Tenants cry out justice	They demand from contractors to use system E-Verify
Zelaya and Micheletti did not meet	Woman shocks and causes death of two Honduran
They ask to mayoralty to repair housings	They dismiss to Latin schools linkage

They lose everything in fire and do not have where to go

Tenants cry out justice

 

The tenants of Friendship Apartments in Woodbridge, IT GOES they have organized themselves with Mexicans' help without Borders to claim his rights and a just and human dealing. photo: Courteousness Mexicans without Borders.

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Cecilia Flores, of Salvadoran origin, was three days old of having changed to an apartment in the complex Friendship Place, located in 14400 Gemstone Dr, Woodbridge, IT GOES, without imagining that a fire would leave it in the street and without clothes what puts itself. The produced catastrophe last Thursday, the 26th of June was caused by a short circuit and it had to evacuate all the occupants of the building. Happily human losses did not register, but 14 families, which any more than 50 persons add between children, young people and adults of Hispanic origin were moved to a hotel of the area by the administration of the building, which only cancelled the accommodation for three days and now they have remained his luck left and have lost almost all his belongings.
“ The building was declared useless by the Firemen's Department and without notifying to the tenants the administration of Friendship Apartments it initiated the demolition of the same one. Now these persons do not have where to go and not only they lost his belongings in the fire but also the little that they had left disappeared during the process of demolition of the building”, it tells to Washington Hispanic, Ricardo Juárez of Mexicans without Borders, organization that is supporting and organizing this group of tenants. With help of donations Mexicanos without Borders could have covered the accommodation expenses of at least seven families that, up to the closing of this edition, still remain in the hotel, but soon they will have to look where to live permanently. According to the tenants they have not had any answer on the part of the administration of the building, and that the only thing that they have received maltreatment is.
“ They located members of different families in the same quarter in the hotel, they knew that we did not have what eat because in the hotel it is not possible to cook and they have not approached to know how is life. They have treated us like animals”, it expressed, Cecilia Flores.
On the other hand, the demolition of the building began and they were not alert so that the tenants could return to the apartments to gather the personal articles and any furniture that they could rescue.
Due to the absence of actions and solutions on the part of the persons in charge, the tenants decided to present a public denunciation this week and demanded from Friendship Apartments the finished return of the deposits to be able to look for another housing, a letter where they tell why these persons went out of the complex, which it helps them to qualify to rent another apartment and an economic compensation for the losses.
Washington Hispanic also tried to communicate with the administratrix of Friendship Apartments, but neither we find answers.
It helps of the community
14 families have lost everything therefore a campaign has begun to ask the community for help. As points out Ricardo Juárez these persons need from beds, up to not perishable food.
Also also they wait that a lawyer specializing in housing who decides to take the case to defend the rights of the tenants who are unprotected.
“ Perhaps because we are Hispanic they treat us this way. They us do not pay attention. I feel that they do not take into consideration our misfortune”, said another tenant. The interested persons in helping can contact to Mexicans without Borders to (703 843-5213.

 

Honduras continues with two presidents

Zelaya and Micheletti did not meet

Juan Carlos Llorca
San Jose, Costa Rica / AP

The demolished president (left) Manuel Zelaya greets the journalists along with the Costa Rican president Oscar Arias. To the right, the chief of fact Roberto Micheletti declares next to Arias. PHOTO: AP

The designated president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, set off to his country after meeting with the Costa Rican chief Oscar Arias but without having a meeting face to face with demolished Manuel Zelaya. Witnesses of the meetings that both-Zelaya and Micheletti - supported with Arias said that they protested that “other” was resigning first, to solve the crisis.
Without showing any sign of that has been advanced in an agreement, the fact leader showed that in Honduras the elections will be realized in November as it was foreseen before the coup d'état and president, mayors and deputies will limit themselves to choosing.
Micheletti offered the declarations after meeting for almost three hours the Costa Rican president, who initiated his functions as mediator in the Honduran political crisis.
Micheletti named a commission that will remain in San Jose in the dialogues promoted by Aryans between the parts.
The fact chief ignored questions on a comment of the General Secretary of the OEA, José Miguel Insulza spread by a Chilean broadcasting station, according to whom, any possible solution to the crisis is determined in that “Manuel Zelaya (is) back in the government palace”. He said to feel "satisfied" with the advances of the dialogue.
Arias it met first the demolished president Zelaya, who at the end of the meeting offered a brief declaration to the press. “We believe that we have corresponded to the position of Honduras, which is the restitution of the constitutional state, of the democracy and the restitution of the elect president for the Honduran people”, pronounced himself Zelaya, after the interview of hour and a half with the mediator.
Zelaya made sure in eve that it will not yield in his position of returning to the power of the one that at gun point a group of military men separated on June 28.

