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DC gives "Yes" to weddings “gay“	METER will consult on routes court
Evo fasts but chewing coca	For sale of drugs it falls down “Miss Maryland” of 2004
New millionaire in Washington	They throw campaign against mortgage swindlers

Consensus grows concerning homosexual unions

DC gives "Yes" to weddings “gay“

The term of Vermont allowed the marriage of the same sex in this state. Almost immediately, the Council of DC approved the recognition of this type of unions in the district. Photo: AP

Mitzi Mace
WasHington hispanic

Following the lead of Vermont, which approved in his term the achievement of marriages of the same sex, the Council of DC approved for unanimity to recognize these unions independently from which they should have been realized.
Considering the special situation of the District, where the federal government settles, of there is approved definitely the legislation - to be voted again in next May - this means that the law will have to surrender to a review of the Congress, what many already anticipate will be one more battle in the war for the recognition of this type of unions at national level.
“ This vote is a part of a continuous march towards the entire equality for gays and lesbians in the District of Columbia. I am filled with enthusiasm by the unanimous support that the law received on the part of the council. It is particularly agreeable that has adopted this action moments later that the term of Vermont defeated the veto of his governor to the law of marriages of the same sex of this state”, expressed David Catania, councilman of the District.
Law projects to allow marriages of the same sex have been proposed in the Piece of news terms Hampshire, Maine, New York and New Jersey.
Others three states where at present there are allowed the marriages of the same sex — Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa — managed to do it across the courts and not in terms.

The next battlefield in the war for the recognition of the marriages gay might happen in the Acropolis.
This after the preliminary vote in which the Council of the District of Columbia approved to recognize marriages of the same sex realized in any another part of the country.
This vote puts the topic in the corridors of the Congress, which jurisdiction includes the laws that are approved in DC.
“ Let's be clear, this is a new age” it was the reaction of the councilman David Catania, who is recognized publicly like gay. Catania expressed optimism that the law of the district will spend to the Congress once the definitive vote of the council is realized in next May.
The councilman also admitted that this vote is the first step to a possible law that allows the achievement of homosexual marriages in the district.
The unanimous vote of the council of DC happened the same day in which Vermont turned into the fourth state in there legalized the marriages gay and the first one in approving it across a legislative vote. In other states, this type of civil union was approved across the justice court, as it was what happened in Connecticut, Massachussets and Iowa.
New York, as DC, also recognizes unions of the same sex realized in other states of the country, but until now it has not approved a law that allows the marriages licenses between homosexuals and lesbians.
Nevertheless, the DC situation is only. After that the legislation is approved on the part of the council, the law will be subject to a congressional review for 30 days. This can be the first opportunity of the Congress to allow to see to point out how it sees a possible re-examination of the Record of defense of the Marriage, which prohibits the federal recognition of marriages of the same sex and allows to the states to do the same.
For the same, since the federal law was approved in 1996, the discussion has centred on individual initiatives of the states.
Vermont was the state that invented the civil unions, and he was a pioneer again on having turned into the first state in legalizing the marriages of the same sex across a legislative voting, which allowed to make out an increasing popular acceptance of the idea.
The events in Washington, in turn, can have a symbolic value, but some of them doubt that a specific battlefield is going to define the result of the war.
“ The district is the equivalent to a small state and the only difference is the aptitude of the Congress to intervene in the local decisions”, said David Smith, vice-president of Human Rights Campaign.
Nevertheless, others see it like an opportunity to project the topic at national level. “DC is in the only position because it is the city where the federal government settles”, said Jennifer Pizer, Project Manager of marriages of the group activist Lambda Legal.
In turn, the councilman Jim Graham, who as Catania also is gay, said that “the written thing is already made. Now we will take the topic before the Congress and nobody will be able to detain it”.
But some detractors prove to be worried that this type of measurements is making common the idea of accepting the homosexual marriage.
“ I worry that every small step towards the marriage of the same sex that does not present resistance will do easier to accept to the persons to accept this type of unions in the future”, showed to Put Sprigg, vice-president of politics in Family Research Council.

Strange hunger strike

Evo fasts but chewing coca

Carlos Valdez
La Paz / AP

Moral Evo he speaks by cell phone in full strike.

