With a sadness visage, Janet Menbreño declares Washington Hispanic and asks them to help her to look for his mother who traveled more than 20 years ago from El Salvador to the United States. Photos: Osmín Herrero / Washington Hispanic

Víctor Caycho / Osmín Herrero
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He is 27 years old but it takes an impressive sufferings load: his father died in the civil war, his housing in El Salvador was set fire, it was violated by members of the "crowds" and now it is forced to use an electronic migration ankle-high sock. Otherwise, it hangs over her a deportation order.

As if this was small, his mother Maria Montes, it left it 22 years ago, when she, Janet Menbreño Montes was only five years old.

“ I came to DC not long ago, asking for the name of her, for if someone should see it”, he said. With this target, Janet came to this region to the house of his aunt Rosa, who lives in Alexandria (Virginia), but it was stopped along with a young woman who was looked by the migration agents. There it discovered that she had also a deportation order for not having come to a court in Miami for a minor absence.

“ Now I want only to find my mom, of whom I have never known. The last time that I saw it, when I was much a girl, said to me that it was coming to this country to help me, but I did not know already any more of her. Now I need it more that never”, he affirmed, with the eyes at the edge of the tears.

Janet, in declarations to Washington Hispanic, said that he did not want to return to El Salvador, “because I do not want to die in my country and wish them to help me to remain in the United States”.

On this matter, it told that in El Salvador “the crowds were looking for me and they follow me looking”.

“ Since I was studying at night, they caught me and violated me. Even in a holiday at which my uncle was present because his son was going to marry, a few black's men came and they began to shoot. I was with him and knew that the shots were for me, since they would do up to the impossible thing to drag me to the crowd, and if it was not doing it they would kill me”.
“ That's why – it added - I am afraid for my life if I return, since, on having been, they will try to kill me, as they did finally with my uncle, who practically died for my fault”.

The woman remembers that after being arrested by the migration agents “I was shut up in the fourth cold for 72 hours and thought that it was not just since I had not done badly at all”.

They placed the shackle so that it does not go to other states but remains in the field of DC, Maryland or Virginia, while he waits for his appointment in the court next November 10.

“ What it spends there is not in my hands and not that I will do, but I do not want to return to El Salvador”, continued Janet, who asks the authorities of the ICE to help it in this singular case. “I need to work honourably and find my mother, because if they deport me to my country the 'crowds' they will kill me, as they murdered my uncle, who was the one that was helping me economically”.

“ I do not have to anybody there that I rested and if I risked coming to this country it is to find my mother Maria and to start working; (the authorities of migration) I ask them to touch him the heart”, it begged.

His aunt Rosa, who is Maria's sister, said that his niece Janet Menbreño born in Sensuntepeque, of the Salvadoran department of Huts, “is a humble girl, she is not by any means an aggressive person”.

“ What more he wanted – it added - is that there was already someone who helps us in case of her, which is difficult, I know it, but there must be specialists who give us a hope so that she does not return to El Salvador, because there the situation is very ugly”.

Rose also invoked those who meet his sister Maria that they should bring his whereabouts or should warn it so that it goes to the reunion with his daughter Janet, “who the search and he needs it to relieve these hours of pain”.

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To examine world financial turbulency

Richer countries come to summit in DC

Bag workers do incredulity gestures for the new fall that registered at level generalized in the Stock Exchange of Values of New York. Photo: Richard Drew / AP

Néstor Ikeda
AP

The president of the World Bank, who has asked for the disappearance of the G-7, he said on Thursday, the 9th that the group shaped by the richest nations must take the front part towards a global action that shows in this level an interest to solve the current financial turbulency.

The G-7 and the G-20 shaped by the biggest economies of the world, will meet in Washington this Friday, the 10th. Both meetings, at which ministers of finance will be present, will be realized in the ambience of the governors' assembly of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

The meetings of the G-7 — that shape the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Great Britain, Japan and Germany — are routine in these meetings of ministerial.

But the G-20, which they integrate the European Union and 19 of the biggest world economies — between them Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in the region — was summoned of urgency by the secretary of the Treasure, Henry M. Paulson.

Paulson said that the meeting of the G-20, of which also it is part the United States, will include tall finance officials, central and regulatory banks of several important emergent economies.

