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From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Ecuadoran Workers Threaten Natl Str
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:56:00 GMT
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Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 18 18:56:00 1992


Subject: Ecuadoran Workers Threaten Natl Strike
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Ecuadoran Workers Threaten National Strike

In response to the economic measures taken by the new Ecuadoran
government three months ago, workers in the Judicial Department
wnet on strike on Dec. 14 demanding an increase in the 1993
budget. At the same time residents of the town of Portviejo went
on strike and demonstrated in the streets, and the strike is
spreading to other towns. In El Oro a strike was averted after the
government turned over 50 million sucres ($25,000) to each one of
13 municipalities, as the beginning of a transfer of funds which
they were demanding.

Although Teresa Minuche, president of the Budget Commission, said
there would be a budget increase for the Judicial Department, she
did not say how much it would be. President of the Ecuadoran
Workers Confederation (CTE), Edgar Ponce, said there could be a
national strike as a result of the removal by police of 70 workers
from the National Investment Fund (FONAPRE), the first government
agency to be closed down. The government plans to dismiss 20,000
state workers as part of the adjustment progran, which includes a
privatization plan. The National Financial Corporation (CFN) has
already begun selling a series of stocks in government agencies
and businesses. (edlp 12/15/92 from AFP)
 

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From: barreraa@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Azael Barrera)
Subject: Re:porque s.c.croatia y no s.c.cadapaislatino
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:02:56 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

Despavilence:

Es que acaso no han notado que ya existen:

	s.c.mexican
	s.c.caribbean
	s.c.brazil
	s.c.usa   <-- en el 2050 USA va a ser mas latina que gringa! :)

la fragmentacion de s.c.l-a comenzo ya hace rato. Ya que nos "odiamos"
tanto entonce hagamos newsgroups para cada uno de los 23+ paises!

La mocion ha sido siempre que ya existen xxx-l, listas para varios de
los paises, lo que les paso a mexican es que su mexico-l se les frego
con su censura y no se aguantaron.  Los de brazil, bueno favelas sabran.
Lo de caribbean, porque dizque no hablan espan~ol (si ven los FAQ el idioma
de uso es "english", no ingles.

Mero accidente de la naturaleza? pues no, asi somos.

Azael "Vuelto a las andadas" Barrera
(adivinen el e-mail)
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 17 Dec 1992 13:14:40 EST
From: <JSABB@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: National Holidays (query)

Noviembre 11. Celebracion del grito de independencia(?) en Cartagena de
Indias
From: 002564r@axe.acadiau.ca (RICARDO FLAVIO ROMAN-CARBAJAL)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Mafalda (para el que escribio en anglo)
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:27:48 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

In article <105215@bu.edu> rodin@acs.bu.edu (luis del) writes:
>From: rodin@acs.bu.edu (luis del)
>Subject: Re: Mafalda
>Date: 18 Dec 92 02:27:44 GMT
>
>Mafalda, and sccool uniforms, WHat the hell is going on in here. 
>Let us get back to basics.
>
>
>Luis


Mafalda and the school uniforms are part of latin America daily life,not 
all the countries in Latin america require uniforms but in some of them, 
it is  compulsory. For many parents it is a big problem (not only for the 
poors) and for the textil firms a big business.
And regarding Mafalada she is part of our Latin American childhood and 
perhaps the sharpest latin american commentarist 

If you can't understand us, what the hell  are you doing in our discussions?
just start one different, something deep if you think you are able to do that
    
                                 Ricardo
From: gilberto@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Herrera Ruiz GILBERTO)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Cuban Rigths Advocate Beaten and Detained
Date: 15 Dec 92 06:04:58 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Dept. of Precision Machinery Eng., The University of Tokyo,
	Japan.



In article <2B2D141B.21718@news.service.uci.edu> rravelo@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo) writes:

   In article <GILBERTO.92Dec14130442@united.zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp> gilberto@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Herrera Ruiz GILBERTO) writes:

   >Creo que si el Sr. Sanches hubiera nacido en El Salvador en estos
   >tiempos o en Guatemala o en cualquiera de la dictaduras
   >diplomaticamente reconocidas por EU de ahora o antes (Chile, Argentina
   >Tailandia etc.), El no estaria en un hospital Militar sino estaria
   >desaparecido y muerto, sus familiares igual por eso de que no canten de mas,
   >sus hijos raptados para empezar una nueva vida en otra familia mas
   >honorable, el New York Times no escribiria de El y nuestro amigo seria
   >un desconocido mas muerto en el mundo y sin remordimientos por que parar
   >el comunismo es una noble cruzada segun el "fosforecente" y con ese
   >pretexto se puede hacer de lo que sea hasta matar ninyos y mujeres
   >embarazadas como en el mozote y en donde hasta la embajada USA siempre
   >nego que se hubiera hecho tal cosa (Complicidad???)....
   >
   >Mi pregunta es los ninyos del mozote pudieron ser tan precozes como para
   >ser comunistas desde los 5 anyos????
   >
   >Just Think About it "Fosforecente"!!!!!
   >
   >Gilberto

    Are you saying that since what happens in other countries is worse than
    what happened to Mr. Sanchez in Cuba is not bad?

