Letters to the Editor

October 2009

LETTERS TO EDITOR

 From: "Victor M. Oliveros" <voliveros@stx.rr.com>
Date: 2009/10/02 Fri AM 03:07:20 EDT
To: <Editor@hispanic.sdcoxmail.com>
Subject: FW: Latino Policy eNewsletter - Sept. 30, 2009
From: Victor M. Oliveros [mailto:voliveros@stx.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:59 AM
To: 'info@hispanicvista.com'
Subject: FW: Latino Policy eNewsletter - Sept. 30, 2009
Dear Mr. Osio,

Thank you for your excellent publication.  I rely on the opinion of your
many knowledgeable contributors to obtain much of the  information that
sometimes is not published by mainstream news media in this country.  In the
past several years I have seen with dismay the proliferation of several
blatantly racist anti Mexican, anti Latino and anti Mexican immigrant TV
programs ostensibly labeling their content as being aimed only against
illegal immigrants.

I would like to share with you an e-mail that I am sending to Mr. Angelo
Falcon of the Latino Policy eNewsletter.

I would really like to know how CNN and FOX news editors explain those
pseudo newscasts and opinion programs that don't allow time for rebuttal
from anybody disagreeing with their content.  I would like to know if they
broadcast their vitriol in their Mexico and Latin America broadcasts.  If
they don't, I believe that they have the public moral responsibility to
explain their rationale for not doing it, both in this country and the
countries where they broadcast those programs.  If they were bona fide news
or opinion programs, they should know that there may be persons in those
countries that may agree with the content of their broadcasts.  Wouldn't
they like to know that? Or are their broadcasts exclusively for the hate
mongers amongst us?  Are these networks ashamed or afraid to broadcast those
programs in Latin America and Mexico?

Sincerely
Victor M. Oliveros
Laredo, Texas
From: Victor M. Oliveros [mailto:voliveros@stx.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:22 AM
To: 'editor@latinopolicy.org'
Subject: RE: Latino Policy eNewsletter - Sept. 30, 2009
Dear Mr. Falcon,

Thank you for the dissemination of well researched, factual information
regarding matters that affect not only the Latino population of this country
but many other non-white American minorities.  I share with you and many
others a deep distaste for the dissemination of malicious lies and blatant
disinformation disguised as news, spread by some rabid anti-immigrant TV
programs masquerading as legitimate news programs.  They target mostly
Mexican immigrants and specifically focus and accuse the country of Mexico
of being the source of the many social, economic,  health and security
problems that plague America.    They and the networks that allow them to
disseminate their lies demonize Mexico on one hand and on the other they
benefit from Mexico's money by broadcasting in Mexico and Latin America. 

I would like to find out, and perhaps you and your many readers and
contributors to your publication would too, if those networks (FOX and CNN)
include those programs in their Mexico and Latin America broadcasts.  If
they are, as they purport them to be, bona fide newscast and or opinion
programs they should definitely be broadcast there.  Bona fide newscasts
have editors that insure the viewing public that the news they are
broadcasting are accurate regardless of content and ultimately these
networks have to assume responsibility for what they broadcast as news and
or opinion.  They must allow the advertisers and viewing public in Mexico
and Latin America to also express their opinion by whatever personal or
official action they deem necessary.   They would be exercising their
constitutional rights in their own countries; most certainly those networks
wouldn't object to that.

Sincerely,
Victor M. Oliveros
Laredo, Texas


PREVIOUS LETTER TO EDITOR

From: "Marcel Didier" <mrdidier@att.net>
Date: 2009/04/30 Thu PM 07:00:31 EDT
To: <Editor@hispanic.sdcoxmail.com>
Subject: Illegal because they can't come legally!

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry is a professor emeritus at Oregon State University

Immigration: They come illegally because they can't come legally

By Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, guest opinion

Where is it written that Mexicans and other foreigners have a RIGHT to come
to the US?

Where is it written that America has an obligation to accept whoever wants
to come?

It is the sovereign RIGHT of any nation to determine who, how many and when
to permit immigrants entry into the US. PERIOD.

The emotion is on the side of the defenders of these criminals who justify
their criminality on the basis that they are here for "noble reasons". No
noble reason gives them the right to violate the laws of the country that
they claim to respect and love. Even IF they contributed and even IF they
were needed by the US economy that does NOT give them a right to enter at
will. PUNTO.

Professors should know better than to be intellectually one-sided.

Marcel Didier
Illinois