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EMPLAZAMIENTO A LOS TRIBUNALES
Ante el caótico escenario de delincuencia y criminalidad rampante que vive Puerto Rico, los tribunales no pueden refugiarse en el dogma ni en la aplicación rutinaria de la justicia, sino que deben buscar derroteros que respondan a la realidad social y a los reclamos de seguridad ciudadana.
Bilingüismo y política
CARMEN ZORAIDA CLAUDIO
Recientemente se reseñó que solo una ínfima parte de la población habla fluidamente el inglés. La estadística de que solo un 10% de nuestra población es bilingüe tiene que ser una
Cuando la dignidad intimida
WILDA RODRÍGUEZ
El resentimiento del sistema de justicia federal hacia Oscar López Rivera siempre ha sido desproporcionado. Apostaron a la captura del cabecilla de un terrible movimiento ar
Don Soul
Félix Jiménez
Me desperté pensando en Don Cornelius. Todos aquellos sábados por la mañana, después de los muñequitos de rigor, al calor de su ronca voz y de los bailes cuasi-íntimos y de la músi
Existen muchos comerciantes en la ciudad capital, como en el resto de la isla, que creen tener derecho a instalar ilegalmente todo tipo de anuncio o cruzacalles en las áreas verdes, postes de alumbrado eléctricos y señales de tránsito a lo largo de nuestras avenidas y carreteras.
Al presente, aun podemos observar rótulos de candidatos en las pasadas elecciones. Esta situación se agrava todavía más, con la proliferación de la práctica de propietarios de residencias colindantes con las avenidas, de permitir que sus verjas y patios sean utilizados para ubicar todo tipo de anuncio. Este total descontrol tiene como único resultado una ciudad de aspecto quincallero.
La administración municipal anterior, al menos se tomaba la iniciativa de remover periódicamente estos rótulos que tanto desmerecen el entorno de nuestra ciudad.
Creo que la nueva administración municipal debe ser más agresiva en resolver este problema ambiental, el cual da la impresión de estar agravándose, aprovechando la ocasión de cuando desyerban para remover los mismos.
En cuanto al desyerbe, no cabe duda que debe mejorar sustancialmente especialmente en las avenidas y carreteras de Río Piedras y Cupey, donde el proceso aparenta ser más bien errático y carente de coordinación. Ejemplo de ello es cuando observamos que las bolsas de escombros recogidos permanecen tiradas en los bordes de las carreteras por varios días, y cuando se recogen ya la yerba está lista para nuevamente ser cortada.
Estas recomendaciones no son onerosas para el municipio y, por el contrario, contribuirían enormemente a mejorar el aspecto de la ciudad capital que tanto lo necesita.
Yvonne Casanova Pelosi
Distinga lapsus (equivocación) de lapso (tiempo).
La secretaria de Hacienda, Melba Acosta está engañando al pueblo cuando dice que enviaron los reintegros. Desde principios de febrero radiqué mi planilla y a estas alturas todavía no lo he recibido.
Me he comunicado con Hacienda, pero, como siempre, suena ocupado o me salen con evasivas. Les he solicitado que me envíen el status real del reintegro, pero me contestan con los pasos a seguir para verificar el reintegro vía Internet.
Ya estoy cansado de esto. Que no esperen a que dos o tres irresponsables paguen para entonces enviar los reintegros. Tengo entendido que eso son contribuciones que le sacan a uno del cheque todas las semanas y que no lo deberían gastar en otras cosas que no sea para el beneficio del contribuyente.
Boyd Harrelson Torres
Juncos
¿Es que no hay otra manera de cuadrar el presupuesto? Estamos en el siglo 21, somos un país desarrollado y no podemos solucionar un problema si no es aumentando los impuestos.
No son impuestos lo que hace falta, es la administración eficiente y el desarrollo económico lo que va a salvar a este pueblo. Si el pueblo no tiene ingresos los impuestos no se recaudarán. El pueblo tendrá menos dinero para sus necesidades y las expectativas de recaudos al fisco no se podrán lograr.
Seamos realistas; necesitamos acciones urgentes que cambien el ritmo y las formas que administramos este país. Sentados en la silla y sacando cuenta de cuánto deben ser los impuestos no son pensamientos, ni acciones de administradores líderes en este tiempo en que vivimos.
No es difícil, ya el ciudadano promedio aprendió por necesidad. Hay que hacer lo mismo y sacrificar algunas necesidades con menos. No es justo que los que vivimos el día a día ajustándonos a cambios que nos perjudican, sigamos pagando los errores de otros, los que estaban y los que están administrando el gobierno.
No contemos con más ingresos por aumento de impuestos, bajemos el costo de administrar el gobierno eficientemente.
¡No hay excusa!
Francis Hayes
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I just returned from Venezuela this week where I was observing the post-election audit of the vote count at the invitation of the CNE (the National Electoral Council). The audit, known as the Citizens' Verification process, is impressive in its scope and thoroughness.
From eight in the morning 'til noon every day, a team of professors, their students and CNE support staff, operating out of the CNE warehouse in the Mariches barrio of Caracas, randomly select 350 boxes containing paper vote receipts to audit. They then count each receipt in these boxes to verify whether they match up with the electronic vote count from the machines linked to each box. Demonstrating the amazing transparency of this process, this auditing is being broadcast by live webcam on the CNE website.
