Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

At least of two weeks for the presidential election, both candidates protect mítines for several key states, including the been neighbor of Virginia, considered to be one of the most important. The voters of Virginia they have not voting for a democrat for president from 1964, but this time everything is in game, and very much it has to do with the Latin voters. It turns out that Frederick's county (Maryland) is the place of major growth in the Hispanic population of any county in the whole nation, according to new numbers of the Federal Department of Census.

The Hispanic population in Frederick is four times what was only in 2000. And it is not only in Frederick. Of 25 counties with the biggest growth in Hispanic population in the country, 7 are in Virginia, more than any other state of the nation (one of these counties is in Maryland). The Hispanics represent only 3 per cent of the population in Virginia, but there are a part of the increasing number of new voters. In Virginia it means that very much when the contest is so closed, because the voters in this state do not register with a party in particular.

The democratic senator Barack Obama enjoys wide support inside the Hispanic community, but it is not possible to assume automatically for that the Hispanic voters – especially the newly registered ones – will vote for the democrat. None of the parties is assuming anything in search of voters in what it is waited be one of more closed presidential careers. And there is so much and so much interest that officials have seen a number without citizens' precedent for that they are not hoping to vote on November 4. The electoral offices in Virginia, Maryland and the city of Washington, as cities and the states across the whole nation, have hired personnel to process the ballot paper that have begun coming by mail and processing those who have begun to vote in person. Many people say that they wait for long lines and disorder on November 4, and that's why they have decided to vote in advance. For many people, the emotion of voting for the same day of the elections is not compared to the headache of waiting in long lines.

But not quite this week in Washington is an electoral news. This week the governments of the United States and Peru signed an agreement so that the American government "excuses" part of the foreign debt that Peru supports with the United States and places these funds under a program of conservation of tropical and ecological zones. The Record of Conservation of Tropical Forests directs funds related to the foreign debt to help to prepare damages to the environment. Till now approximately $ 188 million dollars of the foreign debt of 14 countries have been "excused" by the good of the ambience of the developing countries.