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Crackdown on Kids - La Prensa San Diego

39 YEARS
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1976
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La Prensa Muñoz, Inc. Publications
Vol. XXXIX No. 16
Crackdown
on Kids
APRIL 17, 2015
Organizan Presentación del Certamen Belleza México Internacional
Perspective
By Laura Carlsen
When the crisis of unaccompanied
minors migrating to the United States
burst onto the front pages last summer, it seemed at last the U.S. government would come to grips with its
legacy of disaster amid the current
havoc in Central America.
The United Nations documented
that most of the children were fleeing violence — violence caused in part
by the failure to restore constitutional
order following the Honduran coup
of 2009 and the unfinished peace processes after the dirty wars in El Salvador and Guatemala, where Washington propped up right-wing dictatorships for years.
The governments of those three
countries — known as the Northern
Triangle — certainly share some of
the blame for the mass exodus, which
is not as new or unprecedented as
the press made out when it sounded
the alarm.
But in the end, the problem isn’t
one of assigning blame, but rather
helping children in conditions of extreme vulnerability, right?
Apparently not.
Less than a year later, Washington has come up with its policy response to the children’s plight. Unfortunately, while purporting to address the root causes of migration, it
mirrors — and in many ways intensifies — the causes that forced so
many to flee.
Tucked into the administration’s
2016 budget requestthe plan has been
christened “Biden’s Billion” for its
major promoter and the amount he
expects U.S. taxpayers to put up to
support it. It divides aid into three
“lines of action”: security, economic
development, and governance.
Yet in every one of these areas,
the response repeats errors of the
past. Rather than focusing on a response to the humanitarian crisis of
child refugees, it serves as a vehicle
for deepening the drug war and “freetrade” agendas that have contributed
to the crisis.
Rewarding Human Rights
Violators
The plan requests $300 million for
security assistance, a considerable
increase over previous regional collaborations like the Merida Initiative
and the Central American Regional
Security Initiative. The increase goes
mainly to the region’s police forces.
This essentially rewards known
human rights violators.
In an op-ed published in The Hill,
Alex Main of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains:
“Funding for International Narcotics
Control and Law Enforcement
(INCLE) aid to Central America
would double from $100 million in fiscal year 2014 to $205 million in fiscal
year 2016,” he writes. “This assistance, rooted primarily in the U.S.
‘war on drugs,’ includes extensive
support for the region’s police and
military forces despite abundant reports of their involvement in extrajudicial killings and other serious human
rights violations.”
Although fighting drug traffickers
is purposely underplayed in the proposal, INCLE nonetheless expands
(see Crackdown, page 10)
Grupo de hermosas jóvenes que participarán en Belleza México Internacional 2015 en rueda de prensa.
Por Paco Zavala
En rueda de prensa realizada el
pasado miércoles 8 de abril en una
de las Salas del Casino Caliente
Hipódromo la organización del
Certamen Belleza México Internacional, informó a los medios de
comunicación sobre la Gran Final
Nacional en su Quinta Edición de
dicho evento que se verificará el
próximo 2 de Mayo, a las 8:00 pm.
en el Baja California Center, ubicado
en la risueña vecina ciudad de Playas de Rosarito, B.C.
La rueda de prensa estuvo presi-
dida por: Nancy Patrón, Señorita BMI
2014, Lic. Gabriela Orihuela, Presidente de la Fundación Belleza Sin
Fronteras, AC., y Certamen Belleza
México Internacional, Miguel Angel
Badiola Montaño, Representante del
Comité de Turismo y Convenciones
de Tijuana (COTUCO), Lic. Yadira
Whitney, Directora General de
Belleza México Internacional (México) y Mary Carmen Gaytán, Señora
Clásica 2014.
Los pormenores del evento en
mención los proporcionó la Lic.
Gabriela Orihuela Ley, en su calidad
de Presidente de la Fundación Belleza
sin Fronteras., AC., organización sin
fines de lucro, quien realiza la
coordinación y organización del
mencionado evento.
La Lic. Orihuela Ley, dijo que la
fundación que ella y su organización
representan, tiene como objetivo social principal, realizar actividades
vinculadas y adecuadas que generen
resultados que dignifiquen y ayuden
a superarse a la mujer fronteriza en
todos los aspectos posibles del
entorno social.
En la actualidad apoyan a mujeres
con algún problema económico, de
salud o familiar, además a un grupo
de jóvenes afectadas con algún grado
de esquizofrenia. Los gastos e
inversión en atención y mantenimiento de estos programas son
costosos, por esta razón los resultados
económicos provenientes de este
evento serán destinados a aminorarlos o a solucionarlos.
En este certamen participan trece
estados de la República Mexicana,
dentro de los que podemos contar
con: Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali y
Tecate de BC., Baja California Sur,
Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco,
(Vea Certamen, pag. 5)
“The only thing inferior about being in the foster care system is
feeling inferior”
By Pablo J. Sáinz
Richard Montaño’s life story can
be summarized in one sentence: He
went from being a homeless boy to
being a successful home investor.
Montaño’s experiences being
homeless until the age of nine, and
later being forced into the U.S. foster care system, helped him develop
a strong feeling for family and community. That feeling, in turn, helped
him focus on his goals, becoming a
real estate investor after working as
an aerospace engineer.
He is currently producing Voiceless, a documentary film that aims to
create awareness about the U.S. foster care system.
La Prensa San Diego interviewed
Montaño to learn more about his advice for homeless and foster youth,
and how they, too, can create a successful future for themselves.
La Prensa San Diego: What do
you remember the most about
being homeless first and then in
foster care? How did those experiences led you to want to help
other youth in those conditions?
Richard Montaño: What I remember most is that I was really ostracized from the family that I stayed
with, and just never felt comfortable.
Even though I was used to moving
around so much, the families made it
really hard to adjust to the new environments. Being a kid, one particular
woman had 3 other kids and they literally had me sleeping in a small
closet with a tiny mattress pad. I
wasn’t even allowed in the other
Richard Montaño went from homeless to a business and personal success story.
parts of the house, only the kitchen back. I spoke to a panel of foster you can do is try to make the most
and a bathroom. The other kids were parents and told them that the differ- out of the time they are with you.
LP: What would you tell hometreated completely different than I ence between you and the foster child
was.
is that you have a choice; they do less or foster care youth who
It makes me realize the value of not. If you don’t respect that, you’re many times feel inferior to their
being in a home or a child being loved never going to help the child succeed peers who have a more traditional
and treated normal, even though nor- in any way other than by simply put- family structure?
The only thing inferior about being
mal varies from household to house- ting a roof over their head. Children
hold. But when the child feels nor- need that moral support and that in the foster care system is feeling
mal in their home, they have a sys- sense of normalcy. You can never inferior. The key is being able to extem where they respect the people truly take away that feeling of being
(see Foster Care, page 4)
there and they also get that respect in a temporary location, but the least
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APRIL 17, 2015
Nestlé Corp – one
of key reasons
California
experiencing water
woes
By Andy Porras
So, we’re running out of
water here in California, eh?
Residents and businesses
face the new reality of
dwindling reservoirs and
water restrictions. Is it time
to play the blame game?
Hardly.
Perhaps our take on
climate warming is all wrong.
While we try to convince
Republicans and other
naysayers that the threat is
not political, but actually
forthcoming, part of it has
sneaked in already. Look at it
this way, where do trends
begin in the U.S. of A? Out
here, dude! So Cali has a
drought going, soon every
state is going to want one. A
little humor before some
upsetting facts.
Before we start blaming
the heavens for causing all
this H two O havoc, let’s
examine the possibilities of us
being our own enemy. Let’s
begin by that old proverbial
challenge - follow the money.
Worldwide, inhabitants of
all shades, fork over nearly
$40 billion bucks to drink
bottled water. Guess where
you can find some of the
most pristine springs gushing
liquid gold in some of the
country’s most beautiful
places? C-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a!
Multinational corporations
are hitting hundreds of small
and idyllic villages in our
state’s mountains to gain
control of that most precious
resource – agua. By coercing
these communities, usually
with limited economic means,
the cunning corporations
have become a vital part of a
growing trend to privatize
public water resources for
obscene monetary gains in
the ever expanding bottled
water commerce.
Ever seen majestic Mt.
Shasta up north or Lake
Arrowhead in the San
Bernardino Mountains? You
better see both beautiful
places sooner than later if the
existing conditions persist.
Something else about these
two great destinations, they
are both providers of millions
of gallons of water that is
sold all over God’s
masterpiece. And just when
you thought that part of the
water business was old hat,
the same corporations almost
sucking the Golden State dry,
want more.
Much more.
California’s Water Enemy
numero uno is Nestlé, which
controls one-third of the U.S.
(See Nestlé, page 7)
Se honra el trabajo de Martín Ramírez en sellos postales Forever
El trabajo artístico creado
por Ramírez cuando estaba
internado en instituciones
psiquiátricas
Davis Anderson, directora
ejecutiva de Prospect New Orleans, “es una maravilla absoluta, ya que el artista desafió
a su entorno y diagnóstico y
creó obras de arte asombrosas”.
El Servicio Postal de los
Estados Unidos honrará el
trabajo del artista Martín
Ramírez al reproducir cinco de
sus más de 450 dibujos y collages dinámicos en sellos
postales Forever de edición
limitada. La ceremonia de
dedicación del primer día de
emisión del sello tendrá lugar
el jueves 26 de marzo a las 6
p. m. en la Ricco/Maresca
Gallery de la Ciudad de Nueva
York.
Aunque estuvo internado en
hospitales psiquiátricos durante
más de 30 años, Ramírez
trascendió su situación y creó
un mundo de una visualización
notable, libre de límites o del
tiempo mismo. El arte de
Ramírez, caracterizado por las
líneas repetitivas, los motivos
idiosincráticos y una perspectiva osada, combina los
paisajes emotivos y físicos de
su vida en México, por un lado,
y la cultura popular moderna
de los Estados Unidos, por el
otro. Aunque mayormente
trabajó alejado del mundo del
arte durante su vida, en la
actualidad se reconoce a
Ramírez como uno de los
grandes artistas del siglo XX.
Nació en 1895 en una comunidad rural de Guadalajara y
murió en 1963.
“Nuestra selección de Martín Ramírez como objeto de un
sello postal Forever refleja la
influencia muy difundida, y en
aumento, que ha tenido en el
arte en los Estados Unidos, y
no menos en artistas del mundo
entero”, dijo el Director Financiero y Vicepresidente Ejecutivo del Servicio Postal de
EE. UU., Sr. Joseph Corbett,
quien dedicará los sellos.
“Y si bien su nombre se
mantuvo casi en el anonimato
en la década que siguió a su
muerte en 1963, el trabajo de
Martín Ramírez ha llegado a ser
uno de los ejemplos de arte más
preciados. En la actualidad, se
ha sumado a las filas de otros
artistas famosos, como Norman
Rockwell, Georgia O’Keefe,
William H. Johnson y Frida
Kahlo, quienes han sido honrados en sellos postales de los
Estados Unidos”.
En la actualidad, la obra
conocida de Ramírez comprende más de 450 dibujos y
collages y, según la Sra. Brooke
Los orígenes de Ramírez
Ramírez y su familia, propietarios de un pequeño rancho,
eran católicos devotos; estas
dos referencias culturales se
destacarían más adelante en su
arte. A principios de la década
de 1920, Ramírez había establecido una pequeña propiedad
rural propia y formó una familia,
pero la vida de ranchero era
“Sin título (Túnel con coches y autobuses)”. El
“Sin título (Hombre cabalgando un burro)” una
difícil y el dinero escaseaba. En
dibujo se realizó en 1954 con lápiz, lápices de
aguada con trazos en lápices de colores y dibujo
1925, dejó México por los
colores, acuarelas y crayones sobre papel.
en grafito sobre papel, de 1960 -1963.
Estados Unidos donde, como
otros trabajadores migrantes de
la época, trabajó en minas y en
el ferrocarril.
La propiedad de Ramírez
fue destruida en una guerra regional apenas dos años después de su partida de México;
este conflicto le impidió volver
a su hogar y retornar a su
mujer e hijos. Pocos años más
tarde, perdió su empleo como
consecuencia de la Gran Depresión. Decenas de miles de
trabajadores migrantes mexicanos fueron deportados de
California durante este período,
pero Ramírez no estaba entre
“Sin título (Venado)”. El dibujo en
ellos. Desequilibrado emocion- Un detalle floral de “Sin título (Caballo y
aguada,
lápices de colores y grafito.
jinete
con
árboles)”,
creado
en
1954
con
almente y en mal estado físico,
crayones
y
lápices,
sobre
la policía lo detuvo en 1931.
papel elaborado por
Incapaz de comunicarse, o
fusión
de trozos pequeños.
reacio a hacerlo, fue internado
en un hospital psiquiátrico del
norte de California.
A veces utilizaba un depresor lingual como escuadra.
Diagnóstico de
También recortaba imágenes
esquizofrenia catatónica
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Ramírez se le diagnosticó va de dos pies a más de 20
can enjoy a beautiful day in one of nature’s wonders.
esquizofrenia catatónica. Du- pies. Para evaluar estas piezas
rante la evaluación clínica se en gran escala, tendía los rollos
limitó a repetir que no hablaba en el piso y se subía a una
inglés.
mesa para obtener una buena
perspectiva.
Su arte
Una de las primeras caracDespués de salir de un hos- terísticas que la mayoría de los
pital psiquiátrico, Ramírez observadores notan acerca de
comenzó a dibujar obsesiva- la obra de Ramírez son las
mente. Trabajaba agachado en líneas. Estas líneas, repetitivas
el piso sobre enormes hojas de e hipnóticas, definen tanto un
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betún, jugo rojo extraído de idealizado, donde las autopistas
frutas y el carbón que obtenía
(Vea Ramirez, pag. 5)
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APRIL 17, 2015
Photographic murals honor César Chávez
Murales fotográficos honran a
César Chávez
Por Pablo J. Sáinz
Los murales de Chicano
Park pueden darle la bienvenida a unos nuevos vecinos.
