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Thousands of field and construction workers leave their residences in Ramona, Valley Center and Escondido. They take refuge in the football stadium where they believe they will receive aid just as their neighbors do. But many of these workers are undocumented. They are afraid to go out, but the fires give them no other option. When they reach the stadium, they are shocked to find immigration officials. Some are detained and deported. Many flee and disappear in the city’s landscape.

Tensiones sobre la muerte de civiles a manos de efectivos estadounidenses en Irak se empeoraron cuando tropas de EEUU mataron a 17 civiles y herieron varias docenas más, entre estas ancianos y niños en el vecindario pobre de Bagdad conocido como Ciudad Sadr el 21 de octubre.

Hoy nuevamente el presidente Chávez señaló los “errores históricos” del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) al recordar la posible venida del Che a mediados de los 60 para sumarse a la lucha armada, y el posterior apoyo electoral dado a Caldera en el 93 hasta mediados del 94 (sería bueno estudiar los Tribuna Popular para seguir la línea de actuación del PCV en ese periodo), “errores” que él achaca al dogmatismo de los comunistas venezolanos.

During World War I, the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire was crumbling. In the decades before the war, economic dislocation and political crisis intensified the long-standing oppression of the Armenian Christian minority. World War I (1914-1918) was a bloody war between rising and aging empires: the Ottoman Empire was allied with the German monarchy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the losing side, against an alliance of Czarist Russia, Britain, France, Japan and the United States.

DALLAS — The long-awaited verdicts in one of the country’s most critical civil rights cases were revealed Oct. 22 at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown. The Holy Land Foundation, the largest organization providing charitable aid to beleaguered Palestinians, was effectively exonerated of “terrorism” charges.

Tensions over U.S. killings of civilians in Iraq received another jolt with reports that American forces killed 17 civilians and wounded several dozen others, including old people and children, in Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City neighborhood Oct. 21.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Aunque el pueblo haitiano experimenta mejoras en el ambiente político del país, su situación económica sigue deteriorando, dijo Roger Annis, un representante de la Red de Acción Canadá-Haití.

Afortunadamente mucho se recuerda y se ensalza por estos días, en nuestro país en revolución, la figura heroica de Ernesto Guevara de La Serna, el Che

Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored group of scientists, have jointly won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global warming. Like most things in life, this is a mixture of good and bad, positive and negative.

HAVANA — “Best decision I ever made,” said medical student Cori Marshall of Chicago characterizing her first year at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). The school graduated its third class of new doctors on July 24. The 2,188 health professionals receiving diplomas at a graduation spectacular at Karl Marx Theater here included eight U.S. medical students who had finished six years of study.