Erika, 19, a Chicana student from Los Angeles, agreed to be interviewed by the World before, during and after the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students. Below is her interview upon returning home. 
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Sept. 3, 2005
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Iraq’s communists say that while the draft constitution now being hotly debated is “acceptable” in its general content, they have big reservations about many aspects. They single out potential loopholes that could set back women’s rights and open the door for sectarian religious control over Iraqi society.
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“The Latin American School of Medicine is Cuba’s modest contribution to unity and integration,” said Dr. Juan Carrizo Estévez, dean of the school, to the 1,610 members of the first graduating class at a ceremony in Havana Aug. 27. Students from over 20 nations were awarded degrees, including one student from the United States.
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NEW YORK — In his first official act as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton has already fulfilled his critics’ worst fears by delivering what many say may be a fatal blow to the United Nations World Summit.
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Jamaica-Venezuela: Oil pact signed Congo: Girl soldiers find it hard to go home; India: ‘Things go badly with Coke’; Ecuador: Demand oil firms invest in poor communities; France: African immigrants die in fires
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Privatizing food stamps NLRB upholds ban on friendship; Autoworkers push fuel efficiency; Youngstown newspaper strike ends; Service workers of the world unite!
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When the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that July’s unemployment rate was only 5 percent, President Bush interrupted his five-week vacation to take credit for a strong economy. But a report released earlier this summer strikes a jarring note.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The occupation of Gov. Phil Bredesen’s office here by disabled rights activists has entered its third month. The activists are protesting proposed cuts in TennCare, Tennessee’s state health care program.
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Abstinence-only education denies students basic information on pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted diseases. It fails to acknowledge that most will become sexually active as young adults.
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A lawsuit filed by an unnamed member of the American Library Association in Connecticut brings out in the open the Bush administration’s efforts to monitor our reading habits under the USA Patriot Act. The suit comes at the same time as a House-Senate conference committee is moving to renew the act, passed by Congress in October 2001.
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