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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80586110922239844482014-07-27T09:41:20.844-05:00Americas MexicoBlogThe MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program monitors and analyzes international press on Mexico with a focus on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.Laura Carlsenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-66388413279003461222014-07-24T12:36:00.000-05:002014-07-24T12:36:41.312-05:00Possibly 30 Years for Canadian Narco with ties to Sinaloa Cartel and the MafiaBorderland Beat: Canadian Drug Kingpin , Jimmy Cournoyer, with Ties to the Rizutto and Bonanno Crime Families, the Hells Angels and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Plead Guilty in 2013 to Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence of 20 Years to Life and $1 Billion in Forfeiture.

He will discover his fate on August 20th when his sentence will be handed down. Read more.
Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-77541668564840432262014-07-23T09:35:00.000-05:002014-07-23T09:35:41.590-05:00Fracking Fights Loom Large in MexicoFSN News: Mexico is emerging as the next big battleground in conflicts over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as the method of extracting natural gas is commonly known.

While Mexican lawmakers consider regulatory legislation to put into practice the 2013 energy reform that opened up their county's oil and gas reserves to private investors, anti-fracking forces are mobilizing for a moratorium or an outright ban of the controversial practice from the Mexican Congress. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-6866781838825407682014-07-22T09:43:00.000-05:002014-07-22T09:43:42.784-05:00The process Congress wants to use for child migrants is a disasterVox: Congress and the Obama administration are scrambling to respond to the humanitarian crisis of 57,000 unaccompanied Central American children who've crossed the border into the US this year.

One policy change that Republicans are expected to demand (in order to give the Obama administration the $3.7 billion in emergency funding it's asked for) has actually gotten the support of members of Congress from both parties, and encouraging hints from the White House. That change: updating a 2008 law so that Central American children could be returned to their home countries as quickly as Mexican children are today. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-7425208462883491202014-07-21T14:15:00.000-05:002014-07-21T14:15:33.273-05:00Housing migrant kids splits small Michigan townDetroit News: When people opposed to housing young Central American immigrants here claimed the youths worked for drug cartels, Adam Barden was frustrated.

When the opponents attended demonstrations armed with semi-automatic rifles, he was perplexed.

And when they threatened to boycott his hardware store for not agreeing with them, he got angry.

"They're doing damage to our community," said Barden, 38, owner of True Value. "It really ticks you off." Read More. Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-50986537935388794232014-07-19T12:47:00.000-05:002014-07-19T12:47:07.202-05:00Mexico's Health Care Professionals Rise UpFrontera NorteSur: A new social movement erupting in Mexico this summer is exposing the long-running deficiencies in the nation's public health care system.

Led by #YoSoy17 and #YoSoy Medico 17, the movement began as a reaction to legal charges filed against 16 Guadalajara doctors for alleged medical negligence in the death of a 15-year-old patient, Roberto Gallardo, who was treated at a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital during 2009-2010.

Since last month, when tens of thousands of doctors and their supporters took to the streets in cities across the country in a protest against the Guadalajara prosecution, the movement has turned social media into a whistle-blowing platform.

Health care professionals are using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to post videos and commentaries, publish damning photos and issue communiqués. The messages report widespread shortages of medicines and supplies, abusive work schedules, ill-treatment of patients, low salaries, and medical schooling problems.

The denunciation of an abandoned hospital in the state of Oaxaca, where many people have to travel hours to receive medical attention, caught the public eye. In some ways, the issues raised by #YoSoy17 are very similar to the controversies enveloping Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in the United States.

A strike by more than 100 doctors this week at children's and women's hospitals in the state of Michoacan illustrated the grievances expressed by many members of the health care sector.

Shortages of supplies and surgical equipment were seriously hampering health care said Dr. Alejandro Aguilar, spokesman for the striking doctors. "We don't even have gauze to treat the patients," Aguilar said.

Movement activists have met with Mexican lawmakers in an effort to improve conditions in the public health care sector, and to discuss issues like the violence confronted by health care professionals in some regions of Mexico. The movement's name, which means "I am Number 17," is in solidarity with the 16 Guadalajara doctors charged in Roberto Gallardo's death, and a twist on the #YoSoy132 movement of 2012, when Mexican pro-democracy university students stood up in support of 131 fellow students of a Mexico City university whose protest was ridiculed by then-presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto.

Two years later, the health care professionals' movement has stirred an important sector of society, said movement spokesperson Dr. Carlos Moreno.

"It is awakening the lethargy in which were immersed," Moreno said. "All that was needed was a spark to unleash a firestorm of ideas and good proposals to improve our professional life and the life of our patients."

On June 22, #YoSoy17 flexed its muscles with simultaneous marches in at least 50 Mexican cities, including Tijuana, Mexicali, Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua City, Chilpancingo, Queretaro, and many others.
A sampling of the protesters placards read: "I am a doctor, not a criminal," "For the decriminalization of the medical profession," and "We are doctors. We are not gods or criminals."

"It can't be that there are no third-level public hospitals," said Chihuahua City protester Olga Ponce. "Patients have to be transferred to Torreon or Mexico City after months."

In the capital of Guerrero state, the issue of insecurity was on the agenda.

"Here in Chilpancingo, the doctors suffer extortion and robbery, but the places with the most insecurity are Acapulco, Iguala and Taxco," said one marcher.

Valente Gallardo, father of the Guadalajara teen whose death precipitated the doctors' movement, dismissed the June 22 mobilization as an attempt to pressure the legal system to let culpable physicians off the hook.

"We are hoping that their licenses get yanked, and that an order is sent to all the institutions to not contract them," Gallardo said. "I am going to show that (doctors) did not do what they were supposed to do. We will establish a precedent."

Like teachers, many doctors contend that they are being demonized for wide-ranging social problems and the lack of investment in public infrastructure. "Malice does not exist in the medical profession," maintained Tijuana Doctor Fernando Lopez Nebilna. "When a doctor or nurse treats a sick person it is done with professionalism to save a life. That's why we don't agree with the current legal code."

In another development this past week, the Pena Nieto administration and a union representing workers in one segment of the public health sector agreed to a salary increase of 5.5 percent as well as the hiring of 10,000 new workers to staff the ISSSTE system. In addition, 20,000 new workers will be added to the Health Secretariat. ISSSTE union leader Luis Manuel Victoria Ranfla called the agreement a needed "tank of oxygen" for the system's patients.

According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates, the ISSSTE system alone has a staffing under capacity of 76,000 nurses and nearly 30,000 doctors and dentists.

For more information in Spanish:

https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>hashtag/yosoy17

http://es-es.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>pages/Yo-SOY-Medico-17/<wbr></wbr>325875184229323

Carmen Aristegui interview with Dr. Carlos Moreno: http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=fLh_qV_1abg

Additional sources: El Universal, July 17, 2014. Article by Julian Sanchez. Quadtrain.com, July 14, 2014. La Jornada, July 5 and 10, 2014. Articles by Angeles Cruz Martinez. Milenio Digital, June 23, 2014. Proceso, June 22, 2014. Article by Patricia Mayorga, Antonio Heras and editorial staff.

Frontera NorteSur: on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news
Center for Latin American and Border Studies
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New MexicoNidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-53446710189740655632014-07-18T12:15:00.000-05:002014-07-18T12:15:31.616-05:00Mexico overtakes Brazil as top car manufacturer in Latin AmericaEl País: Asian and European car brands are investing heavily in Mexican-based assembly plants, catapulting the country's auto industry to unknown heights.