Este mes San Diego Continuing Education colocó ocho
murales fotográficos mostrando la vida y obra de César
E. Chávez en el exterior de la
estructura de estacionamiento
de su nuevo campus en Barrio
Logan.
Estos nuevos murales fotográficos, que fueron creados
usando fotos de miembros de
la comunidad local, están
ubicados en la esquina de National Avenue y César E.
Chávez Parkway, a una cuadra
de Chicano Park.
“La estructura de estacionamiento de San Diego Continuing Education con sus
grandes murales fotográficos,
donde se presentan a César
Chávez y al movimiento de los
trabajadores agrícolas, son una
gran contribución al legado cultural que permea a la comunidad de Barrio Logan”, dijo
Robin Carvajal, decana del
nuevo campus César Chávez.
Para Rudy Kastelic, presidente interino de San Diego
Continuing Education, los
murales fotográficos pueden
ser vistos como una extensión
de la misión del campus César
E. Chávez: educar a la comunidad de Barrio Logan.
“Estas fotos encajan muy
bien en la comunidad”, dijo.
Los murales incluyen fotos
tomadas por Carlos LeGerrette, un fotógrafo que trabajó
de cerca con Chávez. LeGerrette y su esposa Linda son
co-fundadores de los Cesar
Chavez Service Clubs.
“Las fotos son una pequeña
pero respetuosa represen-tación
del movimiento que Chávez y
otros iniciaron en 1965”, dijo
LeGerrette, cuya familia tiene
una larga historia en el área de
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Barrio Logan. “Viajé con César
con mi cámara en mano. Tuve
la bendición de trabajar con él
por más de 12 años en el movimiento de los trabajadores
agrícolas”.
Las fotos muestran diferentes comunidades con las
que Chávez trabajó de cerca
durante su vida, incluyendo a
filipinos y afroamericanos. En
una foto se puede ver a un
joven Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez, un ícono de Barrio Logan y músico que ha jugado un
papel importante en el desarrollo de Chicano Park.
“Hay mucha historia en
esas ocho fotos”, dijo LeGerrette. “Son un reconocimiento
a todas las personas, familias,
que han trabajado arduamente,
que salieron y que aún viven
en Barrio Logan”.
Kastelic dijo que cuando
abra en el otoño, el nuevo campus César Chávez tendrá unos
1,400 estudiantes, tomando
clases practicas de inglés,
ciudadanía y conocimientos
básicos.
También ofrecerán programas de carreras con gran
demanda, como asistente de
enfermería y otras profesiones
del cuidado de la salud.
“Estas clases ayudan a
todos a conseguir un nuevo
empleo o a mejorar sus habilidades para el trabajo”, dijo
Kastelic.
Carvajal dijo que con el
nuevo campus y los murales se
celebra la riqueza artística e
histórica de esta comunidad.
“Estamos orgullosos de este
tributo al movimiento de los
derechos civiles que tiene el
potencial de crear conciencia
de la obra y vida de César
Chávez”, dijo.
Para conocer más acerca
del nuevo campus de San Diego Continuing Education, que
se espera abrirá en sep-tiembre,
por favor visite www.sdce.edu.
By Pablo J. Sáinz
The Chicano Park murals
can welcome their new neighbors.
This month San Diego Continuing Education placed eight
photographic murals depicting
the life and work of César E.
Chávez on the exterior of the
parking structure of its new
campus in Barrio Logan.
The new photographic murals, which were created using photos from local community members, are located on
the corner of National Avenue
and César E. Chávez Parkway,
one block from Chicano Park.
“The San Diego Continuing
Education parking structure
with its larger than life photo
murals depicting Cesar Chavez
and the Farm worker’s Movement are a stunning contribution to the cultural legacy that
permeates the Barrio Logan
community,” said Robin Carvajal, dean of the new César
Chávez campus.
“The photos provide a realistic compliment to the colorful and diverse murals in
Chicano Park,” she said.
For Rudy Kastelic, interim
president at San Diego Continuing Education, the photographic murals can be seen as
an extension of the mission of
the César E. Chávez campus:
To educate community members in Barrio Logan.
“These photos, even though
they’re not paintings, will fit
very well in the community,”
he said. “They do justice to the
legacy of César Chávez.”
The murals include photos
taken by Carlos LeGerrette, a
photographer who worked
very closely with Chávez.
LeGerrette and his wife Linda
are co-founders of the Cesar
Chavez Service Clubs.
“The photos themselves are
a small but respectful repre-
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Photographic murals of Cesar Chavez and farmworker movement at the new Ed Center.
sentation of the movement that
Chavez and others began back
in 1965,” said LeGerrette,
whose family has a long history in the Barrio Logan area.
“I travelled with Cesar with my
camera in hand. I was blessed
to work with him for more than
12 years in the farmworkers
movement.”
The photos show different
communities Chavez worked
closely with throughout his life,
including Filipinos and AfricanAmericans. In one picture, one
can see a young Ramon
“Chunky” Sanchez, a Barrio
Logan icon and musician
whohas played an important
role in the development of
Chicano Park.
“There’s a lot of history in
those eight pictures,” LeGerrette said. “They’re a recognition of all those hard working individuals, families, who
came out of and still live in
Barrio Logan.”
Kastelic said that, when it
opens this fall, the new César
Chávez Campus will serve
around 1,400 students, offering practical classes in English
as a Second Language, citizenship, and basic skills. The campus will also offer hands-on,
career-oriented programs in
nursing assistance, and other
health occupations.
¸“These clases help everyon
get a new job or improve thei
skills in the workforce,” Kastelic said.
Kastelic said that he was
part of the development of the
original plan for the new campus 10 years ago.
“I appreciate the patience
the community has had,” he
said. “We have been serving
the Barrio Logan community
since the 70s and we’ve had
‘good neighbor’ relationships.”
Carvajal said that the San
Diego Community College District acknowledges and celebrates the wealth of art, history, and passion that embodies this community.
“We are proud to erect a
tribute to the civil rights movement that has the potential to
aise awareness about the wor
and life of Cesar Chavez, and
to teach and celebrate his important cultural history,” she
said.
To learn more about the new
San Diego Continuing Education campus, which is scheduled to open in September,
please visit www.sdce.edu.
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APRIL 17, 2015
Community Notes:..................
Immigration Forum and resident and must pass a backFree Community Services ground check.
Fair
Rincón Literario,
Join us on Saturday, April
18th from 12pm to 3pm at the Bilingual Book
MAAC Community Center to Discussion Group, Meets
learn everything you need to at Escondido Public
know to protect and prepare
for the DAPA and DACA ini- Library
tiatives, and how these can affect or benefit you. The event
will feature a community services fair focused on the needs
of our immigrant and low income residents, free daycare
will be available (limited space,
must pre-register), and light
refreshments will be served.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allows
individuals who entered the
United States before the age
of 16 and who meet other requirements, to apply for deferred action from the United
States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Applicants must submit evidence showing continuous residence in the United States and
evidence of high school or GED
graduation or current attendance in an educational program. Individuals who are approved for DACA are allowed
to remain in the United States
for a period of 2 years without
the fear of being deported. On
November 20, 2014 President
Obama expanded the DACA
program, which eliminates the
age-cap and also introduced a
new program called Deferred
Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent
Residents (DAPA), which allows parents of U.S. citizen
and legal permanent resident
children to receive deferred
action. DAPA eligible individuals must have a child who’s a
U.S. citizen or legal permanent
Rincón Literario (The Literary Corner), Escondido Public Library’s Bilingual Book Discussion Group, will meet on
Saturday, April 25, 2015, from
3:30 – 4:45 p.m. in the Library’s
Turrentine Room. Cien años
de soledad/One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, is the selected
book for April. Participants discuss books bilingually, in English and Spanish, enabling
them to enjoy great literature
while improving their English
and Spanish language skills.
In Macondo, a metaphoric
Colombia, visits from ghosts
representing the past, a magical-realist style, and European
influence, all combine in the
extraordinary literary journey
of Cien años de soledad/One
Hundred Years of Solitude,
written by Colombian author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This
novel tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía
family, whose patriarch, Jose
Arcadio Buendía, founds the
town of Macondo. Soon after
Macondo is founded, it becomes a town frequented by
unusual and extraordinary
events involving generations of
the Buendia family, who are
either incapable or reluctant to
escape their episodic misfortunes.
This program is free and
open to the public. For more
information about future
Rincón Literario selections
and other Library programs,
LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
visit the Library’s website at
library.escondido.org
Spring Concerts at
MiraCosta College
MiraCosta College has an
exciting lineup of concerts and
events set for April. All concerts will be held on the
Oceanside Campus, located at
1 Barnard Drive.
9th Annual Oceanside Jazz
Festival, April 17 & 18, and
May 2, in the Concert Hall
The jazz program at
MiraCosta College will host
nearly 50 performing groups
from schools around the United
States as part of its annual
Oceanside Jazz Festival. Jazz
choirs will perform during the
day on April 17 and 18, and jazz
bands will perform during the
day on May 2. Daytime school
performances, clinics and master classes are open to the public and free of charge. Each
day will culminate in an evening
performance
featuring
MiraCosta College jazz ensembles performing with
prominent guest artists:
April 17, 7:30 p.m., acclaimed vocal ensemble
Vocalogy performs with
MiraCosta College’s Frequency Vocal Jazz Ensemble.
April 18, 7:30 p.m., the John
Proulx Trio performs with Frequency Vocal Jazz Ensemble.
May 2, 7:30 p.m., saxophonist Benny Golson will perform
with the MiraCosta Oceanside
Jazz Orchestra (MOJO) and
the MiraCosta Jazz Collective.
These evening concerts are
priced as follows: General admission is $20; students/seniors/staff, $15.
Tickets are available online
at www.miracosta.edu/buytix
or call the Box Office at
760.795.6815.
Foster care system
(con’t from page 1)
press to these kids what is actually out there and available
for them. There’s a ‘curtain of
poverty’ that makes it so the
kids don’t even know what
opportunities they have. They
simply think a guy they see
driving a Mercedes has that
car because someone gave it
to him, when, in reality, he had
to earn it as well. I would like
to share that those opportunities are not given to people;
you still have to earn them no
matter how well-off you are.
And you can earn them as easily as the other person. It’s all
about your mindset.
LP: Montaño Companies
consist of four entities: Fit
Properties, LIV Capital Group,
Sofia Living, and Voiceless
Film. How are your companies
doing right now?
For me, things are going
absolutely great. We are staying busy, and constantly have
a lot of activity going on as well
as a lot of buyers. We are putting a lot of people to work,
which is great for the job market. In regards to money, we
are spending about $8 to$10
million a year for our various
projects around San Diego, and
that money translates to vendor sales and labor. Overall, on
the receiving side, we have a
lot of buyers that are very aggressive and qualified. Even
though people are complaining
about prices in general for the
real estate industry, our
affordability is still great. We
are able to spend all of this
money because of the high
demand that we have, and that
translates to more jobs out there
as well.
LP: You’re working on
the documentary Voiceless,
about the foster care system. How’s that project going and when will it be released?
We are officially done with
the trailer and are now in the
process of scripting out our
entire film. We will be selecting our different case studies
consisting of various people we
want to share the stories of and
expand on. Filming beyond the
short should be starting late
spring or early summer this
year. We should complete the
filming by the end of the year,
continue producing through
summer 2016 and hopefully
have the finished product late
summer or early fall of 2016.
LP: How can the public
help in your cause of help-
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
ing youth?
The public can go to our
website, www.voicelessfilm.
org/donate, and donate to help
us with our project! They can
also spread the word about
Voiceless and continue supporting us as they already have
done so much.
To learn more about Richard Montaño’s successful life
story, please visit www.mon
tanocompanies.com.
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El Soporte Informativo Para Millones
de Hispanos
Por José López Zamorano
La Batalla Legal por el
Futuro del País
Un dato como pocos refleja
el carácter trascendental de la
batalla legal sobre las acciones
ejecutivas del presidente Barack Obama para dar una
solución temporal al caos que
reina en muchos aspectos del
sistema migratorio del país: en
un solo día se presentaron más
de una docena de mociones
legales, a favor y en contra,
ante la Corte de Apelaciones
del Quinto Circuito de Nueva
Orleans.
En favor de las medidas
administrativas del presidente
se pronunciaron legalmente
181 legisladores demócratas de
la Cámara de Representantes, 109 profesores de leyes,
agentes policiales, líderes
religiosos, comunitarios y
empresariales, 73 alcaldes,
funcionarios públicos de 27
estados del país y los mayores
sindicatos como la Federación
Estadounidense del Trabajo y
Congreso de Organizaciones
Industriales (AFL-CIO) y el
Sindicato Internacional de
Trabajadores de Servicios
(SEIU).
Su argumento legal central
es que existe suficiente precedente legal que justifica que
el presidente, como titular de
la rama ejecutiva, adopte
medidas discrecionales en la
implementación de la política
migratoria, y que las acciones
ejecutivas alientan un clima de
confianza entre las comunidades y las agencias policiales.
En la esquina contraria se
manifestaron representantes
de Texas y de los otros 25
estados que se oponen a la
legalización de inmigrantes
indocumentados y que iniciaron
el proceso legal que derivó en
la decisión inicial del juez Andrew Hanen de poner en suspenso la versión ampliada del
Programa de Acción Diferida
para Llegados en la Infancia
(DACA) y su variante para
adultos, el DAPA.
Desde este punto de vista,
las acciones ejecutivas anunciadas por el presidente el
20 de noviembre, rebasan sus
atribuciones constitucionales
toda vez que no sólo representan un acto de aplicación
discrecional de la ley, sino el
otorgamiento de beneficios legales que no fueron autorizados por el Congreso y
afectan negativamente a los
estados del país.
Los jueces de la Corte de
Apelaciones del Quinto Circuito tienen previsto celebrar
una audiencia del caso el 27
José López Zamorano
de abril, una sesión que podría
ser clave en el proceso legal
para determinar la legalidad y
constitucionalidad de las acciones del presidente Obama,
aunque aún existe para ambas
partes el recurso de llevar al
caso al máximo tribunal del
país, la Suprema Corte de
Justicia.
