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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns October 1, 2006	HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns October 1, 2006
Borders are not about political lines
Borders are not about political lines	Whither To, México?
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com October 1, 2006 International borders are not about political lines dividing countries. Borders are about people living across each other separated by a political line. When people divided by borders are of different cultures, speak different languages and there is significant economic disparity between them the differences often become political problems.	By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com October 1, 2006 FROM MEXICO Felipe Calderón has been officially declared the winner of the 2 July election by the Federal Election Tribunal. No surprise. Earlier, Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already prevented outgoing president Fox from presenting his last annual Informe (State of the Union message) to a joint session of congress.
Border Patrol Criminals and Criminality	Dionicio Morales, MAOF Founder, to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com October 1, 2006 Another shooting on the border, another controversy, two more minor league hires by a mushrooming incompetent Border Patrol and two felony convictions. What else is new? An El Paso federal jury convicted two Border Patrol agents (Ignacio Ramos, 37, and Jose Alonso Compean, 28) of multiple felonies for shooting an unarmed Mexican marijuana smuggler, for covering up the shooting and for lying to their own agency. The felons are to be sentenced shortly.	Hispanic Business magazine editor and publisher Jesús Chavarría announced that Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) founder Dionicio Morales will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the magazine’s annual EOY Awards Gala which honors the top Hispanic entrepreneurs in the United States.
Buchanan Gets Ugly -- Again	Mexican migrants are challenging old ideas about assimilation
By Cecilia Muñoz After a quarter century as an immigrant rights and civil rights advocate, I shouldn't be surprised when the debate over our nation's immigration policy gets ugly. It's a regular feature of a difficult and often emotional issue. Immigration is at the heart of who we are as a nation, and those of us who fear…	Binational Citizens By Jonathan Fox This past spring, more than three million immigrants—most of them originally from Mexico—marched through the streets of dozens of U.S. cities to support a comprehensive reform that would legalize the status of undocumented immigrants. The size and number of the rallies caught almost everyone by surprise, including many in immigrant communities. Never before had Mexican migrants demanded such a visible role in a national policy discussion.
VIEW FROM THE PIER	No Barriers On The Net: Ecommerce Opportunities For Minorities
By Herman Sillas Think the border between the United States and Mexico is doing anything? People are messing with it as if it doesn’t exist. Two weeks ago, Cora and I "crossed" the border untouched and unsearched. One moment I was in the United States and the next second I was in Mexico. Heck, the ground was even the same color. I looked forward to soaking in my heritage and brushing up on my Spanish.	By Jack Brooks Surely nothing in recent history has leveled the playing field for minority people of all ages and ethnicities as much as electronic commerce, not only to participate in succeeding vigorously, but also leveraging hard-fought determination and experience in overcoming obstacles to create business advantages over less motivated competitors. Opportunity abounds using a computer and…
IMMIGRATION WATCH	Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement For the week of September 26, 2006 [CA] Motorists arrested for attempted murder, hate crime Los Angeles Times / September 18, 2006 Artem Soloviev and Dennis Katpilniy allegedly drove through a crowd of immigrant laborers while shouting racial epithets. (MORE ARTICLES)	Migration Policy Institute Final Report of the Independent Task Force co-chaired by Spencer Abraham and Lee H. Hamilton As the US Congress and the administration remain deadlocked on how to combat illegal immigration, a high-level, bipartisan task force has called for fundamental reform of US immigration laws and system…. Immigration and America’s Future: A New Chapter moves beyond illegal immigration to articulate a vision that promotes US global competitiveness in the context
Latino Elected Officials Still Confront Significant Discrimination at Election Time	Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out
Study underscores continued need for strong enforcement of Voting Rights Act protections Latino elected officials still must contend with significant discrimination when they run for and hold public office, according to a study released today by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund.	I was raised in Lebanon, where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea…. When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
President Chavez's Speech to the United Nations	Chavez’s Shameful Embrace of Iranian President Ahmadinejad:
By: President Hugo Chavez Your Excellencies, friends, good afternoon: The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life.	Show Solidarity with the Women and People of Iran , not their Oppressors! By Jennifer Fasulo Hugo Chavez, one of the key important figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin America, has publicly lauded and embraced Iranian president Ahmadinejad…. It is moments like this, when feminists and any activists who care about women's liberation, are reminded of just how little women’s lives matter in the world of patriarchal nationalist politics.
