QUIZAS EN NUESTRO MUNDO CADA VEZ MAS DESARROLLADO ESTAMOS PRESENCIANDO LA MUERTE DE LA MISMA MUERTE.
MAS ALLA DE LAS CREENCIAS INDIVIDUALES QUE PUEDEN INCLUIR LA RESURRECCION O LA REENCARNACION, HOY DIA CUALQUIER PERSONA TRASCIENDE A TRAVES DE LOS METODOS MODERNOS PARA CAPTAR IMAGENES, VOCES, PENSAMIENTOS,ETC.
ENTONCES NOS HALLAMOS FRENTE A LA REALIDAD DE LA TRASCENDENCIA, DESDE QUE UNA SIMPLE DIRECCION DE EMAIL PUEDE PERDURAR MAS QUE LA PERSONA QUE LA GENERA.
TODOS TRASCENDEMOS.
EN VIDEOS, EN FOTOS, EN ESCRITOS, EN INTERNET, ETC.
Y ESTA TRASCENDENCIA VIOLA LA MUERTE.
ULTIMAMENTE ME HE ENTERADO DE SUICIDIOS DE ADOLESCENTES.
EN PSICOLOGIA SE ESTUDIA QUE EL SETENTA POR CIENTO DE LOS SUICIDIOS SE COMETE EN ESA ETAPA CRUCIAL DE LA VIDA.
QUISIERA DAR MI JUICIO AL RESPECTO Y QUE LLEGARA A LOS MAS JOVENES.
LA VIDA ES UNA PUJA POR LA SOBREVIVENCIA.
A VECES PUEDE SER MUY DIFICIL.
PERO POR MAS DIFICULTOSA QUE ESTA PAREZCA SIEMPRE HAY CAMINOS DE RESOLUCION.
EL SUICIDIO SE PRODUCE CUANDO LA PERSONA TIENE UN JUICIO MUY DURO SOBRE ELLA Y SOBRE LA SOCIEDAD QUE LA RODEA Y EL FUTURO MISMO.
PARA EVITARLO SIMPLEMENTE HAY QUE CAMBIAR EL FOCO DE ATENCION.
ABRIR LA COMPRENSION Y LA COMPASION, ASIMISMO COMO EL PERDON HACIA UNO Y LOS DEMAS.
SI UNO ES CAPAZ DE COMPRENDER QUE TODO EL MUNDO SOLAMENTE HACE LO QUE PUEDE DENTRO DE SUS LIMITACIONES FISICAS, PSICOLOGICAS Y ESPIRITUALES, PODRA ENTENDER QUE NADIE SE EQUIVOCAA PROPOSITO.
Y QUE AUN EL MAS DAÑINO DE LOS SERES HUMANOS ES DIGNO DE COMPRENSION, COMPASION Y PERDON.
EL PERDON ES EL CAMINO PARA TODA SANACION.
AQUELLA PERSONA QUE HAYA PERSONADO A TOODOS LOS QUE LE HIRIERON, EN LA BASE FIRME DE LA COMPRENSION, Y QUE SE HAYA PERDONADO ASIMISMA TODOS SUS ERRORES SABIENDO QUE OTRA COSA NO PUDO REALIZAR PORQUE SUS LIMITACIONES MATERIALES Y/O ESPIRITUALES NO SE LO PERMITIERON . ESA PERSONA NO VA A COMETER SUICIDIO.
Y ESO ES LO QUE TENEMOS QUE FOMENTAR.
TENEMOS QUE CREAR UNA CONCIENCIA DE NO JUZGAR SEVERAMENTE A NADIE, NI A NOSOTROS MISMOS.
Y GENERAR EL CAMINO HACIA EL AUTOCONOCIMIENTO QUE PUEDE SER TANTO PSICOLOGICO COMO ESPIRITUAL,PARA AMPLIAR LA COMPRENSION QUE NOS LLEVA A LA POSTERIOR COMPASION.
DEL CONOCIMIENTO DEVIENE LA COMPRENSION , DE LA COMPRENSION DEVIENE LA COMPASION Y DE ELLA EL PERDON.
QUIEN VIVE EN EL PERDON ES LIBERADO DE TODO SUFRIMIENTO.
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HispanicVista.com Weekly Digest
September 29 - October 5, 2003
http://www.hispanicvista.com
COLUMNISTS & COMMENTARY SECTION


HISPANICVISTA COLUMNISTS
Proposition 54 promises of a Color Blind Society is deceitful hogwash
By Patrick Osio, Jr.
HispanicVista.com
Proposition 54 on the October 7th ballot, if approved, promises California now, and the nation to follow, a giant step toward the ever illusive Color Blind Society status people of goodwill have long sought. How can anyone argue with any attempt at reaching such a lofty goal? Haven't we as a nation an obligation to make America a truly colorblind society? The answers to the questions are - no one, and yes. But 'beware of false prophets' - Proposition 54, the Racial Privacy Initiative.