Debido a la trascendencia
de las acciones ejecutivas para
más de 4 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados que
podrían resultar poten-cialmente beneficiados, es sumamente importante mantenerse
informados del curso del proceso legal y tener en claro
quienes están del lado de la
comunidad de inmigrantes y
quienes buscan a toda costa
evitar cualquier alivio a esta
crisis social y humanitaria. Esta
es una responsabilidad cívica
y una obligación moral.
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
APRIL 17, 2015
PAGE 5
Certamen Belleza México Internacional Se honra el trabajo de Martín Ramírez
(con’t de pag. 1)
Tamaulipas y otros más, con
la seguridad de que año tras
año participen más estados,
hasta cubrir todo el territorio
de México.
La gran final internacional
de este evento se realizará en
el país centroamericano de
Costa Rica, organizado por el
Sr. Ronald Gutiérrez y la
Secretaría de Turismo y Convenciones.
Las categorías a calificar en
este certamen son cuatro y
son: Miss Teen de 14 a 17
años, Señorita de 18 a 25 años,
Señora de 26 a 39 años y
Señora Clásica de 40 a 55
años.
En seguida toma la palabra
el Sr. Miguel Angel Badiola
Montaño, representante de
COTUCO-Tijuana y agregó
que la organización y este
certamen han desarrollado en
muy corto tiempo un potencial,
una importancia y una inclusión
en el ámbito de la belleza
femenina internacional sin
precedentes, que merece todo
el respeto, la admiración y el
apoyo de la sociedad, para que
continúe creciendo, para que
su internacionalización se
fortalezca y refleje la belleza
(con’t de pag. 2)
femenina de esta frontera en
el ámbito mundial.
Continuó el evento con
algunas preguntas, que fueron
atendidas de inmediato por los
participantes en la rueda de
prensa.
También se nos entregó un
calendario de eventos vinculados con la Gran Final
Nacional BMI 2015.
27 de abril, a las 7:00 pm.,
en el Papas & Beer de Rosarito, B.C., Coctel de presentación, entrega de bandas
y rueda de prensa.
28 de abril, de 7:00 a 10:00
pm., en el Hotel Festival Plaza
de Rosarito, B.C., Noche de
Talentos.
1 de Mayo, de 11:00 am., a
1:00 pm., en la Alberca del
Hotel Palacio Azteca de Tijuana, B.C., Selección “Titulo
Silueta” (competencia de bikini). Invitada especial Jackie
Nava.
2 de mayo, de 7:00 a 7:45
pm., en Baja California Center de Rosarito, B.C., Alfombra
Roja, con invitados especiales:
Jackie Nava, Lorena Enriquez,
Samantha Rae y otras más.
2 de mayo, a las 8:00 pm.,
Gran Final Nacional en Baja
California Center de Rosarito,
B.C.
Para concluir comentaremos sobre la trayectoria de la
Lic. Gabriela Orihuela Ley,
Presidente de Fundación Belleza sin Fronteras, AC., y
Belleza México Internacional.
Nació en Puebla, Licenciada
en Diseño de Interiores por la
Universidad de DuPage en
Glen Hellyn, Illinois. Unica
mujer de tres hermanos. Inicia
su labor en las pasarelas a la
corta edad de 15 años en su
natal Puebla, donde alterna las
pasarelas con sus estudios de
Secretariado bilingüe en el
Colegio Americano de Puebla.
En 1986 llega a Tijuana, ciudad
en la que ha hecho una envidiable carrera de modelaje,
en distintas pasarelas, certámenes y ciudades tanto en
México como en los EE. UU.,
ganando múltiples premios y
reconocimientos desde 1984
hasta 2014.
La labor que realiza al frente
de Fundación Belleza sin
Fronteras, AC., y Belleza
México Internacional, es encomiable y digna de admiración
y respeto.
Workers Center in Barrio Logan
needs the community’s support!
In January, we opened the San Diego Workers Center in Barrio Logan to provide
jobs, legal protections and trainings for day laborers and household workers. Since
then, Martha Blancarte, our operations director, has sent out scores workers for jobs
they never would have had. We have also helped many victims of wage theft, and we
have referred others to obtain social services at other agencies. But we need your help
to keep our center open.
We have chosen Indiegogo.com as one way to raise funds. Please click on the link
below and make a contribution, no matter how small, to our cause. Your contribution is
tax-deductible, and it will help us continue our valuable work in the community. Check
out the perks as well! Artists, writers, filmmakers, and photographers have shared their
wonderful work with us. Every little bit helps. Please contribute!
Together, we shall overcome. Nosotros venceremos! http://igg.me/at/
sdworkerscenter
repletas y los ferrocarriles que
Ramirez ayudó a construir,
conducen directamente a los
pueblos, las iglesias y el campo
del México rural, en un viaje
de ida y vuelta.
Los dibujos de Ramírez,
colmados de escenas nostálgicas que evocan su vida en
México, representan un equilibrio entre tradición y modernismo, entre arte figurativo
y arte abstracto. De forma
similar a su uso de líneas,
Ramírez repitió un vocabulario
de motivos, reducido pero
refinado al mismo tiempo, que
aparecen en dibujo tras dibujo.
Uno de sus motivos más frecuentes era el jinete. Casi tan
comunes son los trenes y
túneles, que llegaron a dominar
su obra posterior, la que incluye
un rollo de casi 20 pies de largo,
que data de 1963. Hay otras
imágenes favoritas, entre las
que se destacan los paisajes,
los edificios, las iglesias, las
Madonas y la fauna salvaje del
desierto. Si bien Ramírez utilizó
estos motivos una y otra vez
durante 30 años, alteró los
detalles en cada uno de sus
dibujos y, al hacerlo, creó una
enorme variedad. El contenido
de su obra sugiere que el dibujo
era un medio primordial para
preservar la memoria e identidad, y para dar sentido y
orden al mundo que lo rodeaba.
El interés de los críticos y
del público en Ramírez comenzó a principios de la década de
1950, cuando varias personas
que visitaron el hospital, entre
ellas el Dr. Tarmo Pasto,
profesor de psicología y arte
en California State University,
reconocieron el valor único del
arte de Ramírez. Durante las
dos décadas siguientes, Pasto
y otros suministraron a Ramírez materiales necesarios
para la creación de obras de
arte, conservaron sus dibujos
y ayudaron a organizar exhibiciones públicas, entre ellas
muestras realizadas en el de
Young Memorial Museum y
otros museos del norte de California.
Su trabajo se exhibió de
forma anónima
Presuntamente debido a las
leyes de California aplicables
a personas internadas en
instituciones psiquiátricas, el
trabajo de Ramírez se exhibió
de forma anónima durante su
vida y su nombre se mantuvo
prácticamente desconocido
durante la década que siguió a
su muerte en 1963. Sin embargo, hacia mediados de la
década de 1970 sus dibujos ya
se exhibían ante un público
mucho más amplio. “El trabajo
de Ramírez anticipa muchas
tendencias contemporáneas y,
al mismo tiempo, evoca
inconscientemente estilos
anteriores”, escribió un crítico
del “Chicago Tribune”. “El uso
irresistible del espacio, la
recreación poética de las
formas y la extraordinaria
vitalidad son un llamado imperativo a la atención”.
En 1985 se realizó en Filadelfia una muestra retrospectiva de los dibujos de
Ramírez, que posteriormente
se presentaron como muestra
itinerante en EE. UU. y más
tarde en Canadá y México.
Diez años más tarde, los
curadores del Guggenheim
Museum de la ciudad de Nueva York descubrieron diez
dibujos que, hasta entonces, no
se conocían y que el museo
tenía en su poder desde la
década de 1950. En 2007, una
muestra retrospectiva realizada en el American Folk Art
Museum estableció a Ramírez
como uno de los grandes
artistas del siglo XX. Al año
siguiente, y con reconocimiento generalizado, el mismo
museo exhibió 140 dibujos de
Ramírez des-cubiertos en un
garaje en California. En 2010,
el Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofía en Madrid,
el más destacado museo de
arte contemporáneo de España, replicó la exhibición de
Nueva York. Ese mismo año,
el Museum of Modern Art de
la Ciudad de Nueva York
compró uno de los dibujos de
Ramírez para su colección
permanente.
Los clientes pueden comprar los sellos en usps.com/
stamps, en Postal Store, en
800-STAMP24 (800-7826724) y en las oficinas postales
de todo el país, o bien pueden
visitar ebay.com/stamps para
comprar una amplia gama de
sellos postales y artículos
coleccionables.
CONMEMORACIÓN
del sacrificio y la libertad
en Vietnam
KPBS presents
“
Operación Conmemoración
8-23 de abril
El Muro Que Sana
25-30 de abril
San Diego, ayúdanos a atar 60,000 cintas
amarillas de conmemoración alrededor
del USS Midway en honor de los que
hicieron el máximo sacrificio en Vietnam.
$1 de cada entrada al museo beneficiará
a las organizaciones locales de Veteranos.
Gratis para grupos. Para hacer reservas
para grupos contacte con Steve Suslik en:
[email protected] o (619) 398-8289.
Vea una réplica itinerante del muro del
Monumento a los Veteranos de Vietnam
en exhibición en la cubierta de vuelo del
Midway. La exhibición del Muro estará
abierta 24 horas y será gratis para el público.
Para obtener todos los detalles sobre el evento, visite:
Los últimos días
de Vietnam”
Noche de cine - 6:30pm
25 de abril
Vea clips del documental “Los últimos
días de Vietnam” nominado al Oscar
este año, gratis a bordo del Midway
y abierto al público. Tráiler y debate
organizado. Para obtener información
y confirmar la asistencia, visite www.
www.midway.org
o llame al (619) 544-9600
910 N. Harbor Drive • San Diego, CA 92101 • (619) 544-9600 • www.midway.org
Operación Viento Frecuente
40 aniversario - 10am-3pm
Ceremonia de la guirnalda 12pm-2pm
26 de abril
Conmemorar el aniversario de la caída de Saigón.
Los eventos incluyen actuaciones vietnamitas
en directo con bailarines, comida étnica, y una
ceremonia emocionante con los ponentes invitados,
el Capitán Larry Chambers del Midway en 1975,
ahora jubilado, que dirigió el rol del Midway en la
operación Viento Frecuente así como Vern Jumper,
el Jefe del Aire del Midway durante la operación
Viento Frecuente.
PAGE 6
APRIL 17, 2015
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
If you’re not water wise, you’d better become
wise or expect to pay a lot more for water!
E
ach morning for the past few
months, we have woken to
hear weather news describing
all of the snow storms and rain
storms and associated flooding in most
states east of the Rockies. And then the
weather map shifts to the West Coast,
and in particular California. The sad news
is always the same – we are experiencing extreme drought conditions. I sit and
wonder how we could move all of the
water that is flooding in the Ohio River
Valley to our very thirsty state, California.
Of course that is an improbable question. If there was even a remote way to
divert the water, I am sure someone
would have come up with the idea!
Governor Brown has issued an order
mandating a 25% reduction in water usage by residents. Meanwhile the agricultural industry, which uses 80% of the
water in California, will not face any restrictions on their water usage.
Following Gov. Brown’s orders, the
Metropolitan Water District approved a
plan that would cut regional water deliveries by 15 percent beginning this summer. San Diego County Water Authority
receives about half of their water from
the Metropolitan Water District, which
is then distributed out to their member
agencies.
What this all means is that if you have
a green lawn it is going to cost you a lot
more money to maintain that lush look.
This brings us back to our opening
question: How do we get more water into
California?
Drought conditions have been going on
for so long in California that off the top
of our heads we cannot remember when
our dams have been at full capacity! The
call for water use reduction has been an
ongoing effort and Southern Californians have heeded the call reducing their
water consumption by 24 percent since
1990.
Last year the voters passed a $7.12 bil-
lion dollar water bond for various water
supply infrastructure projects. At that
time, we opposed the water bond primarily because it did very little for the residents and there was not a substantial effort to find ways to generate new water
resources such as development of desalination or alternative projects to convert
sea water into drinking water. We believe
there should be more eco-friendly ways
of doing this, such as “forward osmosis”
(http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/
programs/conservation-and-development/can-california-desalinate-its-wayout-of-a-drought).
To date, the only answer to the drought
problem has been conservation and that
will only get us so far.
Most San Diegans have gotten around
to installing low-flush toilets, swapping
out those old shower heads for water conservation ones, and already our lawns are
either brown or gone. What we need
now are ways to turn that water coming
out of the washers into lawn water and
ways to capture rain water, when it does
rain. There are programs to do this but
they are expensive and it takes at least a
handyman skill level to install some of
those systems for ourselves.
What residents need are low cost supplies and rebates to install the systems
that will capture wash water and recycle
it into lawn water. At present from our
review there are how-to web sites and
only an artificial turf rebate program to
pull out your front lawn in favor of a water
wise landscape. We need more programs
and more rebates to aid the homeowner
in water conservation.
Till then if you are looking for ways to
save on water we can recommend the
Water Smart website hosted by the San
Diego County Water Authority where
you find many helpful ideas on conserving your water and possibly find a suitable way to replace that green lawn with
a water wise lawn! Visit http://www.
watersmartsd.org/
Comienzan las apuestas:
¿Marco o Jeb? ¿Y Hillary?
Por Maribel Hastings
Ahora que el senador floridano Marco Rubio
oficializó que buscará la nominación republicana
a la presidencia, la decisión lo enfrentaría a su
mentor, el ex gobernador de la Florida, Jeb Bush,
si éste decide buscar la misma nominación. Esa
batalla promete mucho drama en la primaria
republicana del estado del Sol en marzo de 2016,
claro está, si ambos llegan hasta esa etapa.
¿Por quién votarían los electores hispanos
de la Florida en la primaria republicana? ¿Por
su joven senador o por el “casi hispano” Bush
que gobernó este estado durante ocho años?
