For more than a decade, comprehensive immigration reform has been the subject of rancorous debate in this country. The U.S. economy depends on millions of low wage, undocumented workers filling jobs that citizens do not want and will not take. Yet most workers who come from neighboring Mexico have faced stricter enforcement and deportation efforts. The children of undocumented workers, born in the United States or brought here after birth, are known as Dreamers, a name drawn from federal legislation would have provided them with legal status but fell short by a handful of votes. Dreamers, too, are at risk of being deported to countries that are foreign to them. There are more than two million Dreamers in the United States, 258,000 of them in ... Continue reading →
Federal prosecutors charged a Mexican businessman with San Antonio ties with money laundering Tuesday and accused him of being a front for corrupt officials from the border state of Tamaulipas. In a related civil filing, prosecutors said Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of that border state, took millions from drug cartels and ran his own extortion and bribery schemes. An indictment in Brownsville charges Fernando Alejandro Cano Martinez, 55, with taking millions from the Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel and its one-time enforcers, the Zetas. Cano took bribes from the cartels and delivered the money to high-ranking officials in the border state of Tamaulipas, the indictment says. The indictment also alleges he created companies in San Antonio and across South Texas to purchase hundreds of acres ... Continue reading →
22/05/2012 - 17h08 Passageiro ж expulso de aviсo apзs dizer que nсo voaria com pilota Atualizado Яs 19h20. Um passageiro foi expulso de um voo da companhia Trip Linhas Aжreas apзs dizer que nсo voaria com uma mulher pilotando o aviсo. O caso ocorreu na noite de sexta-feira (18) no aeroporto Tancredo Neves, em Confins, regiсo metropolitana de Belo Horizonte. Segundo a empresa, a comandante do voo "convidou educadamente esse senhor a sair da aeronave". O comentрrio do homem e o "convite" da pilota provocaram tumulto --os passageiros chegaram a vaiar o homem-- e atraso na decolagem do Embraer 190. "Apзs o tumulto causado, a Polьcia Federal escoltou o passageiro para as dependЖncias do aeroporto e a companhia seguiu com a programaусo normal", afirmou a ... Continue reading →
Official: 'Natural causes' behind dolphin deaths in Peru By the CNN Wire Staff updated 9:29 PM EDT, Tue May 22, 2012 Government officials in Peru said hundreds of dead dolphins that washed ashore Tuesday died of natural causes. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The death of hundreds of dolphins "was not caused by any human activity," an official says One environmental group has said the oil industry could be responsible Government officials dismiss that assessment, and theories that a virus caused the deaths "This happens periodically. And it is not only happening in Peru," the nation's production minister says Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Hundreds of dolphins that washed up on Peruvian shores died of natural causes, a government official said in a radio interview Tuesday. "One of the ... Continue reading →
Police investigate 'suspicious package' in Buenos Aires theater By the CNN Wire Staff updated 2:50 PM EDT, Tue May 22, 2012 STORY HIGHLIGHTS A former Colombian president is scheduled to speak in the theater Authorities are investigating, but have not provided details Last week a former top Colombian official survived an assassination attempt in Bogota (CNN) -- Police were investigating a suspicious package at a Buenos Aires theater Tuesday, a day before a former Colombian president was scheduled to speak there. Authorities said they were checking out a package at the Gran Rex theater, but did not provide additional details. Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is scheduled to speak there Wednesday. Last week, a former top official from Uribe's administration survived an assassination attempt -- ... Continue reading →
El presidente Felipe Calderón, en la recta final de su gobierno -le quedan seis meses- ha tomado como uno de los ejes centrales de su discurso, que su gobierno será recordado por ser el primero que inició en serio la lucha contra el crimen organizado. Hay otra posibilidad a la planteada por el presidente y es que su gestión se recuerde, no por eso, y sí por haber provocado la muerte de más de 60 mil mexicanos como resultado de una estrategia fallida. La ciudadanía será quien decida en independencia de lo que pueda o no pensar el presidente. La percepción que hoy se tiene de la violencia en el país es todavía peor que la realidad. Brasil y Colombia, para poner solo dos ejemplos, ... Continue reading →
"No," Gael Garcia Bernal's tersely titled tale of 1980s Chilean politics, is headed to theaters.Sony Pictures Classics announced Tuesday morning at the Cannes Film Festival that it had acquired North American rights to the buzz dramedy. Though it had played the comparatively smaller Directors’ Fortnight section, "No" had been attracting festivalgoer interest and critical attention since it screened in the early days of the festival. The Times' Kenneth Turan was a strong supporter of the film. Directed by Pablo Larrain ("Tony Manero") and set in 1988, "No" stars Bernal as Renee Saavedra, a Chilean advertising executive recruited by the opposition after dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum on his presidency. Floundering with dour campaigns about human-rights abuses, the opposition (nicknamed "No") hopes Saavedra can ... Continue reading →
El Gobierno de Guatemala anunció este lunes un plan para devolver la seguridad a la ciudadanía, en uno de los países más violentos de América Latina. Según informó el presidente, Otto Pérez Molina, la meta es recuperar el Estado de derecho, y prevenir y sancionar el delito. Añadió que el llamado Pacto por la paz, la seguridad y la justicia comprende la acción coordinada de los tres poderes del Estado. En la tarea, el Ejecutivo garantizará el orden en las calles a través de patrullas de fuerzas combinadas del Ejército y la policía; el Legislativo ha anunciado reformas al código Procesal Penal, a poner en marcha una reforma judicial integral y a la creación de una policía técnica en la investigación criminal. La presidenta del ... Continue reading →
It looks like these accounts are supporting a march against presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. But they are actually jamming information about the protest. By MANUEL RUEDA Fake Twitter accounts, posting thousands of automated messages per day, have managed to dilute and “censure” information on an upcoming protest against Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, a web expert told Univision News. Web marketing expert Alfonso Tames, says that this unethical strategy has also been used to jam information that favors political groups and activists who oppose the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, Peña Nieto’s party. How does it work? According to Tames, hundreds of bots can be programmed to post messages with a hashtag surrounding an event that is undesirable for a government or political ... Continue reading →