There is no magic recipe

The Brazilian Chancellor of the Exchequer, Guido Mantega, who was reckoning to arrive on Thursday, the 8th to Washington, announced in Brasilia that it will do it newly on the following day, hours before the meeting of the G-20, which presides. His delay is due to the fact that he wants to supervise the financial actions in the difficult moments of the day for Brazil.

" I hope that the G-7 should point towards coordinated actions that should show that the authorities are taking the front part (in the crisis) ", said the president of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick. "The countries will adopt actions that fit to his needs, like the clipping in the money-market rates that the central banks of the world adopted this week", it indicated.

But, affirming that "there was no magic recipe" to solve the crisis, Zoellick made to notice that the actions that the G-7 adopts "will need of time to supply effect".

" The G-7 needs to work as a whole to arrange the financial, economic and regulatory systems that they have trumped", affirmed Zoellick.
Zoellick indicated that 28 countries, principally in the Africa, were "highly vulnerable in the fiscal field" and that another 44 million persons will suffer of malnutrition this year as result of the high prices of the food.

" We cannot allow a financial crisis to turn into human crisis", it supported.
Strauss-Kahn predicted that the world economy would begin getting better of his current pressures "in the second half of next year" and that even if the recovery will be slow, in these days "is a hope message". Hispanic.

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Police officer asks for help the community to solve the case

They identify and present photo of murdered and frozen girls

Photo of two murdered adoptive sisters: (Left) Minnet, which takes a pink brooch in the fringe of his hair, and Jasmine.

Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

After a joint work between teams of detectives of the counties of Montgomery and Calvert, both of Maryland, there was announced on Wednesday, the 8th the provisional identification of the bodies of two adopted girls who were murdered and then kept in a freezer by the mother who requested them in adoption, as she confessed herself.

A 7-year-old third girl, is the only survivor of the minor adopted three, since it escaped of the house where it had been shut up after receiving a golpiza of Renee Bowman, the adoptive mother. The victim-sangrante, hungry and terrified - was found by a neighbor, who called the police and began to descorrerse the mystery of the nightmare through that the girls lived.

On Saturday, the 27th of September two sisters were found the frozen remains of others and it was necessary to have waited several days to defrost them and to be examined by the police physicians.

A friend of the family identified the corpses of two murdered girls, of a "tentative" way, while diverse examinations are realized in charge of the legal experts, whose definitive report will take still several weeks, “although the physical work of the autopsies has been already completed”, as informed the detectives of Montgomery.
Simultaneously, on Wednesday, the 8th the police spread the first photo of the victims, where they are observed smiling, without knowing the tragic destination that was waiting for them. Jasmine, who now should be 9 years old, is to the right, along with Minnet, which takes a pink brooch in the fringe of his hair.

The authorities invited those who have met one or two victims, so that they should offer his testimonies. For it they can call (240 773-5070 of the police.

Meanwhile, the current target of the detectives of Montgomery and of the team of Investigation of Calvert (CIT, for his initials in English) is to know the circumstances that surrounded the deaths of the minor two.
“ In this state of the investigation it has not been confirmed when, where and how they died”, admitted a police spokeswoman.

The agents have confirmed through that Renee Bowman lived in the counties of Montgomery, Prince George's, Chat and Calvert, as well as in Washington, DC. “We are trying to establish the moment and the place where the victims were seen for last time”, added the spokesman.

A preliminary investigation determined that Bowman resided in a house located in the block 13100 of Vandalia Drive, in the field of Aspen Hill, in Rockville, from 2005 until November, 2007, when one changed Charles.
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Police chiefs of MD push versions back in meeting with the community

“We do not ask the undocumented persons for roles”

Flanked by other police commanders and of the lawyer's office of Maryland, the chief of the police of Montgomery, Thomas Manger, speaks to the community on Monday, the 6th. Photo: Osmín Herrero / Washington Hispanic

 

Víctor Caychos
Washington Hispanic

Before more than one hundred of Hispanic leaders, the tallest police chiefs of Montgomery (Maryland) were reaffirmed in his disposition “of being a part of the community and of working with her”.

The commitment was ratified the morning of Monday, the 6th, in a meeting of the community leadership with the agencies of the law of the county, which there realized in the auditorium of the church Methodist “Way of Life”, in Gaithersburg.