Para Darío Moreno, profesor adjunto del
Departamento de Política y Relaciones
Internacionales de la Universidad Internacional
de la Florida (FIU), es prematuro hacer
pronósticos, pero reconoce que una contienda
en primarias en Florida donde figuren Bush y
Rubio promete una dura competencia por el
favor de los electores hispanos que voten en
esa etapa que es cerrada; es decir, sólo personas afiliadas al Partido Republicano pueden
votar.
“Son dos candidatos (Bush y Rubio) que
históricamente han gozado del apoyo de los
hispanos de la Florida; que han ganado el voto
hispano de la Florida, así que será una contienda
muy competitiva entre ambos por el voto
hispano de este estado”, declaró Moreno.
“Y en este momento ninguno de los dos tiene
una clara ventaja. Jeb (Bush) goza de más
reconocimiento de su nombre, pero estamos
hablando de que falta un año para la primaria
republicana en la Florida”, agregó Moreno.
Rubio y Bush muestran ciertas diferencias
en el manejo del tema migratorio, principalmente porque hasta ahora Bush defiende una
vía a la legalización que en algún momento
puede llevar a la ciudadanía, mientras Rubio
dio marcha atrás en su apoyo a la reforma
migratoria con vía a la ciudadanía y ahora sólo
habla de seguridad fronteriza primero y de una
reforma por partes. Moreno opina que siendo
una primaria cerrada, el tema migratorio no
jugaría un papel central en las decisiones del
voto latino, aunque en la elección general sería
diferente. Tanto Bush como Rubio han
condenado las acciones ejecutivas migratorias
que anunció el presidente Barack Obama en
noviembre de 2014 y que, por cierto, gozan del
apoyo de 89% de los latinos, según un sondeo
de Latino Decisions.
“(La inmigración) no será importante en la
primaria republicana en la Florida porque no
hay suficientes hispanos no cubanos que voten
en esa primaria. La mayor parte de quienes
votan en las primarias republicanas de este
estado son cubanoamericanos”, indicó Moreno.
Pero agregó que el tema migratorio “podría
marcar una diferencia en la elección general”.
Aunque no quiso hacer pronósticos sobre una
primaria republicana entre Bush y Rubio,
Moreno adelantó que si la elección general
fuera entre Bush como candidato republicano
y Hillary Clinton por el bando demócrata,
“Florida se inclinaría por Bush”.
El estado del Sol y sus 29 votos electorales
son botín de gran peso en la pelea por la Casa
Blanca. Los últimos demócratas en ganar en
la Florida fueron Bill Clinton en 1996 y Barack
Obama en 2008 y 2012.
Una contienda Clinton-Bush “será muy
competitiva en Florida, pero Bush sería el
favorito”, concluyó Moreno.
Para el estratega demócrata José Parra, si
Bush y Rubio sobreviven el proceso de
primarias y de asambleas hasta llegar a Florida,
“definitivamente habría lealtades divididas”.
YESTERDAY IS OVER: Marco Rubio
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
with five percent.
As it turned out, Governor Crist simply could
not cut it; too much baggage, too much corruption while Attorney General and Governor, too
many millions of criminal-inspired campaign
contributions by people headed for prison. Rubio
ran so well that Crist abandoned his life-long
Republican Party and became an independent.
Rubio squashed him; Charlie received just 30
percent in the November election. United States
Senator Marco Rubio was sworn in as Senator
in January 2011.
It was my pleasure to have hosted senate
candidate Rubio on a California visit and to introduce him to two influential California Republican groups that he enchanted with his intelligence, charisma and ability to talk with, not
to. That was five months before he was elected.
I have worked as a volunteer or professional
or contributor in every presidential campaign
since Eisenhower’s in 1952 when I wore “I
Like Ike” buttons to the 7th grade.
The three hours I spent with Marco in June
2010 were very instructive; I determined that
he had it, he had what I saw in Ronald Reagan
back in 1980. He had it. This man would be
President someday.
People like him.
So now, here we are in April almost five
years to the day that I met senate candidate
Marco Rubio and all political eyes are on
Miami’s Freedom Tower where United States
Senator Marco Rubio will tell us he is running
for President of the United States.
In announcing, Marco Rubio becomes the
first bona fide Hispanic candidate for President since Admiral of the Fleet David Farragut
declined the GOP nomination in 1868, 147 years
ago.
Recent polls show that Marco is looked on
more favorably than any other Republican running or talked about for President of the United
States. He seems to be everyone’s second
choice.
Whether or not he wins the nomination this
time, his future is assured. He is not running
for the Senate so he can concentrate on running for President. If he falls short, the vicepresidency beckons the 43 year old. If that fails,
he can run for Florida governor and walk into
that office in 2018. He will be 51 when the
Presidency is open again in 2024.
There are millions of Americans who can only
dream of such a political career in front of them
as that of United States Senator Marco Rubio.
He is a legitimate candidate for President of
the United States. He is the most prominent
American Hispanic politician since California’s
Governor Romauldo Pacheco.
American history records Ben Fernandez as
the first legitimate Hispanic candidate for President. Republican Fernandez, a financial whiz,
ran for the GOP nomination in 1980, the year
Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter for
President.
On hundred and 12 years before, however, if
he had wanted the Presidency, Civil War hero,
Admiral David Farragut, would have been the
first Hispanic President of the United States.
He chose not to accept the GOP nomination
and it went to U.S. Grant instead. Farragut’s
father came from Spain in the 1770s.
Eight years later, the United States experienced its very first elected Hispanic politician,
California’s Romauldo Pacheco. He had been
born a Mexican citizen in Mexican California
and became an American citizen when California became part of the United States. He
was first elected a state senator, then state
controller, then Lt. Governor. He served as the
commanding general of the California Native
Cavalry, a Union Army unit during the Civil War
(1861-1865) and kept tight control over myriad
Confederate terrorist groups operating in California and the Arizona Territory.
When Governor Newton Booth was elected
to the U.S. Senate, Lt. Governor Pacheco was
became Governor, the first Hispanic governor
in the country. After serving as governor,
Pacheco was elected to the House of Representatives. The election was contested and
Pacheco was not seated. He ran again and won
decisively. He was the first Hispanic elected
to Congress. He later was appointed as an
ambassador; he was the first Hispanic to serve
as an ambassador.
Fast forward to 1988 when Massachusetts
Governor Michael Dukakis became the first
non-Anglo-Saxon Democrat candidate for
President. He considered San Antonio Mayor
Henry Cisneros, a Mexican American, as his
vice-presidential candidate. That was eight
years after Fernandez ran in the New Hampshire GOP primary.
Then, nothing. Nothing until a bright young
Miami-born son of Cuban immigrants decided
to run for the Florida State Legislature. His
name, Marco Rubio. He won; he plunged into
the Tallahassee political maelstrom befriended
by Governor Jeb Bush. The unknown Miami
real estate lawyer immersed himself in the legislative apparatus and took over the house when
he was elected Speaker of the House, second
in political power in Florida to the Governor.
When he announced for the United States
Senate he was running against Governor Charlie
Crist who was dumping the governor’s office
to become, he thought, a member of the most Contreras formerly wrote for Creators Syndeliberative body in the world, the United States dicate and the New York Times’ New America
Senate. Polls showed the unknown Miami law- News service.
yer Marco Rubio barely showing up in polls
THE PUBLIC FORUM ... EL FORO PÚBLICO...
Commission Chair should faciltate not
obstruct redistricting progress
District elections will increase access to city
government for ordinary people living, working, studying and playing in their Southwest
Chula Vista district and other community districts and will provide for council people more
responsive in a timely manner to the people’s
concerns.
The council person will be more easily available at town halls and other neighborhood, civic
and community meetings. District elections will
decrease the cost of running for city council
public service such as, Registrar of Voters fees,
slate costs, signs, flyers, gasoline, etc.
District election results in elected council
people who are more informative and effective to advocate for the Southwest Chula Vista
community interests or issues and also family,
educational, recreational, transit, safety, housing and economic needs.
District elections are the model for local representative democracy values, action and good
for both the voters and candidate’s representation of the American values, basic rights and
( vea ¿Marco o Jeb?, pg 10) principles.
The Southwest Chula Vista has been forever
ignored, abused and significantly exploited, we
need our own councilperson.
At the April 13 meeting, one of the members
of the district commission made a thoughtful
suggestion to have a needed morning working
meeting to make the outreach info more accessible to night workers, handicapped, retired,
nonworking parents and family members. There
was irrelevant, cumbersome, overly precise,
unproductive, constant diatribe by our Chula
Vista District Commission Chair. The Chula
Vista Districting Commission Chairman exhibited bureaucracy at its worst. Valuable public
testimony by the Asian American Coalition was
delayed for almost an hour and the chairman
almost ended the meeting before a few key
items were presented by city attorney and a
review of the city communication office outreach report.
The chairperson of this important commission should facilitate districting progress and
not make it an ordeal or obstruct its progress
and accessible outreach with irrelevant bureaucratic impediments.
Jerry Thomas
Chula Vista
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
APRIL 17, 2015
Commentary/Opinion Page
Walter Scott was Killed for Being Broke
Child Support Warrants and the
Criminalization of Low-Income
Americans
By Adam Gettinger-Brizuela
MA, CATC-IV
How sad is it that Mr. Walter Scott was shot
down and killed because he ran – and that he
ran because there was a warrant for him for
back child support?
According to the law throughout the United
States, it is premature to say that Mr. Walter
Scott was “murdered” by a police officer this
week in Charleston, South Carolina. A proper
newspaper term at this stage may be “slain.”
OK, Mr. Scott was slain before our eyes by a
uniformed public servant under the color of authority, allegedly because he refused commands
to stay put and to stop. What is particularly
disturbing to me, as a long-time fathers’ inclusion advocate, is that it is becoming increasingly evident that Mr. Scott initially fled the scene
of the traffic stop because he concluded that
Officer Slager was about to become aware that
he was a wanted man.
Walter Scott was wanted, but he was not a
murderer. He was not a rapist, a child molester,
a robber or a drug addict. He was not a criminal at all, but he lived in fear of the law because he had not been able to pay child support payments for a long time. He knew that a
bench warrant had been issued for him. It is
strongly suggestive that Mr. Scott was no criminal since the warrant had been issued in January of 2013. Two-and-a-half years later, this
was his first contact with the police. It was
apparently his tragically bad luck that the car
he was driving had a broken taillight.
At this writing, this entire crime – and it was
a crime, there is no question about that – is still
under investigation at many levels. There is the
damning video. The perpetrator was fired, arrested and charged with murder.
The child support system in the United States
is based on an antiquated, discriminatory and
thoroughly discredited, criminal justice model.
For many decades, non-custodial parents (usually fathers) have been ordered to pay child
support, and treated very much like parolees
or probationers. For those who could afford
attorneys, the support payments were much
more often kept reasonable.
For those who could neither afford attorneys
to represent them, nor pay what have often
been exorbitant monthly child support payments,
harassment quickly escalated to criminalization.
Employers were informed, drivers’ licenses
were suspended, car registrations were cancelled and, finally, warrants were issued. Without jobs and hunted by the police, many otherwise law-abiding non-custodial fathers have no
doubt been pushed into the marginal economy,
or worse. For those who do turn to shady dealings or drugs to survive, getting caught and
eventually imprisoned are virtual certainties.
While they are in prison, their child support
payments continue to accrue, along with fines,
service charges and interest.
So now the system has created men who
are poor, angry, hungry, jobless, criminalized and
institutionalized, and with no place for them in
society except back to prison. These are the
modern equivalents of the “debtor’s prisons”
of past centuries, and just as cruel and ineffective. Not only do these men suffer, terribly, but
their children are also badly damaged by the
absence of their fathers and the knowledge that
they are locked up. No child deserves that and
no family gets “used” to it. A social propaganda
war against “Deadbeat Dads,” which is based
on racist fallacies, further increases the stigma
on fathers and kids.
No one is suggesting that men, all parents,
should not do everything they can to support
their children, financially, emotionally, spiritually, in every way. Families are resilient, love is
a force unto its own, and fathers find many
ways to support their kids besides with money.
Of course money is important too. If we spent
less on locking men up and more on helping
them secure and hold jobs, that dynamic could
change, too. Child support in general is important. Its enforcement is a much more complex
issue than could have possibly been addressed
here. The fact remains that the child support
system is weakened by the racism and class
prejudice at its foundation.
The main point of this is that perhaps Mr.
Scott, in death, can send a message to the
people who have the power to decriminalize
child support enforcement and reform law enforcement.
If, in fact, Walter Scott bolted from that car
because the state of South Carolina was hunting him for $18,000 in back child support, then
we have one man dead and another who will
rot in prison, for nothing. And now Mr. Scott is
dead and his children have no father to ever
support them in any way again.
What a tragic waste.
PAGE 7
Miesen saga continues four months
after appointment
By Susan Luzzaro
In January four Chula Vista city council
members appointed Steve Miesen to serve a
two -year term for a seat vacated by Mary
Salas when she became mayor. Miesen is the
division manager of Republic Services, a sole
source provider of trash services to the residents of Chula Vista.
At the April 14 city council meeting, Miesen
had to recuse himself, on advice from the city
attorney, from voting on an important planning
issue—the Urban Core Specific Plan. Some
people are beginning to wonder if the four city
council members appointed a lame duck.
At every future turn it seems Miesen’s ability to contribute as a full member of the council
will be monitored, researched, referred, or questioned.
Chris Shilling, a member of Chula Vista’s
board of ethics, is concerned about the process by which Miesen was appointed. Shilling
and San Diegans for Open Government believe that the process used for selecting Miesen
violated the Brown Act. They argue that the
initial round of candidate selection and elimination took place in private without allowing the
public to participate.
Coast Law Group LLLC and the Briggs Law
Corporation, who are represent Shilling and San
Diegans for Open Government, contend that
because Miesen’s appointment “was inextricably linked to and based upon the prior unlawful vote, Councilmember Miesen’s appointment must also be declared null and void.”
To that end, on June 26 Coast Law and
Briggs will seek to unseat Miesen. Shilling has
emphasized the issue is with the process not
with the person. Shilling points out that this same
process is used to appoint members of the Planning Commission and that is why it is important
to bring the process into accord with the Brown
Act.
