Antes y después de La
Revolución Cubana. Antes y
después de su exilio en Miami.
Como último gesto de amor
a su isla, Castro hace un
llamado urgente y sorpresivo
a sus gobernantes en pro de
un cambio hacia la democracia,
o por lo menos hacia la libertad
de expresión. Un derecho que
ella ejerce en Mis hermanos:
Fidel y Raúl para beneficio de
lectores, historiadores, comentaristas, periodistas, y
todos aquellos cuya información, sino abiertamente
incorrecta, careció durante
décadas de una perspectiva
vivida, sufrida… o real.
Mis hermanos: Fidel y
Raul, Juanita Castro. (Aguilar, 2009).
A Special Appeal From Edward James Olmos Regarding Jaime Escalante
Anyone who has seen
“Stand and Deliver” knows
how much Jaime Escalante
(Kimo) has done for this country. The love and dedication he
gave to his inner city students,
and his unfailing conviction that
every one of them was
“gifted,” brought out talent that
had been untapped - and unseen - by other teachers.
The genius that he awakened
in the “unteachable” commanded the attention of the
entire world. It caused countless educators to reconsider
what their students might really be capable of if, like Kimo,
they could awaken the “ganas”
(desire) in them.
Jaime didn’t just teach math.
Se compone de una colección
Like
all great teachers, he
de árboles de la vida, estatuillas
changed
lives. Gang members
y máscaras que en conjunto
confirman que mucho del arte
popular está relacionado con la
religiosidad, las fiestas tradicionales y los ritos ancestrales
prevalecientes en las comu- (con’t de página 2)
nidades, y que son producto del
sincretismo, el simbolismo paga 94 millones de dólares
prehispánico y otros procesos al estado. El Procurador
culturales que quedan plas- Terry Goddard, ahora
mados en piezas de gran candidato a gobernador, se
imaginación, colorido y refi- declara feliz y dice que usará
la mayoría del dinero para
namiento.
Con Viva México, héroes reforzar aún más la vigilancia
y artesanos, el CECUT busca fronteriza. Más aún, le
difundir el arte popular declara al New York Times
mexicano y poner de relieve las que “reanudará las
características más apre- confiscaciones”.
Del dinero confiscado
ciables del trabajo artesanal, en
originalmente
a cientos de
el que se ponen de manifiesto
miles
de
inmigrantes,
ni una
tanto el simbolismo, como la
palabra.
Como
quien
dice,
no
historia y la cultura del
solo
se
les
confiscó
su
lana
sustrato profundo de nuestro
ilegalmente sino que además
país.
La exposición está abierta al se va a usar para pagar más
público en el Museo Mingei, vigilancia fronteriza. Western
localizado en el número 1439 Union dice que su lana está
de la avenida El Prado, en el incluida en lo que pagará a
área del Parque Balboa, a un Arizona, y se echó para atrás
costado del Museo del Hom- en su promesa de entregar
declaraciones juramentadas
bre de San Diego.
de sus abogados sobre las
Ir Por Lana
managing simultaneous dam- panics/Latinos can or would
age control from a shifting, claim indigenous ancestry.)
multi-front war.
If done correctly, the institute’s suggestion need not
Frontera NorteSur (FNS): negatively affect the allocation
on-line, U.S.-Mexico border
of resources to specific tribes.
news Center for Latin AmeriNeither should the way people
can and Border Studies New
identify be subject to governMexico State University Las
ment approval. Yet, the ramifiCruces, New Mexico.
cations of exercising such an
option should indeed be studied.
Census
decididas y demasiado familiarizadas, quizás, con la
tragedia y la separación familiar, es el libro, Mis hermanos:
Fidel y Raúl, que acaba de
publicarse en Estados Unidos.
El libro, que se ha convertido
rápidamente en uno de los
títulos más vendidos en los
Estados Unidos, revela, entre
muchas otras cosas, los detalles de otra colaboración
secreta; esta entre Juanita
Castro y la Agencia Central de
Inteligencia estadounidense
(CIA, por sus siglas en inglés)
durante la década de los
sesenta, y que buscaba explícitamente un cambio de
gobierno —léase con esto la
salida del poder de Fidel
Castro, cuyo poder y control
férreo sobre el destino de los
cubanos duró, al menos de
manera oficial, hasta que cedió
el mando de la nación caribeña
a su hermano en el verano del
año 2006.
En el libro, y apoyándose en
la pluma de María Antonieta
Collins, Juanita Castro rescata
una Cuba que ya no existe,
revela en detalle fotográfico
una saga familiar hasta ahora
desconocida (a pesar de que
sus protagonistas son, sin em-
Rodriguez, an assistant pro(con’t from page 1)
fessor at the University of
million people. (Not all of the Arizona, can be reached at:
nation’s close to 50 million His- [email protected]
became aerospace engineers.
Kids who had spent their youth
convinced their lives didn’t
matter discovered they were
leaders.
Now, Kimo needs our help.
He is seriously ill, and the treatment he needs has depleted all
the funds his family can raise.
They did not want to ask for
help, but we took it upon ourselves to get the word out to
all the country and around the
world, to make his final days
as comfortable as possible and maybe even give him a
chance to beat the cancer that
has afflicted him.
I have been moved to tears
to hear of the circumstances
of this great man and am calling for a last National Understanding of his selfless contri-
butions to “making a difference
in this world.”
Together, we have a chance
to make a real difference in his
life. I could not bear to think
that we would do any less for
one who has given so much for
so long.
You have my deepest appreciation for any and all prayers
and help that you can give.
Edward James Olmos
How to help
Send a check payable to:
“Friends of Jaime” c/o FASE
236 West Mountain Street,
Suite 105
Pasadena, CA 91103
For questions call: 626-7935300
Suesan Walker, email [email protected] or via
fax 626-577-2677
confiscaciones y las órdenes
que recibió para ejecutarlas.
Y por supuesto, Western
Union no dice nada acerca
de por qué fue por lana y
salió trasquilada.
Y si la compañía salió
trasquilada, los clientes de
plano están calvos. Su
demanda sigue pendiente y
podrían pasar años para que
les devuelvan su lana. Más
aún, se complica
terriblemente porque tendrá
que establecerse si la debe
pagar Western Union o
Arizona.
Western Union gana
cientos de millones de dólares
con las cuotas que le cobra a
los inmigrantes por mandar
remesas a sus países de
origen o a otros inmigrantes
de este país. De perdida, sus
clientes merecen un trato de
dignidad y respeto, y no que
se les robe dinero y luego se
use para aplicar medidas
anti-inmigrantes.
Para poner presión sobre
Western Union, ahora está
circulando una petición para
que devuelvan la lana a sus
clientes, con intereses y todo,
incluyendo en su “acuerdo”
con Arizona la creación de un
fondo de reembolso para los
afectados, y la garantía de
que la remesadota no
cooperará con ninguna
confiscación ilegal del dinero
de sus clientes en el futuro.
Si gusta firmar la petición,
búsquela en Internet.
Y más que resoluciones
legales, hay que tomar
acciones de otro tipo.
“Ustedes pueden haber
‘comprado la paz’ con las
autoridades de Arizona”,
como dice la demanda, “pero
pueden estar seguros de que
a menos de que respondan
este llamado haciendo lo
correcto para sus clientes,
nosotros haremos lo que
podamos para revelar
públicamente sus acciones y
para invitar a sus clientes a
cambiar de servicio”.
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MARCH 5, 2010
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
GUEST EDITORIAL:
One year after stimulus, blacks and Latinos
still struggling
By C. Nicole Mason
T
he Obama administration needs to
do more to address high unemployment among blacks and
Latinos.
In January, the overall unemployment
rate fell to 9.7 percent, but the rate for
blacks inched up to 16.5 percent and the
Latino rate stood at 12.6 percent. For
black men, the unemployment rate is the
highest among all such categories of
workers: 17.6 percent.
The stimulus money has not benefited
those who need it the most. Only a tiny
fraction of the funded projects has gone
to minority contractors and businesses
— 5.9 percent, according to the Insight
Center for Community Economic Development.
In general, the administration has been
reluctant to respond to the way the economic crisis has unevenly impacted racial and ethnic communities. Before the
recession, the unemployment rate for
blacks and Latinos hovered around 8 per-
cent and has sharply increased since then.
With fewer assets and savings compared
to whites, blacks and Latinos are even
harder hit when the pink slip comes.
The Obama administration should be
proactive. It should set up a special task
force to examine the higher than average unemployment rates in black and
Latino communities and to develop strategies to support long-term recovery. The
task force should also take up how to
ensure that minority-owned and womenowned businesses are able to effectively
compete for and win recovery contracts.
The administration should then take
those recommendations and work with
Congress to enact policies to ensure that
all communities are able to recover from
this economic crisis in due time.
C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., is a political scientist and the executive director of the Women
of Color Policy Network at New York
University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate
School of Public Service. She can be reached
at [email protected].
A new jobs bill is needed
By Aaron Glantz
With almost 15 million Americans unemployed, Congress has a moral obligation to pass
another jobs bill. But it also has a moral obligation to ensure that those who need the jobs the
most are not left out in the cold.
President Obama and Congress need to pass
a new jobs bill, and they need to make sure this
one reaches Americans who are the most hard
hit.
A year after the first stimulus bill became
law, the Labor Department reports the unemployment rate for whites is falling (to 8.7 percent in January), but it continues to rise to 16.5
percent for blacks. And Latinos have an unemployment rate 50 percent higher than whites.
The reasons for these disparities lie at least in
part in the unfair and unjust way the initial stimulus package has been implemented. A series of
investigations coordinated by New America
Media, where I work, show that over the last
year those dollars have systematically bypassed
communities of color.
In the last year, 98 percent of stimulus contracts from the U.S. Department of Transportation have gone to white-owned firms. Similarly,
a new government-backed small business loan
program created by the stimulus benefitted
white-owned businesses 91 percent of the time.
These disparities run across almost every
government agency that received money under the Recovery Act. Of the 630 grants given
to arts organizations by the National Endowment for the Arts, for example, less than 2 percent went to Latino organizations.
In Minnesota, the apportionment of stimulus
dollars has been so unfair that community leaders have begun circulating a petition formally
requesting that their state immediately terminate all federally funded transportation
contracts. Nine projects with estimated costs
at more than $91 million are located in the Twin
Cities’ outer suburban ring, while Minnesota’s
5th Congressional District, which has the highest proportion of blacks and other people of
color in the state, received the lowest amount
of transit work ($3.8 million) among the state’s
eight U.S. districts.
There is some reason for hope, however.
The Obama administration has finally pulled
stimulus funds from an agency for failing to
comply with federal civil rights laws. The case
involves BART, Northern California’s commuter rail, which sought to use $70 million from
the stimulus to build a spur to the Oakland airport that would travel through — but not stop
in — impoverished East Oakland.
In a Feb. 12 letter to local officials, Federal
Transit Administration head Peter Rogoff said
BART’s plan failed to comply with Title VI of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits agencies that receive federal funds from using discriminatory practices.
The money now appears destined for local
bus and streetcar services, which had been targeted for massive cuts and fare hikes.
With almost 15 million Americans unemployed, Congress has a moral obligation to pass
another jobs bill. But it also has a moral obligation to ensure that those who need the jobs the
most are not left out in the cold.
Aaron Glantz is an editor at New America Media and
author of the book “The War Comes Home: Washington’s
Battle Against America’s Veterans” (University of California Press). He can be reached at pmproj@
progressive.org.
Channel 10 was all set to do a story on
the Parra appointment but got scrapped
when the tragic events of the week became
top priorty.
San Diego City Council rejects 15%
pay raise and they make it sound like they
are one with the people… hell they should
be getting a pay cut like the rest of the city
employees, and then maybe they can keep
one or two more people working instead of
firing them. Come on, city council people
want to be one with the people take an 8%
pay cut and start paying more for your
benefits….
Without a word, without a comment,
without a question, without public input, the
city council of National City hired Frank
Parra as Emergency Service Director and
changed the structure of the city???? Not
one question or comment… come on guys
and gals, was this done all behind closed
doors???? I mean not one concern????
The good old boy system is still the good
old boy system, doesn’t matter if is the
white guys or brown guys… Still the good
old boy system… Rumor has it that this was
a way to remove Parra as a threat to
become the next mayor…
Pearl Quinones in a tough battle for the
79th Assembly District, just got a little
tougher. Pearl was laid off from her job in
San Ysidro this past week…. Que lástima,
was this a political movida??? San Ysidro is
a part of Ben Hueso’s district as San
Diego councilman…
Donna Frye was seen as the great white
hope to unseat Ron Roberts as supervisor,
everyone that contemplated running, Shelia
Jackson and Lori Saldana, got out the
way and then Frye decides she is not ready
to take on Roberts. There is an old saying:
“No guts, No glory.”
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena continues to serve as a
reminder and inspiration in the war on drugs
By Rep Duncan Hunter
In fact, shortly after Kiki’s death, my father,
who served our community in Congress for 28
years, joined with one of Kiki’s classmates to
launch “Camarena Clubs” throughout Southern California. Hundreds of club members wore
red ribbons and pledged to lead drug-free lives
in honor of Kiki and others who gave their lives
for the same reason.
In 1985, club members presented a proclamation to First Lady Nancy Reagan, which
brought the club national attention and ultimately
prompted thousands of schools, communities
and states to recognize Red Ribbon Week. Now
celebrated during the last week of every October, Red Ribbon week is officially the oldest
and largest drug prevention program in the nation, reaching millions of young people every
year.
Kiki’s presence is as strong today as it was
over the course of his lifetime. In recognition
of this national hero, I recently introduced a
resolution in the House of Representatives, H.
Res. 1115, to mark the 25th anniversary of Kiki’s
death. The resolution also reiterates support for
the DEA, which continues to uphold Kiki’s
legacy.
This anniversary should also serve to remind
us about the importance of creating an enforceable border that effectively limits the amount
of illegal drugs entering the country. Infrastructure, technology and manpower are the basis
for an effective security strategy, with each
element working to disrupt the smuggling activity that profits notorious drug cartels south
of the border. Expanding these resources,
which must be a priority, will help mitigate crossborder drug traffic and crime.
So let us take time to recognize the mission
of the DEA and honor the life of Kiki
Camarena. Something we can all do by simply
encouraging family, friends and communities
to promote healthy, productive and drug-free
lifestyles.
Many of us living in San Diego County are
aware of the dangerous duties undertaken by
the men and women of the Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA). Often times, their accomplishments go unnoticed but these agents continue
making significant contributions to the seemingly
unending effort to protect our communities from
the threat of drug crime and addiction.
This is a responsibility that DEA special agent
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a Southern California native who joined the DEA in 1974, took
seriously over the course of his career in law
enforcement. It was 25 years ago this March
that Kiki’s body was discovered after he was
kidnapped in front of the U.S. Consulate in
Guadalajara, Mexico. He had been severely
tortured by his captors.
Since then, more than two dozen people, including Mexican government officials, cartel
leaders and associates, have been convicted
for Kiki’s murder. Still, his memory has not been
forgotten.
The circumstances surrounding Kiki’s death
are a vivid reminder of the violence and danger attributable to illegal drugs, whether it’s directly on our borders, within our neighborhoods
or in the homes of families facing the struggles
of addiction. Despite our best efforts, drug cartels maintain a stronghold on the U.S.-Mexico
border region, persistently attempting to
smuggle contraband into the U.S. and constantly devising new methods of entry.
The DEA, as well as our nation’s other border security agencies, is on the frontline of this
struggle. Its mission is to protect Americans
from the threat of illegal drugs crossing our
borders or manufactured domestically. It is this
national obligation that attracted Kiki and countless others to serve in the DEA since its creation nearly 40 years ago.
Today, Kiki is perhaps the best-known hero
of the war on drugs. His story continues to inspire the men and women of the DEA, past Congressman Duncan Hunter represents
and present, as well as millions of other Ameri- 52nd Congressional District in San Diego
cans to lead drug-free lives.
County.
Pedro Nava “Hidden Credit And Debit Card Fees
Punish The Poor And Reward The Rich”
As if you weren’t already feeling the pinch in
this time of need and economic uncertainty, hidden credit and debit card interchange fees are
chewing a hole in your wallet. And an even bigger hole in low-income and minority households.
Interchange fees cost Americans $48 billion a
year. If you live in California, your share of national interchange fees is about $5 billion annually. Even more frightening, a recent Hispanic
Institute Study found that the current structure
of the credit card system allows lower income
and minority consumers to subsidize higher income and non-minority consumers for their rewards. Interchange fees vary depending on the
card used. For example, a consumer with a credit
card that accrues airline mileage as a reward
will carry a higher interchange fee. Consequently, it is the low-income consumers who help
fund the wealthier consumer’s rewards.
Never heard of interchange fees? Interchange fees are a percentage of each credit or
debit card transaction that goes to the banks
through network providers such as Visa and
MasterCard. Out of every credit card transaction no matter how big or small, your neighborhood grocer, bookstore and small business
owner loses a percentage of the sale. The
amount paid depends on the interchange fee
set by Visa and MasterCard. Business owners
have no control over the fees and most consumers don’t even know that the cost of the
mysterious interchange fee ends up being
tacked on to the price of everything they buy.
I only know about interchange fees because
I am the Chairman of the California State
Assembly’s Banking and Finance Committee.
It shouldn’t take being the Chair of a legislative committee to learn about this stuff, but it
does. I recently invited banks, credit card companies, consumers and business owners to a
hearing on these fees. Believe me — the people
who profit the most weren’t all that excited
about my invite. But when I heard that the bottom 50 percent of income earners pay at least
$669 million more than they should and the top
10 percent of earners receive at least a $354
million subsidy because of these fees, I felt you
had a right to know.
And guess what? Interchange fees are not
regulated. Visa and MasterCard set the rates.
Because of this, on average, consumers pay $427
annually on interchange fees without even realizing it. The very people who have the most to
gain make the rules and consumers whether they
pay cash or plastic have to take it or leave it.
Merchants are left with no choice but to raise
the prices on their goods and services to cover
the costs. Cash customers end up subsidizing
credit card users because the higher costs are
now built in to every gallon of gasoline, candy
bar and box of diapers sold.
I found it is the low-income and minority consumers who are adversely effected by interchange fees. Those consumers who in all likelihood are the “unbanked” and desperately need
the extra $427 a year they spend on interchange
fees back into their pockets. It does not make
any sense for a consumer who either has no
credit or debit card or has a credit card without
rewards to subsidize those that do. The wealthy
receive all the perks while the low-income consumers are left paying the price due to these
hidden fees.
For the sake of our consumers, this is not an
issue we can ignore. By any measure $48 billion
a year is real money and we have to do everything we can to get some of it back into the
wallets of California’s hard working families.
Pedro Nava, the son of Mexican immigrants, was elected
to the California State Assembly in 2004, the first Latino
to represent his district. He is a former Deputy District
Attorney, responsible for targeted narcotics prosecution and has a strong record on public safety. He served
on the California Coastal Commission, appointed by then
Speaker Cruz Bustamante, where he earned the #1
coastal protection voting record. He has fought to increase educational opportunities for all.
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
MARCH 5, 2010
PAGE 7
Commentary/Opinion Page
Lárguense
Por Rafael Prieto Zartha
AMERICA’S VOICE
cumentados realizar transferencias de dinero
a México, estableciendo directrices con este
fin a la Reserva Federal.
La normativa propone ampliar el sistema de
verificación de empleo E-Verify, vedar el
alquiler de vivienda o alojar a indocumentados
y penalizar a las ciudades santuario.
Impedir que los estudiantes indocumentados
puedan ingresar a instituciones de educación
superior es otra de las premisas del proyecto
de ley de Miller, que complementa su menjurje
respaldando los programas de cooperación entre entidades federales e instituciones estatales
y locales para deportar indocumentados.
Al congresista no se le escapa otorgar fondos
para completar la construcción del muro en la
frontera con México.
Miller presentó su proyecto de ley el 11 de
febrero, pero previamente el 21 de enero el
representante Jason Chaffetz, de Utah, introdujo
su resolución 1026 que apela a un lenguaje
patriótico para repudiar a los indocumentados
y cerrar el camino a una reforma migratoria
integral.
La llamada resolución BRIDGE (Puente) que
habla de paz, prosperidad y libertad cuenta con
54 copatrocinadores y entrega como colofón
que no se apruebe ningún tipo de legalización.