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 & ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS National Association of Latino Arts and Culture CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT Who: The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), an organization serving more than 700 Latino arts organization in the United States, celebrates the impact of the Latino arts field by assembling more than 400 of the nation's top Latino artists, writers, producers, scholars, arts administrators and educators at its 6th National Conference at the El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel. Conference highlights include sessions on transforming communities through the arts and cultivating new leaders from immigrant communities. What: NALAC convenes the only national forum for Latino arts and culture. The conference offers the Latino arts field a unique opportunity for deliberating policy issues, networking and expanding partnerships and collaborations. The four-day event features 22 panels and workshop sessions on topics such as fund-raising, leadership transition, definition of the aesthetic, cultural policy, art as identity and resistance, and arts and technology. In addition, there will be roundtable discussions and discipline-specific workshops for peer exchange of common challenges, ideas and technique. Conference performers include Marga Gomez, Paul Flores, Merian Soto & Elio Villafranca, Universes, Brazilian Accordion virtuoso Renato Borghetti and Los Tres Acordiones--Grammy winners Joel Guzman and Sunny Sauceda and Flaco Jimenez--among many others. When: October 11 - 15, 2006 Where: El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel, 110 Lexington Ave., San Antonio About NALAC: Founded in 1989 and based in San Antonio, Texas, NALAC in response to a need for a service organization to advocate on the behalf of Latino arts and cultural organizations and provide them with services. NALAC is dedicated to the preservation, development and promotion of the cultural and artistic expressions of the diverse Latino populations of the United States. For registration information, visit http://www.nalac.org/ or call 210-432-3982. Contact: María López de León maria@nalac.org	Trans-Border Migration and Development: Promoting Economic Opportunities in Mexico and the Border Region Date: Thursday, October 5 (6:30 ? 8:30 pm) - Friday, October 6, 2006 (8:00 am ? 5:00 pm) University of San Diego Free and open to the public *_________________________________* Documentary On An Immigrant El Inmigrante is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus in which story and character take precedent over policy and empiricism. For more information, including upcoming screening dates, visit the website. http://elinmigrantemovie.com/01_home.htm _________________________________ The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans will support thirty individuals for up to two years of graduate study in any subject anywhere in the United States. You must be a senior in college, hold a bachelor's degree, or be currently enrolled in a graduate program (though not past your second year).Amount: $20,000 maintenance and half tuition. Deadline: November 1, 2006. Eligibility: -- Student must be a "Green Card" holder or naturalized citizen or have two parents who are naturalized citizens. -- Applicants must be under the age of 30. For details and to apply, click http://www.pdsoros.org/ .
Immigration Countdown: House is wasting time; Senate seeks solution EDITORIAL – Dallas Morning News After spending August yelling "fire," House Republicans are in a bind. They must do something to justify all their summer immigration hearings, the ones that mostly echoed the House's penchant for adding more agents, weapons and detention beds along the border.	The Death of Immigration Reform By Jorge Mursuli It’s one of the oldest tricks in the political playbook: When you’re in trouble, conjure up a boogey man to distract from your failures and play on voters’ fears. This year’s targets: undocumented immigrants. It’s not that there aren’t real reasons to fix our broken immigration system. And, earlier this year, it seemed that the debate over immigration would actually result in action…
Editorial: Leaving America’s front door wide open The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner Americans rightly fear that terrorists, foreign intelligence agents and violent criminals could enter the United States through its porous “back door” border with Mexico, but that very real threat is eclipsed by the 1 million foreigners who legally walk right through our “front door” every day. Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of those seeking it are refused entry at the nation’s 317 ports of entry, even though federal officials have little or no idea who most of them really are.	The Verdict is In: Faux Immigration “Field Hearings” Not Serious Effort to Find Solutions National Immigration Forum House Republican leaders have spent the past month conducting 20-plus “field hearings” in 13 states, ostensibly to “listen” to the American people’s concerns about illegal immigration. Turns out the only listening they did was to carefully selected panelists who already agreed with them on most of the issues. Still, judging from the press coverage across the country, the hearings failed to pull the wool over many eyes
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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.