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A Biographical Tribute by Sal Osio

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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns

July 15, 2007

 

The Mexican Perspective,

By Patrick Osio, Jr.

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Baja California holds competitive advantage for senior assisted living.

It is Dead, Dead, Dead.

By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com

   July 15, 2007

Baja California’s North Coast real estate developers are not satisfied with the price advantage of beach front and ocean view homes enjoyed over the entire coastal communities in California, Oregon and Washington that attracts so many second-home and retirement home seekers. Now they’re aiming at going after the Senior Assisted Living business.

By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com

   July 15, 2007

   FROM MEXICO

Let's face it. In my opinion, immigration reform is a dead issue for now and the near future. As long as the extremes in the US congress keep amending this bill with poison pills, nothing worth keeping will ever emerge.

Let's look at some details:

Take the "A" word; amnesty. To those on the right fringe, I would suggest…

A Republican responsibility: Exposing GOP wrongdoing

Where is home?

By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com

   July 15, 2007

    
          Until the San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci and Lance Williams uncovered the hiring of two foreigners to run the California Republican Party, new State Chairman Ron Nehring was flying high.
Few remembered that he had been fired as Executive Director of the rock solid San Diego Republican Party in 1997 for “poor judgment” and “excessive” expense account spending.

By Gil Cisneros and Wayne Trujillo

The Republican Party is all but announcing, “Party’s over, time to go home!” However, that poses a problem for many Hispanics. Where is home, other than the Democrat Party or Mexico? It has only been eight years since party leaders threw open the flaps of the past, inviting minorities and dissenting viewpoints into to their “Big Tent.” The GOP staged the 2000 Republican National Convention as a grand celebration of diversity and nominated a border state candidate for president who was popular with Hispanics.

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a Chicano lobster

Antonio's perfect storm

By Joe Olvera

I wonder if Hillary Clinton will disavow Antonio Villaraigosa’s endorsement, now that his extra-marital affair has been made public. Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa, who opted to support Hillary Clinton for President because he doesn’t feel that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is “electable,” is embroiled in an affair that has gone public and rumors are that the lady reporter/anchor, Mirthala Salinas, isn’t the only one.

By Gregory Rodriguez

TOO BAD FOR THE philandering mayor. If he'd sold himself as an old-time pol, a hard-charging, foul-mouthed power broker with large appetites, maybe he wouldn't be getting so much flak for his latest marital infidelity.
But instead, our mayor has packaged himself as a high-minded, principled progressive with the right character and moral vision to lead our city. As much as he insists…

The Legal Foundations for Bringing Evolutionists to Justice

Black Men and Immigrants Don’t Compete for Same Jobs

By Luis (de Guerrero) Osio (y Rivas)

In my previous article of May 7th I set out to prove the unbelievable damage extant to our culture, to the point where insanity had become commonplace putting our whole world in danger. Slightly dramatized to make a sordid subject more palatable, you can find it in Past Issues of Hispanic Vista as “Was Fiction Real, or Was Panic Misplaced?” http://www.hispanicvista.com/

By Cynthia Tucker

Talk about strange bedfellows. The anti-illegal immigration campaign has brought together a curious mix of activists, joining white conservatives with a handful of black civil rights crusaders.

In the last year or two, looking to add a certain diversity to their ranks, the Minutemen and similar groups started posting another complaint alongside the usual litany of ills…

Freedom: The History of an Idea

Is Paraguay Set to be the Next Latin American Country to Lean to the Left?

B J. Rufus Fears

 We live  in a  moment that is as critical for freedom as the American Revolution,  the American  Civil War,  or the  days following Pearl  Harbor. In  each of  those moments, America moved the  cause of  freedom forward.  In the Revolution, we declared our  independence from  the greatest  empire of the day, fought  for and won that independence, and then went on to establish  a constitution  that still  gives  us  liberty…

COHA Series on Forthcoming Latin American Elections:

Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo Méndez wants to be the next president while current President Nicanor Duarte contributes to the institution of democracy by not running for re-election
Paraguay Presidential Election April 2008…

Los Talk Shows conservadores fueron pieza fundamental para tumbar la reforma migratoria

Paranoia Galopante

Por Tere QuezadaPor Tere Quezada

Los días han pasado y quise observar el comportamiento de la comentocracia (como dice el Dr. Castañeda), y ahora resulta que activistas y grupos pro migrantes culpan a los radio talk shows conservadores de influir en la población para que el Senado rechazara la segunda votación del debate migratorio. Yo digo que más bien fue al revés, la población utilizó a los radio talk shows para hacerse escuchar y gritarle al Senado que la ciudadanía no quería ningún tipo de reforma migratoria.

