How today’s hostile attitude to immigrants is developing a new awareness and divergence from the Democratic party
By Jaime Díaz
Something profoundly wrong is taking place in politics today. It is something so inherently wrong and illogical that it doesn’t have a place in today’s United States of America. It is the attack on today’s immigrant groups and, while today’s government policies are harsh, bellicose and even hostile to immigrants, it is something as “American as apple pie.” Some people know it as racism and others have felt it as discrimination.
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By Jaime Díaz
Haiti is in ruins. Many countries ran to offer help, including Cuba which increased its number of doctors in Haiti from 300 to 450 and set up hospitals and clinics to tend to the injured and dying. Haiti also had 400 of its own medics to offer support … who were trained at Cuban medical schools. Doctors and nurses from around the world came to help a nation in need after the terrible earthquakes suffered there. More importantly, it was a moment for nations to look at the causes that led up to the tragedy and learn more about themselves and the consequences of greed and of coveting a neighbor’s resources.
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Nothing changes in the war on drugs
By Jaime Díaz
Hooray for the war on terror! Hooray for the war on drugs! These battlefronts continue to show success after success don’t they?
The media has shown Mexican military officers arrested for working with Beltran Leyva’s organization—the "Gulf Cartel" and in December of 2008 even beauty queen Miss Sinaloa,
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