Hay quienes sostienen que la propuesta de
Miller y la resolución de Chaffetz no van a
ninguna parte y no serán aprobadas en la
Cámara Baja, pero encarnan la filosofía anti
inmigrante del movimiento de moda, de los
amotinados del té, de los simpatizantes del
llamado Tea Party.
Lo peor que podrían hacer los pro inmigrantes
sería desconocer la espada de Damocles que
representan estos proyectos que buscan hacer
realidad la expulsión de los 12 millones de
indocumentados.
Creo que sobran razones para salir a la calle
en Washington el próximo domingo 21 de
marzo. No queda otro camino que instar al
presidente Obama a que cumpla su palabra y
recordarle a muchos miembros del Congreso
que la catapulta de su elección fue el voto
hispano.
La receta milagrosa para solucionar en gran
parte el actual problema de desempleo que
experimenta el país pretende haberla
encontrado el representante a la Cámara Baja
del Distrito 42 de California, Gary Miller, quien
se encuentra promocionando su proyecto de
ley LEAVE entre sus colegas del Congreso.
Para agregar copatrocinadores a los 14
cosignatarios, el congresista Miller ha estado
enviando una comunicación a sus pares en la
que priman las matemáticas puras y el
menosprecio por el género humano.
“Actualmente, se calcula que ocho millones
de ilegales tienen empleo mientras más de 15
millones de estadounidenses están desempleados”, dice Miller.
“Simplemente con aplicar las leyes de
inmigración, se crearán ocho millones de
empleos para ciudadanos y trabajadores legales”, concluye el legislador.
Miller argumenta que los indocumentados se
“robaron” esas plazas y su proyecto de ley es
la fórmula para recobrarlos.
El representante esboza una estrategia que
promete reducir el número de “ilegales” en un
millón y medio cada año, con una proyección
de disminuir la actual población indocumentada
del país a la mitad en un periodo de cinco
años.
La serie de medidas, que tiene como plato
fuerte quitar la ciudadanía a los hijos de
indocumentados nacidos en Estados Unidos,
está aderezada con otros componentes nocivos.
El proyecto H.R. 994 regula las identificaciones válidas para abrir cuentas bancarias
y prohíbe dar créditos hipotecarios o préstamos
regulares a quienes no posean los documentos
permitidos, es decir los que no son accesibles
para los “ilegales”.
Para asegurar sus objetivos, elimina cualquier
posibilidad de que los indocumentados puedan
obtener licencias de conducir y modifica los
criterios de expedición de los números de
identificación personal o itins, impidiendo que
quienes no tienen estatus migratorio puedan
pagar impuestos y así cumplir sus obligaciones Rafael Prieto Zartha es Asesor de Medios de
con el Tío Sam.
Comunicación en Español para America’s
Tampoco se les permitiría a los indo- Voice
Petty California Democrats
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
sons.
The State Senate voted overwhelmingly to
confirm Senator Maldonado. Despite this great
vote, both houses of the legislature must vote
majorities or the appointment dies. It died. Thus,
the Governor re-nominated him starting a new
cycle. The senate will vote for Senator
Maldonado again. How will the Assembly vote?
Speaker Perez needs to convince four more
Democrats to vote for Maldonado. Can he do
it?
If Perez plans to be an effective Speaker, he
must deliver for Maldonado. He has a little less
than four years in which to serve as Speaker.
The huge deficits must be solved while he is in
office. He must be able to work with Republicans because budgets need two-thirds votes in
the Assembly and Senate and Democrats don’t
control two thirds of both houses, despite large
majorities.
There are no “reconciliation” procedures as
in the U.S. Senate in the California legislature.
Thus, Perez needs Republicans. In the past,
Maldonado provided the Democrats with the
winning margin. Now is the time for Perez to
pay back the gutsy Santa Maria Republican
who considers bolting his party less important
than the state and its people.
We are not alone. Major newspapers — liberal and conservative —throughout California
have supported the nomination.
Never mind that Maldonado has also announced his campaign to fill the new Lt.
Governor’s term up in November’s election.
That is beside the point. Worry that he might
run for governor from the office of Lt. Governor in the future is beside the point. The people
of California will make those decisions when
the time comes.
For now, Maldonado needs four more Democrat votes to be confirmed by the Assembly. It
is up to Speaker John Perez – California’s highest ranking political Hispanic — to deliver those
votes for the man who will be the second highest ranking Hispanic.
If he doesn’t John Perez’ Speakership isn’t
worth “a warm bucket of spit.”
History’s second Hispanic Speaker of the
California Assembly took office today and his
words suggesting that his counseling of State
Senator Abel Maldonado’s chances of being
approved as the appointed Lt. Governor of
California have improved potential confirmation by the state Assembly. His words auger
well for California Hispanics.
John Perez’ words should encourage four
more Assembly members to vote for
Maldonado’s second nomination by Governor
Arnold Schwarzenneger to override the previous vote for confirmation that carried the vote
with 37 votes but constitutionally needed 41
votes (a majority of the 80-member Assembly). It should, but will it?
Leading the charge against Senator
Maldonado is a handful of Hispanic Assembly
members who prove that they are political idiots. They show the world that petty partisan
Democrats cannot only be idiots but traitors to
their own and people incapable of governing.
So what if Maldonado is a Republican? His
critical votes on Democratic budget bills were
keys to ending months-long budget delays that
caused the state to issue “I.O.U”s instead of
checks to vendors. His very presence in the
Senate preceded the entry of politicians like
Perez.
If nothing else Maldonado put some brakes
on the decade long suicide run of the Democratic legislature that has bankrupted the State
of California with budget deficits of as many
as 25-BILLION dollars a year.
Yet only 37 Assembly members of both parties saw fit to vote yes on his confirmation to
fill the vacant Lt. Governor’s office left empty
by the election of former Lt. Governor John
Garamendi to the United States Congress.
Huge deficits, court orders to empty crowded
prisons, prison guards that make over a
$100,000 a year, state Highway Patrol scams
that retire high ranking officials with fraudulent 50 percent disability pensions, legislators
ripping off the people with “per diem” payments
that are illogical and, perhaps, illegal and a handful of Hispanic Assembly members campaign C o n t re r a s ’ b o o k s a re a v a i l a b l e a t
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Racismo en las Universidades
Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D
Aparentemente algunos estudiantes llegaron
como gangsters y otros como pandilleros, con
los pantalones anchos, la gorra y los calzados
tenis extra largos. Fue un ataque contra la
comunidad afroamericana.
Los estudiantes y el plantel de la comunidad
afroamericana se unieron para protestar y
sancionar a la fiesta como racista.
Dos días después del evento, el editor de una
revista de esa universidad, el cual normalmente
ridiculiza de los negros, latinos e islámicos, no
solamente defendió a los organizadores de la
fiesta, sino que hizo comentarios peyorativos
contra la comunidad afroamericana. “Negros
ingratos”, dijo.
Luego, una estudiante tuvo la vergüenza de
dejar una soga de ahorca en los recintos de la
biblioteca principal. La soga de ahorca es un
símbolo maléfico de la supremacía blanca sobre
los negros.
Recientemente, en las afueras de la universidad, se descubrió una estatua cubierta con
una sábana de dormir, el cual hace reminiscencia
a los miembros del grupo racista de los Ku Klux
Klan.
Algunos defensores del odio y del racismo
seguramente defenderán estos actos irracionales y despreciables como parte de la
libertad de expresión. Por el contrario, son
actos delictivos que deben ser sancionados y
prohibidos porque claramente afectan los
derechos civiles de otras personas.
Aquí los culpables no solamente son los
estudiantes, sino también las autoridades de la
Universidad de California San Diego. El peso
del castigo deberá ser impuesto sobre ellos y
sobre los estudiantes.
Los centros universitarios son espacios para
la reflexión, la libertad del pensamiento y el
descubrimiento científico, no es cuna de la
intolerancia.
El racismo en nuestro país no termina.
Cuando se le da una oportunidad, los filósofos
y seguidores de la supremacía racista utilizan
las debilidades del sistema político, económico,
educativo, etc., para amedrentar y violar los
derechos civiles de los grupos sociales más
“pequeños”.
Lo anterior sucedió durante la colonia y luego
continuó con la era republicana. Parecía que la
diversidad estaba aniquilando al racismo poco
a poco, a través de leyes proactivas y una
fuerza masiva de protesta por parte de los
grupos minoritarios, pero hoy nos damos cuenta
que las actitudes racistas vuelven con firmeza
y sin vergüenza a nuestra sociedad, tal como
renace el muñeco espeluznante de las películas
de terror.
El racismo tuvo sus momentos álgidos a fines
del Siglo XIX e inicios del Siglo XX, cuando la
filosofía Social Darvinista y racista de Hebert
Spencer se impuso en el confín norteamericano.
Spencer cimentó el camino a la racialización
norteamericana previo a la Segunda Guerra
Mundial y contribuyó ostensiblemente a un
movimiento social intolerante que culminó con
la segregación institucional del sector público y
privado, como en las escuelas, centros
comerciales, restaurantes, buses, etc.
En el mundo jerarquizado de Spencer, los
blancos se ubicaban en la cima de la varilla
social, mientras que los negros en la parte de
abajo, y el resto de las “razas” en el medio.
Los visos de racismo que se divisaban
abiertamente durante ese periodo, recientemente se hicieron presentes en la Universidad
de California San Diego.
Miembros de la fraternidad estudiantil Pi
Kappa Alpha organizaron una fiesta para
conmemorar las festividades de la Historia de
los Afroamericanos. Los organizadores
exigieron a los participantes a disfrazarse con Humberto Caspa, Ph.D., es profesor
una vestimenta viciada y estereotipada de los universitario. E-mail: [email protected]
negros.
¡ASK A MEXICAN!
