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Navarrese's historical victory	They announce closing dealers, thousands of work places in risk
Obama nominates to Latin for Treasurer	They approve Law of Credit cards
Latin young people demonstrates that “Yes it is possible” to triumph	Luis Lezama: The priest businessman

Hispanic woman first in coming to the Council of the County of Montgomery

Navarrese's historical victory

During the night of the victory, Tuesday, the 19th of May, Nancy Navarro celebrates along with the delegate Ann Sol Guti�rrez (right), who lift the hands as a token of victory. photo: Edgar Becerra / Washington hispanic

Mitzi Mace
WasHington hispanic

Inclusion and diversity is the formula that took Nancy Navarro to reach the victory and to turn into the Hispanic woman first in occupying the councilman's charge of the county of Montgomery. Navarrese Nancy, of Venezuelan origin defeated, to his republican rival Robin Ficker with a round difference margin on having obtained 63 per cent of the votes, taken into account up to this moment, front 33 per cent reached by his opponent.
“ I laughed with laughter and embraced many people”, this way tells Nancy Navarro that it celebrated “one gives hope to made reality” to the knowledge the results of the special general elections realized on Tuesday, the 19th of May in the District 4 of the county of Montgomery, in the state of Maryland, to cover a vacancy in the council.
“ It has been a quite intense adventure, but with a lot of effort and the podido to have come to all the segments of the community of the District 4: Latin Americans, African Americans, young people and elders it cost us the victory”, makes sure Navarrese.
His history
Navarrese Nancy came to the United States for the first time in 1975 at the age of 10 years in company of his parents and they settled in Missouri for two years, while his father was finishing his studies in the University. Then it returned to Venezuela and on having finished his secondary studies, decided to return to the United States to study in the University of Missouri where it obtained a licentiate in psychology with specialty in business. As every immigrant student had to work to help his parents with the payment of the University. There remembers Nancy that was employed at the library and at the snack bar of the University.
On having graduated, it takes the decision to return to his native Venezuela, not without earlier happening for Washington DC to visit a few relatives. It was in this city that it meets his husband of Haitian origin and after two years of romance he decides to marry. “For our professions we find difficult to return to our countries and decide to remain and move to live to Montgomery for the quality of the schools since my first girl was waiting”, tells Navarrese.
“ It did not have in spite of whom leaving my daughter”
The Nancy mother accompanied it for one year and helped her to take care of his daughter, but when she returned to Venezuela, now councilman had to leave his employment to devote itself to take care of his daughter. It was before this situation that Nancy Navarro decides to quarrel of what way it can be able only at home, but at the same time gain money and it extracted a license to take care children at home. “I went so far as to have six children and I was like that for three years and a half, time during which I had my second daughter”.
With this experience and on having known the problem that the mothers have to leave his children to the care of another person and the importance of the education at early age case Centred Family, where there is given this type of information and education to form the persons of that children want to take care at home. Navarrese was the director until 2004 when it is designated to fill a vacancy in the Meeting of Education. Then it is chosen in 2006 like member of the Meeting, which goes so far as to preside between 2006 and 2008.

Rosa Gumatao R�os

Obama nominates to Latin for Treasurer

Writing
WasHington hispanic

Rosa Gumatao R�os.

Apparently the women have demonstrated that they are very good administratrices not only in the hearth but also at federal level because again a woman of Hispanic origin might occupy the Treasurer's charge of the United States.
Pink "Rosie" Gumatao Rivers was nominated on Friday, the 15th of May by the president Barack Obama to integrate his government and “to take our economy for good course and to our nation for the way of the prosperity”, expressed the chief.
43-year-old Rosie Gumatao, was born in California and she is a daughter of Mexican parents.
It graduated of the University of Harvard where it obtained a licentiate of sociology, literature and Romance languages.
For more than 20 years, “Rosie“ has been employed at Real property and community development, between other things. For more than 20 years, “Rosie“ has been employed at Real property and community development what has helped her to construct thick briefcase that his professional capacity and skill demonstrate to start millionaire projects in the field of the construction for the sake of the communities. At present it gets out of debt like general manager of investments in MacFarlane Partners, one of the principal signatures of real estate investment in the United States that administers assets with a value of more than $ 11,000 million dollars. After his work with the Latin vote in Virginia during the presidential campaign, R�os took a license of MacFarlane Partners to be a member of the Team of Transition of the Treasure / The Federal Reservation for the government of the President Obama.
Organizations
Latin they applaud
The announcement of his nomination was got with approval for the organizations like the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the United States (USHCC, for his initials in English) and the National Council of The Race (NCRL, for his initials in English), who recognize the trajectory and reputation of Rosa Gumatao R�os.
“ The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is very satisfied that the White House has nominated Rosie Gumatao so that she is the next Treasurer. She brings a big experience and knowledge that will be of big help for our country”, expressed David C. Liz�rraga, president of the Meeting of USHCC.
For his part Janet Murgu�a, the president and CEO of The Race highlighted the invaluable contribute that Rosa Gumatao R�os means the knowledge and the experience to the American government.
Also there added the nomination of Dr. Arturo Valenzuela like Assistant Secretary for Matters of the Hemisphere West of the Department of the State.