Mr. Gus no es eso a lo que me referia, parece ser que te falta algo en
la cabeza para razonar las cosas, como sea te doy otro dia mas para
que medites el texto y saques una segunda opinion para que veas que no
soy malito.....Espero no ver un Left Silence como el del fosforecente ok!

By the way, Castro did
    not make Sanchez disappeared because he's too well known, countless others
    had disappeared in Cuba too as well as some well known like Camilo
    Cienfuegos who disappeared in a "plane crash" without any traces of an
    accident ......


Supongo que esto lo leiste en Pato Donald invade azteclan, No es cierto??
Yo tambien lei esa historieta muy buena por cierto!!!!!!!.

saludos

Gilberto.

   --
   Ray I. Ravelo                "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
   Office of Academic Computing. Cubans who look around us in terror"
   UC, Irvine.                 from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela
From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Latin Baby Names - Okay, Okay, LATINO NAMES
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:25:17 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Mark Rosenfelder writes:

>In addition to Ray's list, there are--

>Edelmiro :), Ricardo, Eugenio, Eduardo, Jorge, Vicente, Tito, Angel, Antonio
^^^^^^^^^^

Mark,

Just as Ricardo, Edelmiro is not a Latin/latino name.  It is Germanic and
some "barbarian" (Long live the Barbarians!!) of Visigoth origin was the first
to use it in the Iberan Peninsula.  Likewise Ricardo comes from the
gothic "Recaredo".

Edelmiro
From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (5150)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Mafalda
Date: 17 Dec 1992 18:55:27 -0800
Organization: <censored>
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <105215@bu.edu> rodin@acs.bu.edu (luis del) writes:
>Mafalda, and sccool uniforms, WHat the hell is going on in here. Let us get
>back to basics.

Damn right.  I haven't seen a decent flame war in weeks.

5150
of course, for some strange coincidence, i haven't seen any since i put
    'ez000281' in my killfile.  hm.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: ivy@camelot.bradley.edu (Ivelisse Atiles)
Subject: Re: Latin Baby Names - Okay, Okay, LATINO NAMES
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:50:29 GMT

Algunos nombres para nin~as:
Coppelia, Ylis, Viviana, Briana, Meralis, Cristina, Brenda,
Mariluz, Caridad, Paloma, y mi favorito, Ivelisse. 8)
--
-+* Ivelisse Atiles Lopez        -+*+-        ivy@camelot.bradley.edu *+-
-+* The Banzai Institute         -+*+-  No matter where you go, there you are.
         "When I was young I was in love... in love wih everything. 
                   Now there's only you."  -Thomas Dolby
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: OAS to Suspend Non-Democratic Membe
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:57:00 GMT
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Subject: OAS to Suspend Non-Democratic Members
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


OAS Approves Suspension of "Non-Democratic" Countries

The Organization of American States (OAS) has decided to become a
"club of democratic countries." On Dec. 14 it approved, by a 30 to
1 vote, a reform to its Charter which would allow for the
possibility of suspending a member country which has undergone a
coup or veered away from following its own constitution. The "No"
vote was cast by Mexico, with Trinidad and Tobago abstaining.
Mexico is against the reform because it would, according to
Mexico's foreign minister Fernando Solana, turn the OAS into an
"interventionist" organization. He said that "due to their
punitive, exclusionary and supranational character, the proposed
reforms to the Charter would only create internal division." It
was stipulated that suspension would be a last resort. Diplomatic
"disuasion" would be attempted first, as in the cases of Haiti and
Peru, and suspension would require a two-thirds vote of the member
countries. Argentine Foreign Minister Guido di Tella responded to
Solana's disagreement with the reform, saying that the situation
in the hemishpere has changed from the past and that now the OAS
is a "pioneer" in sanctifying representative democracy as an
indispensible condition for development, peace and stability.
(edlp 12/15/92 from EFE)
 

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From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 13 Dec 92 13:20 PST
Subject: In Ecuador, the Jungle is Dying/ed-
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Subject: In Ecuador, the Jungle is Dying/ed-lp
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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edlp 12/11 