By Gustavo Arellano
and there’s no
reason to use those
Dear Mexican: I’m a pan blanco and
my wife is puertorriqueña. Our son looks fuck-ups to smear a
group as a whole.
basically white, while a casual observer
It’s a natural
might admit that there is some Latin
inclination to do so,
going on there. I’m not sure how this
pertains to my question—it may or may but a wrong one. To
the dad: My best
not be worth mentioning. Our son is a
high-functioning autistic 12-year old. The advice is to get on
the school administration’s ass to protect
way he looks and behaves makes him a
your beautiful son. And trust me: at some
target for bullies. He is sweet and
point in his life, there’ll be a good Mexican
innocent. He doesn’t understand
kid who’ll kick the asses of those bullies like
sarcasm or how to be cool. He studies
any good person would.
hard and gets good grades. He is a
classic four-eyed Harry Potter dork. He
Whenever I read something of
doesn’t bother anyone, but he gets
Mexican
history, I’m always amazed at
teased and bullied by cruel classmates. It
breaks my heart and makes me furious. the variety of first names that apparently
have no English equivalent. I’m only 40
Today a bigger kid came up and
twisted his arm behind him, causing him pages into a book about Pancho Villa,
and already I’ve seen such beauties as
pain. After he told me about it and as I
fought back tears of rage (and yes, I tell Indalecio, Fidencio, Maclovio, Nemesio
and Belisario. I’ve tried Google but can’t
the authorities and they do what they
seem to find a place where the origins of
can, but they can’t be everywhere at
these names and their meanings can be
once), he asked me “Daddy, why is it
found. Any suggestions?
that every time I’m bullied, it’s by a
Flummoxed in Flagstaff
Mexican?”
I’m wondering the same thing. Every
Dear Gabacho: Try Google again. All the
time, and I mean every single time, that
he’s been bullied and tormented since we names you mentioned are the Hispanicized
moved to California three years ago, it’s nombres of Catholic saints (respectively,
Indalecio, Fidelis, Maclou, and Nemesius)
been a Mexican kid. Oh, and the
with the exception of Belisario, which refers
Mexican students are in the minority in
to the great Roman general Belisarius.
his school. A large minority, but a
Mexicans traditionally pulled their names
minority nonetheless. It’s not like he’s
from the Bible and the Papist calendar. This
the only white kid in the yard. I’m truly
resulted in two separate celebrations for
at a loss as to why this seems to be so.
someone’s birth—the cumpleaños (the
Are all of these kids beaten by their
actual birthday) and the día de santo, the
fathers so they have to take it out on
feast day of the saint corresponding to the
what they might perceive to be a
person’s name; sometimes the twain did meet
pampered gringo? I’m guessing. Other
than teach my kid how to defend himself, and knocked back Herradura. Those
traditions and esoteric names are
I don’t see what can be done about it.
unfortunately disappearing, because
Is it cultural? I wonder if you could
American culture devours all. But you know
suggest what I might say to my son to
what’s the weirdest male name I’ve heard?
prevent him from hating Mexicans by
Susano. Etymology? From Susanna,
the time he reaches adulthood, if not
before. Or what I might say to myself, for obviously, but pinche clue how it became
that matter. Why is it always a Mexican accepted for hombres…
kid tormenting my son? Every fuckin’
Note: Gustavo will be at San Diego City College, as
time. Why? I don’t like the dark place
a
part
of the International Book Fair, Thursday, March
my mind is going to. Can you help me?
11
9:35-11:35
a.m., room D121A/B. It is open to the
A Good Papi
public and free.
Dear Readers: The more I think about this Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.
question, the more it saddens me—about the net, myspace.com/ocwab, facebook.com/
bullied kid, of course, but also about the
garellano, youtube.com/ask amexicano, find him
father’s thought process. The dad’s not a
on Twitter, or write via snail mail at: Gustavo
racist pig—just an understandably upset
Arellano, P.O. Box 1433, Anaheim, CA 92815papi. But pendejos exist in every ethnicity,
1433!
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MARCH 5, 2010
Lesson Learned
Covina California’s John Molina Jr. has learned numerous lessons since his stunning
defeat at the hands of Martin Honorio last November. Tonight, he looks to make a
statement when he returns to the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula
John Molina Sr. (L) Consoles his son John Jr, after his
first professional defeat last November. Pic: Ray Flores
By Steve Galindo III
Three months ago, 27-yearold lightweight John Molina Jr.
entered the ring inside of the
Grand Ballroom at Pechanga
Resort & Casino in Temecula,
Ca, as the headliner of a card
that was nationally televised by
premium cable giant Showtime.
Tonight, Molina (18-1-14 KOs)
will enter that same exact ring,
in the same exact venue, but
he will not be reprising his role
as the evening’s main attraction. In fact, Molina will not
even be showcased on the
televised portion of tonight’s
edition of ESPN2’s Friday
Night Fights- that will originate
from Pechanga. The downgrade is attributed to the loss
that Molina suffered last
November- his first as a professional to Mexico’s crafty
veteran- Martin Honorio.
For Molina, the loss was disappointing on many levels.
Heading into the bout with
Honorio, he was heavily touted
as one of the hottest prospects
in all of boxing, and with good
reason. His exciting style
coupled with his one- punchknockout power, and undefeated record made him an attraction worth seeing. After
two impressive performances
on Showtime, Last November
officials at the network decided
to give Molina the opportunity
to headline a card on their
Shobox: The New Generation series- a program that is
designed to showcase boxing’s
rising stars. Going into the bout,
many saw Molina as a heavy
favorite. Along with a two-inch
advantage in height, Molina
possessed a a five- inch reach
advantage, and was coming off
of the most impressive victory
of his career, a 34-second
knockout victory of veteran
Efren Hinojosa. Needless to
say, many felt that Molina’s
opponent Martin Honorio would
meet that same fate, and become Molina’ 15th knockout
victim.
The night of the fight, a sold
out crowd gathered in anticipation to witness the coronation of boxing’s next star. Instead, the stunned crowd witnessed a boxing clinic put on
not by Molina, but by the underdog Honorio. The man
known as “El Brochas” would
go on to put forth the performance of his life en route to
winning a lopsided victory via
unanimous decision.
So what went wrong? Did
Molina succumb to the pressure of the intense spotlight?
Was he rushed into a situation
in which he clearly was not
ready for? According to Molina
it was neither. Molina says that
he was just the victim of a bad
case of the flu. I recently had
the opportunity to catch up with
John Molina Jr., to get his
thoughts on that night.
La Prensa: What are your
thoughts when you go back,
and you view the footage of
yo u r f i g h t w i t h M a r t i n
Honorio?
JM: When I look back at
the fight, all I could see is a shell
of me, that’s all I was- I wasn’t
able to pull the trigger, and I
really believe whole heartedly,
that Honorio would last maybe
five rounds with me, if I’m at
100%.
LP: When did you get the
flu?
JM: It actually hit me at the
weigh-in, I started feeling kind
of funny, and that whole night
before the fight, I did not sleep.
My body was so achy that it
woke me up out of my sleep.
Before I got called down to
walk out of the dressing room,
I drank half a bottle of Dayquilso not only was I sick with a
fever going into the fight, but I
was a medicine head as well.
No disrespect to Honorio, but
he fought the fight of his life,
while I was at 30 percent.
LP: Did you ever think about
postponing the fight?
JM: No, other fighters have
done it before, like Gabriel
Ruelas when he fought Azumah Nelson; he fought him
with flu. Look it Alfredo
Angulo when he lost to Kermit
Cintron, he was sick that night
as well, but two fights later he’s
back on top of the heap-everyone has an off night.
LP: How did you feel after
the first round?
JM: After the first round to
be honest with you, I was
gassed, I was done. After the
first round I was already gasping for air. I got off some decent shots, but nothing ever to
finish him, because I didn’t
have that extra gear to kick it
into.
LP: After the fourth round,
your trainer Joe Goossen said
to you, that he felt like you
could knock Honorio out. Despite the state in which you
were in; did you ever feel that
you were in a position to deliver the knock out?
JM: I did have a feeling that
if I caught him, I’d be able to
take him out, but I didn’t have
that fire in me- that tenacity in
me- I was always a step behind.
LP: What was the biggest
lesson you learned from that experience?
JM: That no matter what I
go through, I’m going to be
there to fight all the way
through the end. I learned a lot
about myself, and what I’m
about, and I do know whole
heartedly that no matter what,
I’m going to go down on my
shield- I’m going to go down
swinging till the last bell. I guarantee that to all my fans.
LP: Do you still want a
rematch against Honorio?
JM: We already went forward, and wanted to go with
Honorio, unfortunately it’s not
going to work out. To be honest with you, he’s not coming
back up to 135 (pounds) and
I’m not going back down to 130.
At this point, I got to step away
from my pride, and know that
it is, what it is. It’s said and
done, and now we go forwardmy sights are set on the bigger
picture.
LP: After the fight, there
were a lot of negative things
that were said, and that were
written about you, does that
stuff just give you the motivation to want to come out, and
prove people wrong?
JM: It really is ammo; I
learned that there are a lot of
haters out there. A lot of people
that don’t know the full story
about me-in a sense that when
I pulled away from Ben Lira
(Molina’s former trainer) to go
with Joe Goossen, that was a
smart move on my part —financially, and career wise—
full circle. A lot of these guys
feel like I snaked him, but what
people don’t know is that Ben
Lira collects a check every
time I fight. I could have gone
to arbitration, and pulled out of
that contract, but I thought he
was entitled to that for taking
me in. A lot of the hate stems
off of that
LP: On March 5th you return
to Pechanga, can you tell the
fans what they can expect to
see, as well as what they can
expect from you in 2010?
JM: I’m coming in there with
a mission, to make a statementto show to people that I didn’t
go anywhere-that it was a fluke
victory for Honorio. By the end
of 2010, you should see me in
the top 5, and who knows
maybe DeMarco’s maybe
Valero’s we shall see. I’m not
here to maybe be a good fighter,
I’m here to be “the” best
fighter, and in order for you to
be the best, you have to go after the best.
In addition to John Molina
Jr: Martin Honorio defends
his NABO lightweight title
against undefeated Wilton
Hilario. Rising Jr. Welterweight Michael Dallas Jr. is
also slated to see action on
the card. Tickets priced at
$70, $60, $45 and $30 General Admission are available
at the Pechanga Box Office.
Doors open at 5:00 PM.
First Bout is at 6:00 PM.
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Banda de Turistas:
La Revelación del Rock Latino
Banda De Turistas - foto por Julia Gutierrez.
Por James Klein
(KPRENSA) – La escena musical emergente se renueva cada
día, con nuevas bandas que van
apareciendo en el horizonte.