Postgraduates say that there are barriers, but that they are surmountable

Latin young people demonstrates that “Yes it is possible” to triumph

Mitzi Mac�as
Washington Hispanic

Manuel Ruiz and Alice Tito point out that his biggest pride is to have graduated of the university and to be able to help his community. Photo: Edgar Becerra.

22-year-old Manuel Ruiz and Alice Tito of 21 have something in common: to feel proud to have graduated of the University and to have the mission to share his experiences and knowledge for the development of his communities. They are two of the graduated students who took part in the special ceremony to celebrate the graduation of the Hispanic students of the University of Maryland, on Wednesday, the 20th of May.
This celebration is realized for five consecutive years and the intention is to highlight the presence of the Hispanic students and to promote the importance of which more and more Latin they could attend to the University. This year the president of Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Jos� Antonio Tijerino was the guest of honor and he shared his experience as ex-pupil of the University of Maryland.
“ In the University of Maryland only we have 5 to 6 per cent of Hispanic students and this event the realizamospara to demonstrate that we are present and that we fight to be better. This year there take part of the special celebration 75 postgraduates of college, baccalaureate, mastery and doctorate”, expresses Ronald Molina, coordinator of the event.
“ Yes one can”
Of Salvadoran mother and Mexican father, Manuel admits that he was not a very good pupil in the school and that it graduated of the secondary one with grades that did not allow him to deposit directly the university, but thanks to the support of his older brother he decided to devote himself more to the study and turn into the pride of the family, to the being the first one who graduates of the university in the United States.
“ I grew only next to my mother in California and came to this area at the age of 15. In contrast to other students I had to go first to the college to reach the grades and to gain access to the University, but here I am, and have just graduated in business and Latin studies”, tells Manuel Ruiz.
With regard to the financing of the top studies, considered one of the biggest barriers between the Latin students, Manuel makes sure that yes money exists to help across scholarships of the state, but also of private foundations, what happens is that they do not look for them.
“ In my five years of study I did not have to ask for loans because he was looking for scholarships and was helping me working half a time. The Latin Americans we have an advantage that for being considered to be minorities more opportunities of this type exist, but often we do not look for them and this money gets lost”, affirms Manuel, who now with an occupational and professional training will look for the way of overturning his experience and his knowledge for benefit of his community.
Alice Tito of Uruguayan parents in contrast to Manuel tells that it was always much dedicated to his studies and that to the beginning he was feeling many frustration because in his school, which was predominantly Anglo-Saxon, he could not gain access to the classes with honors. “From girl he wanted to demonstrate to my partners and teachers that I also was ready and my biggest challenge was always to go to the University. My parents supported me very much, but really it was my desire those that they led me to keep on studying”, tells Alice Tito, who graduated with a title in history emphatically in Latin America.
For her also one of the biggest barriers was the money, but it points out that since it was in the secondary school it quarreled on the available scholarships.

County of Montgomery is one of the most affected

They announce closing dealers, thousands of work places in risk

Ram�rez's target was to branch out the activities of the "crowd" in Maryland. Photo: AP

V�ctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

The notification about the closing of several hundreds of “car dealers” (vehicles concessionaires with exemption), on the part of the manufacturers Chrysler and General Motors (GM) fell down like a bomb between Thursday, the 14th and Friday, the 15th in the whole nation.
In the metropolitan area of Washington DC, the radical measurement provoked the immediate mobilization of the managerial union that groups the cars distributors, and also it gave concern between the local authorities.
In effect, the losses of jobs and the economy of the cities will turn out to be affected, in the latter case for the minor collection of taxes that is anticipated.
The Executive of Montgomery (Maryland), Isiah Leggett, and the Director of the Department of Economic Development of the same County, Steven Silverman, summoned to an emergency meeting at midday of Tuesday, to which acquaintances' executives attended “car dealers” established in this jurisdiction.
There it was known that only in Montgomery there are about 80 motor vehicles concessionaires and that the closing will affect at first to 9 lounges of sale of Chrysler, with an approximate whole of 800 workers, between officials, executives of sales and workers.
In the whole country, Chrysler – who declared in bankruptcy this month, will eliminate 789 of his 3.200 agencies of sale. GM also notified 1.100 concessionaires of a whole of 5.400 at national level, his decision to cancel the respective exemption.
The combined cuts will affect approximately 100,000 workers who will lose his work places in the nation, confirmed Gerard Murphy, president of the Association of Dealers of Motorcars of the Area of Washington (WANADA, for his initials in English), in declarations Washington Hispanic at the end of the meeting.
“ The dealers not only promote the marks of the manufacturers but the allegiance of the consumers”, he said, after pointing out that WANADA realizes intense negotiations in the federal Congress for revertir the measurement.
Leggett and Silverman promised to send each letters to the authorities, announcing the risks that approach on the labor economy and of the region, and raising a reconsideration of the measurement.
The missives will be sent to the group of work of the president Barack Obama for the restructuring of the automotive industry, and to the governor of the state of Maryland, Martin O'Malley.
Silverman for his part, thought that “one treats the community as a tremendous and adverse blow”.
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It prohibits money-market rates rise

They approve Law of Credit cards

V�ctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

Strong protections for the consumers and a major control on the companies of credit cards this was for what the president Barack Obama asked to the Congress and this week obtained an immediate answer, on having been approved by wide majority in the Senate and later in the House of Representatives, the Project of Law for the Reform of Credit cards. The new regulation establishes that the companies of credit cards must inform his client 45 days earlier if he decides to increase the money-market rate and explain why.
Of equal way it prohibits to increase the money-market rates of those persons who are slow in his payments even for 60 days. Also it points out that these consumers will have the right to recover the lowest money-market rate that they obtained in his credit line if after being slow with the payment they expire in spite of paying on time his quotas for a continuous period of six months.

Luis Lezama

The priest businessman

Felipe Lagos
WasHington hispanic

The Bar of the Halberdier was inaugurated in 1989. In the photo his creator, the priest Luis Lezama. Photo: Felipe Lagos/WH.

One of the most prominent corners of the Spanish gastronomy in Washington has just fulfilled 20 years.
The famous Bar of the Halberdier, property of the Group Lezama and located in the street 18 with the Ist, in Washington DC, it celebrated with property his two decades of hakes with green sauce, tripe to the of Madrid one and wines of character that have added up to the culinary offer that offers the city.
But few ones know that the bar was caused by a priest, the father Luis Lezama, who conceived the idea of creating a gastronomic place of the first level that was devoting itself to classic recipes of Spanish meal. Like that was born the first bar in Madrid, in 1974.
I count shortly, his first restaurant was successful that had the opportunity to open one more pair in different leases of Spain.
Then, in 1989, the Spanish Secretariat of Commerce him approached with the idea of opening a restaurant of the same type in the capital of the United States.
The rest is a history.
With his two decades in Washington, the father Lezama has seen changing the city, which he recognizes is one of his favorite places.
“ Washington was much less cosmopolitan in this epoch in spite of being a capital. But with the time there have come many offices that earlier were in New York, the lobistas have increased and the city has taken a more international character. In Washington I feel very at ease, it is a city that I adore and it is very cozy”, he says.
Lezama has been a journalist, a writer, restorer, businessman and certainly priest, since now he practises in the Parish of Santa Maria Blanca in Montecarmelo, Madrid.
The interesting of his person is that it has a different perspective to be a businessman. But eye, in these times in which the capitalism is hardly questioned, Lezama does not meet like capitalist in the absolute thing, in spite of having conceived a managerial group that, in 2006, invoiced 15 million euros.
“ I am not considered to be a capitalist because I have anything in property. Everything is in property of a foundation that brings the people with whom it works and the public. I have not bought to myself an apartment, have a farm, neither a yacht, nor a personal caprice and use revenue cars. This is one of the successes of our company, to have developed everlasting the value of the human capital and to have re-invested in these facilities that are seen and in these people who has face and word. And finally in something that for us has been a leit motiv that is the innovation”, says the priest.
In spite of everything, the Lezama excellent thing his emphasis is exactly in creating groups of work that are not seen only in productivity terms, but like worthy persons who raise the value of an organization. “We do not grow according to the business that present you but in function to the human teams that you create. Here one thinks about values and persons. In other organizations the box is checked and only the profitability of the person who works. Here we are according to the ideas”, it concludes.