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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530279)	1/27/2004 12:06:33 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Lizzie, one of the most amazing things about America's economic policies is that for the past 50 years South and Latin America have supposedly benefited from its association with America, unlike Cuba. But if you do a statistical comparison as to employment, infant mortality, health care, number of televisions, number of radios, number of Internet hook-ups, etc., one would find Cuba doing better than those South and Latin American countries that supposedly have had 50 years of US economic development. I have a reference for this, but unfortunately I don't have time now to find it. By the way, the Vermont senators are Jeffords (once a Republican, now an Independent) and Leahy, a Democrat. The sole US representative of Vermont is Bernie Sanders, a Socialist, and the only one in the US House.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530279)	1/27/2004 12:17:38 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

US companies in some cases have employed 5 murder victims. If this kind of thing happened here, the factory would be shut down. The fact that this unspeakable situation can continue and not disrupt business is precisely why these maquiadoras are set up. Mexico Intolerable Killings Ten years of Abductions and Murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua Evangelina Arce could not have imagined that on 12 March 1998 her daughter Silvia would never again return to her home in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state. She has been searching for her desperately for over five years without discovering anything at all about her whereabouts. Throughout that time, Evangelina has repeatedly said that the authorities have ignored her demands for her daughter's abduction to be investigated and insists that no action has been taken on the case for five years. What is certain is that in the state of Chihuahua, a significant number of cases of young women and adolescents reported missing - in one case an 11 year old - are found dead days or even years later. According to information received by Amnesty International, in the last 10 years approximately 370 women have been murdered of which at least 137 were sexually assaulted prior to death. Located in the desert on the border with the United States, it is now the most heavily-populated city in Chihuahua state. Its geographical position has turned it into fertile territory for drug trafficking and this has led to high crime levels and feelings of insecurity among the population. However, throughout the past few decades, the establishment of so-called maquilas, assembly plants for export products set up by multinational companies, has also meant that it has been privileged in terms of economic development. The profitability of the maquiladora industry is largely derived from the hiring of very cheap local labour. Several of the missing or murdered women were employed in maquilas. Waitresses, students or women working in the informal economy have also been targeted by the assailants. In short, young women with no power in society, whose deaths have no political cost for the local authorities. In fact, in the first few years after the abductions and murders began, the authorities displayed open discrimination towards the women and their families in their public statements. On more than one occasion the women themselves were blamed for their own abduction or murder because of the way they dressed or because they worked in bars at night. A few years later, in February 1999, the former State Public Prosecutor, Arturo González RascÜn, was still maintaining that "Women with a nightlife who go out very late and come into contact with drinkers are at risk. It's hard to go out on the street when it's raining and not get wet".(2) The failure of the competent authorities to take action to investigate these crimes, whether through indifference, lack of will, negligence or inability, has been blatant over the last ten years. Amnesty International has documented unjustifiable delays in the initial investigations, the period when there is a greater chance of finding the woman alive and identifying those responsible, and a failure to follow up evidence and witness statements which could be crucial. amnestyusa.org