Analysis

In his June 9 national radio address, President Bush strongly endorsed the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348. What kind of “improvements” Bush is after, and what he gets, will be critical to whether the bill, or a close version of it, becomes law. The question is: How far to the right can Bush help shepherd the bill through the Senate and House?

At the beginning of April 2007, people in Puerto Rico saw pictures of Jason Núñez Fernández from the town of Naranjitos on their television screens. The 22-year-old husband and father of two daughters had returned home in a casket covered with the U.S. flag, a casualty of Iraq.

El presidente Bush, con apoyo de Wall Street, impulsa fuertemente una política de legalización a los trabajadores indocumentados que los mantiene como residentes de segunda clase por más de una década. Sus propuestas también relegarían a la servidumbre perpetua a los futuros “trabajadores no especializados”.

Can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, that Wall Street is concerned with the well-being of our future generations? Or, for that matter, that George W. Bush is concerned?

Watchers of U.S. television coverage of the last couple of weeks’ events in Venezuela might be forgiven for thinking that leftist President Hugo Chavez has been trying to silence the opposition press and that the Venezuelan people have arisen en masse to protest this power grab. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Earlier this month, filmmaker Michael Moore announced that he had received a letter from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) accusing him of illegal travel to Cuba, and threatening prosecution.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has upped the ante in the national debate on comprehensive immigration reform by setting May 14 as the start of floor debate on the issue.

“¿Qué tipo de sociedad somos que cualquier cosa es aceptable hoy?” – C. Vivian Stringer, entrenadora del equipo femenino de baloncesto Scarlet Knights de la Universidad de Rutgers.

It would seem that formal democracy, which began in Ecuador nearly 30 years ago, and which has been much bragged about by fans of “Western Hemispheric representative democracy,” has definite limitations.

Mi primer viaje a Vietnam fue en 1972 en medio de la guerra, cuando Nixon había decido bombardear a Hanoi durante las fiestas navideñas. El contraste con el Vietnam de hoy fue enorme.