Mexico City News: Indignation in Puerto Rico

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 6:51 PM PDT

2005/09/29 · 18:51

I'm not a professional translator, but I did manage to get into English an opinion piece digitized in La Jornada, a Mexico City newspaper, today. I thought you might find it interesting. I've included it below.

Dear readers, my question is simply this. Let's say you and I wanted to electrify the population of a small country. Let's say we wanted to turn them absolutely against us, make them passionately hate us, make them seek independence from us, make them do whatever it took to get that independence. Now, let me ask you. Can you think of any act more guaranteed to do that than what the FBI did down there--kill an apparently deeply respected independence hero on the island's independence day? Am I out of my mind or is the current leadership of the United States out of its mind?

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Roger Morris' "Legacy of Neglect"

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 10:42 AM PDT

2005/09/09 · 10:42

I put this article in comments, but it's one that calls for a diary. Here's the first paragraph. Click to read it all:

The calamity was enormous, the toll in lives and ruin like nothing the country knew. Yet the ultimate disaster was in the staggering negligence of the government and its oblivious leader. Despite years of warnings and then the stark sight of suffering, help was disgracefully slow, too late for so many. "People must realize now," one witness wrote in her diary, "how rotten the structure has become." Long afterward, historians would think it a breaking point in trust, the moment when the future began. Read More

Mexico City News: NOLA Is a Time Bomb

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 2:41 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 14:41

Some of you asked that I diary my translation of the following opinion piece in today's edition of the Mexico City newspaper La Jornada. Please let me know what you think. Read More

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