A few days ago, Mexico became Latin America's leading car maker, ahead of Brazil. In the first half of 2014, the country's plants produced1.59 million automobiles, a 7.4-percent rise from the same period in 2013. Meanwhile, Brazil's production in the first six months of this year fell back to 1.57 million units. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-79049717246208785012014-07-11T13:50:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:50:06.002-05:00Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages Encounter IsolationNYTimes: Laura is a Mexican immigrant who lives in East Harlem, a neighborhood with one of the largest Latino populations in New York City. Yet she understands so little of what others are saying around her that she might just as well be living in Siberia.

Laura, 27, speaks Mixtec, a language indigenous to Mexico. But she knows little Spanish and no English. She is so scared of getting lost on the subway and not being able to find her way home that she tends to spend her days within walking distance of her apartment. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-34990424111043256602014-07-11T13:47:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:47:36.048-05:00Kids First: A Response to the Southern Border Humanitarian Crisis (Congressional Progressive Caucus)Congressional Progressive Caucus: The United States and the international community have long recognized the unique needs of children seeking asylum. As an extremely vulnerable population, unaccompanied migrant children need special care and protection. We must not allow politics to jeopardize any child's safety and we should immediately reject attempts to solve the migration crisis on our southern border by circumventing due process or rule of law. Calls for expediting removal of children without due process, back to the violence they have escaped, is an attempt to simplify a complex situation and it is a derelict of U.S. responsibility under international standards. When examining the reasons for migration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found nearly 60 percent of children had fled violence and were in need of international protection. Only two of 404 children interviewed reported that they had traveled to the U.S. because of rumors of potential immigration reform.

 An effective response must recognize that this is largely a refugee crisis and must place the best interest of the children first. Abrogation or repeal of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act,
including the protections to children arriving from non-contiguous countries, will do nothing to alleviate the situation and could place children in harm's way. Read more.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-37924591685772654982014-07-11T13:43:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:43:38.033-05:00Mexico telecom overhaul passes, billionaire Carlos Slim loses -- maybeLA Times: Mexican legislators on Wednesday passed a sweeping overhaul of the telecommunications industry that officials maintain will help break up monopolies and provide better service and more competition in the TV and telephone market.

Anticipating the approval, Mexican telephone tycoon Carlos Slim -- listed by Forbes magazine as the second-richest man in the world thanks to the near-monopoly he and his family hold -- announced he would sell off part of his empire to avoid a series of regulatory restrictions the new laws impose on any company with more than a 50% market share. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-87216929674892755062014-07-11T13:41:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:41:05.442-05:00'Nobody's Children' at the Mexico-U.S. Border (La Prensa, Honduras)WorldMeets (La Prensa): The tears of those now in government, who listen to the stories of children who have made it to the United States in search of a better life, are tears of hypocrisy. Such stories have been known for over two decades, starting when an easy solution could have been found to a problem that now seems to constrain some people's souls. The distressing phenomenon of migrant children was reported by Casa Alianza over 20 years ago, but there has never been the political will on the part of any government.

What compels migrant children to undertake the perilous journey is the certainty that they would die of hunger or violence if they remained in homes stricken by a poverty that killed their parents and forced them emigrate. It is despair over a promised future that was never fulfilled. Making the trip puts their lives at risk, but there is hope of getting through, whereas to stay means being resigned to die. Read more.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-32330198598479431442014-07-11T13:38:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:38:24.395-05:00Mexico is Doing 'Nothing' as Migration Issue Spirals (Excelsior, Mexico)WorldsMeets (Excelsior): In recent weeks there has been renewed attention paid to a phenomenon that for years has been a scourge for Latin American peoples, and for decades the people of the United States have felt its ramifications: the migration of thousands of people toward North America.

The issue began to be mentioned with greater frequency after the alarming rise in the number of unaccompanied children venturing across the Mexico-U.S. border caught the attention of U.S. President Barack Obama. They are detained, with some placed in migration centers, and others deported to their countries of origin. Read more.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-38247792855266642922014-07-10T13:31:00.000-05:002014-07-10T13:31:27.999-05:00Controlling violence, not drugs, becomes key strategy in JuarezNewspaper Tree: In Puerto Anapra, a neglected Ciudad Juárez neighborhood just across Sunland Park, things look very different than they did two years ago.

"It is very quiet now; the violence has calmed down," said Lourdes Contreras, a 48-year-old woman who runs a local soup kitchen/community center for children and mothers who are victims of violence. "That doesn't mean that the risk has disappeared…It is like when you extinguish a fire; the ashes remain burning." Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-49950134691069012812014-06-30T12:57:00.000-05:002014-06-30T12:59:55.875-05:00Mireles: Partisan Justice La Jornada: The arrest of José Manuel Mireles, ex member of the Council
of Autodefensas of Michoacan, occurred yesterday at the hands of federal forces, constitutes a clear example of the partisan application of justice and distortion of the state of law that state has endured in recent months and that has sharpened beginning with the federal government's intervention in the Michoacan scenario and the virtual annulment of state sovereignty.

It's noteworthy, in the first place, the lack of consequence of a federal
government that announces zero tolerance to armed civilian groups just
weeks after it used them to pursue and abate the alleged ringleaders of
criminal organizations. With respect to that, it's appropriate to remember
the participation of self-defense groups - according to what Mireles himself
related - in the operation that led to the death of Nazario Moreno, El
Chayo, supposed founder of the Knights Templar (Los caballeros
templarios).

It is significant that, a little before his capture, Mireles and his men
had advanced and taken control of La Mira, located in Lazaro Cardenas
municipality.

To start, it is certainly undesirable that the State permits the
uncontrolled presence of armed groups of citizens, even less in such an
explosive and violent atmosphere as Michoacan. But in this case the
official discourse ignores - because it thus appears to suit its interests -
that the presence of those groups is a consequence, not the cause, of an
annulment of the legality originally provoked by the tolerance and
passivity of the very same authority faced with the behavior of the
criminal organizations that operate in the referenced state, which obliged
diverse sectors of the Michoacan population to take up arms to defender
themselves. That omission was aggravated by a governmental strategy that,
far from restoring the peace and the state of law, it multiplied the
factors for tension and rancor in the territories in conflict, first by
permitting the proliferation of self-defense groups and later undertaking a
campaign of criminalization and persecution against some of them, which
began with the unjust incarceration of Hipólito Mora and now continues with
the capture of Mireles Valverde.

In that sense, the accusations against the leader of Tepalcatepec
- violations of the Federal Firearms and Explosives Law- appear as a
masquerade of justice to give formal support to the capture of a personage
whose true "fault", according to what one can see, has been to maintain a
posture less complacent towards the government than the other self-defense
leaders, and to systematically reject the Enrique Peña Nieto
administration's actions of registering and disarming of civilian guards
implanted in Michoacan.

For the rest, the continuation of the violence and deepening of the
institutional and political crisis in the state, and the fact that the
criminal organizations that operate there have not been dismantled or their
businesses substantially affected, end up making right those who, like
Mireles, have criticized the uselessness governmental actions and have
pointed them out as a way of demobilizing the sectors of society that
decided to rise up against organized crime.

In sum, the capture of the founder of the Michoacan autodefensas is one
more exhibition of the erratic conduct, slanted and murky of the federal
government in Michoacan, and could also result in a counterproductive
maneuver for the government: if the federal authorities do not quickly
begin a police or military operation - similar or larger than it launched
against Mireles - to dismantle the criminal organizations that operate in
Michoacan territory, society will have ample reason for questioning the
alleged legalistic zeal of Peña in that state.

Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada
Translation: Chiapas Support CommitteeNidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-69291892033849309032014-06-25T10:49:00.000-05:002014-06-25T10:49:02.647-05:00Violent Drug Cartels In Northern Mexico Threaten To Forestall Country's Fracking BoomInternational Business Times: Violent drug cartels running rampant in northern Mexico are threatening to forestall the country's much-anticipated fracking boom.

In a recent incident in Tamaulipas state, about 30 workers for oil and gas company Weatherford International were caught in the crossfire of gangs feuding for control of the U.S. drug market, Bloomberg News reported. Gunmen rolled up in a makeshift tank and blasted the hotel where the Weatherford workers were staying with bullets. The employees were forced to flee under police escort. Read more.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-45295545842199617852014-06-20T08:17:00.000-05:002014-06-23T13:34:27.786-05:00Plague of rust affects 16% of coffee production*
Dear readers,
This bad news is of vital importance to many farmers in Mexico and Central America, including close partners of the Americas Program. The effort by Starbucks is a good gesture, but we have to place it in an overall context. Starbucks investment in Mexico is a mixed bag. First, they refused to give Mexican producers any priority in purchasing or Mexican consumers a broader range of national products to choose from, claiming that the mix of coffee sold throughout the world is decided at a global corporate headquarters level. They did however provide important training in quality control and selection for some of their Mexican partners. Our readers who donated know that Mexico received a bag of producer-marketed coffee from an organization that has long been dear to us, CEPCO in Oaxaca.

Starbucks' shade-grown coffee project in Chiapas started as an alliance with Conservation International in an area where organized indigenous farmers have long been growing sustainable coffee. Although at the beginning the project supported the indigenous cooperative, it was characterized by top-down methods and later imposed a series of changes that undermined the collective. The relationship was not an easy one.

We will be following up on this in the near future. It may also be a contributing factor to the immigration surge. Please stay tuned--we will also send along ways to support the region's small coffee farmers.
Laura Carlsen

UNIÓN: The coffee production in Mexico in the last year fell 16.1 percent, due, among other factors, the presence of rust fungus , which has mainly affected the coffee growers in Chiapas, the largest producing area in the country.

In this regard, the CEO of Starbucks Mexico , Federico Tejad to announced the "All coffee planted" in support of the coffee communities of Chiapas.

Starbucks will donate Mexico producers requiring coffee renovation 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of coffee bags Shade Grown Mexico until December this year and are supported by the purchase of crop plants tolerant to the fungus rust.

He stressed that Chiapas is producing region with highest quality arabica coffee in Mexico.
Chiapas coffee Starbucks purchased since 1998 and maintains a strong bond with many producers in the region, he said.

In recent years, producers of Chiapas have faced strong challenges in growing their coffee due to the constant climate changes that have led to the spread of rust on their land.
Rust is a fungus that damages coffee plants, not only damaging the crops, it can also completely destroy the coffee plant.

Although rust is spread by various factors, it can be combated with strong varieties more tolerant to the fungus and plants, as well as appropriate counseling culture techniques, Tejada said.
The "All planted coffee" will be implemented in partnership with United Agribusiness Mexico (AMSA), which provides coffee Shade Grown Mexico Chiapas through different producers.
Shade Grown Mexico coffee is served in all Starbucks stores in Mexico and is grown in the shade of trees native to the tropical rainforest in the Triunfo Biosphere, located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.
Meanwhile, the director of United Agribusiness Mexico (AMSA), Tonathiu Acevedo, said the recovery time of the plantations is expected within three or four years.

The president of the National Coffee Association, Felix Martinez Cabrera, in turn warned that annual production fell from 4.6 to 3.9 million bags of coffee in the last year and are expected to register at the close of 2014 a further decrease of 23 percent .

In the past 40 years globally Starbucks has invested over 70 million in projects with coffee producers verification and certification projects as CAFE Practices ("Coffee and Farmer Equity" for its acronym in English), as well as centers producer support, investment loans and coffee-related carbon footprint programs.

All these programs are designed to support and promote the productive lives of coffee farmers and ensuring their potential to maintain a chain of stable production and high quality in the coffee industry.

Original Spanish Article.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-90095192080653013672014-06-14T09:30:00.000-05:002014-06-14T09:30:16.004-05:00Mexico's President Joins Regional Debate on Marijuana LegalizationInSightCrime: Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto has said he is willing to discuss legalizing marijuana, becoming the latest regional leader to question the drug prohibition paradigm and begin to confront the failures of interdiction-based policies.

In an interview with El Pais, Peña Nieto called anti-drug measures employed over the last 30 to 40 years "failed" policies, stating that they had led to increases in both consumption and production. He argued that with the recreational use of marijuana now legal in two US states -- Colorado and Washington -- it did not make sense for Mexico to have policies that differed from those of the "most important consumer market" for Mexican drugs. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-22899829457562919502014-06-10T09:19:00.001-05:002014-06-10T09:19:17.755-05:00From Germany to Mexico: How America's source of immigrants has changed over a centuryPEW Research Center
By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Michael Keegan

With more than 40 million immigrants, the United States is the top destination in the world for those moving from one country to another. Mexico, which shares a nearly 2,000-mile border with the U.S., is the source of the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States.

But today's volume of immigrants, in some ways, is a return to America's past. A century ago, the U.S. experienced another large wave of immigrants. Although smaller at 18.2 million, they hailed largely from Europe. Many Americans can trace their roots to that wave of migrants from 1890-1919, when Germany dominated as the country sending the most immigrants to many of the U.S. states, although the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy were also strongly represented.

In 1910, Germany was the top country of birth among U.S. immigrants, accounting for 18% of all immigrants (or 2.5 million) in the United States. Germans made up the biggest immigrant group in 17 states and the District of Columbia, while Mexico accounted for the most immigrants in just three states (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas). Behind Germany, the second-most number of immigrants in the U.S. were from Russia and the countries that would become the USSR (11%, or 1.6 million). Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-45155008759512544062014-06-10T09:19:00.000-05:002014-06-10T09:19:02.773-05:00Mexican prosecutors defend treatment of Marine held on weapons chargeLA Times
By Tony Perry

Under pressure from politicians in the U.S. to release a Marine reservist being held on a weapons charge, the Mexican attorney general's office has taken the unusual step of defending its handling of the case.

The case against Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was arrested April 1 and remains in jail, has been handled according to Mexican law and any allegation of mistreatment is "baseless," according to a statement issued Friday by the attorney general's office.

The attorney general's office "reiterates its commitment to the observance of human rights and respect for due process of all arrested."

Tahmooressi, 25, who served two tours in Afghanistan, was arrested after crossing the border at San Ysidro with three weapons and dozens of rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck, officials said.

Initially kept in the notorious La Mesa prison near Tijuana, he has since been transferred to the El Hongo prison outside in Tecate, where conditions are better, according to Tahmooressi's supporters. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-60451620216752178712014-06-10T09:13:00.000-05:002014-06-10T09:13:04.472-05:00'Not Since Slavery' Has U.S. Treated People Worse than Undocumented (La Jornada, Mexico)La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)
Translated By Florizul Acosta Perez
WorldMeets.US
June 9, 2014

According to Princeton University Professor Douglas Massey, the millions of undocumented migrants living in the United States with no respect for their civil, social or political liberties, constitute the largest population living under such conditions since the formal end of slavery in the neighboring country, in 1863.

