Luis A. (Left) dark-haired person gets a recognition of the children Angie Lemus and Jonathan Ávila for the work that the international organism realizes in favor of the community. Photo Álvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic.

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

To learn to give and receive is one of the biggest virtues of the being human and like that it is understood by the family of the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID) in Washington, DC.

For 10 years across his Program of Solidarity, the BID has distributed nearly three million dollars to the community organizations that offer services to the Hispanic and Caribbean families in Washington, DC. But, not only it has been the contribution in money but also the allocation of awkward personnel who are employed in a voluntary way at the different institutions. In this sense, the Latin leaders who direct more than 30 local organizations of Washington, DC, recognized a decade of contributions for benefit of the Hispanic community. In a ceremony realized on Monday, the 20th of October the representatives of the community organizations met to say simply “Thank you BID for his solidarity”. The recognition was received by the president of the BID, Luis A. Dark-haired person, who made use of the opportunity to announce an additional contribution for 340.000 dollars, fund that will be distributed for two years to the community organizations with the intention of increasing and of improving the services that offer the Latin community in Washington, DC.

“ The Program Solidarity is the fruit of many persons, executive directors and personnel of the BID who have grown up, have lived or have been educated in Washington, DC. As well as we help to the Latin-American countries, also we have wanted to do something for the community in which we live and this is the sense of this program”, it pointed out Washington Hispanic, the president of the BID.

For his part, the executive director of Mary's Center, Maria Gómez, admitted that although the money is important, the human complement is a big support for the development of the organizations.

“ The presence of the BID in our community is always latent although they realize money donations also they collaborate on having provided material materials, teams and furniture that normally we might not acquire. Also they are like 500 volunteers like whom they help us in the different programs and even training in different areas. It is very satisfactory to see Latin personnel of the BID helping the Latin community”, expressed Maria Gómez.
With regard to the additional contribution it was highlighted that it comes just when more it is needed since the country crosses a financial crisis where the budgets at any level are suffering clippings to be able to face the high deficit indexes.

“ In these 10 years we have seen how it has grown and has contributed the Latin community in Washington and we have been witnesses of that the Hispanics every time have a stronger voice. That's why this year we are going to do an extraordinary effort on having increased the funds for the organizations that work for our people”, Dark-haired person finished.
Program of Solidarity

In the last four decades, the immigrant population originated from Latin-American countries and the Caribbean Sea has grown in more than 700.000 persons in the metropolitan area. These persons often come alone and others accompanied by his families with the only purpose to work very hard to have a better life. This population collaborates with million dollars that come to his fatherlands across the remittances, but at the same time they face many needs and barriers in the United States. To try to frighten these lacks there was created in 1998 the Program Solidarity BID-DC for the purpose of Latin American promoted development projects for the communities and Caribbean that live in Washington, DC. Also, they realize financial donations and of teams, as well as also one is provided with a big network of personnel of the BID who are employed voluntarily at the area.

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For discriminating against undocumented persons

Not to the students' count in Frederick

Héctor Pop, spokesman of House of Maryland Photo Álvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic.

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Before a new attempt for approving a resolution that orders to the public schools of Frederick's county in the state of Maryland to take into account the undocumented students, the immigrant community and representatives of community organizations went out to the streets to protest against this catalogued initiative of unjust and discriminatory.

“ We cannot allow to segregate our children. They have right to education and must not be used like part of a political platform”, it expressed to Washington Hispanic, Héctor Pop, spokesman of House of Maryland.

Thompson Jr answers this reaction to a recent effort of the commissioner John “Lennie“ to introduce his proposal inside the legislative bundle that analyzes the county to be presented before the General Assembly of Maryland.

Thompson's proposal raises that the federal government pays for the education of the undocumented children for which one would need to know how many students cross for this situation. From the first moment, the School Meeting of Frederick expressed his round rejection to the measurement and pointed out that they are ruled by what establishes the federal law and allude to the case of the Supreme Court Plyer vs. Doe which regulated in 1982 that the public schools must educate all the children without considering his migratory status in the United States.

In April of this year, Thompson presented his proposal, but the commissioners of the county pushed it back. As will inform a local way, after the denial, also commissioned Charles A. Jenkins and the sheriff Chuck Jenkins sent letters to eight members of the delegation of Frederick's county entrusted to include the initiative in the legislative bundle, but they did not obtain answer.

“ The approval of this initiative is a discriminatory act. I came to this area to live in peace along with my family without imagining that in the school they would ask my son if it is legal or illegal”, expressed a family father.
“ This initiative is completely illegal. We want to send a message to the commissioners so that they stop discussing local ordinances in the migratory topic because this is a task of the federal government”, expressed the spokesman of House of Maryland.

The march was realized on Tuesday, the 21st of October in the location of Winchester Hall while the commissioners were discussing the legislative bundle. The protest was organized by the Coalition for Frederick's Justice, House of Maryland, religious groups and the NAACP.

There were not missing the antiimmigrant groups as Save Maryland that came up to the place of the concentration to express his points of view, which is based on the fact that they pay taxes and that the county does not have why to pay for the education of undocumented children.