Los argentinos Banda de
Turistas s o n u n o d e l o s
grupos revelación del
r o c k d e Latinoamérica del
último año. Y ahora, la banda
argentina ha llegado a los
Estados Unidos.
Con letras que oscilan entre
lo real, lo onírico y lo
inesperado, el joven quinteto
logra captar la atención del
público y la prensa para dar un
primer gran paso: “Magical
Radiophonic Heart”, su primer
larga duración, el cual graban
y coproducen junto a Tuta
Torres y mezclan con el
prestigioso productor Mario
Caldato Jr. (quien trabajó con
artistas como: Beastie Boys,
Blur, Beck, Super Furry Animals, entre otros).
Este mes, el CD de la banda
fue lanzado en los Estados
Unidos por Nacional Records.
En marzo, la banda estará
haciendo una gira corta de
EEUU con conciertos en Austin, Texas (17 y 18 de marzo),
Houston, Texas (19 de marzo)
y en Chicago (18 de abril).
Surge en el 2006 de la fusión
de dos grupos: uno instrumental, con inspiración en la música
de fines de los ’60, y otra
enfocada en el pop. El resultado de la nueva banda se
nutre tanto de sonidos futuristas y surreales. Ahora, el
quinteto saben bien a lo que
quieren llegar: fusionar sus
influencias musicales.
“Nuestro marco de influencias es totalmente variado.
Siempre decimos que rescatamos y nutrimos los últimos 50
años del rock, pasando por
todos los géneros, convencionales y desconocidos. También
son muy importantes nuestras
influencias extramusicales
como la literatura y la poesía.
Todos estos generadores son
los sistemas de nuestro Universo” dice Bruno Albano
(bajista de la banda). “Nuestra
musica responde a los esquemas de la canción pop por lo
tanto es música para el mundo,
accesible a cualquier sentido e
instantánea”.
Consiguen la apertura de
críticas de “Rolling Stone”
siendo el primer grupo en 10
años, y en la historia de la
revista, que lo logra con un
primer álbum y gran aceptación por parte del público. El
novel quinteto pop psicodélico
argentino supo sostener con
empirismo esa loable naturaleza redentora en su
maravilloso primer larga
duración, Magical Radiophonic
Heart. Lanzado recientemente,
es, sin dudas, uno de los mejores discos nacionales en Argentina de este año. Banda de
Turistas se concentró en las
canciones: las dejó salir de
manera natural. Y el resultado
es notable: un disco que llama
la atención por su frescura,
buena química y desestructura
musical.
A partir de esto, surge la
iniciativa de rotación radial
tanto en las grandes estaciones
de radio en Latinoamérica
como Rock and Pop, Mega, La
Cien, y Kabul en Argentina,
Reactor de México, Megaestación de Caracas y Miami y
radios independientes de toda
Latinoamérica. Pero, según
Bruno “La musica es la expresion matemática del alma ,
por lo tanto trasciende escenas,
barreras, distancias y mundos”.
2010 San Diego Latino Film Festival Brings The Best of Latino Cinema
to San Diego/Tijuana Border Region
MEDIA ARTS Center San
Diego announces the arrival of
the prestigious and internationally recognized San Diego
Latino Film Festival, now
celebrating its’ 17th edition.
Over 20,000 festival attendees,
150 entertaining & award-winning movies starring such actors as Diego Luna, Jimmy
Smits, Cheech Marin, Gael
Garcia Bernal, Barbara Mori,
Jaime Camil, Itati Cantoral &
more; plus, special guest celebrities, recognized filmmakers,
industry professionals, artists,
and musicians for all ages and
tastes will gather from March
11 - 21, 2010 at the UltraStar
Mission Valley Cinemas Hazard Center (just steps from San
Diego Trolley’s Hazard Center
Station).
A few of the feature films to
be screened at the 11-day 17th
Annual San Diego Latino Film
Festival include: LA MISSION starring Benjamin Bratt,
CHEVOLUTION (Gael
Garcia Bernal), BACKYARD
( Jimmy Smits), CHAMACO
(Martin Sheen), SOLO
QUIERO CAMINAR (Diego Luna), U.S. Premiere of
REGRESA (Jaime Camil),
COSAS INSIGNIFICANTES (Barbara Mori) and many
more.
SDLFF will be screening
most films that have been
nominated for the Ariel Award
in Mexico such as: NORA’S
WILL, NORTEADO, and
BACKYARD among others.
This year SDLFF is much
more than just film screenings.
SDLFF 2010 will include live
appearances by Nickelodeon’s
famous TV characters – Dora
the Explorer, Diego, & KaiLan; plus special showcases of
Cine Mujer, Cine’Mation, Venezuelan Cinema; Free Student
Screenings; Tributes, Workshops; parties, live musical per-
formances, Para la Familia
events, and much more.
Tickets are $9.50, for general
audience, and $7.50 for Students, Seniors, Military & MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN
DIEGO Members (ID required). 2010 Film or Festival
Passes are also available. Film
Pass is $90, which includes
entrance to 11 films, no wait-
ing in lines and VIP seating and
the Festival Pass, which is $180
and includes OVER 100 programs, no waiting in lines, VIP
seating, 4 workshops, 1 year
FREE MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO Amigo
membership, and entrance into
all Festival Galas. Purchase
tickets at www.sdlatinofilm.
com
A.I.C.I.
Asociacion Internacional de Compositores e Interpretes
La Cancion Ranchera
Cada Lunes y Miercoles
6:00 a 9:00 PM
en San Ysidro (a lado de la biblioteca)
David - 619.288.2096/ Juan - 619.690-2719
Alicia - 619.477.1914
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MARCH 5, 2010
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REQUESTING BIDS
REQUESTING BIDS
REQUESTING BIDS
THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO & TURNER
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS
INVITATION FOR BIDS
FOR
LEASED BUS TIRES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Turner Construction of San
Diego California, will receive up to, but not later than 2 o’clock
p.m. of the below dates, sealed bids for the award of a contract
for:
San Diego New Central Library Project
Bid Phase #1 due Friday March 19th, 2010 at 2:00PM (Scopes
can be found at Planwell)
Bid Phase #2 due Friday March 26th, 2010 at 2:00PM (Scopes
can be found at Planwell)
Bid Phase #3 & 4 TBD
Information can be obtained by reviewing the advertisement for
bidders, pre-qualification forms and bid & contract documents
at Planwell http://www.ocbinc.com. Follow links to the public
planroom & Central Library, or contact OCB directly at 619-2328440.
Contact Jeremy Coriale at [email protected] with any questions.
Ron Rudolph
VP of Regional Operations
Turner Construction Company
9330 Scranton Rd. Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92121.
Published: 2/26,3/5/2010
La Prensa San Diego
The San Diego Metropolitan
Transit System (MTS) is
accepting bids for LEASED
BUS TIRES, for up to a fiveyear period.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of San Diego will
receive bids for work at the Purchasing and Contracting Department, Contracts Division, 1200 Third Avenue, Suite 200,
San Diego, California, where bids are to be submitted prior to
time specified. Plans and specifications can be obtained from
The City of San Diego’s website: http://www.sandiego.gov/bidscontracts. A pre-bid meeting and/or pre-bid visit to the work site
will be held, if indicated, at the time and place specified in the
contract documents. Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend these sessions.
It is the policy of the City of San Diego to encourage equal
opportunity in its construction, consultant, material and supply
contracts. Bids/proposals from small businesses, minorityowned, disabled, veteran-owned businesses, women-owned
businesses and local firms are strongly encouraged. Contractors are encouraged to subcontract and/or participate in joint
ventures with these firms. The City is committed to equal opportunity and will not discriminate with regard to race, religion,
color, ancestry, age, gender, disability, medical condition or
place of birth and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on any basis.
Contractors interested in bidding projects over $250,000
must be pre-qualified. Please contact DAVE STUCKY of
the City’s Pre-Qualification Program at (619) 533-3474 or
[email protected] to obtain an application.
Sign language or oral interpreting services are available at prebid meetings and bid openings with a 5 business day notice to
the Contracting Division at 236-6000.
1. MOUNT HOPE MARKET STREET MEDIAN STREET
LIGHT PROJECT
Bid No. K104647. WBS No. S-10088. Pre-Bid Date: March
16, 2010 @ 10:00 a.m. Pre-Bid Location: Conference Room,
2nd Floor, 1200 Third Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA
92101. Bid Opening Date: April 6, 2010 @ 2:00 p.m. Construction Estimate: $617,900. License Requirement: A.
THIS IS A FEDERAL FUNDED CONTRACT
THIS IS A PROJECT UNDER THE C.D.B.G. – HUD PROGRAM
FEDERAL WAGE RATES APPLY TO THIS PROJECT
Hildred Pepper, Jr.
February 26, 2010
Published: 3/5,12/2010
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name:
PETER SHOGREN, P.E., 254
Rancho Dr., Ste. B, Chula Vista,
CA 91911
This Business is Conducted by:
An Individual
The First Day of Business Was:
8-4-2009
This Business Is Hereby Registered by the Following:
Peter Shogren, 254 Rancho Dr.,
Unit B, Chula Vista, CA 91911
I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct.
Signature of Registrant: Peter K. Shogren
This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County
Clerk of San Diego County FEB
04, 2010
The filing of this statement does
not of itself authorize the use in
this state of Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights
of another under federal, state,
or common law.
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name:
a. ESPINO BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION; b. EBC KITCHEN
& BATH; c. EBC COMMERCIAL
LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCE, 626 Garrett Ave., Chula
Vista, CA 91910
Mailing Address: 626 Garrett
Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91910
This Business is Conducted by:
A General Partnership
The First Day of Business Was:
4-10-07
This Business Is Hereby Registered by the Following:
1. Eduardo Espino, 626 Garrett
Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91910
2. Esdras Espino, 3033 Plaza
Leonardo, Bonita, CA 91902
I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct.