The president Evo Morales declared himself in hunger strike on Thursday, the 9th in his office of the house of Government along with trade unions leaders oficialistas to press to that the green light Congress to the general December elections.
“ Opposite to the negligence of a group of parliamentarians, (we meet) forced to assume this measurement to defend the vote of the people”, affirmed the chief in a declaration before the mass media, although later it clarified that during the fasting it will chew coca, one of whose effects it is of relieving the famine sensation. Fogueado along his trade union militancy and as leader of the rural coca growers in realizing protests and strikes, Mulberry trees thought that now “it is the best moment to force that approve” the dispositions related to the electoral diet and that's why he declared the strike in which also 14 trade union leaders take part and of related social movements to his government.
Between that they appeared along with the chief, who was dressed in informal form, there are the leader of the Bolivian Working Head office, Pedro Montes, and the rural leader Isaac Avalos. The governor of Cochabamba Jorge Ledezma, allied of Mulberry trees, joined the protest in his region. There was not informed if they also will chew coca.
The announcement provoked rejection between the principal political opponents of the leader. The secretary of Autonomy of the government of the region of Santa Cruz, Carlos Dabdoub, said that Morales “thinks about how to endorse a big electoral fraud”.
The ex-president Carlos Mesa (2003-2005) said that Morales “is trying to give an image of something that does not happen”. “What the president wants is a law done to his measurement and that it favors him to gain the elections”, it annotated.
For the strike, Morales suspended a trip to Cuba organized for Thursday in the evening, which was contemplating a meeting with the president Ra�l Castro, the presidential spokesman said in Bolivia, Iv�n Canelas.
At the end of this edition, senators and deputies were continuing a meeting that began on Wednesday and continued on Thursday, to debate in the middle of opposing positions an electoral transitory diet that of be approving will allow the call elections. Although he has not confirmed his postulation, the chief is outlined like favorite in the elections, since the opposition is wretched and divided.
Mulberry trees it governs from January, 2006; a new Bolivian Constitution managed to pass in the middle of an order that faces the opposition led by four governors of regions autonomists.

It gains $ 144 million Powerball

New millionaire in Washington

Bertha S�enz
Washington Hispanic

If you bought a ticket of the lottery Powerball in the shop Giant of Alabama Avenue, in the Southeast of Washington DC, it is necessary that it verifies it thoroughly, since he can be the winner of the tasty sum of 144 million dollars.
The Giant, located in 1535 Alabama Avenue, sold on Wednesday, the 8th the only prize-winning ticket. The winning numbers were: 1, 6, 48, 52, 56 and Powerball 9.
“ We all are very moved ones”, affirmed Athena Hern�ndez, spokesman of the Lottery.
“ East is the eleventh winning Powerball of the District”, he said.
The last time that someone the Powerball "fat person" gained was in November, 2001.
The officials of the lottery of DC do not know exactly the hour of Wednesday, the 8th in which the ticket was bought. There is the term of one year to claim the award.
The Powerball began in 1985 and he stakes in 29 states, in addition to DC and the Virgin Isles.

In buses lines

METER will consult on routes court

Several Metrobus routes will suffer courts for the operational METER deficit. Photo: �lvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic

Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic

At present, METER has a deficit in his operational costs of $ 29 millions. This has forced the company to do clippings for the most part in some of his routes of metrobuses.
These clippings will crash desproporcionalmente to some routes that serve to the County of Prince George's. By the same, to know what the community thinks about the changes to the metrobuses routes, some of which will be eliminated or they will suffer a reduction in his frequency, METER will do two public meetings to which he has invited the community. The first one will be carried out on Monday, the 13th of April at 6:30 pm in the Church First United Methodist, located in 6201 Belcrest Rd., Hyattsville MD.
Baptist will realize the second one on Tuesday, the 14th of April at the same hour in the Church located in 10914 Georgia Ave, Wheaton MD.
The changes
Some of the most significant cuts that METER announced will affect the lines C4 (that it would finish in Wheaton and not in Twinbrook); the Q2 (that it would go from Wheaton to Montgomery Collage without stops neither in Silver Spring nor Shady Grove); the C8 only would run in the rush hour and the routes R3, C7 and C9 would be eliminated completely.
Some of these routes serve to the Hispanic community to be already transported be to his places of work or of study.
Jos� V�zquez, who is a Hispanic spokesman of Followers of the Public transport for the Community (Act Group, in English), organization interested by the impact of the public transport by the society and the environment, points out that these changes will affect in important form the Hispanics.
“ There is a route that goes from Langley Park up to Shady Grove, and it is very important because many persons who live to the north of Shady Grove use it. METER thinks to cut this route away and this is going to affect many Latin Americans, who in majority depend on the buses system to come to his work or the school. For example, in Shady Grove there is a campus of Montgomery Colle ge and round there there happens a route that perhaps they are going to cut, what can affect students, especially of our population that they are a question of educating”, says V�zquez.
Apparently, the community is between a rock and a hard place, since according to V�zquez, the solution is to cut routes away or to charge more for the service. “Another option is to raise the tariffs, I hope not significantly. It can help that and this is what the people must know. Or to pay more and to have the services, or to cut them and not to be able to come where one wants to come.
“ According to my opinion, the solution would have to be a combination between both options. Perhaps to cut some routes away and in other situations, to support them and to increase the price”, says the spokesman.
Hence the importance that the community does to itself part of the public conference that will do METER.
“ My suggestion is that they take part in these meetings. One is in Prince George and other one in Montgomery. I they press that they go to these public conference so that they allow to know his opinion. This service costs very much, and the users are those who must decide what is what they want, be already to do three changes of buses and to economize on 25 cents, or to pay 25 cents and to come where they want on time”, it concludes V�quez.