The comparison is a painful one, but an accurate one to characterize the abuse and mistreatment our brothers and sisters are subjected to every day in the neighboring country, and in general, foreign nationals who reside there without the corresponding immigration documents.

Indeed, migration is a phenomenon as old as our species and inherent to human societies, but in the 21st century, the phenomenon is driven by poverty, lack of employment, and an absence of social mobility or positive horizons in countries like ours, where one can throw in police brutality, which is not at all ameliorated by guarantees of individual or human rights, and is dedicated to criminalizing and persecuting people who are overwhelmingly innocents.

Thus, the unacceptable policy of persecution launched over a decade ago by the U.S. government, that self-styled global advocate of human rights and justice, confirms its role as the main violator of individual rights both in and out of its territory. At the same time, this demonstrates its stubborn ignorance of a phenomenon inherent to human societies, which is now accentuated by the very global economy that Washington promotes: one that generates great economic imbalances which encourage the mobility of capital and employment. The inevitable consequence is a flow of people from one country to another, in search of conditions of minimal decency denied in their own hometowns.
Posted By Worldmeets.US

At this stage, the Barack Obama Administration's attempt to blame the country's lawmakers for the plight of the undocumented, after the failure of Congress to pass immigration reform, is unseemly. Even if passed on the terms of the White House, it would be merely a palliative measure. It is significant in this respect that, under the same immigration laws that held sway under previous administrations, Obama's government has imposed more deportations than any of its predecessors. During Obama's tenure, more families have been separated as a result of these practices than ever before. Another element to consider is that, within the context of current law, the U.S. government could grant permanent residency to about two million immigrants without requiring any action from Congress.

Finally, Obama's supposed commitment opposing discrimination and the criminalization of migrants has been discredited by decisions like the one taken by his government May 31, in essence halting litigation against racist law SB1070 in Arizona.

It is clear that to correct the unwillingness of Washington to straighten out the situation for migrants living in the United States, the pressure must come largely from organizations of civil society both in and out of the United States.

In the case of Mexico, an absolute necessity is an end to the unacceptable abuses suffered at the hands of national police when Central American immigrants arrive in our country. Ultimately, when it comes to humane treatment, respect for individual rights, and state recognition of contemporary global reality, it is best to lead by example.

See Original English Translation Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-60513679209213282212014-06-10T09:07:00.000-05:002014-06-10T09:07:11.367-05:00Boomer Expatriates Demand SecurityBy fnsnews
Published June 3, 2014

Foreign-born residents joined Mexican nationals in a recent demonstration demanding security for a storied but troubled town. Dressed in white and carrying candles, about 400 people staged a silent march late last week through San Miguel de Allende in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Ruth Kear, a former U.S. resident who currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, articulated public safety fears held by a growing number of residents which, in her case, is based on personal experience. Kear told a Mexican reporter that she had been robbed three times in her home, including on two occasions by armed and masked thieves.

"They put a pistol to my head and said, 'Miss, do you want to taste the bullet?'" Kear was quoted. "I am afraid. Now I have many bad dreams. When I am in my studio, sometimes I see those men."
The mounting complaints of insecurity contrast sharply with San Miguel de Allende's commercialized image as a laid-back cultural and historic destination.

The cradle of Mexican independence, San Miguel de Allende was selected as the best city in the world in Conde Nast Traveler magazine's 2013 reader's choice poll. Classified by the Mexican federal government as among the nation's "magic towns," San Miguel de Allende has also been designated as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations.

Over the decades, the small city of 160,383 inhabitants (2010 Census), has attracted a sizable expatriate community drawn from North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. An estimated 14,000 local residents are foreign-born, mainly from the United States, but also from Canada, England, Japan, Colombia, and other nations.

Aging retirees from the baby boom generation who retired to San Miguel Allende stand out in the expatriate population.  Read more. Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-53156220952997621112014-06-09T13:26:00.005-05:002014-06-21T19:14:34.177-05:00US mainstream press notices child migrants, tells half the story
There has been a blitz of stories over the past couple of weeks on child migrants arriving on the U.S.'s southern border. For many of us in Mexico, this is nothing new. But US press attention to it is relatively new, as one major media outlet after another features stories on the plight of unaccompanied minors.

It's a positive step that these kids do not remain invisible. What they go through should be cause for indignation on a global level. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued a report last March that found that half had experienced or been threatened with serious harm on the journey north.

But most of these mainstream press stories are telling half-truths about child victims while muddling or downright manipulating the question of who and what is responsible.

The New York Times, AP and others outlets have been running stories that follow a pattern of emphasizing two general conclusions. One, that parents in the United States are selfishly and irresponsibly encouraging this phenomenon and putting their own children at risk by sending them north and, two, that more children are migrating to the United States because they perceive Obama administration policies and practices as lenient on child migrants and think they have a good chance of staying--even if they get caught.

Although many of these stories mention conditions of poverty and violence in the places where the children come from, they almost never mention how these places have become so poor and violent, or much less the direct role that U.S. foreign policy has played in making them that way and forcing the children to leave.

To give a few examples: In April the NYT ran a story on child migration focused on a 12 year-old Ecuadorean girl who apparently committed suicide in a shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The article stressed the grandparents' reluctance to let her go and the insistence of the parents, who live in New York. It described the lone terror of the girl and her body found in the shower. it did not delve into the circumstances or the allegations that Mexican police captured her before her arrival at the shelter or why her parents could not provide for their family in Ecuador.

Readers were left with the impression that it was the parents that were to blame, not a system of injustice that stretched from the Andes to the US-Mexico border. This induced conclusion was reflected in the gist of many of the hundreds of comments on the page that expressed genuine compassion for the death of the dark-eyed child in indigenous dress, but also many variations on this comment: "The parents are at the root of this crime".

An AP story June 3 leads with a 14 year-old boy heading north with friends, saying that he had heard that minors were being allowed to stay in the U.S. Alhough the story later mentions the conditions of violence in his native Honduras, again there is no context and the boys seem to be going to the border to take advantage of the US government's largesse--a message sure to inflame anti-immigrant forces.

The AP follows up with this interpretation in a June 6 story stating the thesis explicitly: "Rumors of asylum raise hopes for migrant families". These stories present anecdotal evidence of the thesis that the spike in child migration is due to hopes of being allowed to stay, in the form of interviews that often appear to have been reporter-led into giving this as the cause. In fact, none of the unbiased surveys on reasons for leaving list lenient migration practices in the U.S. as a major cause.

The predictable result of the spate of articles on children migrants is to urge the creation of more detention facilities (potentially good news for the private prison industries) and call for an end to releases, as noted in the AP article:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry last week asked that the Department of Homeland Security stop releasing immigrants with notices to appear. On Monday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer asked the same for the hundreds of immigrants, mostly women and children, who in recent weeks have been flown to Arizona from South Texas for processing.
Following the thread, a New York Times article June 7 called "Child Migrants Strain Make-Shift Arizona Shelter" described a veritable junior brown tide pouring into the US and echoed the criticisms of Arizona's anti-immigrant governor Janet Brewer regarding administration efforts to house the migrants.

"I am disturbed and outraged that President Obama's administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy, meanwhile neglecting to answer crucial questions our citizens demand and deserve," the governor, a Republican, said in a statement late Friday.
Not once did the article bother to cite an immigrant or an immigrants' rights advocate, of which there are, fortunately, many in Arizona. Much less did it or any of the other articles on the issue mention a need for policies that would facilitate family reunification.