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Group of the 30 opens summit on November 15 in DC

It threatens of recession in debate

The president George W. Bush (center) with the president of France, (left) Nicolas Sarkozy and the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP

Washington Hispanic
Agencies

The leaders of the nations you leaders of the most powerful nations of the world and others about to development (G-30) will meet on November 15 in Washington, DC, to analyze the global financial crisis. It will be the first one of a series of meetings to mitigate what many economists predict it will be a long recession, he confirmed the White House.

Between the guests there appear the presidents of Mexico, Felipe Calderón; of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula gives Miscellany and of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In addition to them, one waits also for the presence of the leaders of Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and all the rest of the European Union, as well as the General Secretary of the United Nations.

There is not known if in addition to the president George W. Bush will help also the elect chief in the elections previous to Tuesday, the 4th.

The first meeting will be dedicated to highlighting the causes of the crisis, to checking the advances achieved to face it and to initiate reforms in order to prevent from repeating itself in the future.

The assistants "will check the progresses that are in march to face the current financial crisis, to look for a common understanding of his causes and how to avoid it in the future", he informed the White House.

The president Bush, his French companion Nicolas Sarkozy and the president of the European Commission, the Portuguese José Manuel Barroso, they announced the meetings, and they indicated that the international community needs to work joined to face the credit crisis that has shaken the markets of the whole world.

Recession threatens

The announcement of this summit happened in moments that a series of poor corporate profit re-stimulated the fears of that a global recession happens.

The bank Wachovia Corp., that is being acquired by Wells Fargo for approximately 14.000 million dollars in actions, brought losses of 23.890 millions in the third trimester. In comparison, in the same trimester of one year ago, it gained 1.620 million dollars.

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They create program Legalísimo for benefit of the community

Vice-president of El Salvador is an honor witness in Commercial Agreement

The vice-president of El Salvador, Ann Vilma of Sweeping, who acted as an honor witness, greets the Lic. Benjamín Valdez after the subscription of the commercial agreement. Photo: to communications

Last September 22, 2008 Mrs. Vice-president of the Republic of El Salvador, Ann Vilma of Sweeping, threw in the city of Washington DC, the campaign “Authentic Salvadoran Flavor”, event organized by the Development agency of exports of El Salvador (EXPORT).

In the frame of the above mentioned event and in the presence of Mrs. Vice-president, who served as honor witness, signed an Agreement of Agency and Representation between Legal Monitoring of El Salvador, S.A. of C.V., represented by his Director the Lic. Benjamín Valdez Iraheta and Mr. Carlos Castro. By virtue of the above mentioned agreement, Don Carlos Castro, recognized Salvadoran businessman and proprietor of the chain of supermarkets "The whole Market", operating in the metropolitan area of Washington, will promote the service of the services of legal consultancy that provides Legal Monitoring. In this sense, the resident Salvadorans community in the Metropolitan area of Washington DC and his surroundings will have attention personalized for the solution of his legal problems in El Salvador.

The revolutionary method introduced by Legal Monitoring consists of putting within reach of the resident Salvadorans in the entire world, but particularly in the city of Washington, legal services across the Internet. There is enough to gain access to the Web page www.legalisimo.com to obtain immediate answer to his legal consultations offered to lawyers qualified in El Salvador. Legalísimo, also represents his clients in the legal cases of his interest and offers consultancy in all the branches of the Right.

For those that have problems to gain access to the Internet, Legalísimo has established a direct telephone line with the number (202) 652 2978 so that they can realize his consultations. Now when one signed the agreement, Salvadorans who need this service in El Salvador can visit the stores The whole Market, where specializing agents will attend to his legal consultations in personal form.

Soon, Legal Monitoring will extend his services to have other centers of information in the field of Washington and to attend also to Guatemalans, Honduran and resident Nicaraguans in this city.

Publireportaje

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They find hurt to raccoon in DC:

They look Latin American who can have anger

Paul Krugman, teacher of economic and international relations of the University of Princeton, is applauded by the president of this center of studies, Shirley M. Tilghman, after announcing to him his election as Nobel Prize of Economy 2008. Photo: Mel Evans / AP

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

The Department of Health of the District of Columbia (DOH, for his initials in English) expressed a bulletin of last hour to request help the residents with the intention of locating a young man who might be infected by anger.

The person was seen by a rabid 'raccoon' last October 12, but his whereabouts are not known. The animal injured man was found in the block 700 of the street Kennedy, NW, Washington, DC.

The looked person is described as a Hispanic adolescent with golden crown in his teeth.
The authorities ask the residents to avoid any contact with a wild animal between those that there include the 'raccoons', who avoid to caress them or to feed them.

Also it is recommended to keep the garbage containers well closed to prevent from attracting to these animals that cover the streets. Of equal way, it is recommended to assure all the routes of entry of his residences as there are the cellar, chimneys, roofs, windows, as well as the attics. The residents also must remember that they can help to control the transmission of the anger, expiring with the law vaccinating his cats and major dogs of three months. It is important to keep the vaccination records a day. For any information about this case or some question about the control of animals to call (202 576-6664.

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