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They bury Ann Fern�ndez, of Salvadoran origin	New Charg� d'affaires
Honduras with two presidents	They cancel student's deportation
They ask to mayoralty to repair housings	They look for three rapists

Tragedy in the METER puts A a Hispanic family into mourning

They bury Ann Fern�ndez, of Salvadoran origin

With a white rose in the hand and embraced to the coffin, 18-year-old Evelyn, there gives the last farewell to his mother, Ann Fern�ndez, one of the fatal victims of the tragic accident of the red line of the METER that left a balance of nine dead persons last Monday, the 22nd of June. The burial was realized on June 29 in Aspen Hill, MD.

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

In the middle of heartbreaking screams of pain, disconsolate crying and psalms of consolation, relatives and friends accompanied up to his last residence Ann Fern�ndez, one of the fatal victims of the tragic accident of happened METER the past on Monday, the 22nd of June.
Dressing black T-shirts in the photo of Ann, one the dozens of persons were coming to one to the cemetery Gate of Heaven in Aspen Hill, Maryland where Fern�ndez, from Salvadoran origin received sacred grave on Monday, the 29th of June. Where it was observed there were faces full of tears and far-away looks in search of a breath word before the untimely death of a hard-working mother that not only made six children orphan but also put the whole Hispanic family into mourning and to the village of San Jer�nimo from which Fern�ndez was original. For the funeral they managed to bring from El Salvador the parents of Ann, who obtained visas humanitarian.
“ In the people almost they all know each other, the same happens here in the area with all that they have come. Now the big question is who will take charge of the boys. During the wake, Evelyn, the elder daughter of Ann, said that as well as his mother extracted them forward, she will extract forward his brothers”, it tells Washington Hispanic, Gladys Guti�rrez, a relative of the victim.
The same way as the moment of the last farewell was approaching, the consternation scenes were making to reflect to the presents on our step along this world and the life beyond the death.
“ I was with her on Friday, and on Monday they said to me that she was dead. Ann was very hard-working and happy. Whenever it was coming to my house it was satisfied. I will never be able to forget it”, expressed his aunt Ang�lica Salvador.
Suddenly 18-year-old Evelyn, the elder daughter of Ann entered a nerves crisis and made to exploit his pain. “My mother is not going to go away, it goes to stay with me. My mami not”, it was shouting embraced to the coffin.
During the burial there were present all the children of Ann Fern�ndez, his husband Oscar Flores, father of his last girl of 23 months, the parents, brothers, relatives, friends and brothers of the church Department Marries of God / crucifix King where the deceased was helping.
“ My big worry there are the children of Ann who have lost a mother. How are they going to go out forward without the mentor who was doing the role of father and mother”, pointed out the shepherd Habemner Mej�a.
For his part Oscar Flores said that his biggest worry was that “my daughter remained without mom, more five children who also remain alone”, he added.

Blow against president Zelaya reverberates in the whole region

Honduras with two presidents

V�ctor Caycho
WasHington hispanic

In the head office of the Congress, in Tegucigalpa, (left) Roberto Micheletti, pronounces his speech on Sunday, the 28th. The president Manuel Zelaya (der)., he speaks in the head office of the OEA. Photos: AP

First in New York, where on Tuesday, the 30th it obtained the support of the United Nations Organization (UNO), and then in Washington DC, where the Organization of the American States (OEA) expressed for acclamation his support to him the dawn of Wednesday, the 1st, the demolished president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, turned into the central figure of a big battle for the preservation of the democracy, not only into his country but into the whole continent.
At the end of this edition, all the attention was concentrating in Honduras, where this Saturday, the 4th he was conquering the term of three days that there fixed to him a resolution of the General Assembly of the OEA, approved after a marat�nica meeting of eleven hours of duration.
At 3:35 a.m. of Wednesday, the 1st and in the presence of the same Zelaya, the hemispherical organization agreed “to condemn the coup d'�tat against the constitutional Government of Honduras”, as well as “the arbitrary detention and expulsion of the country” of the President of this Central American country. At the same time, demanded “the immediate, sure and unconditional restoration” of the President Zelaya from his constitutional functions.
“ Of these initiatives do not prosper within a period of 72 hours – it points out the document - the Extraordinary General Assembly (of the OEA) will apply immediately the article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Letter to suspend Honduras”.
“Is it an ultimatum?”, asked the journalists Jos� Miguel Insulza, General Secretary of the OEA. "Yes", he answered laconically but with steadfastness.
In Tegucigalpa
Simultaneously, in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, the temporary Micheletti government was in expectation of the arrival of the technical commission headed by Insulza, while the country was staying polarized, with two presidents claiming his legitimacy in the power.
Micheletti, nevertheless, pushed the ultimatum back and moved forward that Zelaya will not be returned. He said that on the laid down president they weigh judicial detention orders in case of treading on Honduran territory.
Also, he repeated that his government is temporary and that it will summon presidential elections for the next November 29. The new chief will govern another four years.
Declarations in favor and against Zelaya they were realized every day in Honduras. On Thursday, the 2nd, thousands of demonstrators went in Tegucigalpa in support to the laid down chief, in spite of the hard measurements – between them the curfew and the suspension of several individual guarantees - adopted as the government of Micheletti.
The same day, in San Pedro Sula, the second Honduran city, was carried out another multitudinous civil concentration, this time in Micheletti support.

