Guest Editorial:
By Patrick Osio

The debate over medical health reform has divided into warring camps as to whether we should or should not keep the present system. Opponents claim the nation is heading into socialized medicine and the other side proclaiming we cannot continue to ignore the millions of citizens that lack insurance and are unable [...]

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D

 Alguien está profanando contra la reforma de salud del presidente Barack Obama. ¿Existen o no culpables? Puede ser una maquinación de los republicanos o puede ser la falta de unión de los demócratas. O puede ser un problema del presidente Obama.
 Aparentemente el Presidente nunca tuvo la oportunidad de deliberar en forma clara [...]

By Rolando Rodriguez

 I’m writing an article on stereotypes about White people. I’m hoping TIME magazine might publish it.
 A Latino professor recently went to Puerto Rico, where there are hardly any White people, and the island residents all came back with the same stereotypical sentiments about this group.
 White people walk their children on leashes. White children [...]

Por Maribel Hastings
America’s Voice
 Ver a la Casa Blanca del presidente Barack Obama dando visos de capitular, ante la presión de extremistas y de figuras dentro de su propio partido, a la defensa de opciones de reforma de salud que promovió durante su campaña presidencial, debe seguir sonando la alarma a los grupos de presión pro [...]

Por José R. Uzal

 En la historia reciente han habido conciertos como Live Aid en 1985 y Woodstock en 1969 que impactaron la humanidad. El concierto de Juanes en La Habana, programado para el próximo 20 de Septiembre no va a ser de esa categoría.
 El trovador colombiano alega que su concierto en Cuba será un símbolo, [...]

Chula Vista’s New Chief of Police: David Bejarano
 The recent appointment of David Bejarano, as Chula Vista’s (CV) Chief of Police (the first person of Mexican ancestry) is seen as a historical step, and has been greeted by many in our community as a “step in the right direction for CV.” On the other hand, for an [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Mexican: My family hasn’t been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn’t live close enough to the southern U.S. border to have exposure to Mexico or Mexicans. So, anyone looking down on Mexicans can be mysterious to many of us that have migrated to [...]

Volúmen de cuentos de Juan Esmerio Navarro tuvo una presentación singular en el Centro Cultural Tijuana.
 Tijuana, B.C. — Con una charla entre amigos, sinaloenses los dos, escritores ambos, se presentó Meteoro y otras historias de Sol, libro de relatos de Juan Esmerio Navarro, en El Ágora/Sala de usos múltiples del Centro Cultural Tijuana.
 El libro reúne [...]

Por: Paco Zavala

 Rodeado de amigos, admiradores, representantes de los medios, del Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura y de la Casa de la Cultura Playas, recibió el pasado sábado 15 de agosto, un merecido homenaje y la entrega de un reconocimiento, el excelso pianista y maestro José Eduardo Cisneros Gaztañaga, mejor conocido en el ambiente [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz

 La Sweetwater Education Association, que representa a los maestros en el Distrito Escolar de Sweetwater, tuvo una manifestación el lunes, 17 de agosto, para protestar lo que llama “violaciones a nuestro contrato”.
 Los maestros en Sweetwater, que incluye las secundarias y preparatorias por todo el sur del condado, han estado sin contrato desde [...]

México del Norte
Por Jorge Mújica Murias
 Será que Barack Obama quiso ponerse a la altura de los políticos mexicanos en vista de su viaje a Guadalajara, y decidió descararse y confesar su ineficiencia: “No puedo solito”; “Las cosas no pasan porque el presidente truene los dedos”.
 Pues no. Eso nosotros lo sabíamos, pero parece que Obama no. [...]

By Price Daniel
Special Report

 NORFOLK
—The U.S. Marine Corps announced that former U.S. Coast Guardsman John Flores will receive the civilian Meritorious Service Award later this year for his years of research and writing about the lives of Marine Sgt. Freddy Gonzalez and his 80-year-old mother, Dolia Gonzalez, of Edinburg, Texas. He has also written extensively about the [...]

By Ann Meier Baker

 Most children, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, will tell you of their dreams to become a football player, a rock star, a doctor, a pilot – even President of the United States. I have yet to hear a child tell me, “I want to sing in [...]

First Person:

 By Al Carlos Hernandez
 Lidia Pires may not be a name you recognize but she has been a recognizable face on numerous international TV commercials, network TV programs and more than ten feature films. She is most recently featured as one of the stars in the cross-over heist film Ladron que Roba a Ladron. There [...]

Mujeres en la Historia & Historias de Mujeres by Gracia Molina de Pick and Carmen Lugo Hubp
 On Friday, August 28 at 1PM, Mexico City time, at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, Gracia Molina de Pick , Independent Scholar and Feminist Community Activist and  her co-author Carmen Lugo Hubp, Investi-gadora Universitaria and Human  [...]

By Ana Goins-Ramirez-Diaz

 It gets very hot outside during the summer months. Sometimes temperatures can reach over 90oF. In hot weather, our bodies lose a lot of water. When we do not have enough water, we can fall ill with serious heat-related conditions. These conditions are heat stroke, heat rash, heat exhaustion, and heat cramps. They [...]

Por Jason Alderman

 Como veteranos en las compras para el regreso a clase, mi esposa y yo hemos aprendido nuestros trucos de cómo ahorrar dinero, adicionado a métodos para reducir los ataques y nervios de punta que vienen con ésto. Si usted es nuevo en este ritual paterno de iniciación o si sencillamente está buscando nuevas [...]

 Sycuan Goes to Bat for Park View Little League
Sycuan Donates $15,000 To Get Parents To Little League World Series
 The team from Chula Vista’s Park View Little League is on its way to the Little League World Series. Sycuan is making it possible for the players’ parents to join their sons in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
  The Sweetwater Education Association, which represents teachers in the Sweetwater Union High School District, had a rally on Monday, August 17, to protest for what it calls “violations to our contract.”
 Teachers at Sweetwater, which includes middle schools and high schools throughout the South Bay, have been without a contract since June 30, [...]

Miembros del Club Demócrata de Latinoamericanos piden dejen de realizarse reténes de tránsito que tienen como blanco a latinos
Por America Barceló-Feldman
 NORTE DEL CONDADO
- En medio de críticas y sinsabores el jefe de policía de Escondido Jim Maher habló sobre su política para realizar los ya controversiales y rechazados reténes policíacos de esa ciudad del Norte [...]

Latino American Democratic Club members urge him to stop check points that are targeting the Hispanic community

By America Barceló-Feldman

– Amid criticism and bitter comments, Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher tried to explain his policy surrounding the controversial check points, to a skeptical crowd and where activists described his policies as anti-immigrant.
 NORTH COUNTY
 Latino American Democratic [...]

By Annette Fuentes
New America Media
Editor’s Note: Behind the anger visible in recent town hall meetings about health care reform is a surging, right-wing populist movement fearful of the nation’s changing demographics, and anxious about having an African-American CEO in Washington, says Chip Berlet, senior researcher at Political Research Associates, a think tank in Massachusetts. NAM [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 First came the long lines to get into Tijuana. Then Mexican customs or “aduanas” fired thousands of agents across Mexico to be replaced with wide-eyed 18 year olds with little work experience, and now, the plan to start inspecting all vehicles going south has come to a halt and could start working in [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
 Primero vinieron las largas filas para entrar a Tijuana. Luego fueron despedidos súbitamente más de mil agentes de aduanas en todo México y reemplazados con jóvenes de 18 a 30 años con poca experiencia laboral y ahora se retrasa el plan de implementación del sistema de aforo vehicular (SIAVE), hasta finales de septiembre [...]