Extractions: WASHINGTON, D.C. After paying out more than $1.6 billion to more than 82,250 persons of Japanese ancestry who were interned during World War II, the Justice Department's Office of Redress Administration has officially closed its doors. The redress program, which was established by the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, acknowledges, apologizes, and makes restitution for the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The Justice Department's Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was charged with administering the ten year program which, by operation of law, officially closed on February 5, 1999. Final figures were released today. "This was a tragic chapter in the history of our nation," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "The U.S. Government recognized the injustice of its actions during the war and provided a presidential apology and compensation. It was a time when we took away the liberty of an entire community of Americans." Since the program's inception, ORA has provided $20,000 in redress to 82,219 eligible claimants, totaling more than $1.6 billion.
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Extractions: machines they led, threatened freedom and liberty values which define the heart of our Constitution. On the global battlefront, the United States entered the war to defend freedom and justice, yet at home, our government took action that denied those very rights to some groups of people. Two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI, in cooperation with the governments of several Latin American countries - most notably Peru, Panama, and Nicaragua - began a campaign of abduction and deportation of more than 3,000 residents of Latin America. The majority of those deported, 2,264, were Latin Americans of Japanese descent. Latin Americans of German and Italian descent were equally mistreated. These innocent victims were targeted for their ethnicity, betrayed by their governments, abducted from their homes, and deported to the United States far away from their family, friends, and culture. Arrested in their homes, at work, or at school, Japanese, German, and Italian Latin Americans were deported to the United States. Their assets were confiscated by their governments. Stripped naked and doused with insecticide, they were imprisoned in South Texas internment camps.
Extractions: August 3, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) today introduced the Wartime Treatment of European Americans and Refugees Study Act, a bill to establish a commission to review the facts and circumstances surrounding injustices suffered by European Americans, European Latin Americans and European refugees during World War II. Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) joined Feingold as cosponsors of the bill. "We should honor and remember the millions of Americans who bravely served their country in World War II and the thousands who sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom," Feingold said. "But we should also take this moment, at a time of peace, to review the U.S. government's violation of civil liberties and its failure to protect refugees facing persecution during World War II." Thousands of German Americans, Italian Americans and other European Americans were unfairly arrested, detained, interned or relocated by the U.S. government, some remaining in custody long after World War II had ended. Many European Americans were stripped of their personal property and travel rights. This bill intends to recognize those who were harmed and discourage future occurrences of similar offenses. Additionally, Europeans, including Jewish refugees, seeking protection from persecution were denied entry into the United States. This legislation includes a review of federal refugee policy, as well as a review of the eventual fate of refugees who were denied admission into the United States, so that we can prevent such injustices from taking place in the future.
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Extractions: lawg@lawg.org Stay involved in the US/Cuba policy debate with timely emails on the most pertinent issues! Click here to email us to join the Cuba listserv. Along with your name, be sure to include your address and zip code, as our list is divided by state and district. Latin America Working Group Legislative Update Publications Employment Participating Organizations New Omnibus Bill on U.S./Cuba Policy Introduced We are pleasedfinallyto be able to let you know that the long-awaited "Bridges to the Cuban People Act" was introduced June 12th in both the House and Senate. This legislation would comprehensively reform US policy towards Cuba by: increasing humanitarian trade between Cuba and the United States; expanding people-to-people contacts; giving the President the authority to waive Titles I, II, and IV of the Helms/Burton Act; and repealing the codification of the embargo included in the Helms/Burton Act. Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Representatives Jose Serrano (D-NY) and James Leach (R-IA) introduced the companion bills in the Senate and House. The bill in the Senate was introduced with 16 senators signed on; the bill in the House currently has 106 signers. You can find the text of the bills (S. 1017 and H.R. 2138) on the web at
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Extractions: April 9, 1999 President Clinton and other democrats launch push for patient Bill of Rights on the internet. Attorney General Janet Reno calls for police to address complaints of racism and police abuse. Community groups in Los Angeles encourage newly naturalized Central Americans to vote in upcoming local elections. Mayor of Douglas, Arizona warns that a group of ranchers may take vigilante actions against migrants. About 3,000 Zapatistas peacefully take back town of San Andres Larrainzar. Creation of bi-national border research institute in Texas will help determine policy for that region. Report shows thirteen percent of Latino teenagers in Miami Dade County are smokers. April 12, 1999 Hundreds of Latinos march in Phoenix, Arizona protesting the death of a young Mexican girl who was denied medical care for lack of insurance. The Reverend Jesse Jackson launches campaign against police brutality. Health Department reports 25 percent of Latino families in Los Angeles have no medical insurance. Texas legislature proposal to give Border Patrol agents extended powers rejected. Texas court upholds decision against prayer during football games.