Signature of Registrant:
Eduardo Espino
This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County
Clerk of San Diego County FEB
17, 2010
Assigned File No.: 2010-003347 The filing of this statement does
Published: 2/12,19,26,3/5/2010 not of itself authorize the use in
this state of Fictitious Business
La Prensa San Diego
Name in violation of the rights
of another under federal, state,
or common law.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Bid documents will be available
on or about March 4, 2010
from:
John Miller
Contract Officer
MTS Procurement Department
1255 Imperial Avenue, Suite
1000
San Diego, CA 92101
Telephone: (619) 557-4580
Facsimile (619) 696-7084
Email:
[email protected]
In accordance with MTS’
specifications, bids shall be
submitted on the bid forms
furnished by MTS, enclosed in
a sealed envelope, plainly
endorsed with the bidder’s name
and marked:
LEASED BUS TIRES
MTS DOC. NO. B0530.0-10
BID OPENING: 11:00 A.M.,
PREVAILING LOCAL TIME,
APRIL 29, 2010
A pre-bid meeting will be held at
10:00a.m., Tuesday, March 16,
2010. Sealed bids will be due on
April 29, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.,
Prevailing Local Time, unless
otherwise
amended,
at
Metropolitan Transit System,
Procurement
Dept.
1255
Imperial Avenue, Suite 1000,
San Diego, California 92101.
Bids received after that time or
at any other place other than
the place stated herein will not
be considered.
MTS hereby notifies all bidders
that in regard to any contract
entered into pursuant to this
advertisement; Disadvantaged
Business
Enterprises
(as
defined in 49 CFR Part 26) will
not be subject to discrimination
on the basis of race, color, sex
or national origin in consideration
for an award.
This project is subject to a
capital assistance grant between
San Diego Metropolitan Transit
System (MTS), and the U.S.
Department of Transportation,
Federal Transit Administration.
MTS reserves the right to reject
any and all bids and to readvertise for bids.
3/5/10
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name:
QUALSTAFF RESOURCES,
9444 Waples St. #100. San Diego, CA 92121
Mailing Address: same
This Business is Conducted by:
A Limited Liability Company
The First Day of Business Was:
2/15/2003
This Business Is Hereby Registered by the Following:
The June Group, UC, 9444
Waples Street Suite 100, San
Diego, CA 92121, CA
I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct.
Signature of Registrant:
Roger Scott Silver Hill, President
This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County
Clerk of San Diego County FEB
22, 2010
The filing of this statement does
not of itself authorize the use in
this state of Fictitious Business
NAME STATEMENT
Assigned File No.: 2010-004402 Name in violation of the rights
of another under federal, state,
Fictitious Business Name:
Published: 2/19,26,3/5,12/2010 or common law.
FIESTA PIÑATA MEXICAN La Prensa San Diego
Assigned File No.: 2010-005025
CANDY STORE, 6211 Imperial
Ave., San Diego, CA 92114
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010
Mailing Address: 6211 Imperial
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
La Prensa San Diego
Ave., San Diego, CA 92114
NAME STATEMENT
This Business is Conducted by:
Husband and Wife
Fictitious Business Name:
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
The First Day of Business Was: COUGARS TAE KWON DO
NAME STATEMENT
01-01-10
STUDIOS, 1223-I Third Ave.,
Fictitious Business Name:
This Business Is Hereby Regis- Chula Vista, CA 91911
tered by the Following:
Mailing Address: 330 Palomar St. SERVICIOS GARITA OTAY,
1. Juan David Aguilar, 1200 Apt. E-1, Chula Vista, CA 91911 INC., 9765 Marconi Dr. Ste. 105,
Grant Ave., Spc. #51, Spring Val- This Business is Conducted by: San Diego, CA 92154
This Business is Conducted by:
ley, CA 91977
An Individual
2. Erika Lizet Valdez, 1200 Grand The First Day of Business Was: A Corporation
The First Day of Business Was:
Ave. Spc. #51, Spring Valley, CA N/A
91977
This Business Is Hereby Regis- 01/26/10
This Business Is Hereby RegisI declare that all information in tered by the Following:
this statement is true and cor- Miguel A. Lopez, 330 Palomar St. tered by the Following:
rect.
Apt. E-1, Chula Vista, CA 91911 Servicios Garita Otay, 9765
Signature of Registrant: Juan I declare that all information in Marconi Dr. Ste. 105, San Diego,
David Aguilar
this statement is true and cor- CA 92154, California
I declare that all information in
This Statement Was Filed With rect.
David Butler Recorder/County S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t : this statement is true and correct.
Clerk of San Diego County FEB Miguel A. Lopez
08, 2010
This Statement Was Filed With S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t :
The filing of this statement does David Butler Recorder/County Rosario I. Torres, President
not of itself authorize the use in Clerk of San Diego County FEB This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County
this state of Fictitious Business 09, 2010
Name in violation of the rights The filing of this statement does Clerk of San Diego County JAN
of another under federal, state, not of itself authorize the use in 26, 2010
or common law.
this state of Fictitious Business The filing of this statement does
Name in violation of the rights not of itself authorize the use in
Assigned File No.: 2010-003621 of another under federal, state, this state of Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights
Published: 2/12,19,26,3/5/2010 or common law.
of another under federal, state,
La Prensa San Diego
Assigned File No.: 2010-003793 or common law.
Published: 2/19,26,3/5,12/2010 Assigned File No.: 2010-002120
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010
NAME STATEMENT
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Fictitious Business Name:
NAME STATEMENT
PRINCESS JUMPERS, 777 Ada
St. Unit 12, Chula Vista, CA Fictitious Business Name:
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
91911
EMPEROR, 336 El Loro St.,
NAME STATEMENT
This Business is Conducted by: Chula Vista, CA 91911
An Individual
This Business is Conducted by: Fictitious Business Name:
PASCUALI MOTORS, 1328 HeriThe First Day of Business Was: An Individual
N/A
The First Day of Business Was: tage Rd. #A, San Diego, CA
92154
This Business Is Hereby Regis- N/A
tered by the Following:
This Business Is Hereby Regis- Mailing Address: 2494 Mackenzie
Creek Rd., Chula Vista, CA
Alma Cristal Rosario, 777 Ada St. tered by the Following:
Unit 12, Chula Vista, CA 91911 Rodolfo Valencia, 336 El Loro St., 91914
This Business is Conducted by:
I declare that all information in Chula Vista, CA 91911
this statement is true and cor- I declare that all information in An Individual
rect.
this statement is true and cor- The First Day of Business Was:
N/A
Signature of Registrant: Alma rect.
Cristal Rosario
S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t : This Business Is Hereby Registered by the Following:
This Statement Was Filed With Rodolfo Valencia
David Butler Recorder/County This Statement Was Filed With Ivanna Renee Heard, 2494
Clerk of San Diego County FEB David Butler Recorder/County Mackenzie Creek Rd., Chula
08, 2010
Clerk of San Diego County FEB Vista, CA 91914
I declare that all information in
The filing of this statement does 19, 2010
not of itself authorize the use in The filing of this statement does this statement is true and corthis state of Fictitious Business not of itself authorize the use in rect.
Name in violation of the rights this state of Fictitious Business S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t :
of another under federal, state, Name in violation of the rights Ivanna Renee Heard
or common law.
of another under federal, state, This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County
or common law.
Assigned File No.: 2010-003520
Clerk of San Diego County FEB
Assigned File No.: 2010-004788 18, 2010
Published: 2/12,19,26,3/5/2010
La Prensa San Diego
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010 The filing of this statement does
not of itself authorize the use in
La Prensa San Diego
this state of Fictitious Business
SUMMONS
Name in violation of the rights served on you to file a Reof another under federal, state, sponse (form FL-120 or FL-123)
at the court and have a copy
or common law.
served on the petitioner. A letter
Assigned File No.: 2010-004685 or phone call will not protect you.
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010 If you do not file your Response
on time, the court may make orLa Prensa San Diego
ders affecting your marriage,
your property and custody of
your children. You may be orFICTITIOUS BUSINESS
dered to pay support and attorNAME STATEMENT
ney fees and costs. If you canFictitious Business Name:
not pay the filing fee, ask the
a. NAMA; b. NATIONAL ASSO- clerk for a fee waiver form.
CIATION OF MORTGAGE AUDI- If you want legal advice, contact
TORS, 311 F St. Ste. 207, Chula a lawyer immediately. You can
Vista, CA 91910
get information about finding
Mailing Address: same as above lawyers at the California Courts
This Business is Conducted by: Online Self-Help Center (www.
A Corporation
court.ca.gov/self help), at the
The First Day of Business Was: California Legal Services Web
2/18/10
site (www.law helpcalifornia.org),
This Business Is Hereby Regis- or by contacting your local
tered by the Following:
county bar association.
Des Walker, Inc., 311 F St. Ste.
207, Chula Vista, CA 91910, NOTICE: The restraining orders
on page 2 are effective against
California
I declare that all information in both spouses or domestic partthis statement is true and cor- ners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered,
rect.
S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t : or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforcePatricia de Saracho, Treasure
This Statement Was Filed With able anywhere in California by
David Butler Recorder/County any law enforcement office who
Clerk of San Diego County FEB has received or seen a copy of
them.
18, 2010
The filing of this statement does NOTE: If a judgment or support
not of itself authorize the use in order is entered, the court may
this state of Fictitious Business order you to pay all or part of
Name in violation of the rights the fees and costs that the court
of another under federal, state, waived for yourself or for the
or common law.
other party. If this happens, the
party ordered to pay fees shall
Assigned File No.: 2010-004606 be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set
Published: 3/5,12,19,26/2010
aside the order to pay waived
La Prensa San Diego
court fees.
1. The name and address of the
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF
NAME STATEMENT
CA SAN DIEGO, COUNTY OF
SAN DIEGO, SOUTH COUNTY
Fictitious Business Name:
HIGHLAND BUILDERS, 2113 - DIVISION, 500 Third Avenue,
A Northshore Dr., Chula Vista, Chula Vista, CA 91910
CA 91913
2. The name, address, and teleMailing Address: 2113-A North- phone number of petitioner's atshore Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91913 torney, or the petitioner without
Mailing Address: 2113 - A North- an attorney, is: TRICIA K.
shore Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91913 S E I F E R T, B A R # 2 2 5 8 8 5 ,
This Business is Conducted by: VELTMANN & LETO LLP, 1620
A Limited Partnership
Fifty Avenue, Suite 700, San
The First Day of Business Was: Diego, CA 92101
5/14/2009
This Business Is Hereby Regis- Date: NOV 19, 2009
Clerk, by C. ROMERO. Deputy
tered by the Following:
1. Pedro L. Jimenez, Jr., 2113 - NOTICE TO THE PERSON
A Northshore Dr., Chula Vista, SERVED: as an individual
CA 91913
2. Allan R. Tabay, 1435 Ohara Published: 3/5,12,19,26/2010
La Prensa San Diego
Ct., San Diego, CA 92114
I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct.