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No one would argue that it is a good idea to attempt to bring a child to the United States without a trusted companion. Note that these children are not usually "unaccompanied". Their parents have paid large sums of money to smugglers to bring them over the border safely. But they often do not know the smugglers and human smuggling has become a big business for organized crime over the past decade, thanks in large part to increased security making it necessary for anyone trying to cross to hire professional help. As the cost of crossing went up, organized crime recognized a new business opportunity and replaced independent coyotes or relatives in getting migrants over the border.

The press stories seek to pull heartstrings over the trials and traumas of the kids, while containing a strong hidden message of opprobrium against the parents. How could they let this happen? How selfish of them to expose their children to such perils!

Maybe the reporters and publishers don't have children. Or maybe they do, and they simply cannot imagine what it's like to know your son is growing up and you cannot be there for him, or to mark your daughter's birthday on a calendar and wonder what she looks like now. This heart-wrenching tragedy, repeated millions-fold, is the direct result of US immigration policies.

A New York Times editorial at least took a somewhat more compassionate view of the situation, recognizing the "false narrative" of the enforcers:

The crisis comes at a bad moment in America's stalemated immigration debate, with Republicans gleefully seizing on a situation seemingly tailored to fit their false narrative, that any reform short of an aggressively militarized border will create yet another magnet to pull more of the wretched poor over our border, and that all the chaos in the system is Mr. Obama's fault.
As an example, it quoted Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee:

"Word has gotten out around the world about President Obama's lax immigration enforcement policies, and it has encouraged more individuals to come to the United States illegally... Enforcement at the border and in the interior of the U.S. is crucial to end these kinds of situations, not another bureaucratic task force."
The editorial emphasized the "push" factors and that children "are fleeing for their lives". It called for the government to humanely attend to the flows but did not mention longer-term solutions regarding disastrous U.S. policies in their home countries.

On June 3, President Obama referred to the "humanitarian crisis" and issued a memorandum calling for the formation of a "Unified Coordination Group" to attend to unaccompanied children migrants. He asked for $1.4 billion dollars to create infrastructure for the influx of minors.

An article in VOX notes that the US government seems to understand that the real solution lies in improving conditions in countries of origin but has failed to address them:

Ultimately, any long-term solution has to address not only the "pull factors" that bring children here, but the "push factors" that drive them out of their own countries. The federal government appears to understand this, but there aren't many good ideas for how to deal with it. Last week, Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, suggested to Congress that the US government could launch a public-awareness campaign in Central American countries to advertise the dangers of migrating to the United States.
Again the "solution" suggested blames the victims for risking the journey.

So why does the mainstream press seek to place the blame on the parents and a supposed softening of immigration policy?

Because the alternative to blaming migrant families themselves is unpalatable to them.

The alternative is to accept that the Central American and North American Free Trade Agreements have left thousands of youth with no economic opportunities.

It is to accept that US security aid for drug wars has armed and aggravated violence in Mexico and Central America.

It is to understand the high cost of supporting the Honduran coup and how the Honduran people and the US population continue to pay that price, as out migration has surged over 500% in the past two years and human rights violations, instability and violence are skyrocketing.

In my travels to migrant shelters and interviews with migrants coming through Mexico I have found that, astoundingly, they do realize the risks and yet decide to make the journey anyway.

The public-awareness campaign we really need is one addressed to U.S. citizens and Congress regarding the impact of economic and security polices on their southern neighbors, and especially on the children.

Then we need a public action campaign to do something about it.

UPDATE: Here's an interesting post on the legal aspects. Note the graph on where the child migrants come from.
NOTE June13: Still trying to get to the bottom of this. These figures indicate that there is no doubt about the surge in detentions of child migrants, in Texas ONLY. No other crossing point even shows an increase while the Texas figure is more than twice as high. Is this at least partly a result of a state of Texas policy decision to apprehend more child migrants? http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/10/number-of-latino-children-caught-trying-to-enter-u-s-nearly-doubles-in-less-than-a-year/
Laura Carlsenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-57286537226240424752014-06-06T11:17:00.001-05:002014-06-09T10:58:31.048-05:00Tamaulipas: Mexico's black hole gets even more dangerous
The English-language press has given an unusual amount of attention to Tamaulipas lately, soon after the federa government declared it the crisis state in turn and launched a federal offensive against organized crime there.

Tamaulipas is, indeed, on fire again, as is Ciudad Juarez. The specific reasons are different, but one thing is clear: that calling in the Army will not solve the problem. We have only to look back at Operation Chihuahua to see that.

A recent piece in InSight Crime titled "How Federal Security Deployments in Mexico Are Set Up to Fail" also argues that the federal efforts will not succeed. InSight Crime analyses are often not very deep and this one isn't an exception. However, they often gather interesting facts in one place and address current issues.

The main argument is that local corruption will always undermine federal law enforcement efforts. The criticism I have is first, the data offered on the corruption of local and state officials is important and undoubtedly affects the effectiveness of federal intervention, but the implication is that federal troops and forces are not corrupt. This is not true. Yet there is no mention of the collusion with crime and corruption that occur among federal forces.

Secondly, he report starts with teh premise that Tamaulipas was a success story last year with a significantly lower homicide rate. I was suspicious of the low 2013 homicide figure and in any case would not accept these government figures at face value. The government practice last year was to under-report violence, including through suppression of the press.

But actually the problem with the report is even worse. When I checked the citation, the number of homicides reported for Tamaulipas in 2013 is actually 1,043--twice what the author states. I requested an explanation from InSight Crime but have not heard back. Another lesson in being wary of reported data. Not only are government sources vastly under-reported (these are only homicides reported to the Public Ministry in a nation and state where few people choose to report crimes), but reporters and researchers make mistakes or manipulate data.

This year, the SNSP--a system of the Ministry of the Interior (Gobernación)--reports 553 murders in Tamaulipas through April, putting it on track to become a record year for violence there under the Peña Nieto administration that promised that public safety rather than the drug war would be its major priority.

In other reports, Washington Post reporter Joshua Partlow has been in Tamaulipas and offers some rare glimpses into daily life there. Most of what he describes has been common for years, although the shoot-outs have stepped up. He interviews residents accustomed to extortion and people who have to go to extraordinary measures to carry out their ordinary activities.

This June 2 piece by the Guardian also tells an interesting story of the death of Tampico over the years. An earlier article signaled the renewed violence. This article quotes a Mexican government agent reaffirming what was already clear--that in fact the Peña nieto government is bent on fighting Calderon and the U.S. government's drug war no matter what the results are for the population:

The state government spokesman Guillermo Martínez said this week that the resurgence of violence in Tamaulipas was the result of government successes in "squeezing" the criminal groups. "The important thing is that we are facing the problem head on," he said.
I'll be writing more extensively on Tamaulipas within the next couple of months. It is probably among the most difficult places to envision solutions to the fatal combination of governmental corruption and organized crime because the situation is exacerbated by the breakdown and fear among civil society. As the articles note, many have fled across the border an the rest have mostly learned to adapt the an extreme situation.

Tamaulipas has always been the black hole of Mexico--a place where people are unwilling to go into for fear of not coming out, a place where rule of law is practically non-existent and information is scarce.