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La Prensa" is a
Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

ECUADORAN JUNGLE DYING

An environmental group called "Save the Amazon" (SALVAM -
Salvemaos el Amazonas) has called on Latin American countries,
especially Ecuador, to avoid further destruction of that country's
jungle, already endangered by an oilspill larger than that of the
Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Texaco has extracted, spilled and burned
oil over the last 25 years in these jungles, causing irreparable
damage to the people and to humanity, said SALVAM coordinator
Stella Sanchez. International ecologist Judith Kimerling agrees
that Texaco has extracted around a billion gallons of oil from the
Ecuadoran Amazon jungle, never considering the impact on the
environment. Texaco's actions have left indigenous people with no
food to hunt, dead rivers, no fish, and non-arable land. In
addition the people suffer headaches, skin diseases,
gastrointestinal problems, cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth
defects.  Frequent oil spills from hundreds of secondary pipeline
have not been reported, says Kimerling.

In 1989, an oil spill combined with torrential rains caused 31
Quechua communities to lose their crops. Kimerling says that in
the last two months alone there have been three oil spills from
Texaco pipelines. "The Constitution of Ecuador guarantees each
person the human right to 'an environment free of pollution,' but
despite the fact that the government contract demands that Texaco
adopt measures to protect natural resources as well as to avoid
contamination," continues Kimerling, "the North American company
did not fulfill its obligations." Other companies are following
the same pattern and the Ecuadoran government is doing nothing to
prevent it. The problem is all of humanity's, not just Ecuador's.
Acid rain is destroying forests in Peru and Brazil, as well.

Texaco's contract ended last June, and Petroecuador, which
inherited the contract, has done no study of the practices to save
the environment. Says Stella Sanchez, "One of the companies
operating [in the Amazon jungle] "is Maxus Ecuador Inc., which is
none other than Diamond Shamrock Corporation, which produces agent
orange. Agent orange destroyed Vietnam's jungles during the war
which took place in that country... Even 20 years later the world
is feeling the effects of that horrible product." (edlp 12/11;
byline Vicky Pelaez)

[Diamond Shamrock routinely makes the annual environmental listing
of the Dirty Dozen and Filthy Five corporations in the USA as well
-- NY Transfer.]
 

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From: cortes@enuxva.eas.asu.edu (Enrique Cortes-Rello)
Subject: Re: Mexico gains dictatorship status
Summary: you win
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:03:11 GMT

In article <20356@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes:
> According to the Americas Watch Mexico has joined the family of nations
> with dictatorship status since:
> 
> Mexico suffered the violence related to the elections,
> street executions, limits on labor rights, the killings of
> journalists and the impunity of those reponsible for the worst
> violations of human rights.
> 
> No wonder they don't want to "interfere" in other peoples buisiness, they
> want to keep the world from interfering in their naughty behaviour.  Perhaps
> that's why they're so cozy with Castro.
> 
> Edelmiro

Okay Edelmiro ... you passed the Turing Test.
Now relax.

Just tell me: are you written in Lisp?

bye now,

ENRIQUE
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 17 Dec 1992 13:09:44 EST
From: <JSABB@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: LEFT WING SILENCE
 <19862@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>

Contrario a lo que parece, la intervencion en Somalia no se inicio hace una
semana.
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Italians Investigate Leighton Shoot
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:57:00 GMT
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Subject: Italians Investigate Leighton Shooting
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Italians Investigating Leighton Shooting

On Dec 14 in Santiago de Chile, Italian Attorney General Giovanni
Salvi began investigating a 1975 assassination attempt against
former Chilean Vice President Bernardo Leighton and his wife,
Anita Fresno, while the couple were in Rome. Leighton was the
founder and leader of the Chilean Christian Democratic Party,
exiled to Italy when General Augusto Pinochet came to power.
Michael Townley, a Chilean national intelligence (DINA) agent who
served under Pinochet, has been implicated in the crime. He was
jailed in 1980 in the US after confessing to the killing of
Chile's former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, in Washington
DC in Sept., 1976. Letelier served under President Allende.

[Actually, Townley is an American citizen and worked for the CIA
as a contract agent as well as for the DINA. He did not confess to
anything, but was arrested, tried, and found guilty, then received
a reduced sentence by turning in the Alpha 66 agents he'd hired to
plant the bomb in Letelier's car. Townley was released from prison
after serving less than 10 years. -- NY Transfer]

Salvi has met with Marco Aburto, president of the Chilean Supreme
Court, and with Judge Adolfo Banados, who led the Letelier case.
The principal suspect in the Leighton case is Manuel Contreras,
who had been head of DINA when the attempt against Leighton and
the killing of Letelier were carried out. (edlp 12/15/92 from
AFP)


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From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: AIDS in PUERTO RICO
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:48:02 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

I recieved some states on the AIDS crisis from a fried in BORIKEN which I
wish to share here:

Edelmiro
--------

     In accord to the numbers of Dr. Lisa Korst, Centers of Disease
Control and Prevention, relating to AIDS in Puerto Rico, I believe
we, the Puerto Ricas, need an explanation.

