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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns Week of June 20, 2006	HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns Week of June 20, 2006
The sounds good but does nothing rhetoric of our times
The sounds good but does nothing rhetoric of our times	Who cost Francine Busby the election?
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com June 20, 2006 Capitalizing on legitimate concerns about illegal immigration, citizens have been presented with a wide assortment of frustration relieving “sound good” schemes that solve nothing. The assortment is wide and varied and comes from government officials, organizations or private citizens with a “great idea.” So it may serve us to take a closer look at some of them.	By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com June 20, 2006 "I actually voted for it before I voted against it," remains one of the greatest political gaffes in memory. It was from the very moment Senator John Kerry uttered those words during the 2004 presidential campaign. Question: Did that gaffe cost Kerry the election.
On Immigration	Druggyland
By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com June 20, 2006 FROM MEXICO As the Mexican election of 2 July comes to a grinding end, I will not make any projections. What we now have is the two leading parties (PAN and PRD), one from the right and one from the left, in a dead heat with plenty of vitriol to go around. Both parties are acting like vultures attempting to pick up votes from the carcass of the PRI (the old, deposed ruling party). What they are looking for is what we call in México, the "useful" vote. Why vote for a looser? Save your vote and vote for a possible winner with a "useful" vote.	By Rami Schwartz June 20, 2006 FROM MEXICO Mexico has a new name, druggyland, the Disneyland of the drug cartels and dealers. The priorities of Mexico’s political class are upside down. While presidential candidates spend 600 million dollars in advertising for the July 2 election, while President Fox spends 120 million additional dollars in advertising the null achievements of his administration, kids in Mexico are consuming more drugs than ever before, more drugs than any other kids in the world. Millions of Mexico’s youngsters and infants are already a lost generation, human waste…
Will Mexico Add to Latin America's Leftist Leaning?	The History of Zacatecas
By Robert Miranda Chile and Peru joined the leftist trend Latin America is steam rolling towards with the election of Dr. Michelle Bahelet as President and Alan García Pérez, a moderate Peruvian leftist. Bahelet becomes the second woman to be freely elected head of state in South America’s history. Next in this trend could be Mexico, and then following that election is Nicaragua.	HISTORY By John P. Schmal The state of Zacatecas, located in the north-central portion of the Mexican Republic, is a land rich in cultural, religious, and historical significance. With a total of 75,040 square kilometers, Zacatecas is Mexico's eighth largest state and occupies 3.383% of the total surface of the country. Politically, the state is divided into fifty-six municipios and has a total of 5,064 localities, 86% of which correspond to the old haciendas.
Mexico Steps Back from the Electoral Brink, but Perilous Days Likely to Lie Ahead	The Elusive African American and Latino Coalition
By Michael Lettieri With the July 2 national election looming, Mexico’s presidential race has been consumed by vitriolic ad hominem attacks which have deeply scored the finish of the country’s newly-minted democracy. As negative tactics have continued undiminished, and tit-for-tat corruption allegations seize center stage, it appears evermore likely that the legacy of the presidential race will be that of a deeply divided country.	By Randy Jurado Ertll We need to have a real dialogue among the African American and Latino community. It is not enough for minority elected officials or community leaders to speak among each other. What is truly of essence is that the working class, African Americans and Latinos, begin to establish better communication, trust, respect, and mutual agreements to share power in the United States.
Raza isn't racist	VIEW FROM THE PIER
By Gustavo Arellano THE REVOLUTION always finishes the same way: Someone claps. Then someone else. Someone else. Others join. More. Faster. More. Everyone in unison. Rhythmic. Louder. Faster. Finally, someone shrieks, "¡Qué viva la raza!" (Long live the Mexican race!). "¡Qué viva!" (May it live!), everyone screamed in response. And then we go off to continue the reconquista.	By Herman Sillas Along with fishing, I enjoy listening to pier pals, some of which you have met through this column. Many are seniors and their daily pier stroll is as important to them as brushing their teeth in the morning… Pier pals have great histories. I’m more interested in their stories than I am in fishing. One of the most fascinating stories is that of Don Hamilton. But first be aware that on the pier, we learn people’s first name but seldom their last.