On April 14 Coast Law and Briggs sought a
Temporary Restraining Order from Judge
Katherine Bacal. The TRO would have prohibited Miesen from voting on tie-breaking decisions before the city council.
Charles Bird, hired by the city of Chula Vista
as outside counsel, argued that the law does
not allow the courts to prevent a public official
from performing his or her duty.
Coast Law and Briggs assert that Miesen is
not lawfully in possession of his office. They
Adam Gettinger-Brizuela, a consultant with further argue that if, in the future, the council
POP-CATS, LLC, is a nationally-recognized including Miesen votes on a project and then
authority on father inclusion and the hon- Miesen is unseated, it harms the public if the
oring and valuation of fathers of color.
council has to go back and “unwind” the decision.
The judge did not grant the restraining order,
nor did she seem to accede to the argument
proffered by Bird. As she could not act on
speculation, she told Coast Law Group that she
would make the courtroom available to them if
a true emergency arose. A true emergency
Why is it
would be a council vote that could potentially
that Mexicans call
cause irrevocable harm to the residents.
people from the
On April 15, the Miesen appointment was
United States
taken up again by the Board of Ethics. The
norteamericanos
instead of
unidenses? Don’t
they know that Mexico and Canada are
also in North America?
El Habrano
¡ASK A MEXICAN!
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: Do Mexicans
know that if just one of their
grandparents was born in Spain, they
could immigrate immediately not just to
Spain, but also any other country in the
European Union? I know this is not an
option for a lot of Mexicans, but it
certainly seems like a better one for
those that have the “Spanish” option.
Spain is a First World country with free
health care, seven-hour work days and,
quite simply, Spanish people seem to
share much more in common with
Mexicans. Don’t get me wrong: I think
that they are a great thing for America,
and that anyone who wants to live here
should be able to, yet I am also a
realist. I only bring this up because,
well, it just seems like it might be an
easier option for those grandchildren
who fled Spain to come to Mexico
during the times of Franco. A hell of a
lot cheaper than a coyote also.
Learning to say “vosotros” and “vos”
instead of ustedes and tu, and using
“joder” instead of “chingar” seems a
small price to pay. Then again, “Jodo tu
mama” just doesn’t have the same
ring...
Genuinely Concerned Gabacho living in
Mexico
Dear Wab: Because Mexicans are
also U.S.-ers—the full name of their country
in habla is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. And
while mexicanos know that Canada—and
Mexico, for that matter—are in North
America, we didn’t discover the Great
Gabacho North until 1994, once the North
American Free Trade Agreement let us
know of another country to eventually
conquer.
board had already dismissed two complaints
against Miesen, but planned to consider sending a letter to the California Attorney General
seeking an opinion on the inherent incompatibility of Meisen’s council seat and his position
as division manager of Republic Services.
Jill Galvez, a candidate for city council in 2010,
stressed that she was not seeking to unseat
Miesen, rather petitioning the Ethics Board to
send a letter to the Attorney General asking
for an opinion on incompatibility. She pointed
out that the finances of Republic Services and
the city are intricately entwined. When the city
raises the rates of trash collection, Republic
Services makes more money and the city makes
more money.
Galvez had sent a query on compatibility of
office to the Attorney General in February. She
told the members of the Ethics Board that the
attorney generals office had responded and
advised her to first “go through local channels.”
She told the Ethic’s Board, “That’s why I’m
here.”
Resident Russ Hall, a former city planner,
questioned how Miesen, whom he described
as the least qualified of the 44 candidates, rocketed to the top of the list. He asked the ethics
board to “at the very least, clean up the process, the process is lousy.”
Several avenues of action suggested by members of the board were cut off either by advice
from the city attorney or the outside attorney
hired by the city, James Lough.
City attorney Glen Googins and deputy city
attorney Simon Silva maintained throughout the
meeting that they were satisfied that they had
investigated all of the potential conflicts of interest, and that their decision that Miesen was
legally eligible to hold office was correct. They
advised the board that any query to the Attorney General would have to go through them.
A concerned Commissioner Esquer at one
point said “Forget all the we can’t do this, we
can’t do that —what can we do for the citizens of Chula Vista?”
In the end the tensions of the meeting fizzled
into advising the council to continue to monitor
Miesen’s votes with the assistance of the
FPPC.
But the questions that haunt Miesen’s appointment won’t cease even if the legal challenges are quashed. In an April phone conversation, Googins was asked if the investigation
into Miesen’s potential conflict of interest was
concluded. Googins said the city will continue
to look at Miesen’s votes on a by case-by-case
basis.
He also said that his office would be seeking
advice from the Fair Political Practice Commission on issues that will come before
Miesen.
And at the April 15 Ethics Committee meeting Googin’s stated that his office is developing
special protocol for Miesen so as to avoid conflict of interest. He reiterated that Miesen’s
actions will be the subject of continued “special attention.” Near the end of the evening he
also stated “we have not had this type of relationship with any other council member.”
Nestlé water everywhere
(con’t from page 2)
bottled water industry and hawks 70
different brand names — such as
Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier,
Poland Spring and Ice Mountain — which it
draws from 75 springs located all over the
country, admits it prefers California’s water.
Nestlé has even tapped into the capitol’s
public water supply in recent years.
According to a protest at the plant last
PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT: Dr. month, the information handed out stated that
Ron Romero, a dentist from Santa Fe, New the city of Sacramento gets paid
Mexico, let the Mexican know at the annual approximately $186 per 250,000 gallons of
Servicios de la Raza gala in Denver that not water. Then they re-bottle the water and is
sold as Arrowhead Water and Pure Life, two
only did dentists appreciate me discussing
main brands - and the profit equals
their profession in February (in the column
approximately 10,000 percent for Nestlé’s at
answering why so many Mexican children
have silver teeth), but also asked whether I the City of Sacramento’s expense. Totally
obscene profit figures.
can pass along the following public health
Back in 2013, protesters stated, the
announcement. He says that childhood
Sacramento
facility used 50 million gallons of
caries (the disease that makes babies teeth
Sacramento
municipal water to bottle the
rot and is colloquially known as baby bottle
Pure
Life
product
and for plant operations.
tooth decay) is a communicable disease,
Dear Gabacho: Don’t just limit
They
said
the
company
trucked in 32 million
and that it can be transmitted by the simple
your goodwill to Spanish refugees from the act of feeding each other from the same
gallons of water from springs in the Sierra
Franco regime. Last year, the Spanish
spoon or drinking from the same glass. Doc foothills to bottle Arrowhead in 2013. (Nestlé
government said anyone who could prove
says the spring sources for Arrowhead
Ron also wants ustedes to know that
that their ancestors were Sephardic Jews
Mountain Spring water bottled at the
childhood caries are easily preventable—
cast out during the Inquisition could apply
Sacramento plant comes from Lukens Spring
just go to your local dentist, and they’ll
for Spanish citizenship (conveniently left out, apply a simple wash that’ll put you in the
in Placer County, Sopiago Spring in El
of course, were descendents of the Moors
Dorado County, Sugar Pine Spring in
clear for a while. Consider your request
because, you know, Muslims). Becoming a done, Dr. Romero—and think you can fit a Tuolumne County and Arcadia Spring in
member of the European Union might sound diamond in my front teeth ala Lenny in The Napa County).
appealing to gabachos looking to backpack Simpsons?
In 2003, the company tried to return to the
for a year, but a mass migration to AlMt. Shasta area for seconds, Nestlé had its
Andalus ain’t happening for Mexicans: only Ask the Mexican at themexican@aska
eye on McCloud, located in the shadow of
mexican.net, be his fan on Facebook,
give a shit about Spain when they win the
the snow-capped icon. The former timber
FIFA World Cup or a Mexican soccer
follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano town had been learning to stand on its own
player gets to ride the bench for Real
or follow him on Instagram
feet again after the lumber companies
Madrid or FC Barcelona.
bottomed out and took off during the
@gustavo_arellano!
economic crisis. Its nearly 1,500 residents
only had a four-student high school, but one
thing it proudly talked about was an
abundance of water — pristine spring water
that originates from Shasta’s glaciers and
feeds some of the world’s best fishing rivers.
McCloud learned that Nestlé intended to
build a million-square-foot water-bottling
facility in town without any public input or
environmental impact assessment. They also
discovered that the multinational honchos
wanted a 100-year contract to pump 1,600
acre-feet of spring water a year and a
seemingly unlimited amount of groundwater.
The locals also learned that the corporation
actually hoodwinked the folks with promises
of many and outstanding employment
opportunities.
Nobody knows how in the world a fivemember McCloud Service District Board
made a decision to grant the contract which
they later announced at a district meeting.
Immediately if not sooner, the residents
caught off guard by the company’s concerns,
begin organizing, litigating and educating.
It paid off. As a result, five years later, the
water activists won a decisive victory when
the bottled water giant announced it would
kill its water-bottling contract with the
McCloud Community Services. Thus it came
to be that one of the biggest and most
voracious of the water corporations lost its
bid to further dry-up our state.
Lesson learned? Quien sabe. But we’re
willing to bet it’ll be a rainy day in July the
next time any of our state’s pristine
municipalities with an abundance of water
lets mendacious water execs from
corporations like Nestlé’s come into their
towns.
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APRIL 17, 2015
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14, 2015. Bid packages will not be faxed.
SENATE BILL (SB) 854 REQUIREMENTS: Effective July 1,
2014, no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a
bid proposal, or awarded a contract for a public works
project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
pursuant to Labor Code §1725.5 [with limited exceptions
from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor
Code §1771.1(a)]. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR.
Prime contractors must add the DIR Registration Number
for each of their listed subcontractors to the Subcontractors List AND submit a certificate of registration for their
own firm and those of their listed subcontractors upon
request by the District. Failure of the bidding prime contractor to list their subcontractors DIR Registration Number on the Subcontractors List at time of bid will result in
rejection of their bid as non-responsive.
Refer to the following DIR Website for further information:
www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html
PREVAILING WAGES: Prevailing wage requirements apply to
all public works projects and must be followed per Article 17 of
the General Conditions of this bid.
DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Service
Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Disabled
Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May 10, 2011
by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required to satisfy a
minimum DVBE participation percentage of at least three percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with this Program, the
Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumerated in the bid package.
Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bid
package and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid security in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder and
Surety Company, or a certified or cashier’s check in favor of
the San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal to ten
percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall be given
to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract as specified, within five (5) working days of notification by the District.
The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to
waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120 days
after the date set for the opening of bids. For information regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5831.
PRE-QUALIFICATIONS - Beginning January 1, 2014, San Diego
Unified will only accept bids from prequalified contractors on all
projects of $1 million or over, regardless of the value of the prime
and/or subcontractors’ work on the project. Prequalification will be
required of all general contractors and certain subcontractors performing MEP trade work: A, B and C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and/or C-46 licenses. Get your
prequalification package started now by going online to https://
prequal.sandi.net or emailing Glenda Burbery, Construction Contracts Assistant, at [email protected] to request a pre-qualification questionnaire. For more information, and a list of prequalified
contractors, go to: www.sandi.net/Page/56337.
SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Arthur S. Hanby, Jr., CPPO, C.P.M., CPPB, A.P.P
Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Officer
Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Dept.
NO. CS-15-1026-29
Published: April 17, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Southwestern Community College District of San Diego County, California, acting by and
through its Governing Board, hereinafter referred to as the “DISTRICT” will receive up to, but no later than 10 AM on April 29,
2015 sealed Bids, No1415-210, for the award of a contract for
the Child Development Center (CDC), Crown Cove and 220
HVAC Project. Bids shall be addressed to Priya Jerome; Director of Procurement Central Services & Risk Management Building 1651 located at 900 Otay Lakes Road, Chula Vista, CA
91910, and shall be opened on the date and at the time listed
above.
Contractors interested in obtaining bid documents must contact
Professional Reprographics at 241 W.35th Street, Suite A, National City CA. 91950 or (619) 272-5600. CD’s are available for
a $15.00 fee. Documents may also be viewed and/or downloaded
at no cost by visiting www.proreproplanroom.com Please note
that you will need to login under your company’s name and password in order to download the plans. If you do not have a company login and/or password, please register with the site first. If
you have questions about registering, please contact Angel Leano
at (619) 272-5600. Obtaining copies of the bid documents is the
responsibility of the bidder and the costs are non-refundable.
Bidders are also responsible for checking the website noted above
for any addenda that may be posted.
Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check,
or a Bid Bond in favor of the District in an amount not less than
ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price. Each bid shall
also be accompanied by the Non-collusion Declaration, the List
of Subcontractors Form, the Iran Contracting Act Certification
and all additional documentation required by the Instructions to
Bidders.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish the District with
a Performance Bond equal to 100% of the successful bid, and
a Payment Bond equal to 100% of the successful bid, prior to
execution of the Contract. All bonds are to be secured from a
surety that meets all of the State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120,
and is admitted by the State of California.
The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations
has determined the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in
the locality in which this work is to be performed for each craft
or type of worker needed to execute the contract, which will be
awarded to the successful bidder, copies of which are on file
and will be made available to any interested party upon request
at Southwestern Community College or online at http://
www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr. It shall be mandatory upon the Contractor
to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor
under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all
workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.
If the bids subject to this Notice are due on or after March 1,
2015, then pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1,
all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed
in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work
must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations.
No bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without
proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a Contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project.
This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on
this project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance
requirements under this contract and applicable law in its bid.
Each bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.15 and
Public Contract Code Section 3300, and shall be licensed in the
following classification as required by the scope of work required
in the above called out bid packages: C-20 license. Any bidder
not licensed at the time of the bid opening will be rejected as
non-responsive. Contractors shall have been in business under
the same name and California contractor’s license for a minimum of three (3) continuous years prior to bid opening.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld
by the District to ensure his performance under the Contract.