México del Norte

Por Jorge Mújica Murias

 

Me cai que no tengo idea si la paranoia, respetable enfermedad mental de los que piensan que están siendo perseguidos, pueda ser médicamente elevada a la categoría de "galopante". Pero lo que si sé es que es muy buen negocio desatar la paranoia por medio de los medios de comunicación para garantizar un mercado.

"¡Aguas! ¡La Migra está en la esquina! ¡No salga de su casa! ¡La policía va a empezar a deportar gente! ¡Peligro! ¡Se aprobó una fuerte medida antiinmigrante en el Ayuntamiento!"

English-language Newspapers Still Don't Recognize Latinos

IMMIGRATION WATCH

By Marisa Trevino,

The story of Eli Gutierrez, a North Texan Mexican-American artist who spent his Fourth of July holiday finishing up a 17-hour walk over 50 miles leaving notes in the mailboxes of city council members and mayors to draw attention to discrimination against Hispanics and the undocumented, was a front page story in the Spanish-language newspaper Al Dia.

The ironic thing was that while Eli's walk was front page news on the Al Dia web site, the story didn't get one mention on the newspaper's sister publication The Dallas Morning News' web site the same day.

An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement

For the week of July 10, 2007
[US] Angry Ex-Minutemen Organize New Border Watch Group
Washington Times / July 6, 2007
Former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders who were fired by MCDC president Chris Simcox in May for questioning his financial accountability have re-grouped as Patriots' Border Alliance.

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Hotel CEO calls in immigration against outspoken workers

Hispanics Are Returning to Democrats for 2008

By Juliana Birnbaum Fox

A political corruption scandal surfaced this week in the middle of the long labor dispute at Emeryville's Woodfin hotel when it was discovered that the owner used his status as a Republican party donor to bring in immigration authorities.
Within weeks of the early 2007 ruling by the Alameda County Superior Court that forced the hotel to rehire 21 workers who had been demanding a living wage, Woodfin president Samuel Hardage contacted US Rep. Brian Bilbray (a Republican from Hardage's home district of San Diego).

By Susan Page

SAN ANTONIO - June 28, 2007 - Like no Republican before him, George W. Bush drew Hispanics to the GOP.
In the 2004 election, at least 40 percent of the voters in the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group backed Bush, double the share of Hispanics who had supported Republican Bob Dole eight years earlier. But the inroads Bush made are vanishing.
The chief beneficiary for 2008 so far is Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

End of the Remittance Bonanza?

No Social Security number, no marriage license.

Frontera NorteSur

In the past decade, remittances from migrant workers in the United States emerged as one of the pillars of the Mexican economy. From north to south, entire communities became dependent on the flow of money from relatives laboring away in El Norte. Current trends, however, suggest that the remittance boom could have hit a peak. Recent statistics from the official Bank of Mexico (Banixco) report a slowdown in remittances entering the country.

By Travis Loller

A federal law that requires people to supply their Social Security number when applying for a marriage license has forced thousands of couples around the country, particularly illegal immigrants, to put their wedding plans on hold... The law has been on the books for about a decade and was intended to make it easier to collect child support payments. But in some places it has prevented even legal immigrants and some American citizens from getting married.

Saving water, losing lives?

THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

By Alison Williams

At the far end of the Terrace Park Cemetery, between the grassy field of flower-dotted gravestones and a makeshift dump, lie rows of numbered bricks in the dirt, some with names and some that read "John Doe." Among those buried here, mostly illegal immigrants, are at least 40 who drowned in the nearby All American Canal.

The New7Wonders organization is happy to announce the following 7 candidates have been elected to represent global heritage throughout history. The listing is in random order, as announced at the Declaration Ceremony on 07.07.07. All the New 7 Wonders are equal and are presented as a group without any ranking.

BNSL Opens Regional Office in Matamoros

Latino(a) Scholars Awarded National Scholarships by Point FDN

The Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory (BNSL) signed an agreement with the Secretariat of Economic Development of the State of Tamaulipas, the Tamaulipas Council of Science and Technology (COTACYT) and the Maquiladora Association of Matamoros (AMMAC) to work together to create opportunities for overall economic development in the Tamaulipas border region and develop technology-based businesses…

Point Foundation, the nation's largest publicly-supported organization granting scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, recently announced the 2007 Point Scholars.  Point scholarships are substantial and multi-faceted; the average annual award is $13,600, and will be renewed annually for the remainder of their degree program as long as a student maintains academic standards. 

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.

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