To prevent from displacing Latin tenants of Washington DC

They ask to mayoralty to repair housings

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Tenants claim his rights opposite to the house from which they were displaced and ask the city to take charge of the arrangements. photo: Alvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic.

On May 28 14 Hispanic residents who were inhabiting a property located in 3415 of the street 14, NW was evicted by order of the Consumers' Department and Regulative Matters of the District of Columbia like result of a damage in the meter of electricity, which left in the dark his occupants. In a provisional way they were installed in hotels, but his big worry is if they will return to his housing or if they will be in conditions to expire with the payment of rent of his new domiciles.
It is known that the proprietor of the building has refused to do the arrangements to himself for what tenants and agencies advocates of the preservation of housings to low cost demand from the government of DC that should use an emergency fund to realize the arrangements of the property.
The housing that these persons were occupying is not a building of apartments but a house – where they had enabled up to the room with rooms - to live through all under the condition of “roommates“, therefore the treatment and the law enforcement is difficult. Between all they were paying a rent for 3 thousand dollars.
“ What yes is clear is that the sufficient tests exist to determine that these persons are tenants and have rights. These persons are not abandoned, first we locate them in a hotel and now the majority they are already installed in other housings”, it points out Washington Hispanic, Ted Loza, chief of the team of work of the councilman Jim Graham.
“ Those who remain in the hotel will be until July 7. What we have done with most of tenants is to help them to find housings of low cost doing a study of his income. If the fund is used or not to repair the housing it is a complicated decision that there will have to take the mayor and the district attorney's office because it is the only situation”, he made sure Faience.
On the other hand, what yes Ted Loza indicated is that the government has taken drastic measures to do that the proprietor of the building reimburses the money that has worn out to protect the tenants and “we are investigating how it can work with him, because it has intentions of turning the building into condominiums”.
“ Not more displacement of Latin Americans”
The case of these residents only exemplifies the situation that more than 60 Tenants' Associations cross in the District of Columbia that fight to preserve housings to low cost to avoid the displacement.
In this sense the Latin Federation of the Metropolitan Area of Washington is working to organize the agencies that work with the tenants to advocate in a joint way the approval of two projects of law that would offer more protections for the tenants and the preservation of housings to low cost.
But, the most important thing is that these laws would establish a series of changes and priorities in the process to gain access to the fund of the government of nine million d�lores conocico like “Nuisance Abatement Fund”.
“ The point is that many persons are being relocated in the District and losing his hearths. Especially the Latin Americans are the most vulnerable because many people think that they have no rights for his migratory situation.
In this struggle we have the support of the councilman Jim Graham, but we need the support of other councilmen to achieve that both laws are approved”, he said to Washington Hispanic, Rodrigo Leiva, executive director of the Latin Federation.
To demonstrate the absence of regulations and the disparity in the use of the fund in dispute, tenants and activists with the support of the Latin Federation protested opposite to a house - mansion in Dupont Circle, last Wednesday, the 1st of July, in which 225 thousand dollars are invested in his repair.
“ How is it possible that there is invested this quantity of money of the emergency fund to repair an empty house and which proprietors are a few doctors and that the government denies the money to repair the meter of electricity of the building that would cost an average for 2.000 dollars. Must settle which the priorities are for the use of this fund”, made sure Leiva.
At present two law projects are frozen in the committee led by the councilman Muriel Bowser.