CHANGE OF NAME
Signature of Registrant:
Pedro L. Jimenez, Jr., General
Partner
This Statement Was Filed With
David Butler Recorder/County ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Clerk of San Diego County MAR
(CCP 1277)
01, 2010
CASE NUMBER:
The filing of this statement does
37-2010-00085224-CU-PT-CTL
not of itself authorize the use in
this state of Fictitious Business TO ALL INTERESTED PERName in violation of the rights SONS:
of another under federal, state, Petitioner: ERNEST MUÑOZ, filed
a petition with this court for a deor common law.
cree changing names as follows:
Assigned File No.: 2010-005757 ERNEST MUÑOZ to EVELYNE
ELIZABETH MUÑOZ
Published: 3/5,12,19,26/2010
THE COURT ORDERS that all
persons interested in this matter
shall appear before this court at
the hearing indicated below to
SUMMONS
show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should
not be granted.
NOTICE OF HEARING
SUMMONS
Date: MAR 25, 2010. Time: 8:30
CASE NUMBER:
37-2009-00079772-CL-OR-SC A.M. Dept: D-25.
The address of the court is SuNOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
perior Court of California,
LORENZO MEZA, JR.
County of San Diego, 220 West
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101
A Copy of this Order to Show
PLAINTIFF:
GREYSTONE AT EASTLAKE Cause shall be published at least
VISTAS HOMEOWNERS ASSO- once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set
CIATION
for hearing on the petition in the
NOTICE! You have been sued: following newspaper of general
The court may decide against circulation printed in this county
you without your being heard La Prensa San Diego, 651 Third
unless you respond within 30 Avenue, Suite C, Chula Vista,
days. Read the information be- CA 91910
low.
You have 30 CALENDAR Date: FEB 10, 2010
DAYS after this summons and KEVIN A. ENRIGHT
legal papers are served on you Judge of the Superior Court
to file a written response at this
court and have a copy served Published: 2/12,19,26,3/5/2010
on the plaintiff. A letter or phone La Prensa San Diego
call will not protect you. Your
written response must be in
proper legal form if you want the ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
court to hear your case. There FOR CHANGE OF NAME
(CCP 1277)
may be a court form that you
CASE NUMBER:
can use for your response. You
can find these court forms and 37-2010-00083102-CU-PT-CTL
more information at the Califor- TO ALL INTERESTED PERnia Courts Online Self-Help Cen- SONS:
ter (www.court.ca.gov/self help), Petitioner: BENJAMIN MORyour county law library, or the ANDO, ROSA COLEMAN, filed
courthouse nearest you. If you a petition with this court for a decannot pay the filing fee, as the cree changing names as follows:
court clerk for a fee waiver form. SERGIO CESAR ESTRADA to
If you do not file your response SERGIO CESAR MORANDO
on time, you may lose the case THE COURT ORDERS that all
by default, and your wages, persons interested in this matter
money, and property may be shall appear before this court at
taken without further warning the hearing indicated below to
from the court.
show cause, if any, why the peThere are other legal require- tition for change of name should
ments. You may want to call an not be granted.
attorney right away. If you do not
NOTICE OF HEARING
know an attorney, you may want Date: APR 01, 2010. Time: 8:30
to call an attorney referral ser- A.M. Dept: D-25.
vice. If you cannot afford an at- The address of the court is Sutorney, you may be eligible for perior Court of California,
free legal services from a non- County of San Diego, 220 West
profit legal services program. Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101
You can locate these nonprofit A Copy of this Order to Show
groups at the California Legal Cause shall be published at least
Services Web site (www.law once each week for four succeshelpcalifornia.org), the California sive weeks prior to the date set
Courts Online Self-Help Center for hearing on the petition in the
(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhlep), following newspaper of general
or by contacting your local court circulation printed in this county
or county bar association. La Prensa San Diego, 651 Third
NOTE: The court has a statutory Avenue, Suite C, Chula Vista,
lien for waived fees and costs CA 91910
of any settlement or arbitration
award of $10.000 or more in a Date: FEB 16, 2010
civil case. The court’s lien must KEVIN A. ENRIGHT
be paid before the court will dis- Judge of the Superior Court
miss the case.
Published: 2/19,26,3/5,12/2010
The name and address of the La Prensa San Diego
court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF
CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF
SAN DIEGO, South County Re- ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
gional Center, 500 Third Ave.,
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Chula Vista, CA 91910
(CCP 1277)
The name, address, and teleCASE NUMBER:
phone number of plaintiff’s 37-2010-00065608-CU-PT-EC
attorney, or plaintiff without TO ALL INTERESTED PERan attorney, is: Patricia M. Bea- SONS:
ver (Bar # 264153), Wasserman Petitioner: PHILLIP ANDREW
Kornheiser, LLP, 7955 Raytheon LUQUE, filed a petition with this
Rd., San Diego, CA 92111.
court for a decree changing
names as follows: PHILLIP ANDate: DEC 01, 2009
DREW LUQUE to PHILLIP ANClerk, by V. LEARNED
DREW LORENZO
NOTICE TO THE PERSON THE COURT ORDERS that all
SERVED: You are served as an persons interested in this matter
individual defendant
shall appear before this court at
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010 the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the peLa Prensa San Diego
tition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes
SUMMONS - (Family Law) described above must file a
written objection that includes the
CASE NUMBER: DS40979
reasons for the objection at least
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT:
two court days before the matANITA GARCIA-GONZALEZ
ter is scheduled to be heard and
You are being sued.
must appear at the hearing to
P E T I T I O N E R ' S N A M E I S : show cause why the petition
E D U A R D O V I L L A G O M E Z - should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the
ALCAUTER
You have 30 calendar days af- court may grant the petition withter this Summons and Petition are out a hearing.
CHANGE OF NAME
NOTICE OF PETITION
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: 4/28/10. Time: 8:30 A.M.
Dept: 14.
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,
County of San Diego, 250 East
Main Street, El Cajon, 92020,
East County Regional Center
A Copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published at least
once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set
for hearing on the petition in the
following newspaper of general
circulation printed in this county
La Prensa San Diego, 651 Third
Avenue, Suite C, Chula Vista,
CA 91910
Date: FEB 24, 2010
PETER C DEDDEH
Judge of the Superior Court
Published: 2/26,3/5,12,19/2010
La Prensa San Diego
preceding the filing of this petition, the newspaper has been
established under the name of
Enlace, and has been so established and published, that is, issued and sold or distributed regularly every Saturday in the City
of Chula Vista, California.
6. During each year of the
three-year period preceding the
filing of this petition, the newspaper has maintained a minimum coverage of local news and
intelligence of a general character of not less than twenty-five
percent of its total inches; it has
had only one principal office of
publication, located in the City
of Chula Vista, California.
WHEREFORE, petitioner
prays for judgment ascertaining
and establishing Enlace as a
newspaper of general circulation,
as defined in Section 6008 of the
Government Code, for the City
of Chula Vista.
DATED: February 19, 2010
ENLACE
By:________________________
John Rawlings
Petitioner
REID & HELLYER
A PROFESSIONAL
CORPORATION
By:________________________
James. J. Manning, Jr.
Attorneys for Petitioner
John Rawlings
NOTIFICACIÓN PÚBLICA
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
(CCP 1277)
CASE NUMBER:
37-2010-00075606-CU-PT-SC
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: ALISHA PROSSER
on behalf of KELINA MARIE
JONES LITTLEFAIR, a minor,
filed a petition with this court for
a decree changing names as follows: KELINA MARIE JONES
LITTLEFAIR to KELINA MARIE
JONES TORREZ
THE COURT ORDERS that all
persons interested in this matter
shall appear before this court at
the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should
not be granted.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: 4-15-2010. Time: 8:30 A.M.
Dept: 4. Room: 2nd Floor
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,
County of San Diego, South
County Division, 500 3rd Ave.,
Chula Vista, CA 91910-5649
A Copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published at least
once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set
for hearing on the petition in the
following newspaper of general
circulation printed in this county
La Prensa San Diego, 651 Third
Avenue, Suite C, Chula Vista,
CA 91910
Date: MAR 02, 2010
WILLIAM S. CANNON
Judge of the Superior Court
Published: 3/5,12,19,26/2010
La Prensa San Diego
NOTICE OF PETITION
SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA FOR THE
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO SOUTH COUNTY
REGIONAL CENTER
In the Matter of the Petition of
John Rawlings to Have the
Standing of Enlace as a
Newspaper of General
Circulation Ascertained and
Established.
CASE NO.
37-2010-00075334-CU-PT-SC
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
APPLY FOR ORDER
DECLARING STATUS OF
NEWSPAPER AS ONE OF
GENERAL CIRCULATION
[Gov. Code § 6021]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that on April 2, 2010, at 8:30
a.m., or as soon thereafter as
the matter may be heard in Department 4 of this court, located
at 500 3rd Avenue, Chula Vista,
California, petitioner intends to
apply for an order declaring the
newspaper known as Enlace to
be a newspaper of general circulation for the City of Chula
Vista.
DATED: February 22, 2010
REID & HELLYER
A PROFESSIONAL
CORPORATION
By:_______________
James. J. Manning, Jr.
Scott Talkov
Attorneys for Petitioner
John Rawlings
SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA FOR THE
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO SOUTH COUNTY
REGIONAL CENTER
In the Matter of the Petition of
John Rawlings to Have the
Standing of Enlace as a
Newspaper of General
Circulation Ascertained and
Established.
CASE NO.
37-2010-00075334-CU-PT-SC
PETITION TO ASCERTAIN
AND ESTABLISH STANDING
AS NEWSPAPER OF
GENERAL CIRCULATION
[Gov. Code §§ 6008, 6020]
Petitioner, John Rawlings, alleges:
1. Petitioner is the manager
of the newspaper known as Enlace, hereafter referred to as “the
newspaper.”