     There is a discrepancy with this simple mathematical
calculation.

                         Population
                       of Puerto Rico   Victims        Percent

                         3,500,000      7,000          .002
Every 100,000               35,000        .07          .002
(.002 X 100,000 = 200)

50 X every 100,000       3,500,000      1,750          .05
(0.0005 X 100,000 = 50)


CONCLUSION

     The 7,000 victims of the Puerto Rican population are incorrect
or the 50 per every 100,000 is incorrect.

     (1)  7,000 results in 200 per every 100,000.

     (2)  50 per every 100,000 = 1,750 in a population of
          3,500,000.

     (3)  If there is 7,080 and 50 per every 100,000, then the
          Puerto Rican population being considered is 14,160,000.
          And this is incorrect because the population in Puerto
          Rico is 3,500,000.

     I rest my case! ... And I think we, the Puerto Ricans, deserve
an apology for the publication of incorrect and misleading data.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Brazil:Collor's Defense Witnesses/e
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:36:00 GMT
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Subject: Brazil:Collor's Defense Witnesses/ed-lp
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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edlp 12/11

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

COLLOR TO PRESENT EXPERTS IN HIS DEFENSE

Suspended Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello will 
call expert witnesses on Dec. 11 or Dec. 14, in his defense 
against corruption charges. His trial, which began in September, 
is scheduled to end in January or February of 1993. President of 
the Court Sidney Sanches has rejected requests for a 
postponement and also requests that senators involved in a 
special commission investigating the charges not be allowed to 
vote in the senate trial, which is equivalent to an impeachment 
proceeding in the US. Collor's wife, Rosane Malta, is accused 
of calumny by Prosecutor Alex Miranda. Malta publicly accused 
Miranda of having denounced Collor because of political 
differences. (edlp 12/11 from EFE)


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From: ldasilva@engws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Luis Dasilva Ruiz)
Subject: Re: Mafalda
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:14:31 GMT

In article <105215@bu.edu>, Luis del... writes:

> Mafalda, and sccool uniforms, WHat the hell is going on in here. Let us get back to basics.
> 
> Luis

Mr Luis del...

These two topics happen to be interesting for many netters. If you are
not interested in them, don't read them. If you want to initiate your
own discussions, do so. But don't act as a censor telling us what we
can and cannot discuss in soc.culture.latin-america. As has been pointed
out by others, these topics are of general interest for iberoamerican
people, so their discussion must be welcome.

Luis (but not Luis del....)
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Texaco Poisons Ecuador
Date: 18 Dec 92 06:04:00 GMT
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Subject: Texaco Poisons Ecuador
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)

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TEXACO POISONS ECUADORANS

By Charles Tucker

A continuous, long-term oil spill in the Amazon forest of Ecuador
is destroying the forest and the life system it supports there.

Texaco has extracted more than a billion barrels of oil in 25 
years of pumping in the jungle. But the U.S.-based multi-national
corporate giant has ignored the effects on the surrounding 
communities and the delicate ecosystem of the region. Ecologist 
Judith Kimerling made this assertion in a report issued by a 
group called SALVAM (Save the Amazon).

"Indigenous communities in the region have lost their livelihood:
there are no animals to hunt, the rivers are dead and lack fish, 
and they can't plant because the land is now sterile. Residents 
of the area suffer headaches, lung, skin and intestinal diseases,
and birth defects," Kimerling reported.

There have been continuous minor and major oil spills over 
hundreds of miles of oil pipeline through the region, according 
to the report. In 1989 one such accident dumped 294,000 gallons 
of oil into the Napo River.

As a result 31 Quechua communities in the area lost their crops. 
But they received no aid or indemnification whatever.

"Just in the past two months there have been three oil spills at 
Texaco facilities," the report continued. The biggest affected 21
communities. "The cause of the spill was human error, but [it] 
was worsened by the lack of a containment plan to limit and clean
up the spill to the extent possible, and aid those affected."

A "firm" agreement between Texaco and the Ecuadoran government to
protect the people's right to a contaminant-free environment has 
been completely ignored. The problem affects not only Ecuador, 
but all humanity, the report emphasized.

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