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Extractions: LA GUIA, Internet Resources for Latin America, http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia Molly Molloy Molly E. Molloy, mmolloy@lib.nmsu.edu This new version of LA GUIA is still under construction! I have made links back to some sections of the previous version when appropriate. See http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/lag1999.html document.write("Page last updated on "); document.writeln(document.lastModified); Jump to these Guide sections: La Jornada Diario de Juarez Almargen Diario Investigative journalism, media and literary criticism from Chihuahua Frontera Norte Sur Monthly newsletter with daily updates from the US-Mexico border region Reforma News Headlines from all Latin American countries from the Latin American Studies Program, College of the Holy Cross LANIC Newsroom Current Latin American news events via LANIC Information Service Latin America [ISLA] Progressive Latin American news service IPSInterpress Service Progressive global news source. [full text access requires subscription]
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Extractions: by Larry Rohter RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 10 Brazil and other Latin American governments have followed Washington down the free-market path, only to find they are now losing control over their economies. The immediate consequences are most visible here in Brazil, which is in the midst of an important national election. Brazil, Latin America's largest country, has just engaged a $30 billion lifeline from the International Monetary Fund, but one that imposes strict policies on the next government. There is a strong chance that it will be a left-leaning one that promises to improve the lives of the poor who were left behind in the economic experimentation. "Don't try to strangle us," President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who leaves office in January, told market speculators who have sent Brazil's currency plummeting in recent weeks on fears of a government default. He said the loan gave Brazil vital oxygen, and showed that the monetary fund played an important role in developing economies. But to some Brazilians, it is the fund that could do the strangling. The bailout announced this week is described as the most far-reaching package since the Clinton administration and the I.M.F. came to the rescue of Mexico in 1995, a successful intervention that was paid out almost all at once. But Brazil's comes with unusual strings, and it thrusts the lending agency into the uncomfortable position of being in the middle of Brazil's democratic decisions.
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Extractions: June 27, 2000 I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about a topic important to us all: the role of development assistance in fostering racial and ethnic inclusion in our hemisphere. This topic is a critical component of all democracy-building efforts. Building more inclusive societies is not only a human rights and moral imperative for the still fragile democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean, but also key to maximizing the resources of these growing economies. Historically, control over the economies and governments of the Americas has been exclusive. The roots of this exclusion can be traced back to the beginning of the colonial era, and the mercantilist tendencies of that era. Exclusive management of first colonial and then national economies marginalized groups of indigenous and African descent. Until recently, the lack of economic participation has gone hand-in-hand with the absence of political participation.
Extractions: The business environment in most developed countries as undergone a drastic transformation with the appearance of interconnectivity systems that allow the execution of transactions via electronic means. Businesses and individual customers have increased their efficiency by arranging for the purchasing of goods and services in a more secure and cost-effective manner by means of e-commerce capabilities. Even the individual customer that sought goods down in Main Street (or at La Plaza), now is able to seek, compare and purchase products from throughout the world with a few mouse clicks. The global aspect of this e-commerce revolution has reached in varying degrees the countries in Latin America. The region previously was known for its authoritarian governments, closed economies, and very limited empowerment options for its population. However, it has undergone modernization in various aspects with the opening of its economies in the last two decades, with e-commerce being the latest one. The international media gives extensive coverage to the rosy prospects for e-commerce in a very promising region.