Repealing Licenses for Undocumented Workers?
By Domenico Maceri
HispanicVista.com
The ink is not yet dry on SB 60, the new California law allowing undocumente d workers to obtain driver's licenses, and already the State's Republican Assembly is trying to repeal it. Unable to win in the legislature, the Republicans are collecting signatures to place a referendum on the ballot so voters could rescind the new law.

Where Did All the Latinos Go?
By Carl J. Luna
Remember how important the Latino vote was supposed to be in the surprise election of 2003? All sides in the recall made a lot of noise early on about the significance the Latino vote was going to have in the recall outcome, especially given the prominence of Cruz Bustamante, the first real potential Latino candidate for governor in state history. Democratic and Republican strategists alike said they needed to woe this critical segment of the electorate.

The fight for Latino Votes - Cruz v. Arnold
By Gary Mendoza
HispanicVista.com
Latinos may cast the decisive vote in the race to succeed Gray Davis, America's most incompetent governor. While Cruz Bustamante clearly believes he's entitled to this vote, the polls indicate that Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys significant and growing support within this increasingly important constituency…In the fight for Latino votes, Cruz has argued that Arnold doesn't share "our values". Given their competing records and vision, however, it's easy to see that Arnold's values are more in sync with Latinos than Cruz's.

We, Davis/Bustamante…
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
HispanicVista.com
"We spent more," Cruz Bustamante declared in the "debate" in the very city where the Davis/Bustamante administration had far outstripped the growth and inflation rates to spend California into semi-bankruptcy…The key word was "WE," for no one should forget that Governor Da vis has Cruz Bustamante as his serving Lt. Governor. They are, politically, one and the same. Bustamante, however, does come from a more radical past than his Governor, what with his subscribing to the "brutal gringo invasion" mind set of his college days when he also subscribed to the claim by Chicano radicals that California is still Mexico.

COLUMN OF THE AMERICAS
All the President's Men
By Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez
"In the end, you are not what you eat. Rather, you are whom you associate with. If you run around with despicable people, the heavy odds are that you are despicable as well." …Bill O'Reilly, "Who's Looking Out for You?"…Some presidents have all the luck. No matter what goes wrong, none of the muck seems to ever stick. One might argue that current President George W. Bush has outdone even former president Ronald "Iran-Contra" Reagan in the Teflon department. This is clearl y evident even after the president has admitted that WMD-less Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The same, however, does not apply to his underlings.

(HispanicVista Editor's Note: Michael G. Santos, HispanicVista's newest columnist, was convicted of drug distribution and sentenced to serve 45 years in Federal prison. He will be eligible for parole in 2013. While in prison he has earned a Bachelors and Master's degree. He has to date written 3 books. He has agreed to write a weekly column for HispanicVista.com relating his experiences and observations on our national penal system.)
Thoughts from a Prison Cell - I am blessed
By Michael G. Santos
HispanicVista.com
As I write these thoughts, on a beautiful, sunny day in July, I'm sitting on a steel, folding chair alone in my prison cell. I am beginning my 17th year of imprisonment, and I expect to serve 10 more years before release will co me. Many prisoners who serve so much time become callused and embittered against society, against other prisoners, and against the system that holds them. They have endured different experiences from the ones that I have known over the years, and as a consequence, I expect a bitter cynicism will plague the rest of their lives.

Si...! There is an apologia for the apparent Hispanic Voting-Apathy!
By Ricardo Castañón
"Your vote is your voice!" ...reads emphatically the slogan of a well known national voters' registration project. Many Hispanics who are fortunate to have attended college or some other form of higher education know for a fact the importance of participation in the political system and in the democratic process altogether. Many do participate and even demonstrate, physically and literally, in favor or against policies of general concern.

Prevention begins with awareness: Suicide takes more Hispanic lives that most other causes
By Erika Robles
HispanicVista.com
In the year 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 29,350 Americans took their own lives and 734,000 attempted it, making suicide the 11th leading cause of death and the third among young Americans (15-24). Government statistics show that 6.08 percent of those who committed suicide were Hispanics, a number greater than Hispanics who died from drug-induced causes and of Alzheimer's disease

A Voice in the Wind
By Manuel Hernandez
HispanicVista.com
Last month, my cousin's daughter was on the verge of dropping out of high school. Angela called me up and asked that I talk to my precious teen cousin. Gloria was thinking of quitting school just seven months before her 2004 high school graduation. .. Cousin Angela and I grew up together in California in the late 1960's. We were the grandchildren of two Puerto Rican brothers who jumped off the train before being transported to Hawaii in 1900.