- Laura Carlsen

Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-64734607012347745362014-06-06T11:07:00.000-05:002014-06-06T11:07:47.567-05:00Leaked Images Reveal Children Warehoused In Crowded U.S. Cells, Border Patrol Overwhelmed Breitbart Texas
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June 5, 2014

Houston, Texas - Breitbart Texas obtained internal federal government photos depicting the conditions of foreign children warehoused by authorities on U.S. soil on Wednesday night. Thousands of illegal immigrants have overrun U.S. border security and their processing centers in Texas along the U.S./Mexico border. Unaccompanied minors, including young girls under the age of 12, are making the dangerous journey from Central America and Mexico, through cartel-controlled territories, and across the porous border onto U.S. soil.

The photos illuminate the conditions of the U.S. Border Patrol's processing centers, as well as the overwhelming task Border Patrol is facing.

Breitbart Texas Border Expert and Contributing Editor Sylvia Longmire reviewed the photos.

"Given the deteriorating security and economic conditions in the Central American countries where most of these children and adult immigrants came from, it's hard to understand how DHS didn't see this coming," Longmire said. "The trend towards increased cross-border movement towards south Texas and away from Arizona has been apparent; the trend of Central Americans starting to outnumber Mexican crossers has been apparent. Even worse is believing that DHS knew this was coming, but didn't have the resources or ability to cut through bureaucratic red tape to prepare more quickly. Read more.

Nidia Bautista http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-88396251714352597882014-06-06T10:52:00.000-05:002014-06-06T10:52:22.782-05:00Tamaulipas: A Death Trap for Mexico's MilitaryVanguardia - Source: 24 Horas
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
June 2, 2014

Sixty soldiers have died in operations against drug trafficking in the past 18 months; the Gulf and the Nueva Generacion (Jalisco's New Generation cartel) are the main aggressors.

REYNOSA.- A total of 60 Mexican Army soldiers have died in the first 18 months of this presidential term while taking part in operations implemented against organized crime and drug trafficking. One in three has lost his life in Tamaulipas.

Jalisco and Michoacan are states that have also seen soldiers fall, six in each case from December, 2012, until now. Next are Durango and Chihuahua with five (deaths) each, Sinaloa with four, and the rest in seven other states.

Two attacks have resulted in the greatest number of deaths for the military. In both cases, the criminals had an advantage because they were ambushes, not direct confrontations.

One of them took place just this past May 13, at kilometer marker 70 on the Ameca-Mascota highway, right at the arches at the entrance to the municipality of Guachinango. A convoy of six soldiers with the 32nd Infantry Battalion were sent to obtain a sample from an illegal fuel tap. When the military transport was traveling through the area, a pickup truck blocked the road and triggered the ambush. More than 20 gunmen with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion) fired several volleys with their AK-47 assault rifles from the east side of the road, from about 40 meters away. The criminals also used fragmentation grenades.

Four soldiers lost their lives, unable to defend themselves. Another two, a lieutenant and a soldier, were badly wounded and were transferred to a hospital. There were no casualties among the criminals.

The other attack, the deadliest to date, took place on October 3, 2013, when gunmen from the Gulf Cartel ambushed a convoy of military police in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The soldiers managed to defend themselves but they were at a disadvantage due to the poor visibility in the area where the attack took place. Thirty-five were killed by gunfire.

The number of fallen soldiers is slightly greater than (the number) during the first 18 months of the Calderon presidency, when 57 soldiers were killed. Another important difference, according to an official updated report from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena: Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional) is that, at the start of the previous administration, the principal cause of death was due to accidents during operations, and today, they are due to attacks with firearms.

The facts show that, of the 60 soldiers who have died from December 2012 to date, 35 were murdered by gunfire from criminals, compared to 19 that died from the same causes during the first part of the Calderon administration.

Vehicular accidents during operations are currently the second cause of military deaths, with 21 soldiers killed. The four remaining military deaths were: two from falls, one by drowning and one more from an aerial accident.

The majority of soldiers killed were from the lowest echelons, that is, they were soldiers. The higher ranking ones were an Infantry Second Captain, who died from gunfire in Guamuchil, Sonora, on May 30, 2013, and two lieutenants who died in Chihuahua and in Michoacan. Among those who died is a Lieutenant aircraft pilot with the Mexican Air Force, who lost his life in an aircraft accident in Chihuahua, Chihuahua.

It bears pointing out that, unlike previous years, there are no members of Special Forces or other elite units among the military casualties, which, according to authorities consulted, is due to the fact that criminals have preferred to attack conventional Army transport or patrol convoys.

In the past months, the operations with the greatest impact against criminal leaders have been carried out by special groups within the Mexican Navy.

See original Borderland Beat translation.Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058611092223984448.post-86616458304102221862014-05-31T12:06:00.000-05:002014-05-31T12:06:40.083-05:00Migrants dropped off at bus stations in ArizonaChron
By Astrid Galvan

By the time the women arrived disheveled and hungry at the Greyhound station in Phoenix, they had already spent weeks traveling thousands of miles with young children in tow.

Ranging from months old to adolescents, some of the children were sick and lethargic. Others played gleefully at arcade games in the crowded waiting room of the bus station.

The families were apprehended in Texas, flown to Arizona and dropped off by the busload at the station in Phoenix by federal immigration authorities overwhelmed by a surge of families caught crossing the Mexican border into the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

It was signal of a shift in immigration that has seen the Rio Grande Valley surpass Tucson as the leader in border apprehensions, overwhelming border agents in Texas. The trend is being driven by a huge increase in the number of immigrants from Central America.

Yet while the number of apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley vastly surpasses those in the Tucson sector in Arizona, the area has fewer agents. From October 2013 to May 17, agents in the Rio Grande Valley made more than 148,000 arrests, compared with 63,000 arrests in the Tucson sector. But the Rio Grande Valley has about 1,000 fewer agents than Tucson. Read more. Nidia Bautista http://firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Knoxville Area Transit bus, parked at the corner of Market Street and Union Avenue, exhibited six pieces of art related to transportation. Smart Trips coordinator Elizabeth Wright said she hoped the event would make the bus a more appealing option.
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I stayed at the Merlin Copacabana on my first trip to Rio de Janeiro, some years ago. The hotel is very nice, though its location is not very good.
It's situated in the Copacabana area, but a bit far from the beachfront and the neighborood isn't very good. No restaurants around or good shops.
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First time down to Rio and is my first stop on my trip around the world. Speak enough spanish to get by with, but not so much Portuguese. Hoping to remedy this problem a little before a leave on the 30 dec. Any advice for places to see and stay while down in Rio would be greatly appreciated. I will be traveling by myself and looking forward to interacting with the locals as well as other travelers.
Been online looking for days so it seems to find a decent hotel that hasn't been booked up already. I found Merlin Copacabana and wondering if anyone has stayed there? Have read several of the posts on this site and have been so helpful!
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Merlim Copacabana has only one problem: the street in front of it is very very noisy. Is it called Av. Princesa Isabel and is it located in the beggining of Copacabana. The best location in Copacabana is in the end, close to Ipanema.
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The Merline is located a few blocks before the tunnel . There is alot of traffic to and from because through the tunnel is the RIO sul Mall. Its a nice hotel. My friend worked there as a security guard for a year. However it is sort of out of the way (ie subway, beach, nice bars, restaurants,etc.). If you want to stay in copa stay more towards the middle or end so you have better access (ie. walk, bus, or cab) to Ipanema.
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Writing Grinches
The self-publishing, epublishing, blogging, and all manner of PEOPLE DARING TO WRITE AND PUBLISH in various ways enabled by the internet have certainly produced a lot of Writing Grinches. "We don't need all these books. Bloggers aren't real journalists. Ebooks aren't real books. Self-published books aren't real books. All these books just mean more garbage for readers to wade through."
Wow. So much hate for the written word. What's up with these Writing Grinches? To them I say: writing teaches people to think clearly. In what way is the world worse off if more people want to spend their time training themselves to think clearly? Now imagine a world full of people freely and cheerfully reading all the trash produced by these writing upstarts. Did you know that readers make better citizens, that there is no single thing you can encourage to produce better students, better employees, better neighbors than reading? Yes, even those who read trash like comic books and online comics, romance novels and erotic romance ebooks, self-published tales of all types. Readers are better human beings, no matter what they read. Writers are better human beings, no matter what they write.
So, Writing Grinches, expand your hearts and sit down with the Writing Whos, or stick to your grinchy ways, but I say more power to all who want to read and write, and may we continue to freely do both. Yes, even if somebody calls what we read and/or write trash. Maybe especially then.
Fear and love
The kids have started dance. And almost immediately we suspected the oldest was in the wrong class, that she was ready to move up to beginning ballet instead of pre. So we discussed this with her teacher who agreed and suggested she try out the beginning class right away instead of after the holiday break. Immediately, she expressed all manner of fear. "But I don't want to perform!" "But I don't want to be in a different class from my sister!" All the way home it was fear, fear, fear.
So we hauled her off to the trial class after a day of angst. We watched her glow while she put on real ballet slippers. We watched her leap and balance and twirl and work at the barre. We saw a confidence that was new. And when class was over, she gushed. It was fantastic, amazing, she loved it. She didn't want to leave. She wanted to stay and watch the next class of more advanced students. Finally we dragged her away to eat something, but we knew: she'd found IT.
Sometimes the thing you love most is the thing you fear most. Sometimes fear points you in the very direction you should go. The thing you love, the thing you can't tear yourself away from, the thing you'll do all the time because it is its own reward.
If there's something you're afraid of, you don't have to wait until the New Year to make a resolution to give it a try. Just try. You might love it. You might not want to stop.
Holiday fun and making beauty
Only 12 days until Christmas? I thought I was on top of things until I looked at the calendar. But if you need a little holiday light in the middle of the madness, here are two things only a click away: Norad Santa offers all sorts of fun for all ages (the light-the-Christmas-tree puzzle is surprisingly challenging) and if you missed the limited edition from Subterranean Press like I did, the ever-fabulous Connie Willis' All Seated on the Ground is now an ebook. Aliens vs Christmas carols! Will our protagonists bridge an interstellar communication gap in time to save Christmas and the world? I laughed until I hurt and then I read it all over again from the beginning.
Yesterday my kid asked me to slice up a pear for her. Then she added, "Make it beautiful." Ooookay, I thought, and then arranged the slices in a lotus blossom. She loved it, and I would never have thought of it without that request. In any endeavor, there's always room for beauty. Add some to whatever you're doing today. I'm going to work on beautiful prose.
Other People's Books, holiday shopping edition
It's that time of year again, and for the compulsive reader on your shopping list, you can never, never, never go wrong with a book store gift card. No, really. It doesn't matter that we have a stack of books on the bedside table, kitchen table, office and living room. We always need more.
Want to get more specific? If you or somebody you love loves romantic suspense, Shiloh Walker is putting out fantastic books right and left. The Ash trilogy offers a thrill a month, starting with If You Hear Her, and then in January she gives us spooky thrills with
The Departed, which Santa brought me an early copy of. Perfect way to spend your holiday gift card!
The ever-luminous Marjorie Liu just released yet another astounding novel in the
Dirk & Steele series. Perfect for the paranormal adventure lover who wants a happy ending along with dragons and pryokinetics.
Ilona Andrews, who just keeps getting better, has a new book out this month, too, in time for holiday gifting; Fate's Edge is so fantastic the recipient will want the whole set and then everything else they can get their hands on.
Advance planning? I hear tell
PBW has a new Darkyn novel coming soon to delight her readers. Nightborn doesn't release until March, but since she's also recently sold a steampunk novel and is enormously prolific, you'll want to save room in 2012's book budget. Also in March, watch for the latest from
Patricia Briggs' Alpha & Omega series.
Tired of holiday frenzy already and want some quick e-reading? Check out Fire & Ice by Portia Dacosta, now from Walk on the Wild Side Books, or the can't-miss holiday anthology Holiday Kisses from Shannon Stacey, Jaci Burton, HelenKay Dimon and Alison Kent.
The best holiday present you can give me is to keep my favorite authors writing and publishing, so buy a book for yourself or somebody you love.
Coming Soon and NaNo End
Coming Soon: I sent in the contract so now it's official. ROPED aka Christmas Cowboy, will be out in 2012! Watch for Cowboy Lust from Cleis Press. So hello December, nice to meet you with something on the schedule for the new year, officially. Unofficially, I do have a lot in the hopper but with no dates yet. That will change quickly now that the baby is obligingly taking naps, something she just didn't do for the first few months of life. (I read her the baby sleep guide and explained she was supposed to sleep around 15 hours instead of 8 per 24, but she ignored that.)
Nano officially ended, so now's a good time to look at what worked and what didn't going forward. For me, what didn't work was the baby's schedule (see above, not sleeping) and I also realized very quickly that the story needed more development; research, outlining, all that boring stuff. NaNo was kind of experimental for me this year in that I wanted to see if I could just wing it, and what I learned was that even though I have to figure out a certain amount of the story as I go, I do need at least a rudimentary grasp on it. I will never be a detailed outliner, but I need at least a flexible framework in place. Sometimes it's worth experimenting just to learn these things. So that story has gone into the "needs development" stage and I'm back to working on the books that are not only well developed but a good chunk done.
I also started dayjobbing last month, and have had a chance to see how that will work with writing and a baby. Fairly well, as it turns out. The dayjob work is part time and flexible (Drupal) but allows me to handle things like financial planning without the giant guesswork involved in writing income. Also, if I put in 20 hours a week for the company, we qualify for better insurance. Practical considerations like this actually free you up to be more creative, so as the year ends, now is a really good time to think through how writing and life are working and how they can work better. Because the real value of NaNo is figuring out how to put what you've learned into practice for the other 11 months of the year.
Ready, set, write!
It's here, it's here! National Novel Writing Month, where people all over decide to stop thinking about writing a book someday and just Do It. There are a million ways to write a novel. You can use outlines, a synopsis, a storyboard, or just strike out and follow your idea to see where it leads. All of these methods start with one thing: a clear grasp of what your story is about.
This morning while I was making lunches, I asked my oldest kid what she was working on in writing. "A story about a shark who wants to be friends with a mermaid." I told her that was a premise, and that she'd just described her premise in a one-sentence summary, which meant she was well on her way to success.
What is your one-sentence summary? If you can't describe your idea easily in one sentence, stop and spend some time thinking about and refining your idea. Writing your story begins with knowing what it's about, as clearly as my eight year old described hers. You don't need to know all the details in advance, but you do need a clear idea of what you're trying to do. That one sentence can remain your guide and your target through the whole thing.
Night before NaNo
Tomorrow the madness begins! Are you ready?
I've written a lot of books, novellas, and novelettes (I've actually kind of lost count of my total publishing credits), and they all begin with one thing: that thing that fascinates you. All you need is a serious level of passion for one thing to fuel the story. Passion for the Viking Age led to The Gripping Beast. Werewolves produced a whole series of novels and novelettes. Fascination with Nephilim, plus Jehovah's Witness and Barry Manilow jokes? Wicked Hot.
Whatever grabs your imagination, that's the thing to let your imagination loose on, and there is no better opportunity than NaNoWriMo to just let it rip. It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to be publishable or even readable. If you're a new writer or one who has been around the block so many times the street has a foot-deep groove, NaNo is a great way to give in to passion and dive in to process without worrying about whether it's a good use of time. It's a month out of your life. If the results are lousy, so what? It's a month you didn't spend watching reality TV, and you will have learned something from the process.
I'm using NaNo to break from "real work" and take a risk. My project may well be totally unpublishable. I couldn't care less. I know that to reach my career goals I have to devote time and energy to taking risks, which is why NaNo is perfect for me. Yes, I have "real work" to do, but for NaNo I'm setting it aside. It will still be there Dec. 1, and I will probably be in a better frame of mind to tackle it. If nothing else, I will have spent a month writing with wild abandon about a topic that's obsessed me all my life and that I've never written about. In the genre I've always loved above all others.
I have planned to take time off for the holiday weekend, having learned from experience that working when kids are off and expecting attention is bound to create unhappiness all around. Besides, I need to enjoy holidays myself. So my daily NaNo goal is 2,000 words to compensate.
Pick your passion. Plan your month. Set your daily target. And prepare to write like a motherfucker as an early holiday gift to yourself.