During the meeting, the authorities pushed the versions back on the existence of a campaign against the Latin community faced especially towards all the undocumented persons.

“ I want that they hear clearly my answer, because I do not want that any doubt stays: The police of this county do not do the work of the agency of immigration; we do not devote ourselves to ask the undocumented persons for roles”, there emphasized Thomas Manger, Chief of the Department of Police officer of Montgomery.

“ The disposition of the police not only is to be a part of the community but to work of the hand with each of his members”, it added, starting applauses of the auditorium.

Nevertheless, it clarified, how it has done it in other opportunities, that “if there is a person whom we arrest and is being looked in another state by a hanging situation with the law, yes we bring it”.

Manger renewed this commitment in answer to the worry formulated by Ann Sol Gutiérrez, delegated of Montgomery before the Legislative Assembly of Maryland, present in the meeting, who indicated that he had gathered denunciations on this matter. The police chief repeated that all that talks each other of erroneous versions and that they cause confusion in the people.

In addition to Manger, there were the police chiefs of Chevy Chase, Roy Gordon; of Gaithersburg, John King; of Takoma Park, Ronald A. Ricucci, and of the City of Rockville, Terrance Treschuk. Also, the chief of the police of parks of Maryland, Darien L. Manley, the state attorney John McCarthy and the representative of the Correctional Department, Arthur Wallenstein.

The coordination of this meeting was in charge of the monsignor Mark Brennan and the reverend one, David Rocha, together with the Hispanic activists Pilar Torres – moderator of the event-; Carlos Soliz, Grace Rivera, Fernando Garavito, Sara Pellecer and Dennis Tovar.

The dialogue lasted two hours, in that there talked each other other topics directed to improve the relations between the community and the authorities of the law.

Elide Vargas, one of the guests like Radio representative America, it qualified to the community meeting as “something only, without precedents as for the massive assistance of police chiefs”.

“ They were very clear in saying that the police do not do the laws but his function is to make to fulfill the laws”, he emphasized Vargas, who is an executive director of Education 2000 Inc., an organization that works with the Hispanic students and prepares them so that they continue his studies in the university.

For his part, the activist Pilar Torres, Executive director of the community organization Centred Family, thought that “a dialogue was achieved on very delicate and controversial topics, and that they affect to us very deeply who we are immigrant”.

“ The assistance of the police was impressive and the fact of happening in a religious head office gave him a more humanitarian tone and of dignity to this meeting with the community”, it added.
Vargas showed that the assistants went out much filled with enthusiasm of the meeting. “But we cannot sin of ingenuous either and must be conscious that there is still resistance in the community; there is no confidence in the police yet, that is constructed and in this task we are”, he affirmed.

To support to the campaign of the democratic candidate

“Latin Joined by Obama” they join forces

Leaders and community activists met in Arlington to express officially his support to the candidate for the presidency of the United States, Barack Obama.

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

The intention of supporting to the political campaign of the democratic candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama, a group of Latin women, between leaders and community activists of the metropolitan area met to throw the initiative “From woman to woman”.

The coalition “Latin joined by Obama” presented a series of activities that they will realize during the last weeks before the presidential election of November 4 in order to come to the Latin women registered to vote and to convince them that the candidate Obama is the best alternative.

“ Latin joined as Obama” it has the commitment to achieve that senator Obama obtains the victory in the state of Virginia increasing the number of voters.

Between the activities the women joined by Obama will realize visits door to door to future electorate, as well as also they will realize called phone companhies to convince on the politics of the democratic candidate.

According to the delegate of the legislative Assembly of Maryland, Ann Sol Gutiérrez, the Hispanics will mark the difference in the next elections, especially in the state of Virginia where historically it has gained the republican party and in these moments the candidate Obama is gaining area. In Virginia the Hispanics who can exercise the vote only add 3 per cent therefore this movement wants to encourage the biggest number of potential electorate.

“ A group of Latin women we are working joined to organize more Latin women in the metropolitan area to support senator Obama and to win in the state of Virginia. This is a woman's event to woman joined by the change and ready to give our vote for our next president, Barack Obama”, makes sure Emma Violand-Sánchez, candidate to the School Meeting of the county of Arlington.

The next event programmed for “Latin joined by Obama” will be Saturday, the 18th of October 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the restaurant Cecilia's in Arlington.

 

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