2. Under Government Code
section 6008, Petitioner must allege that the newspaper (a) is
published for the dissemination
of local news and intelligence of
a general character, which has a
bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers and has been
established and published at
regular intervals of not less than
weekly in the city for which it is
seeking adjudication for at least
three years preceding the date
of adjudication; (b) has a substantial distribution to paid subscribers in the city in which it is
seeking adjudication; (c) has
maintained a minimum coverage
of local news and intelligence of
a general character of not less
than 25 percent of its total inches
during each year of the threeyear period; and (d) has only one
principal office of publication
and that office is in the city for
which it is seeking adjudication.
3. The newspaper is a newspaper of general circulation published for the dissemination of
local news and intelligence of a
general character in the City of
Chula Vista, California. The business address of the newspaper
is 1669 Brandywine Avenue,
Chula Vista, California.
4. The newspaper has a bona
fide subscription list of paying
subscribers, numbering 4,403,
and a substantial distribution to
paying subscribers in the City of
Chula Vista, numbering 353,
which is sufficient under the statute. (See In re Herman (1920) 183
Cal. 153, 164-165)
5. For more than three years
AUTORIDAD DE VIVIENDAS
DEL CONDADO DE SAN DIEGO
CAMBIO EN LA FECHA DE LA
AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA
PLAN DE LA AGENCIA DE
VIVIENDAS PÚBLICAS
PLAN DE CINCO AÑOS PARA
LOS AÑOS FISCALES 2010 AL
2014
PLAN ANUAL PARA EL AÑO
FISCAL 2010-2011
Por medio del presente se notifica que la audiencia pública
programada por los Miembros del
Consejo Administrativo de la
Autoridad de Viviendas del Condado de San Diego para el Plan
de Cinco Años de Viviendas
Públicas, el Plan Anual, la Política
de Admisión y Ocupación de
Viviendas Públicas, y el Plan
Administrativo del programa
Sección 8, ha sido cambiada del
3 de Marzo de 2010 al 24 de Marzo
de 2010, a las 9:00 a.m., en el
Salón 310 del Centro Administrativo del Condado, que se
encuentra en 1600 Pacific Highway, en San Diego, CA.
Condado de San Diego
Depto. de Viviendas y
Desarrollo de la Comunidad
3989 Ruffin Rd.
San Diego, CA 92123
Published: 3/5/2010
La Prensa San Diego
Published: 2/26,3/5/2010
La Prensa San Diego
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SAN DIEGO HOME
BUYERS FAIR,
MARCH 20, 2010
WHO: First time homebuyers
WHAT: 5th Annual Home Buyers Fair, sponsored by the East San Diego County Association of REALTORS Housing Opportunity
Committee
Multiple lenders and local government agencies will be offering options regarding down
payments, closing costs and silent second loans
for low-to-middle income first time home buyers.
Booth space is available from $100.00. Vendors and prospective first-time homebuyers
can learn more about the event by calling 619579-0333, ext. 102, between the hours of 9:00
a.m.-5 p.m. or on the Web anytime at
www.edscar.org.
WHEN: March 20, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend the event
and parking is free.
WHERE: Ronald Reagan Community Center, 195 East Douglas, El Cajon, CA 92020
HOW: Seasoned realtors, financial experts,
lenders and local government agencies will
share their knowledge in the form of workshops and presentations such as the “ABC’s
of Buying a Home.” Additional workshops and
presentations:
Ø
What consumers need to know when
buying a real estate owned and short sale property;
Ø Representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will
educate attendees about the Neighborhood
Stabilization Program and first time homebuyer
programs;
Ø Springboard, a non-profit consumer credit
management organization, will share vital information about how to save money;
Ø Fair attendees will also learn from San
Diego’s well-known money man, George
Chamberlin, executive editor of The Daily
Transcript, and money advisor for KNSDTV 7/39. Chamberlin will be the featured
speaker at the event and will address attendees at Noon;
Ø Other lenders and local government agencies expected to participate at the fair include
US Bank, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and
the City of La Mesa.
WHY: With approximately 8,500 homes for
sale in San Diego County, including hundreds
of short-sale and foreclosure opportunities,
first time home buyers have a unique chance
to take advantage of a tremendous buyers
market that is likely to continue through 2010.
It’s also an especially opportune time for those
seeking to purchase a bigger home. Yet purchasing property can be an overwhelming process for first time home buyers, which is why
the annual Home Buyers Fair provides a great
opportunity to learn from the experts.
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MARCH 5, 2010
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
Chicken Marsala
Delicious ways to
add Omega-3s
to your meals
What Is
FAMILY FEATURES
F
Chicken Marsala
Serves 4
2 1/4 pounds chicken parts,
skin removed
2 tablespoons Pompeian
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 cup Pompeian Marsala
Cooking Wine
8 garlic cloves with skin on
2 to 3 lemons cut into
wedges
4 rosemary sprigs
Salt and pepper to taste*
Preheat oven to 400°F. Place chicken
pieces in a roasting pan and drizzle
with extra virgin olive oil. Season
with salt and pepper to taste. Place
garlic among chicken pieces and
tuck lemon wedges alongside garlic.
Pour cooking wine over chicken.
Scatter rosemary sprigs on top of
chicken and bake for 10 minutes.
Lower the oven temperature to 350°F
and bake for another 15 minutes, or
until chicken is golden brown and
juices run clear when chicken is
pierced. Serve immediately.
*All cooking wines are denatured,
so adjust your salt content
accordingly.
Omega-3 DHA?
Omega-3 DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is a
long-chain Omega-3 fatty
acid. It serves as a
primary building block
for the brain and the eyes
and supports brain, eye
and cardiovascular health
throughout life. DHA has
been shown to reduce
the decline in mental
function among healthy
adults.
There is a large and
growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating that people of
all ages benefit from
an adequate supply of
Omega-3 DHA in the diet.
oods for a healthy
lifestyle can be full
of great flavor.
The traditional Mediterranean diet is a wonderful
example of great food that
can have a healthy impact
on the body.
The Mediterranean diet
is characterized by daily
consumption of olive oil,
fish, fruits, vegetables,
legumes, nuts and whole
grains. It encourages eating
fewer processed foods and
reducing consumption of
meat, a common source of
Omega-6 fatty acids.
Everyone needs
Omega-6 and Omega-3
essential fatty acids
because our bodies don’t
produce them. But it’s important to
keep them in the right balance to each
other — a 2:1 ratio of Omega-6 to -3.
The Mediterranean Diet helps achieve
that balance by focusing on using olive
oil instead of vegetable cooking oils
that are high in Omega-6.
Chef Nick Stellino,
of PBS-TV fame, uses
Pompeian OlivExtra Plus
with Omega-3 DHA for
sautéing, baking and
preparing soups, sauces
and marinades because
OlivExtra Plus has both
olive oil and an added
infusion of Omega-3 to
help achieve a better
balance.
“If you are going to cook
with oil, doesn’t it make
sense to cook with one that
contains more Omega-3?”
asks Chef Stellino. In fact,
OlivExtra Plus contains
a full 32 mg of Omega-3
per serving, which the
Chef Nick Stellino
FDA states is considered
an excellent source of
Omega-3 DHA.
These recipes for
Chicken Marsala, Red Beet and Blood
Orange Salad, and Black Bean,
Edamame and Wheat Berry Salad make
it easy to set a healthy table everyone
will be happy to sit down to.
For more delicious ways to set a
healthy table, visit www.pompeian.com.
Black Bean, Edamame
and Wheat Berry Salad
Red Beet and Blood Orange Salad
Black Bean, Edamame and Wheat Berry Salad
Serves 6 (3/4-cup servings)
4 cups water
1/2 cup dry wheat berries
1/2 of a 15-ounce can of
black beans, rinsed and
drained
1 cup frozen, shelled
edamame, thawed
1 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup finely chopped red
onion
2 tablespoons Pompeian
Red Wine Vinegar
3 tablespoons Pompeian
OlivExtra Plus
Salt and black pepper
to taste
Combine water and wheat berries
in medium saucepan and bring to
a boil. Reduce heat, cover and
simmer 55 minutes or until wheat
berries are just tender.
Place in a fine mesh strainer and
run under cold water to cool quickly;
drain well.
Combine wheat berries with
remaining ingredients in medium
bowl. Serve immediately or cover
with plastic wrap and refrigerate
up to 8 hours in advance.
Note: Wheat berries are unprocessed
wheat kernels and are sold in major
supermarkets and health food stores.
Simple Substitutions
Instead of using butter or margarine,
try substituting heart-healthy olive oil.
This chart from the International Olive
Oil Council shows how:
Butter/
Use this much
Margarine
olive oil
1 teaspoon
3/4 teaspoon
1 tablespoon 2 1/4 teaspoons
2 tablespoons 1 1/2 tablespoons
1/4 cup
3 tablespoons
1/2 cup
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons
2/3 cup
1/2 cup
3/4 cup
1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon
1 cup
3/4 cup
2 cups
1 1/2 cups
Red Beet and
Blood Orange Salad
Serves 4 (about 1 cup salad per serving,
plus 1/4 cup dressing for later use)
Dressing
1/4 cup Pompeian OlivExtra Plus
1/4 cup Pompeian Blueberry
Pomegranate Infused Red Wine
Vinegar
2 to 3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
Salad
2 medium size, fresh beets
(about 10 ounces total), stemmed
and scrubbed
4 large Romaine lettuce leaves
or 4 cups loosely packed field
greens (about 4 ounces total)
2 blood oranges or navel oranges,
peeled and cut into sections
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onions
1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
1/2 ounce chopped walnuts, toasted
(optional)
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Peel beets under running water to prevent
staining of fingertips. Drain on paper towels
and cut each beet into eight wedges.
Place beets on foil-lined baking sheet,
drizzle with 1 teaspoon oil (from the dressing ingredient list) and toss to coat well.
Arrange in a single layer, bake 10 minutes,
stir and cook 10 minutes longer or until just
tender. Remove foil and beets from baking
sheet and place on wire rack to cool at least
10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine salad dressing
ingredients in a jar or container with lid.
Arrange lettuce on a large platter, top
with remaining salad ingredients and beets.
Shake jar vigorously and drizzle one half
of the dressing evenly over all. Refrigerate
remaining dressing up to 3 days for later use.