International

Los acontecimientos en el Congreso y en las calles han intensificado el debate nacional sobre la inmigración. Algunos sondeos de opinión indican que el público norteamericano piensa que la inmigración está “fuera de control” y que “algo tiene que hacerse”. A la vez, hay señales de que la mayoría no se opone a darles oportunidades a los indocumentados.

Everything looked different as we landed in Santiago Chile last month. The Andes Mountains were still awesome, even if the snow cap is shrinking. Just a few miles away, the Pacific Ocean still sparkled blue. The craggy hills that Charles Darwin adored still rose abruptly in the center of this city of 6 million. But the skyline had changed beyond recognition

Manifestaciones y marchas de protestas han estremecido a Puerto Rico desde el Primero de Mayo contra el cierre de agencia gubernamentales que dejaron a 95.000 desempleados. El gobierno colonial cerró completamente a 43 agencias y otras parcialmente por un déficit presupuestario de $738 millones.

LA PAZ — Una delegación gubernamental y empresarial brasileña inicia 10 de mayo negociaciones con el gobierno boliviano, sobre las consecuencias de la nacionalización de los hidrocarburos de este país.

An unprecedented meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 28-29, proved that wounds from the Vietnam War are still open and bleeding three decades after that conflict supposedly ended. It was the first International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange, and it attracted people from more than a dozen countries who are suffering the aftereffects of their exposure to Agent Orange, dioxin, and other toxic agents sprayed recklessly on Vietnam during the 10-year war.

Protest rallies and marches have rocked Puerto Rico since May Day, when the government closed down 43 agencies, throwing 95,000 people out of work due to a budget shortfall of $738 million. More workers have been added to the unemployment lines as three municipalities have closed down completely and another 12 have laid off workers because they haven’t received monies due them by the central government in San Juan.

A delegation of 16 teachers, 12 of them from Maine, returned April 24 from Venezuela where they got a firsthand look at educational changes in a nation where 80 percent of the people are poor and social revolution is in the air.

Marchas, manifestaciones y protestas están sacudiendo a Puerto Rico en contra del cierre de las agencias gubernamentales por parte de la administración colonial. Los cierres y los despidos, irónicamente fueron para el primero de mayo — Día Internacional de los Trabajadores —estos son debido a la crisis presupuestaria por la que pasa esta nación caribeña.

Bolivia’s working people had a special reason to celebrate International Workers Day this year, as their new government, headed by President Evo Morales, chose May Day to announce nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources.