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	4/4/2005

Only in America

Does anyone else see a problem with a national organization calling itself The Race? (We are not talking about the NASCAR type.)

The organization was founded in 1968, which is after a radical group calling itself the Brown Berets was formed promoting the same race based moniker.

Now, would it surprise you then that last week a powerful member of the Bush Adminstration was thanking a group named like this for its critical support in helping him attain his position?

Maybe I am just losing something in the traslation here?

11:43:30 PM

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Reafirma Bush compromiso para reforma migratoria

My Spanish is not so good, but I think this article in this week's issue of Que Pasa (based in Winston Salem) says:

"Bush Reaffirms that he is a compromiser on migration reform."

Note that Que Pasa does not think in terms of immigration but only migration.

It is also somewhat irritating that I picked up my copy of Que Pasa from a stack placed in the inside lobby of the US Post Office on Battleground Ave where over the last several weeks it seems to have become a fixture.

10:53:10 PM

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From Florida FTAA, Inc. (emphasis added)

"DR-CAFTA is a great agreement for Central America and the Dominican Republic, a great agreement for the United States and an even better one for Florida. DR-CAFTA is the precursor to the FTAA," concluded J. Arrizurieta.

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 democratically elected Western Hemisphere nations, is intended to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. It is an effort to unite the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade agreement comprising 800 million consumers with a combined gross domestic product of $14 trillion.

Florida FTAA, Inc. is the private-public entity led by Governor Jeb Bush, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and officials throughout the State of Florida with the mission that Miami, Florida become the site of the Permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

9:24:16 PM

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