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They accuse her of distributing cocaine with his fianc� and other relatives

For sale of drugs it falls down “Miss Maryland” of 2004

V�ctor Caycho
WasHington hispanic

The Aunt's beauty Shorts stands out in swim suit and at night, during the beauty contest in 2004. Photo: Geocities.

A beautiful model of perfect measurements, who went so far as to obtain the crown of “Miss Maryland” in 2004 and competed for the title of “Miss the United States” the same year, fell from grace on having been arrested by the police of the county of Montgomery, which accused it for distribution and sale of cocaine, between other charges.
Agents of the law revealed on Friday, the 3rd the operation realized at 7:00 p.m. of Wednesday, the 1st, in the precincts of the Aunt's house Shorts, of 29 years, located in the street Pickering Court, in the field of Germantown (Maryland).
Neighbors and Aunt's friends Shorts were not going out of his astonishment after knowing the illicit activities to which she was devoting herself, along with his fianc�, 30-year-old Joey Garc�a King. The same day, close to the midnight, also they were arrested 32-year-old James Gilbert King IV, and 67-year-old Hyacinth King – the one who had drug hidden in his bra-; they are a brother and Joey's mother, respectively.
“ Seemingly they were taking a double life”, he mentioned on the resident one of the block where Aunt Shorts lives, a model of African American origin that the celebrity reached on having gained the contest “Miss Maryland USA” five years ago, opposite to 29 competitors.
For reports of the local community, the police knew that the residence of Pickering Court had turned into a center for the distribution of cocaine and marijuana. A group of detectives verified the information and set a guard, until on Wednesday night they saw going out a man, whom they ordered to stop and identified like Joey Garc�a King. On having registered it, they found in his power heroin, cocaine and cash.
The police made sure that the ex-queen Tia Shorts and his fianc� Joey were in charge of negotiating the drug out of his apartment. To them a deposit for 60.000 dollars was fixed to them, in case of Joey King; 50.000 dollars for James King; 75.000 dollars for the mother of both, Hyacinth King; and 10.000 dollars for Aunt Shorts. After paying the corresponding sums they went out at large, although they will have to face the justice in the Gaithersburg court.

They announce hard measurements against unscrupulous

They throw campaign against mortgage swindlers

V�ctor Caycho
WasHington hispanic

The government throws national campaign against the mortgage fraud.

Million families face in these moments not only the threat of losing his housings across mortgage executions but also the unscrupulous action of swindlers who think about how to take advantage of the desperation and lacking in knowledge in the citizenship about the programs started by the government to relieve this problem.
These frauds were denounced on Monday, the 6th by the administration Obama, that the same day initiated a gigantic multi-sectorial campaign to fight the fraud in the modification of the loans and the wave of swindles led by unscrupulous elements under the pretext of which they can avoid the loss of the real estate by means of supposed mortgage rescues that in almost totality of the cases are never realized.
The alert directed to the owners of housings and to the financial institutions, was thrown by the Departments of the Treasure, of Justice (DOJ) and of Housing and Urban development (HUD), together with the Federal Commission of Commerce (FTC) and the general district attorney of Illinois.
The campaign includes drastic sanctions against companies and individuals baptized by the authorities like “mortgage predators”, which go so far as to demand the fees payment before giving his "services".
The Secretary of the Treasure, Tim Geithner, revealed that the Network against the Financial Crimes (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN) received in the last 6 years about 180 thousand denunciations of mortgage fraud, “and the swindlers often also are involved in other types of crimes”.
Also, the Federal Commission of Commerce (FTC), he is analyzing the printed advertizing notices and of Internet of operations realized in the whole country supposedly to avoid the mortgage executions.
“ It is a question of swindlers who take advantage of the families that think about how to take refuge in the rescue plan to avoid the mortgage executions and we are not going to allow that”, promised for his part the Secretary of Justice and General District attorney, Eric Holder. It revealed that his Department has taken energetic measures against this type of fraud and that several mortgage swindlers have been judged and sentenced in the last months.
“ For million families, the sleep of being owners of a housing has turned into a nightmare due to the unscrupulous action of individuals and companies that take advantage of the adversity of others”, pointed out Holder.
On the following day, in telephone press conference for the means in Spanish, the Secretary of Housing, Shaun Donovan, it demanded the cooperation of the Hispanic means in the vast campaign initiated against the mortgage swindlers.
Donovan recognized that the mortgage crisis “fond disproportionately of the Latin families and afroamericans” and he invited to the means to spread the sure help lines to prevent the members of the Hispanic community from being victims of the unscrupulous action of the swindlers and also to refinance his credits.