Inside Mexico
Storm clouds
By Richard Baldwin
As we look at the skies of the future around us, it is a little like watching the clouds of a hurricane marshal their forces for an attack on our (Mexico's) future…First we note unrest from the farm sector, probably triggered by the collapse of the WTO conference in Cancun. Now, the farmers are laying down a December deadline to our government to make good the empty promises made earlier

The California Recall Election or - the end of political morality
A Mexican's perspective
By Carlos Luken
During the past weeks most of the time I turn on the TV or listen to the newsc asts on the radio regarding the coming California Recall Election, I am more convinced of the law's wisdom and of some of the citizen's ineptness to make clear judgments…The recall is in fact an admirable opportunity for a voter mass "mea culpa" by recognizing that they made a error and that it should be peacefully remedied by a legal and constitutional process. In principle it was meant to be praxis of democracy similar to the referendum, it should be celebrated not abused. And if you are opposed to it should be repealed by election and not simply criticized as worthless.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


COLUMNISTS - OPINION
Over the years I've been called a lot of things - just don't call us Latinos
By John M. Renteria
Special to HispanicVista.com
Don't call us Latino!...Whatever the reason, be it government sponsored identification or renewed brown movement resurgence involving non-Mexican related groups, promoting such a roundup term can be offensive and insulting to the senses. The public needs to be educated, especially in order to understand most Hispanos of Mexican lineage cannot relate to the Latino genus grouping.

Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past
By Oscar Casares
Along with it being diez y seis de septiembre, Mexican Independence Day, today is my father's 89th birthday. Everardo Issasi Casares was born in 1914, a little more than a hundred years after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the church bells of Dolores, summoning his parishioners to rise up against the Spaniards.

Will the democrats assume responsibility for the increased flow/death of undocumented immigrants?
By Jesse Fimbres
SB-60, driver licenses for undocumented residents and the latest bill that will allow undocumented residents to attend California Colleges without paying out of state fees, will, for obvious reasons, exacerbate the problem with undocumented residents. As soon, as more and more Mexican citizens realize that they will be getting even more benefits by illegally coming to California, the flow of undocumented residents will greatly INCREASE and so will the deaths of the prospective immigrants, and all the related problems including the s tate's financial chaos.

Silent Partners- How political non-profits work the system
By Derek Willis and Aron Pilhofer
The Center for Public Integrity
It was the morning of November 6, 2002, the day after Democrats had lost control of the U.S. Senate, lost ground in the U.S. House of Representatives and were soundly beaten in several key gubernatorial races…The man at the top of the party, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, had some explaining to do. Standing before the gathered media in Washington, D.C., he returned to a longtime Democratic lament: Republicans simply had more money.

Hanging chads or no, the show must go on
By Linda Chavez
Hanging chads or no, the show must go on. Or so an 11-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court has ruled unanimously on the California recall election. The ACLU, the NAACP and other liberal Democratic front groups must be gnashing their teeth. They hoped to derail the election and save Gov. Gray Davis' job by arguing that minority voters would be disenfranchised because some areas of the state use punch-card voting systems similar to those used in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. But the 9th Circuit En Banc Panel didn't buy the argument, thereby overturning an earlier ruling by three of their colleagues.

Earthquakes, Riots, Mud Slides, Plagues of Locusts...and Democracy?
By Paul Jacob
Between the time I write this and the time you read this four minutes later, things may have changed in California. It may be even wilder and crazier there now. There may be monkeys falling out of the sky. However, whatever it is that's happening now, please don't blame democracy…

The Structure of the Second Nuclear Age
By Paul Bracken
The term "second nuclear age" is rarely used with precision or consistency. Sometimes it is intended to emphasize the "new" problems of nuclear proliferation. But many of these problems, such as deterrence, are not really new at all: they arose in the "first nuclear age," the Cold War, and even earlier. Defining the "second nuclear age" more precisely permits one to make a critical point: the nuclear age that began in 1945 is not a uniform structure. Rather, it comprises two very different divisions.

Briefing Paper: Colombia's Checkbook Impunity
A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper
Colombian President �lvaro Uribe has presented a bill to his congress that would allow paramilitaries who have committed atrocities to skip prison for a fee. Among them are men that have ordered and carried out the killings of thousands of Colombian civilians. Unlike other amnesty laws, the Uribe proposal presumes that accused paramilitaries would stand trial; however, it would be clear from the outset that the accused would face no punishment.

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