A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference will be held at Building 220
on the following date and time: April 20, 2015 at 10 AM. Each and
every Bidder MUST attend the Pre-Bid Conference. Prospective bidders MAY NOT re-visit the Project Site without making
arrangements through the Project Manager. The District WILL
NOT accept bids from any bidder who did not attend the Pre-Bid
Conference.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(c), if the District
has made any findings designating certain materials, products,
things, or services by specific brand or trade name, such findings and the materials, products, things, or services and their
specific brand or trade names will be set forth in the Special
Conditions.
Award of Contract: The District shall award the Contract for the
Project to the lowest responsible bidder as determined from the
lowest responsible bidder as defined on the bid form. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any
irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process.
Please email any questions to [email protected] Contractors
shall reference Bid No.1415-210 CDC, Crown Cove and 220
HVAC Project in the email subject line. The final day for questions shall be April 22, 2015, no later than 1PM.
No bidder may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days following the
date of the bid opening.
Dated this:
April 9, 2015
Secretary to Governing Board
Melinda Nish, Ed. D.
Prop R Southwestern Community College District
Of San Diego County, California
Published: April 10, 17, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR
BIDS
REQUESTING BIDS
REQUESTING BIDS
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
Is on the Web:
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facebook.com/LaPrensaSD
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Southwestern Community College District of San Diego County, California, acting by and
through its Governing Board, hereinafter referred to as the “DISTRICT” will receive up to, but no later than 11 AM on April 29,
2015 sealed Bid No.1415-213, for the award of a contract for
the BUILDING 510 ROOFING PROJECT. Bids shall be addressed to Priya Jerome; Director of Procurement Central
Services & Risk Management Building 1651 located at 900
Otay Lakes Road, Chula Vista, CA 91910, and shall be opened
on the date and at the time listed above.
Contractors interested in obtaining bid documents must contact
Professional Reprographics at 241 W.35th Street, Suite A, National City CA. 91950 or (619) 272-5600. CD’s are available for
a $15.00 fee. Documents may also be viewed and/or downloaded
at no cost by visiting www.proreproplanroom.com Please
note that you will need to login under your company’s name and
password in order to download the plans. If you do not have a
company login and/or password, please register with the site
first. If you have questions about registering, please contact
Angel Leano at (619) 272-5600. Obtaining copies of the bid documents is the responsibility of the bidder and the costs are nonrefundable. Bidders are also responsible for checking the website
noted above for any addenda that may be posted.
Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check,
or a Bid Bond in favor of the District in an amount not less than
ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price. Each bid
shall also be accompanied by the Non-collusion Declaration, the
List of Subcontractors Form, the Iran Contracting Act Certification and all additional documentation required by the Instructions to Bidders.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish the District with
a Performance Bond equal to 100% of the successful bid, and
a Payment Bond equal to 100% of the successful bid, prior to
execution of the Contract. All bonds are to be secured from a
surety that meets all of the State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120,
and is admitted by the State of California.
The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of per diem wages
in the locality in which this work is to be performed for each
craft or type of worker needed to execute the contract, which
will be awarded to the successful bidder, copies of which are on
file and will be made available to any interested party upon request at Southwestern Community College or online at http://
www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr. It shall be mandatory upon the Contractor
to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor
under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all
workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.
If the bids subject to this Notice are due on or after March 1,
2015, then pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1,
all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed
in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work
must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations.
No bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without
proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a Contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project.
This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on
this project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance
requirements under this contract and applicable law in its bid.
Each bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.15 and
Public Contract Code Section 3300, and shall be licensed in the
following classification as required by the scope of work required
in the above called out bid packages: C-39 license. Any bidder
not licensed at the time of the bid opening will be rejected as
non-responsive. Contractors shall have been in business under
the same name and California contractor’s license for a minimum of three (3) continuous years prior to bid opening.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld
by the District to ensure his performance under the Contract.
A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference will be held at Building
510 on the following date and time: April 21, 2015 at 9 AM. Each
and every Bidder MUST attend the Pre-Bid Conference. Prospective bidders MAY NOT re-visit the Project Site without making arrangements through the Project Manager. The District WILL
NOT accept bids from any bidder who did not attend the Pre-Bid
Conference.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(c), if the District has made any findings designating certain materials, products, things, or services by specific brand or trade name, such
findings and the materials, products, things, or services and
their specific brand or trade names will be set forth in the Special Conditions.
Award of Contract: The District shall award the Contract for the
Project to the lowest responsible bidder as determined from the
lowest responsible bidder as defined on the bid form. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any
irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process.
Please email any questions to [email protected] Contractors
shall reference Bid No.1415-213 Building 510 Roofing Project
in the email subject line. The final day for questions shall be
April 23, 2015, no later than 11 AM.
No bidder may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days following the
date of the bid opening.
Dated this:
April 10, 2015
Published: April 10, 17, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
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PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
AVISO DE LA PREPARACION DE UN
REPORTE DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL
PROYECTO DE LA ESCUELA
PRIMARIA AUDUBON
17 de Abril de 2015
El Distrito Escolar Unificado de San Diego (el Distrito) es la
Agencia Líder que solicita comentarios relativos a la preparación
de un Reporte de Impacto Ambiental (en inglés EIR) para el
Proyecto de la Modernización de la Escuela Primaria Audubon
de acuerdo con el Decreto de Calidad Ambiental de California
(CEQA). Este Aviso de Preparación (NOP) sirve para solicitar
comentarios en cuanto al alcance y contenido del Borrador del
EIR para mejorar el plantel incluyendo mejora de comunicación
de emergencia, áreas de recepción/salida de estudiantes, la
creación de un campo de uso conjunto, seguridad del sitio con
una valla y luces de seguridad, la actualización del edificio
administración con un adición menor, y otras renovaciones general de los edificios del plantel.
Título del Proyecto: El Proyecto de la Modernización de la
Escuela Primaria Audubon
Solicita del Proyecto: El Distrito Escolar Unificado de San Diego
Descripción del Proyecto: El Distrito propone una
actualización a las facilidades de la Escuela Primaria
Audubon dentro de la comunidad de Skyline-Paradise Hills
de la Ciudad de San Diego.
Modernización Sitio Entero:
Proposición S y Z fondos de bonos se utilizarían para una
modernización sitio entero de la Escuela Primaria Audubon.
La modernización sitio entero listada en el lenguaje de bono
colocada ante de los votantes para las dos escuelas incluiría
mejoras, renovaciones, y/o reparaciones a las aulas, los
baños, las facilidades de comunicación, la calefacción, el aire
acondicionado, el servicio de comida, la iluminación de
seguridad, y las interiores de los edificios. Las mejoras de la
modernización sitio entero también incluiría mejoras a la
circulación de estacionamiento y peatonal, y seguridad del
sitio total con vallas a la entrada frontal y al lado del
aparcamiento propuesto. Las mejoras de la modernización sitio
entero son requeridas como parte del lenguaje de bono se
abordarían en el Borrador del EIR. Los edificios no sería
demolido ni eliminado; sin embargo, el edificio de administración
existente seria remodelado con una pequeña adición añadió.
Ubicación del Proyecto: El sitio del proyecto propuesto está
ubicado dentro del Área de Planificación de Skyline-Paradise Hills
de la Ciudad de San Diego, California en el plantel de la Escuela
Primaria Audubon. El sitio está ubicado en el # 811 Calle San
Vicente, San Diego, CA 92114.
Probables Efectos Ambientales: El Distrito ha determinado que
se preparara un EIR para el proyecto propuesto por la preparación
de un estudio inicial (Lineamientos del CEQA §15063[a]). Como
resultado, probables efectos ambientales que se analizara como
parte del EIR incluyo: recursos culturales (histórico).
De conformidad con los lineamientos del CEQA, Articulo 15082(b),
sus comentarios referentes al alcance y contenido del análisis
ambiental deberán entregarse cuando más tarde el 30 días
después de la recepción de esta notificación. El periodo de
revisión pública es del 17 de abril de 2015, al 18 de mayo de
2015. Envíen sus comentarios cuando más tarde el 18 de mayo
directamente a:
Aaron Brownwood, Gerente de Proyecto
ICF International
9775 Businesspark Avenue Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92131
o via email a: [email protected]
Para mayores informes, contacten a Kathryn Ferrell, coordinadora
ambiental y directora de proyectos del Distrito Escolar Unificado
de San Diego, al [email protected] o 858-627-7298.
Published: Abril 17, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
City of San Marcos: Notice of Public Hearing:
City of San Marcos 2015/16 CDBG Annual
Action Plan Funding
The City of San Marcos will hold a public hearing on May 12,
2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 1 Civic Center
Drive, San Marcos, CA 92069, to report on the proposed uses
of the City’s allocation of federal Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) funds for the 2015/16 Annual Action Plan. This
federal grant assists the City in implementing community development projects and/or activities that may not have been
possible under the constraints of the regular City budget. The
public hearing will also solicit input on a proposed Substantial
Amendment to the FY 2013/14 Annual Action Plan (AAP).
Under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974, as amended and Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, as amended, the City of
San Marcos is required to prepare an AAP that describes how
the City will allocate CDBG funds to improve the quality of life
for low-and moderate-income residents and serves as the application for funding. The projects and activities that are funded
must have been included in the City’s 2014-2018 Consolidated
Plan and meet one or more CDBG National Objectives. It is
estimated that the City may receive approximately $586,688 in
CDBG funds in Fiscal Year 2015/16. Fiscal Year 2015/16 begins July 1, 2015 and ends June 30, 2016.
The proposed Substantial Amendment proposes to transfer
$216,800 from the Connors Park Improvements Project to the
FY 2014/15 Americans With Disabilities (ADA) Improvements
to Public Facilities Project. The Connors Park Improvements
Project is complete and does not require any additional funding.
The Council Chambers is accessible to persons with
disabilities;however, if you require special accommodations,
please contact the City Clerk’s Department at (760) 744-1050,
extension 3145, at least 72 hours prior to the hearing date. Translation will be provided upon request by contacting the City’s
Community Development Program Manager, Julie Magee, at
(760) 744-1050, extension 3137 or via e-mail at [email protected] at least five days before the hearing date.
For more information or to comment on the CDBG and HOME
programs, scheduled meetings, or related issues, please contact Julie Magee, the CDBG Coordinator for the City of San
Marcos, at 1 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, CA 92069, via
telephone at (760) 744-1050 extension 3137, or via e-mail at
[email protected]
Published: April 17, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
APRIL 17, 2015
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REQUESTING BIDS
INVITATION FOR BIDS
FOR
COPLEY PARK ASPHALT
SLURRY AND STRIPING
The San Diego Metropolitan
Transit System(MTS) is accepting
bids for Copley Park Asphalt Slurry
and Striping.
Bid documents will be availableon
or about April 13, 2015 by
registering at
http://www.sdmts.com/Business/Pr
ocurement.asp
Marco Yniguez
Contract Officer
MTS Procurement Department
1255 Imperial Avenue, Suite 1000
San Diego, CA 92101
Telephone: (619) 557-4576
Facsimile (619) 696-7084
Email:
[email protected]
In
accordance
with
MTS'
specifications, bids shall be
submitted on the bid forms
furnished by MTS, enclosed in a
sealed envelope, plainly endorsed
with the bidder’s name and
marked:
COPLEY PARK ASPHALT
SLURRY AND STRIPING
MTS DOC. NO. PWB171.0-15
BID OPENING: 2:00 P.M.,
PREVAILING LOCAL TIME,
May 6, 2015
A Pre-Bid meeting & site visit will
be held on April 17, 2015, at 10:00
a.m., prevailing local time at MTS
c/o First Transit, 7490 Copley Park
Place, San Diego, CA 9211.
Sealed bids will be due on May 6,
2015 at 2:00 p.m., Prevailing
Local Time, unless otherwise
amended, at Metropolitan Transit
System, Procurement Dept. 1255
Imperial Avenue, Suite 1000, San
Diego, California 92101. Bids
received after that time or at any
other place other than the place
stated herein will
not be
considered.
MTS hereby notifies all bidders
that in regard to any contract
entered into pursuant to this
advertisement;
Disadvantaged
Business Enterprises (as defined
in 49 C.F.R. Part 26) will not be
subject to discrimination on the
basis of race, color, sex or national
origin in consideration for an
award.
This project is subject to a capital
assistance grant between San
Diego Metropolitan Transit System
(MTS), and the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration.
MTS reserves the right to reject
any and all bids and to readvertise for bids.
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LA PRENSA
SUMMONS
SUMMONS - (Family Law)
CASE NUMBER: DN 182155
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT:
AVISO AL DEMANDADO:
MARIA LEONOR ECHEVERRIA-LO
You are being sued.
Lo están demandando.
PETITIONER'S NAME IS:
NOMBRE DEL DEMANDANTE:
OSWALDO RAMOS DE LA CRUZ
You have 30 calendar days after this
Summons and Petition are served on
you to file a Response (form FL-120 or
FL-123) at the court and have a copy
served on the petitioner. A letter or phone
call will not protect you.
If you do not file your Response on time,
the court may make orders affecting your
marriage or domestic partnership, your
property and custody of your children.
You may be ordered to pay support and
attorney fees and costs. If you cannot
pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee
waiver form.
If you want legal advice,,contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information
about finding lawyers at the California
Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.
court.ca.gov/self help), at the California
Legal Services Web site (www.law
helpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your
local county bar association.
Tiene 30 días de calendario después
de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta
Citación y Petición para presentar una
Respuesta (formulario FL-120 ó FL-123)
ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal
de una copia al demandante. Una carta
o llamada telefónica no basta para
protegerlo.
Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo,
la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten
su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus
bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La
corte también le puede ordenar que
pague manutención, y honorarios y
costos legales. Si no puede pagar la
cuota de presentación, pida al secretario
un formulario de exención de cuotas.
Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal,
póngase en contacto de inmediato con
un abogado. Puede obtener información
para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro
de Ayuda de las Cortes de California
(www.sucorte. ca.gov), en el sitio Web de
los Servicios Legales de California
(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose
en contacto con el colegio de abogados
de su condado.
NOTICE-RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE
ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are
effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the
court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any
law enforcement office who has received
or seen a copy of them.