El Salvador names in DC

New Charg� d'affaires

V�ctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

The architect Fernando Altschul was named like Charg� d'affaires a.i. (ad interim) of El Salvador in the Embassy of El Salvador with head office in Washington DC. The announcement was done on Wednesday, the 1st by the Secretary of State of this country, Hugo Mart�nez, in press conference offered in San Salvador, on Wednesday, the 1st.
Altschul was a councilman of the Mayoralty of San Salvador during the period 1997-2003 and it is provided with wide experience in diplomacy and international politics.
Mart�nez also named like ambassadors in Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela, to to Ernesto Arrieta Peralta, Domingo Santa Cruz y Rom�n Mayorga, respectively.
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Walter Lara will be able to remain in the USA until July 3, 2010

They cancel student's deportation

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Walter Lara is one of the symbols in support to the DREAM Act. Photo: Alvaro Ortiz/WH

At the end of this edition the keyboards had to keep on working not only to change the course of news but also to announce a new hope for a young student who was facing deportation order.
23-year-old Walter Lara will not be deported next Monday, the 6th of July because the Secretary of Internal Safety, Janet Napolitana decided to postpone the date of deportation until July 3, 2010.
In interview with Washington Hispanic, Walter Lara expressed that his only hope was that Neapolitan was declaring himself on his case on having admitted that length was in a career against the clock in order to week and the recess of the Congress.
His intense campaign with the support of the organization First Focus and of his legislators, senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and conferee Corrine Brown (D-FL) produced fruits and Walter, who had turned into one of the defending symbols of the approval of the Law of the Sleep or “Dream Act“ will be able to keep on fighting against the big suspense that many young people as he crosses.
“They have given me the second opportunity to live through my American dream. The action taken the leaders of the Congress and the Department of Internal Safety is a recognition of that our migratory laws are broken. Of Act approves the DREAM, there would be helped persons as I, who are not guilty of having been brought to this country, to remain here, to initiate a route towards the citizenship, and to contribute to our nation”, pointed out Lara.
His history
Walter came to the United States at the age of three years and like everything immigrant one, he wanted to make the called "American dream" real and from very small he knew that to achieve it he should study and work very hard. Under this philosophy Walter Lara graduated of the secondary school in Miami with an average of 4.7 GPA and realized more than 1.000 hours of community service. This way there came the moment to give the second step: to deposit the university, but it was in this moment that Lara warned the sad reality that the undocumented students face.
Before this situation Lara decided to deposit the Miami Dade Montgomery College where yes they accepted it, but due to the high costs it had to begin working. Walter graduated, also with honors, in animation computarizada, but again the destination had a hard reverse prepared.
The nightmare
As every day Walter, went to be employed like fitter of the service of cable at a federal building, without imagining that after spending the control position there would come officials of immigration to interrogate it. Lara was detained on February 17, 2009, for the Service of Immigration where it remained for 20 days then to sign his voluntary exit.
“ Up to this moment I thought that it would be the best thing to return to Argentina because then it might manage a visa and return to the United States. Soon averigu� that for being major than age would apply to me the punishment of at least 10 years before depositing the United States again”, tells Walter Lara.

Women attack in Arlington and Montgomery

They look for three rapists

V�ctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

Police of Montgomery gather traces in search of tracks left by two sexual attackers.
photo: ap

Teams of detectives of two counties-Arlington, in Virginia, and Montgomery, in Maryland - they work to identify and to capture three men accused by two sexual attacks against women in the above mentioned jurisdictions.
At the same time, the departments of police officer of the above mentioned counties he asks for the collaboration of witnesses or persons who should have details related to these cases, so that they bring them to the corresponding authorities, in order to locate the suspects and to deliver them to the justice.

Portrait spoken about the suspect who attacked sexually a woman in Arlington. photo: Police officer Arlington.

On the first case led at 3:45 a.m. of Saturday, the 20th of June, the police of Arlington spread this week a “spoken portrait” (identi-kit) prepared in computer of the man who assaulted a woman who was traveling at a height of the block 900 of the street North Taylor. The above mentioned stranger him approached, took it of the arm and forced her to walk between the shrubs of a nearby park; then it tore the garment of the woman, who in the middle of his anxiety began shouting asking for help. Fortunately a passer-by listened to the screams and came in help of the victim. The attacker fled.
The frustrated rapist was described as Latin American, of white race and thin constitution, of approximately 25 years, 5 ’6 " of height and approximately 145 pounds in weight, approximately.
Another case, which mobilized this time the police of Montgomery, happened at 7:45 p.m. of Wednesday, the 17th. The victim, a 26-year-old woman, denounced that, after going out of a bus, between the avenues University Boulevard West and Dennis, it began walking towards his house, when it was continued by two men, one of which seized it behind while other was taking his legs. Then they lifted it in vilo and took it with direction to the street Kerwin Road. The victim tried to be liberated by all his forces, meanwhile one of the attackers was trying to take his thong from him. In these moments, a driver detained his car and offered help; two men fled to the career.
This week, two attackers were described as of Latin origin, both of 40 years approximately, 5 ’6 " of height and approximately 170 pounds in weight. One of them has one or two golden teeth and with the long hair that comes to him up to the shoulders.