Patrick Osio, Jr. has written, *The Mexican Perspective: Establishing Personal & Business Relations by Understanding Their Culture & Protocol,* a short but intensive E-book on the Mexican perspective on numerous issues between our two countries. The E-book is also an in depth primer on Mexican culture and protocol for better understanding that allows establishing personal and business relationships, and how to avoid the most common faux pas that can ruin relationships and business deals. Literally this book has been of immense help to thousands, you too can gain from Mr. Osio's lifetime experience. About the author Table of Contents Excerpts from the manual What Readers Say _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COMMENTARY THE BEST FROM THE NET June 5, 2006
ANNOUNCEMENT National Society for Hispanic Professionals announces Career Fair Series The National Society for Hispanic Professionals, serving the Hispanic community since 2001, is proud to announce its upcoming Career Fair Series.	Is black-brown unity even possible? By Erin Aubry Kaplan THE IMMIGRANT-rights movement, in addition to raising anxiety among blacks, has also renewed hopes for a black-Latino alliance. This is a lovely idea. It is also doomed to fail.
The need for reform Current events make the case for new immigration laws Los Angeles Daily News Editorial WHILE House and Senate negotiators wrangle over competing immigration bills, the news provides even more reasons - aside from the obvious ones of economic stability, national security and fixing a plainly busted system…	NEW YORK TIMES/Op-Ed Columnist Securing the Border (Again) By John Tierney President Bush heads to New Mexico today to visit his new favorite school, the Border Patrol Academy. He wants it to train thousands more federal agents, but they'll make little difference unless Bush can teach Republicans the lesson learned by agents like Buck Brandemuehl a half century ago — the last time anyone could seriously claim the border was under control.
Pluribus Sine Unum Will the Senate impose race-based government on Hawaii? By John Fund America's motto is "E pluribus unum," Latin for "Out of many, one." Some U.S. senators seem to be reading it backward. This week the Senate will consider legislation that would create an independent, race-based government for Native Hawaiians. If the bill becomes law, it would create a racial spoils system that would hand special privileges…	Spanish language won't be muted By Marisa Trevio As soon as House members came out swinging against the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate, the overriding question was how long it will take for both sides to reach a middle ground. The only common ground today, it seems, is the belief that the border must be secured and the insistence that English should be the national language.
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US targets other leaky border Canada's arrest of terror suspects focuses scrutiny on America's longer, less-patrolled northern border. By Peter Grier More experienced patrol agents. Radiation detection at ports of entry. New rules that require entrants to produce identification, where they once might have been just waved through.	U.S. National Cemetery in Mexico City honors fallen By Therese Margolis/The Herald Mexico In a solemn ceremony at the U.S. National Cemetery in Colonia San Rafael (Mexico City) on Monday, May 29, the American Legion Alan Seeger Post 2 and the U.S. Embassy paid homage to fallen soldiers from U.S. wars, past and present.
Court to Revisit Race in Schools Integration plans across the nation could be in the balance as the Supreme Court agrees to hear constitutional challenges in two cities. By David G. Savage The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up two cases that could mark a historic shift in the role of race in education and spell the end of official efforts to integrate the nation's public schools.	Drugs and suicide rates higher among Hispanic youths By Mike Stobbe Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at far higher rates than their white and black classmates, says a new federal survey that has the experts somewhat perplexed…. More than 11 percent of all Latino students — and 15 percent of Latino girls — said they had attempted suicide, according to the report issued Thursday by…
Latinos launch bank for “underserved community” By Mary Milliken Sun Financial services for Latinos may mean money wires and store credit to many, but a group of wealthy Latinos says it is time to take banking for their fast-growing community to a more sophisticated level.	Commerce News Frontera NorteSur Border Controls Stir Business, Political Leaders Dependent on cross-border tourism, a growing number of business and political leaders in the Mexico-US border region are worrying about the economic impact of pending US border security controls.
Patrick Osio, Jr. has written *The Mexican Perspective: Establishing Personal & Business Relations by Understanding Their Culture & Protocol,* a short but intensive E-book on the Mexican perspective on numerous topics such as immigration, American perceptions about Mexicans, and Mexican perceptions about Americans. The E-book is also an in depth primer on Mexican culture and protocol for better understanding that allows establishing personal and business relationships, and how to avoid the most common faux pas that can ruin relationships and business deals. Literally this book has been of immense help to thousands, you too can gain from Mr. Osio's lifetime experience. About the author Table of Contents Excerpts from the manual

The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture American Perceptions of Mexicans
	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Relationships with Americans
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com At one time or another, most of us have been shown one of those “what do you see” pictures. You know the type, do you see an old hag or a young maiden, or another one with the do you see the silhouette of two faces or a chalice? When not told there is more than one object within the picture, our brain zeros in on the first image it recognizes. Thereafter, it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to get the brain to accept another image is also present. Conversely, when told before looking there are two images, the brain accepts the challenge and is able to look for the second image, once the first image is identified.	By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com Much has been said and written about Mexicans’ love and hate relationship with Americans. Some describe it as Mexicans loving to hate Gringos. As is most often the case, the truth is somewhere in the middle. By and large, Mexicans have a great deal of respect and admiration for the United States and its people as a whole. The problems between Mexico and the U.S. have been more at the level of governments than at the level of people to people. The negatives between the two people, is more the making of Americans than of Mexicans. It is more the negative perceptions harbored by Americans about Mexicans, which in turn causes negative feelings towards Americans.