AVISO-LAS
ÓRDENES
DE
RESTRICCIÓN SE ENCUENTRAN EN
LA PÁGINA 2: Las órdenes de
restricción están en vigencia en cuanto
ambos cónyuges o miembros de la pareja
de hecho hasta que se despida la
petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé
otras órdenes. Cualquier agencia del
orden público que haya recibido o visto
una copia de estas órdenes puede
hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de
California.
FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a free waiver
form. The court may order you to pay back
all of part of the fees and costs that the
court waived for you or the other party.
EXENCIÓN DE CUOTAS: Si no puede
pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al
secretario un formulario de exención de
cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted
pague, ya sea en parte o por completo,
las cuotas y costos de la corte
SUMMONS
CHANGE OF NAME
CHANGE OF NAME
previamente exentos a petición de usted
o de la otra parte.
1. The name and address of the court is:
El nombre y dirección de la corte son:
Superior Court of California, 325 S
Melrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081.
2. The name, address, and telephone
number of petitioner's attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are:
(El nombre, dirección y número de
teléfono del abogado del demandante, o
del demandante si no tiene abogado,
son): Oswaldo Ramos de la Cruz, 264
Vista Village Dr. #B, Vista, CA 92083.
Tel.: 323-622-9508
Date (Fecha): MAR 06, 2015
Clerk, by (Secretario, por) K. HANKIN,
Deputy (Asistente)
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above
must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter is
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-22-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:
46. The address of the court is Superior
Court of California, County of San Diego,
220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA
92101
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition in
the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county La Prensa
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: APR 14, 2015
DAVID J. DANIELSEN
Judge of the Superior Court
Published: April 17, 24. May 1, 8/2015
La Prensa San Diego
PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ALBERT COSTA, aka,
ALBERTO COSTA
CASE NUMBER:
37-2015-00011897-PR-PW-CTL
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: ALBERT COSTA, aka
ALBERTO COSTA
A Petition for Probate has been filed
by: ELIZABETH MARTINS in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego
The Petition for Probate requests that:
ELIZABETH MARTINS be appointed as
personal representative to administer the
estate of the decedent.
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative
to take many actions without obtaining
court approval. Before taking certain very
important actions, however, the personal
representative will be required to give
notice to interested persons unless they
have waived notice or consented to the
proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless
an interested person files an objection to
the petition and shows good cause why
the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held
in this court as follows: Date: MAY 26,
2015. Time: 11:00 A.M. Dept.: PC-1
Address of court: SUPERIOR COURT OF
CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO,
1409 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA
92101. Madge Bradley - PROBATE
If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and
state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your
appearance may be in person or by your
attorney.
If you are a creditor or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you must file
your claim with the court and mail a copy
to the personal representative appointed
by the court within four months from the
date of first issuance of letters as provided
in Probate Code section 9100. The time
for filling claims will not expire before four
months from the hearing date notice above.
You may examine the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court a
Request for Special Notice (form DE-154)
of the filing of an inventory and appraisal
of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice
form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner: Thomas M.
Tomlinson, Legler&Tomlinson, 231 Fourth
Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91910. Telephone: (619)426-9070
Published: April 17, 24. May 1, 8/2015
La Prensa San Diego
CHANGE OF NAME
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:
37-2015-00009556-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: BRYAN ROBLES RODRIGUEZ
filed a petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows:
BRYAN ROBLES (MIDDLE NAME)
RODRIGUEZ to BRYAN ROBLES
RODRIGUEZ (NO MIDDLE NAME)
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above
must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter is
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-08-2015. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:
46. The address of the court is Superior
Court of California, County of San Diego,
220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA
92101
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition in
the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county La Prensa
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: MAR 20, 2015
DAVID J. DANIELSEN
Judge of the Superior Court
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:
37-2015-00009375-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: JOHN ROLDAN EUGENIO
filed a petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows:
JOHN ROLDAN EUGENIO to JOHNNY
ROLDAN EUGENIO
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above
must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter is
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-01-2015. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:
46. The address of the court is Superior
Court of California, County of San Diego,
220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA
92101
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition in
the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county La Prensa
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: MAR 19, 2015
DAVID J. DANIELSEN
Judge of the Superior Court
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
La Prensa San Diego
CASE NUMBER:
37-2015-00010173-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: JOSEPH TROY SALAZAR
filed a petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows:
JOSEPH TROY SALAZAR to TROY
ANTHONY SALAZAR
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above
must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter is
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-08-2015. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:
46. The address of the court is Superior
Court of California, County of San Diego,
220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA
92101
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition in
ABANDONMENT OF
the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county La Prensa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,
Chula Vista, CA 91910
STATEMENT OF
Date: MAR 25, 2015
ABANDONMENT OF USE
DAVID J. DANIELSEN
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Judge of the Superior Court
NAME
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015 Fictitious Business Name: WEST
La Prensa San Diego
COAST CAB CO., 220 W. 14th St., National City, CA, County of San Diego,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
91950.
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
The Fictitious Business Name referred to
CASE NUMBER:
above was filed in San Diego County on:
37-2015-00010327-CU-PT-NC
04-15-2011, and assigned File No. 2011TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
011304
Petitioner: PEDRO TOMAS-GONZALEZ Is Abandoned by The Following Regisfiled a petition with this court for a decree trant: West Coast Cab Corp, 220 West
changing names as follows:
14th St., National City, CA 91950
PEDRO TOMAS-GONZALEZ to PEDRO I declare that all information in this stateTOMAS-DOMINGO
ment is true and correct.
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Signature of Registrant: Kidane
interested in this matter shall appear be- Tesfagebriel
fore this court at the hearing indicated be- This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
low to show cause, if any, why the peti- J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
tion for change of name should not be of San Diego County MAR 20, 2015
granted. Any person objecting to the Assigned File No.: 2015-007704
name changes described above Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
must file a written objection that in- La Prensa San Diego
cludes the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter is
STATEMENT OF
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the pe- ABANDONMENT OF USE
tition should not be granted. If no written OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
Fictitious
Business
Name: NORMA’S
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-19-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.: DISTRIBUTION, 2887 Main St. Apt. 24,
Chula
Vista,
CA,
County
of San Diego,
26. The address of the court is Superior
Court of California, County of San Diego, 91911.
The Fictitious Business Name referred to
325 S Melrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause above was filed in San Diego County on:
shall be published at least once each 06-03-2013, and assigned File No. 2013week for four successive weeks prior to 016139
the date set for hearing on the petition in Is Abandoned by The Following Registhe following newspaper of general cir- trant: 1. Pedro Rosas, 2887 Main St. Apt.
culation printed in this county La Prensa 24, Chula Vista, CA 91911. 2. Norma
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C, Rosas, 2887 Main St. Apt. 24, Chula
Vista, CA 91911.
Chula Vista, CA 91910
I declare that all information in this stateDate: MAR 26, 2015
ment is true and correct.
Signature of Registrant: Norma Rosas
WILLIAM S. DATO
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
Judge of the Superior Court
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
of San Diego County MAR 12, 2015
La Prensa San Diego
Assigned File No.: 2015-006851
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:
37-2015-00011591-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: FRANCISCA PADILLA
ESTRADA filed a petition with this court
for a decree changing names as follows:
FRANCISCA PADILLA ESTRADA to
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
FRANCES PADILLA ESTRADA
NAME STATEMENT
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear be- Fictitious Business Name: STARS SPEECH
fore this court at the hearing indicated be- THERAPY at 2045 Ilex Ave. #106, San
low to show cause, if any, why the peti- Diego, CA, County of San Diego, 92154.
tion for change of name should not be This Business Is Registered by the
granted. Any person objecting to the Following: Stars Speech Inc., 2045 Ilex
name changes described above Ave. #106, San Diego, CA 92154.
must file a written objection that in- This Business is Conducted By: A Corcludes the reasons for the objection at poration. The First Day of Business Was:
least two court days before the matter is N/A
scheduled to be heard and must appear I declare that all information in this stateat the hearing to show cause why the pe- ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
tition should not be granted. If no written declares as true any material matter purobjection is timely filed, the court may suant to section 17913 of the Business
grant the petition without a hearing.
and Professions code that the registrant
NOTICE OF HEARING
knows to be false is guilty of a misdeDate: MAY-29-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.: meanor punishable by a fine not to ex46. The address of the court is Superior ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Court of California, County of San Diego, Registrant Name: Carlos Gonzalez. Title:
220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA President
92101
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
shall be published at least once each of San Diego County MAR 19, 2015.
week for four successive weeks prior to Assigned File No.: 2015-007585
the date set for hearing on the petition in Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
the following newspaper of general cir- La Prensa San Diego
culation printed in this county La Prensa
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Chula Vista, CA 91910
NAME STATEMENT
Date: APR 07, 2015
Fictitious Business Name: EVOLVE MEAL
DAVID J. DANIELSEN
PREP at 421 S 36th St., San Diego, CA,
Judge of the Superior Court
County of San Diego, 92113.
Published: April 7, 10, 24. May 1/2015
This Business Is Registered by the
La Prensa San Diego
Following: 1. David Nunez, 6985
Jamacha Rd., San Diego, CA 92113. 2.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Carlos B. Argandona, 421 S 36th St., San
Diego, CA 92113.
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
This Business is Conducted By: A GenCASE NUMBER:
eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi37-2015-00012128-CU-PT-CTL
ness Was: 03/20/2015
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: JESUS CALDERON JR. filed I declare that all information in this statea petition with this court for a decree ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter purchanging names as follows:
JESUS CALDERON JR. to JESUS suant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
AGUILERA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons knows to be false is guilty of a misdeinterested in this matter shall appear be- meanor punishable by a fine not to exfore this court at the hearing indicated be- ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
low to show cause, if any, why the peti- Registrant Name: David Nunez
tion for change of name should not be This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
granted. Any person objecting to the J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
name changes described above of San Diego County MAR 20, 2015.
must file a written objection that in- Assigned File No.: 2015-007664
cludes the reasons for the objection at Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
least two court days before the matter is La Prensa San Diego
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the peFICTITIOUS BUSINESS
tition should not be granted. If no written
NAME STATEMENT
objection is timely filed, the court may
Fictitious
Business Name: CACHO INDEgrant the petition without a hearing.
PENDENT LIVING at 1051 Via Miraleste,
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: MAY-29-2015. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.: Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,
C-46. The address of the court is Supe- 91910. Mailing Address: 8377 Rimridge
rior Court of California, County of San Di- Lane, San Diego, CA 92126
ego, 220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Ida Del Pilar Cacho, 1051
92101
A Copy of this Order to Show Cause Via Miraleste, Chula Vista, CA 91910.
shall be published at least once each This Business is Conducted By: An Inweek for four successive weeks prior to dividual. The First Day of Business Was:
the date set for hearing on the petition in N/A
the following newspaper of general cir- I declare that all information in this stateculation printed in this county La Prensa ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
San Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C, declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
Chula Vista, CA 91910
and Professions code that the registrant
Date: APR 13, 2015
knows to be false is guilty of a misdeDAVID J. DANIELSEN
meanor punishable by a fine not to exJudge of the Superior Court
ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Ida del Pilar Cacho
Published: April 17, 24. May 1, 8/2015
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
La Prensa San Diego
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 24, 2015.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Assigned File No.: 2015-007990
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
CASE NUMBER:
La Prensa San Diego
37-2015-3939-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Petitioner: FRANCISCO SALVADOR
NAME STATEMENT
GONZALEZ JR. filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing names as folFictitious
Business Name: AIDA’S INDElows:
FRANCISCO SALVADOR GONZALEZ PENDENT LIVING at 6778 Anton Lane,
San
Diego,
CA, County of San Diego,
JR. to FRANCISCO SALVADOR AR92114
ROYO JR.
This Business Is Registered by the
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Following: 1. Aida Elefante, 3621 Bonita
Ranch Ct., Bonita, CA 91902. 2. Antonio
Elefante, 3621 Bonita Ranch Ct, Bonita,
CA 91902.
This Business is Conducted By: A Married Couple. The First Day of Business
Was: N/A
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Antonio Elefante
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 24, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-007992
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: WALL RENOVATIONS at 776 3rd Ave. #27, Chula
Vista, CA, County of San Diego, 91910
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Roberto Corrales, 776 3rd
Ave. #27, Chula Vista, CA 91910
This Business is Conducted By: An Individual. The First Day of Business Was:
01/03/2015
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Roberto Corrales
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 25, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-008135
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. BIG CHECHO
DESIGN COMPANY b. BIG CHECHO
ART&DESIGN COMPANY at 2385 Shelter Island Dr., San Diego, CA, County of
San Diego, 92106
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Sergio M. Perez, 875 Floyd
Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91910
This Business is Conducted By: An Individual. The First Day of Business Was:
03/12/2015
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Sergio M. Perez
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 12, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-006730
Published: March 27. April 3, 10, 17/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: STARS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY at 333 H Street
Suite 2030, Chula Vista, CA, County of
San Diego, 91910.
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Stars Speech Inc., 2045 Ilex
Ave. #106, San Diego, CA 92154
This Business is Conducted By: A Corporation. The First Day of Business Was:
N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Carlos Gonzalez
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 30, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-008507
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: NC OUTLET at
706 Highland Ave., National City, CA,
County of San Diego, 91950.
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Jae Kwan Ahn, 1933 L Ave.
#11, National City, CA 91950
This Business is Conducted By: An Individual. The First Day of Business Was:
N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Jae Kwan Ahn
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 30, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-008517
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. SIMPLEX INSURANCE SOLUTIONS. b. SIMPLEX
INSURANCE SERVICES c. SIMPLUS
INSURANCE SOLUTIONS at 2350
Marconi Pl. #102, San Diego, CA, County
of San Diego, 92154.
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Alfredo Marco, 2621
Sweetwater Rd. Space 52, National City,
CA 91950
This Business is Conducted By: An Individual. The First Day of Business Was:
N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Alfredo Marco
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 18, 2015.
Assigned File No.: 2015-007377
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
La Prensa San Diego
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
of San Diego County MAR 30, 2015.
Fictitious Business Name: LIBERTY EX- Assigned File No.: 2015-008518
CHANGE at 360 E San Ysidro Blvd, San Published: April 10, 17, 24. May 1/2015
Ysidro, CA, County of San Diego, 92173. La Prensa San Diego
This Business Is Registered by the
Following: Liberty Metals&Coins LLC,
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
12707 High Bluff Drive Suit 200, Del Mar,
NAME STATEMENT
CA 92130
This Business is Conducted By: A Lim- Fictitious Business Name: MAIKOS TOWited Liability Company. The First Day of ING at 2498 Roll Dr. #1910, San Diego,
CA, County of San Diego, 92154.
Business Was: N/A.
I declare that all information in this state- This Business Is Registered by the
ment is true and correct. (A registrant who Following: Michael Anthony Lealdeclares as true any material matter pur- Alvarez, 2498 Roll Dr. #1910, San Diego,
suant to section 17913 of the Business CA 92154
and Professions code that the registrant This Business is Conducted By: An Inknows to be false is guilty of a misde- dividual. The First Day of Business Was:
meanor punishable by a fine not to ex- 03/17/2015
I declare that all information in this stateceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
Registrant Name: Angelian Padilla
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest declares as true any material matter purJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk suant to section 17913 of the Business
and Professions code that the registrant
of San Diego County MAR 30, 2015.
knows to be false is guilty of a misdeAssigned File No.: 2015-008586
meanor punishable by a fine not to exPublished: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
La Prensa San Diego
Registrant Name: Michael Anthony LealAlvarez
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
NAME STATEMENT
J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
Fictitious Business Name: M&M REMOD- of San Diego County MAR 17, 2015.
ELING at 1811 Lime Ct. #2, Chula Vista, Assigned File No.: 2015-007251
CA, County of San Diego, 91913.
Published: April 10, 17, 24. May 1/2015
This Business Is Registered by the La Prensa San Diego
Following: Aaron Montes Ibarra, 1811
Lime Ct. #2, Chula Vista, CA 91913
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
This Business is Conducted By: An InNAME STATEMENT
dividual. The First Day of Business Was:
Fictitious Business Name: GLAMOURUS at
N/A.
I declare that all information in this state- 693 Palomar St. #5, Chula Vista, CA,
ment is true and correct. (A registrant who County of San Diego, 91911.
declares as true any material matter pur- This Business Is Registered by the
suant to section 17913 of the Business Following: Rosales Enterprises Inc.,
and Professions code that the registrant 693 Palomar St. #5, Chula Vista, CA
knows to be false is guilty of a misde- 91911
meanor punishable by a fine not to ex- This Business is Conducted By: A Corporation. The First Day of Business Was:
ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
10/01/2004
Registrant Name: Aaron Montes Ibarra
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest I declare that all information in this stateJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter purof San Diego County MAR 09, 2015.
suant to section 17913 of the Business
Assigned File No.: 2015-006329
and Professions code that the registrant
Published: April 3, 10, 17, 24/2015
knows to be false is guilty of a misdeLa Prensa San Diego
meanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
Registrant Name: Esther Rosales
NAME STATEMENT
This Statement Was Filed With Ernest
Fictitious Business Name: CALIFORNIA J. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerk
TRUCK PARKING at 9010 Paseo de la of San Diego County APR 06, 2015.
Fuente N., San Diego, CA, County of San Assigned File No.: 2015-009081
Diego, 92154.
Published: April 10, 17, 24. May 1/2015
This Business Is Registered by the La Prensa San Diego
Following: Richard Alexander Gaeta,
4633 Wilson Ave., San Diego, CA 92116
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
This Business is Conducted By: An InNAME STATEMENT
dividual. The First Day of Business Was:
Fictitious Business Name: FYNE SERVICE
11/05/2014
I declare that all information in this state- at 568 Vista Miranda, Chula Vista, CA,
ment is true and correct. (A registrant who County of San Diego, 91910.
declares as true any material matter pur- This Business Is Registered by the
suant to section 17913 of the Business Following: Gilchrist Herbert, 568 Vista
and Professions code that the registrant Miranda, Chula Vista, CA 91910
knows to be false is guilty of a misde- This Business is Conducted By: An Inmeanor punishable by a fine not to ex- dividual. The First Day of Business Was:
N/A
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¿Marco o Jeb?
Crackdown on Kids
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the failed drug war model of
militarizing local security
forces. Experience shows that
placing weapons and training
in the hands of abusive police
ensures that they can be —
and are — used against civilians not associated with cartels, or against suspected criminals denied a right to trial.
The foreign military funding
— or FMF, in bureaucratese
— included in the plan, while
comparable to prior levels, has
a particularly ominous note to
it this time around. “FMF in the
Western Hemisphere,” declares the budget request,
“supports our partners’ efforts
to control national territory,
modernize defense forces, and
secure the southern approaches to the United States.”
Given that the region has no
invading armies, to “control territory” means to control undefined internal populations —
presumably criminals, but potentially including opposition or
indigenous communities fighting for land rights against statesupported designs. “Modernizing defense forces” in the absence of external threats,
means a dangerous re-militarization of nations barely
emerging from military dictatorships.
No one seems to question
the application of a militarist
logic to the problems of domestic crime and trafficking in the
region. In the few weeks since
the plan was announced, Honduran TIGRES, a special force,
flew up to Florida to train with
Green Berets in urban combat
techniques. The Pentagon has
sent the Marines to Honduras
in a newly formed Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task
Force-South to conduct “training, humanitarian assistence
and anti-drug operations”
regionwide, according to local
press. Much like a captive and
miltarized Honduras was used
as a beachhead for the cold
war, it is now playing the same
role ostensibly for the war on
drugs and whatever other
threat to US interests is
percieved in the hemisphere.
And “securing southern approaches to the United States”
marks a clear imposition of
U.S. priorities to the detriment
of the host nations. Even more
outrageous is the implication
that the U.S. southern border
has to be protected from child
migrants by creating an allied
buffer some 2,000 miles deep.
Proponents of the plan note
that some funding goes to human rights training. The contradiction of funneling money
to human rights abusers to
compel them to cease their
abuse is one that they no doubt
relish. It sends a mixed message by supporting corrupt and
violent police at the same time
it deigns to improve them.
The plan bolsters Honduran
security forces even as human
rights groups document uncontrolled abuses, to the extent
that 94 U.S. members of Congress have called for a complete cut-off of aid to Honduran security forces.
As the recent murders of
unarmed youth in U.S. cities
have shown, the United States
urgently needs to reform its
own police before it spends
millions purporting to teach others. As in all other areas of this
plan, the money would be better spent at home.
Border Punishment
The billion-dollar plan does
highlight a few of the root
causes of migration — namely
physical and economic insecurity. But its emphasis on border security reveals its Janusfaced attitude toward migrants
as threats as well as victims.
In part, this comes at the urging of immigration hawks in
LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
(con’t de pg 6)
Congress.
Last December, John Lindsay-Poland explains, “Congress required the State Department to submit a strategy
within three months that would
‘address the need for greater
border security for the countries in Central America and for
Mexico, particularly the southern border of Mexico.’ The
strategy must also ‘support repatriation facilities for the processing of undocumented migrants returning from the
United States’ as well as
‘combat human trafficking in
Central America.’”
Mexico, once again, is responsible for doing the real dirty
work here. Some 23,000 children have been deported at
Washington’s urging from
Mexico’s southern border over
the past year.
The crackdown along
Mexico’s southern boundary
breaks with the country’s traditionally permissive attitude
toward millennial migration
patterns in the region. But it has
not significantly decreased migration. Reports from the border describe a continued flow
of migrants amid an increased
presence of police, armed
forces, and immigration agents.
The result is more extortion and
abuse.
Whose Development?
The economic development
section of the plan would support the “Alliance for Prosperity,” an initiative developed with
the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Northern Triangle governments. The
IDB has a history of supporting large infrastructure projects
that too often displace populations from their places of origin rather than rooting them
through sustainable livelihoods.
This “line of action” intensifies policies that have been
imposed for the last 20 years
in the region: international trade
facilitation, market integration,
transnational investment, and
export-oriented infrastructure
and megaprojects.
Civil society organizations
have long criticized this strategy. In a letter to heads of state
in 2013, a coalition of 160 organizations stated, “Largescale ‘development’ projects
are imposed on the region’s
most vulnerable populations
with little or no regard for their
lives or livelihoods. This results
in forced displacement, especially of indigenous, peasant,
and Afro-descendant communities; bloody conflicts over
resources; environmental destruction and impoverishment.”
Here too, the details of the
new Central America plan relate more to U.S. goals than to
Central American needs. For
example, the Trade and Development Agency notes that its
part of the funding “prioritizes
activities where there is a high
likelihood for the export of U.S.
goods and services.” While
there’s nothing inherently
wrong with opening up business opportunities for U.S.
companies abroad, it’s a crass
abuse of the goal of securing
the safety of children in Central America.
Moreover, many of those investments include export promotion that puts local producers out of business (recall the
2 million Mexican farmers
driven out under NAFTA) and
infrastructure projects that
serve the transnational movement of goods while destroying internal market linkages.
This creates a vicious but
lucrative circle of investmentdisplacement-repression, as
populations are forced from
their lands and then criminalized as migrants, justifying
enormous security contracts.
This combination of harden-
ing borders for human mobility
while opening them for goods
and money is nothing new, as
two decades of NAFTA have
shown. We’ve seen the tragic
results in Mexico.
Children and Youth at Risk
The United Nations concluded that 58 percent of the
child refugees it interviewed
had international protection
needs, including a staggering 72
percent of Salvadoran children.
Yet for all its fanfare, the
Biden plan makes no attempt
to respond to this urgent need
to keep children safe. In fact,
through its border security
measures and the likelihood of
increased deportations from
the United States and Mexico,
it exacerbates their plight. The
plan actually transfers millions
of dollars out of child and maternal health to fund the new
security measures.
The policies to deport migrants from Mexico are creating greater perils for them en
route and back home. Father
Alejandro Solalinde, who runs
a migrant shelter in southern
Mexico, worries that “They’re
sending them right into the
arms of the cartels.” That’s just
what the plan does.
In a New York Times op-ed
penned to promote it, Vice
President Joe Biden demonizes
the migrants from the very first
paragraph, where he calls the
child migrant crisis a reminder
that “the security and prosperity of Central America are inextricably linked with our
own.” Later on, he laments a
“dangerous surge in migration.”
What kind of nation have we
become when we treat desperate children as a national security threat?
The good news is that the
plan faces a rocky road in Congress. “We’ve spent billions of
dollars there over two decades,” observed Senator
Patrick Leahy, the ranking
Democrat on the Senate Appropriations foreign operations
subcommittee. “And we’ve
seen conditions get worse in
Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador.” Other members have
also balked at the huge spike
in security funding to governments where impunity and
abuse is rampant.
There are undoubtedly some
worthwhile projects within the
proposed billion-dollar package,
for example funding for domestic violence shelters. Washington promoters urge critics not
to throw out the baby with the
bathwater.
It’s laudable to turn our attention to the root causes of the
refugee crisis out of Central
America. But if the aid package intensifies the same policies that contributed to the crisis — as Biden’s clearly does
— then we’re moving in the
wrong direction. American taxpayers have no reason to throw
more hard-earned money at
the Washington NGOs, corrupt
foreign governments, abusive
security forces, and avaricious
security industry that have perpetuated the failed drug war far
beyond any justifiable error.
Despite the seriousness of
the current situation, this is a
classic case of where doing
the wrong thing can be far
worse than not doing anything.
Laura Carlsen is the director of the CIP Americas Program. She is a staff writer
for the Americas Updater
www.cipamericas.org and a
columnist for Foreign Policy
in Focus, where a version of
this article was originally
published.
“Si Jeb hace buena campaña, creo que los republicanos
de corte moderado se irían con
Bush y eso va a incluir mucha
gente joven. El voto cubano lo
veo dividido entre la vieja
guardia apoyando a Rubio,
cuyas posiciones son paradójicamente más ortodoxas
que Jeb, y, por supuesto, está
el tema de la lealtad de la
generación del exilio a otro
cubano-americano, mientras
que los (cubanoamericanos)
nacidos aquí van a examinar
más los temas del día a día”,
agregó Parra.
Clinton ya se lanzó al ruedo
por la nominación demócrata
y, de momento, no tiene contrincantes.
Si al final del viaje la elección
general es entre Bush y Clinton, el tema migratorio será vi-
tal. Parra indicó que “si Hillary
hace un acercamiento respetuoso, demostrando que
entiende la carga emocional
que lleva el tema, y toma
posiciones concretas, sin miedo
al qué dirán otros votantes,
puede ganarle a Jeb el voto
latino de la Florida”.
“El reto de Jeb va a ser no
virar tanto a la derecha en
inmigración que después no
pueda regresar. Ya ha dejado
interrogantes con su declaración de que acabaría con
DACA y DAPA. Los floridanos a quienes el tema migratorio toca de cerca van a
ver eso con cuidado”, afirmó
Parra.
“Por otro lado, Bush tiene el
problema de imagen de su
partido. O sea, le tocaría hacer
campaña distanciándose del
Partido (Republicano)”, opinó
Parra.
Ciertamente Bush, de ser el
abanderado republicano, tendría que lidiar con la mala
imagen de su partido entre los
votantes latinos, pero Clinton,
de ser la nominada demócrata,
no debe dar el apoyo latino por
sentado. No estamos en los
noventa. Hay una nueva cepa
de votantes hispanos que no
guarda una lealtad ciega a
candidatos y partidos y esperan
posturas claras y definidas en
temas como la inmigración,
donde Clinton tiene bastante
qué explicar. Asimismo, tiene
que vencer la fatiga que puede
generar entre los votantes
ocho años de un mismo partido
en la Casa Blanca.
Falta año y medio para la
general, pero ya comienzan las
apuestas.
Maribel Hastings es asesora
ejecutiva de America’s Voice