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Extractions: 9:15 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests, fellow citizens: As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger. (Applause.) We last met in an hour of shock and suffering. In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression. (Applause.)
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Extractions: Energy Information Administration, Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, U.S. Department of Energy. December 2002. National Environmental Data Index Climate Action Report 2002 ... Building Institutions for a Better Environment (pdf) GLOBAL ISSUES E-COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2002.United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Released February 2003. 282 pages The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy 2003. The Aspen Institute. 72 pages Nato Enlargement. CRS Report for Congress. Updated March 28, 2003. 6 pages ... (pdf) GOVERNMENT Government Act of 2002 [H.R. 2548].
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE SPRING MEMBERSHIP MEETING We have many latin americans and 14 Koreans, for example benefits of a single regulatoralready, and will achieve many more before the legislation which brings http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/speeches/sp08.html
Extractions: INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE SPRING MEMBERSHIP MEETING ROME, THURSDAY 7 MAY 1998 SPEECH BY HOWARD DAVIES CHAIRMAN, FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY "REGULATORY REFORM AND FINANCIAL SECTOR CONSOLIDATION" [Title slide 1] Major changes underway in financial markets. Barely a week goes by without the announcement of a huge merger - Citigroup the biggest, but many others in the US, in Europe and elsewhere - Japan, Latin America. And these mergers not just within sectors, across them too. Creation of financial supermarkets in some places. And also large networks of institutions across boundaries. All this poses a very major challenge for supervisors and regulators. As markets change, so must regulatory structures. Change underway in many countries. Australia, Japan, Korea, Mexico. Change perpetually discussed in the US, also. And Citigroup merger amounts to a major bet that this talk will produce change before too long. In the UK, however, we have gone rather further, rather sooner. In our impetuous, hot-blooded Latin way, we have decided on a very major regulatory reform, in one go. So my presentation will focus on that, though I hope it will be suggestive of changes needed elsewhere. What are we doing in the UK, and why?
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Extractions: www.puertorico-herald.org A New Debate on the Fate (And State) of Puerto Rico The New York Times By MIREYA NAVARRO (03/30/98, c. 1998 New York Times Company) For the first time, Congress is seriously considering a bill that would allow the island of nearly four million people to vote on whether it wants statehood, independence or the current commonwealth association. The bill has been approved by the House. However, Congress itself is sharply divided over whether to accept a possible 51st state. And for the first time in Puerto Rico, the major political parties agree that the status quo is no longer acceptable, but they remain almost equally split between statehood and some form of association with the United States. The issue of self-determination has bogged down in Washington on questions about the economic, political and cultural cost of incorporating a Spanish-speaking land. In Puerto Rico, a decision about the island's fate is deeply wrapped in a sense of identity. Miguel Hernandez-Agosto, past president of the Popular Democratic Party, which was the architect of the current "free associated state" status created in 1952, argues that the century-old association with the United States has created a hybrid: a territory that regards itself as a nation, Americans who feel Puerto Rican, a Latin American culture used to North American standards and values. "This is not a barrio of the Bronx," said Mr. Hernandez-Agosto, 70. "This is not a question of who favors Hispanics and who doesn't. This is a country with roots, with an idiosyncrasy, with pride, that transcends its boundaries. "Puerto Rico treasures and defends its own identity," Mr. Hernandez-Agosto said, "but it also treasures and defends its U.S. citizenship." Commonwealth supporters like Mr. Hernandez-Agosto want more autonomy and to keep their island from succumbing to what he calls "the cultural genocide" of statehood or the instability of complete disassociation. The commonwealth alternative won 48 percent of the vote in a nonbinding status referendum in 1993. But there are two other aspirations:statehood, supported by 46 percent of the referendum voters, and independence, backed by a passionate minority of 4 percent.
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