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Cultural Considerations – An Overview	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Immigration Issue
Patrick Osio, Jr. All Mexicans have one bond in common - their love for Mexico, which includes their flag. It is passionate, proud and limitless. They sing, yell, talk and write about it at the drop of a hat. While the vast majority of Americans are disdainful of other Americans burning our U.S. flag, since the U.S. Supreme Court held that burning of the flag is protected by freedom of speech, we are far more disciplined than Mexicans would be at such a sight – it would lead to riots...	Patrick Osio, Jr. Every time there is a downward economic period in the U.S. the issue of immigration, more precisely, illegal immigration, or as Mexican would rather it be called – undocumented immigration – rises to the surface as an issue, sometimes as a major issue, as it did during the first half of the 1990’s and again at the turn of the century, both periods coinciding with a U.S. economic recession.
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Question of Corruption	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Historical Vignettes
Patrick Osio, Jr. An American businessman said to me, “1 can appreciate and even sympathize with Mexico on the error of some of the negative perceptions that I have long held, but can the corruption be excused, or is this also a figment of our misconception in the U.S.? “ Sadly, no, it’s not a figment. Mexico has a long history of political and personal corruption. The word mordida meaning “bite” in use for...	Patrick Osio, Jr. After the Spanish Conquest of the “New Spain” or “New World,” families from Spanish nobility given land exploitation grants by the King of Spain, settled in Mexico. With this group came professionals (engineers/architects/doctors), merchants, tradesmen, servants and other service providers, but without land grants. Social standing remained the same as it existed back in Spain. Nobility first, followed by professionals, then merchants and tradesmen, then the servants and others. These immigrants were known as “Peninsulars.”
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Mexico a Small Size Melting Pot	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Faces of Mexican Society
Patrick Osio, Jr. Mexicans come in all sizes and colors of the greater human race. And all races are represented within the Mexican nationality. Many Americans mistakenly think that Mexican is in fact a race – it is simply a nationality. A great faux pas is committed when meeting a blond, blue eyed Mexican and uttering – “you don’t look Mexican.” This is terribly insulting to all Mexicans, but particularly to the one on the receiving end of the remark. Such a remark brings contempt and brands the person as ignorant. Such a statement can completely ruin any chance of friendship and/or business.	Patrick Osio, Jr. Until Vicente Fox toppled the PRI’s hold on the Mexican version of the White House, Los Pinos, by being elected as the first opposition party president of Mexico, the true ruling class was made up of a pyramid of government officials, headed by the sitting president – he was the virtual emperor of Mexico during his six years in office. Then came the cabinet secretaries with the Secretario de Gobernacion leading the pack. Then came the under-secretaries of each ministry. Their power and influence on the sitting president, determined the ministry’s importance. After them came the state governors...
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The U.S.-Mexican War	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture US interventions in Mexico
Patrick Osio, Jr. The argument that Mexico was not using much of their territory and thus it was not a big loss sounds hollow to the fact that it was nonetheless their territory. While taking a course in Mexico as a young man, a teacher on finding out that I was a U.S. born citizen asked – if you own a four-bedroom home in which you live by yourself, and I breakdown your door and come in with my friends who are moving from another state, and I beat you until you agree that I can take over two of your bedrooms because you are not using them, does it make it right? He then concluded by saying – what may be Manifest Destiny to those seeking to take from others, is imperialism to those from whom it is taken.	Patrick Osio, Jr. Soon after the U.S.-Mexican war the U.S. attempted to force Mexico under threat of military intervention to sign a treaty giving the U.S. rights to use the isthmus in Southern Mexico and the right in perpetuity to land and sea access from the U.S. border to Mazatlan in the state of Sinaloa. Fortunately, wiser head in the U.S. senate killed the issue, as the demand was headed for another war. Skipping over some of the lesser episodes, but there were episodes, to 1913 when the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, entered into a plot with former General Victoriano Huerta who had served under Porfirio Diaz, and Diaz’s nephew, Felix Diaz, to overthrow Francisco Madero, who had successfully conducted the revolution to oust Diaz.