The commissions
Both political leaders (Zelaya and Micheletti) named commissions that will remain in San Jose in the dialogues promoted by Aryans. At the end of the evening, the information minister announced that the commissions had begun to talk.
As representatives of the government of fact remained the ex-chancellor Carlos López, advisers Arturo Corrales and Mauricio Villeda and the ex-president of the Supreme Court, Vilma Morales.
They represent Zelaya the chancellor Patricia Rodas, deputy Silvia Ayala, the coordinator of COPIN, Salvador Zúñiga and the ex-chancellor Milton Jiménez.

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He was driving in the drunkenness state

Woman shocks and causes death of two Honduran

Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

Kelli Russ Loos photo: State police officer of MD.

A woman in the drunkenness state covered with stars the van that he was leading against a motorcar, with such a violence that made it overturn on a ditch of 60 feet deep, causing the death of his two occupants, both of Latin origin.
The fact happened at 12:20 p.mEl fatal incident happened shortly after 11 a.m. p.m. of Tuesday, the 7th, to the exit of the Interstate one 495 and on Clara Barton Parkway, in the field of the Potomac (Maryland). At this hour, Kelli Russ Loos, of 33 years, resident in Chesapeake (Virginia), was handling fast his Jeep Cherokee when it collided with the vehicle Nssan that Gradys was driving 39-year-old Mendoza, who was accompanied by 37-year-old Franklin Manzanares. The two were natives of Honduras and they had domicile in Springfield, Virginia.
The car overturned spectacularly, landing with the wheels up. Manzanares remained caught between the remains of the car Nissan and died instantaneously. Mendoza, who was employed like bartender at the hotel Oriental Mandarin, at DC, was taken to a hospital, but he died in the way. Wife Maria stops in Honduras and three children in the orphanage, Katheryn, Madelyn and Gradys Junior, who were living with his father in Springfield.
The state police of Maryland arrested Loos, and accused it for handling under the influence of the alcohol. She, also, takes a long precedents record as other shocks, as speeding, to handle with pendent license and not to have his vehicle insured, between other charges, and inclusive an order of police search for not being present at a subpoena of the court.

 

In Prince Georgés

They dismiss to Latin schools linkage

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

At least 120 Latin linkage of the public schools of the county of Prince George's has been dismissed as a result of the clipping in the budget approved by the council last month and that amounts to 1.700 million dollars. This measurement not only represents losses of jobs but a hard impact for the Latin families, who find in the Latin linkage of the schools the only bridge to interact actively in the education of his children and to understand how the system works because many immigrant family parents do not speak English.
In 2006 the county of Prince George's hired a Latin linkage for each one of more than 200 schools with the intention of encouraging and of improving the participation of the Hispanic parents in the schools of his children.
But, now the program will remain pendent what will allow a saving for the county for 7.6 million dollars.
“ I believe that we must not surprise this situation. They said to us that we might cross difficult years and this is the beginning. This is a symptom of what faces the whole nation”, said Donna Hathaway, member of the educational meeting, who affirmative vote of approving the budget.
What also is true is that the Hispanic population continues in constant growth and the presence of a Hispanic linkage in the schools is fundamental.
As to statistical data of the county more than 17 per cent of 130.000 students of the public schools of Prince George's are Hispanic, six per cent more than a decade ago. Also in at least a third of the elementary schools there are more than 30 per cent Hispanic and at least 16 attends mostly to Hispanic families.

 

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