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Police issued a rush on the autopsy of the Vinemont man who was shot and killed at his home on June 29 during an alleged domestic dispute with his wife.
District Attorney Wilson Blaylock said autopsy's can take as long as six months to complete, but because of the importance of the case, a rush was requested on the report.
At this time, authorities have not released further details surrounding potential suspects in the case.
Cullman County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a 911 call by Elizabeth McBroom at approximately 2:45 a.m. on June 29 at the home she shares with her husband, Robert, on County Road 1437 in the Vinemont community.
Robert McBroom, 56, had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene when authorities arrived. Investigators would not speculate as to how many gunshots were involved, and would not release the type of gun used.
According to sheriff's office reports, Elizabeth McBroom told deputies she and her husband had become embroiled in a domestic violence incident that resulted in his death.
When asked if there had been previous domestic disputes at the location, Cullman County Sheriff Mike Rainey said no records were found to his knowledge.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, and Rainey said the results and all information uncovered during the investigation have been turned over to Cullman County District Attorney Wilson Blaylock. From there, the results will be used in a presentation before a grand jury to determine if any charges might be filed against Elizabeth.
Rainey said he will not be releasing any further details related to the case until it has been reviewed by a grand jury.
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WASHINGTON – The House Agriculture Committee passed the farm bill with the support of Congressmen Christopher Gibson (R- 19) and Sean Patrick Maloney (D- 18). The bill contains a number of provisions that will benefit New York's Hudson Valley region.
The bill includes Maloney's Crop Risk Options Plan (CROP) Act that defends the specialty agriculture economy of the region as well as an amendment to help families and communities with flooding in the black dirt region.
New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat, has introduced his first bill since taking office in January. It has to do with better protecting fruit and vegetable farmers when it comes to crop insurance.
Maloney says The CROP Act, or The Creating Reliability for Our Producers Act, aims to reform crop insurance to help so-called specialty crop farmers, namely, fruit and vegetable growers.
Tuesday was National Agriculture Day, and a Congressman from New York took the opportunity to introduce a bipartisan bill to help specialty crop farmers.
Hudson Valley Representative Sean Patrick Maloney introduced his first bill, the CROP Act, or The Creating Reliability for Our Producers Act.
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Best place to buy bulk spices?
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Bonus points if they have bulk nuts, rice, dried beans, etc.
looking to stock up on some basics (peppercorns, chili flakes, salt, oregano, cinnamon), plus some more hard-to-find stuff like sichuan peppercorns, pine nuts, hungarian paprika, pepitas.
I just despise buying the little jars at Trader Joes or Wholefoods.
Devon Ave. has numerous Indian/Pakistani markets with dirt cheap spices and some beans (plenty of lentils). You won't find a huge range of spices but whatever they have is generally a good value. For a far more varied selection, Penzeys is great:
I get mine from the Spice House, which has stores in Chicago (Old Town), Evanston, Geneva, and Milwaukee. Great spices, total freshness, and their staff is extremely knowledgeable. You can buy in bulk, in any quantity, with or without containers, and if you want, they can refill the containers they use. I believe it was founded by the daughter of the founder of Penzey's. www.thespicehouse.com
Penzey's, mentioned above, has two store locations in Illinois, in Oak Park and Naperville.
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Summers come alive at RVC with Starlight Theatre, featuring four productions and held in the beautiful, and one-of-a-kind Bengt Sjostrom Theatre on the main campus. With its one of a kind retractable roof, every night is a perfect night for a show. Starlight brings some of the best known productions to Rockford, and in recent years has also debuted original works. 2014 season includes "The Sound of Music," TinTypes," Honk!," and "Monty Python's Spamalot."
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Three officers of Gothenburg's FFA chapter accept checks totalling $645 from local veterinarians. The money is through Pfizer drug company's FFA support program where it contributes 1% of its animal health product purchases to local FFA chapters. Pictured are, l-r: Randy Burge, owner of Eastside Animal Center, FFA officers Stephanie Rubenthaler, Aaron Lauer and Jayde Keiser and Roger Dudley, owner of Gothenburg Animal Hospital. The FFA will use the money for travel expenses to state convention.
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Johnston (230 for 9) beat Hook (129 all out) by 101 runs
JOHNSTON maintained their winning streak at the top of the table and marginally increased their advantage over the chasing clubs as they achieved maximum points over neighbours Hook.
Johnston batsmen Dan Sutton (28), Steve Mills (31), John Summons (39), Chris Fitzpatrick (22) and Rhys Dalling (33) all made useful contributions as Johnston sped past 200 and settled on 230 for 9.
Jamie Phelps (3 for 19), Matthew Holder (2 for 47), Andrew Thomas (2 for 40), Wayne Griffiths (1 for 17) and Brennan Martin (1 for 39) were the Hook wicket-takers.
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Ordered sequences of univariate or multivariate regressions provide statistical modelsfor analysingdata fromrandomized, possiblysequential interventions, from cohort or multi-wave panel studies, but also from cross-sectional or retrospective studies. Conditional independences are captured by what we name regression graphs, provided the generated distribution shares some properties with a joint Gaussian distribution. Regression graphs extend purely directed, acyclic graphs by two types of undirected graph, one type for components of joint responses and the other for components of the context vector variable. We review the special features and the history of regression graphs, prove criteria for Markov equivalence anddiscussthenotion of simpler statistical covering models. Knowledgeof Markov equivalence provides alternative interpretations of a given sequence of regressions, is essential for machine learning strategies and permits to use the simple graphical criteria of regression graphs on graphs for which the corresponding criteria are in general more complex. Under the known conditions that a Markov equivalent directed acyclic graph exists for any given regression graph, we give a polynomial time algorithm to find one such graph.


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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- While this won't settle well with Tiger Woods, but at least he made it to the weekend.
Sitting 10 shots off the pace, Tiger will either need to pull off something special or put together a solid round and try to get into the top 10, an accomplishment considering the lack of success he has had at the Players Championship.
Tiger has put together rounds of 74-68-72, and says he hit the ball beautifully in the latter, but just couldn't get anything to drop on the greens.
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