By the time I left Caracas, 81 percent of all the paper receipts had been audited, and this audit has shown the original vote count to be 99.8 percent accurate. And, in the next couple of weeks, the CNE fully intends to audit each and every box of receipts -- each box having been brought to the Mariches center from the thousands of voting locations throughout Venezuela, some being brought from the Amazon by canoe.
As the Center for Economic and Policy Research explained a few weeks ago, the original audit on election day -- in which witnesses from the various parties, including the opposition MUD party, reviewed at least 53 percent of the voting receipts right there in the polling places -- was more than statistically significant to verify the results of the election. (1) But alas, as one sociology professor who was witnessing the audit told us with an impish grin, "the Venezuelan people are a kind people, and we readily give in to the caprices of others."
In this case, the CNE is giving into the caprices of the opposition party headed by Henrique Capriles who originally demanded the audit but who has since boycotted it, and of the United States as well which has yet to recognize Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate President of Venezuela.
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Canada just ruled this week that the 2011 election of Conservative Party candidate Stephen Harper was fraught with fraud and massive voter suppression. Yet, there have been no calls from Washington to withdraw recognition of Harper.
Of course, the stance taking by Capriles in refusing to concede the election and by the U.S. in refusing to recognize Maduro has nothing to do with a bona fide doubt in the legitimacy of the Venezuelan electoral process -- it would be indeed be harder to find a more fail-safe and transparent process in the world, and indeed long-time election observer Jimmy Carter has yet to find one. Instead, this is all about an attempt by the Venezuelan and international elite to destabilize Venezuela, to unseat Nicolas Maduro by any possible means and to undo the revolution started by Hugo Chavez in 1999.
My meeting on my last night in Caracas with my friend Jacobo Torres and with Carlos Lopez, both leaders of the Central Socialista Bolivariana de Trabajadores (CSBT), gives a good glimpse into why the capitalist class is eager to destroy the Venezuelan revolution.
Jacobo and Carlos explained to me that, through the efforts of the two-million-member CSBT union in dialogue with President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan workers are now receiving the benefit of one of the most far-reaching and progressive labor laws in the world. This labor law, which was signed into effect on May 1, 2012, was the product of a convention of 4500 worker delegates who made 19,000 proposals to President Chavez for the new law which, they explained, had the purpose of "overcoming the capitalist weaknesses in the Venezuela law" which had governed labor relations in the past.
Amongst other things, the new law
- forbids employers from firing any worker (including non-union) without just cause;
- requires businesses to share at least 15 percent of their profits with the workers;
- requires employers to pay workers severance if they lose their job for any reason;
- gives workers the right to continue running factories which employers may decide to stop operating;
- limits the work week to 40 hours and requires that workers be given two successive days off from work a week;
- grants 6 months of parental leave to mothers and 15 days to fathers, gives mothers who return to work 1.5 hours per day to breast feed and gives new fathers and mothers absolute protection from discharge for the first 2 years after the birth of their child;
- forbids all sub-contracting beginning in 2017.
As Jacobo and Carlos explained, the destiny of the Venezuelan workers and unions are intimately tied to that of the revolution and Nicolas Maduro -- the first "worker president" of Venezuela.
The Venezuelan and U.S. ruling class are quite aware of this fact as well, and are therefore bent on destroying this revolution which represents, in the words of Noam Chomsky, "the threat of a good example." And, they see the narrow victory of Maduro as an opportunity to do just that.
For the good of workers everywhere, we must defend Venezuela and its revolution at this critical juncture in their history.
Daniel Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the National Lawyers Guild and has been accompanying the electoral process in Venezuela as a member of the Guild.
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Chef Patricio Sandoval, the critically acclaimed chef behind the Mercadito restaurant group with outposts in New York, Chicago and Miami, didn’t have to travel far to find inspiration for today’s meatless Monday recipe, his famous arroz verde: “I grew up eating it in Mexico because my mother and my grandmother made it often,” recalls the Acapulco native. “It’s a very traditional rice casserole.” Like many of the dishes on his restaurant menu, he confesses it’s “not ‘my recipe.’ It’s a recipe you see all over Mexico, just served in a slightly different, more refined way.”
Chef Patricio Sandoval
Not all that surprising given Sandoval’s culinary legacy: he grew up the son of a restaurant owner and is the brother of the wildly successful chef, Richard Sandoval, who has restaurants worldwide. “My father had a restaurant for 30 years. I spent a lot of evenings there and all my birthday parties were there,” he says. “But I was the only one in my family who thought I would not go into the kitchen. In fact, I didn’t start my culinary career until I was 23, when I started working with Richard.” After a few months in the kitchen with his brother, Patricio enrolled in at New York’s prestigious French Culinary Institute, where he refined his techniques and learned to take Mexican food to a new level. He opened Mercadito in New York nine years ago, then started his expansion to Chicago and Miami three years ago. “Culinary school taught me a lot about how to treat food and ingredients,” he says. “And it taught me about the importance of the little details and consistency. I am very proud that nine years later we’re still considered one of the top Mexican places in New York.”
His arroz verde, which has been on the Mercadito menu since the very beginning, also remains one of his most popular dishes. “The classic dish is very simple,” Sandoval says. “It calls for garlic, cilantro and poblano. But I added green bell pepper and some epazote for a little more depth. I also added some heavy cream and topped it with a cheese blend that creates a nice crust and gives it great texture.” It makes a great side dish, or vegetarian main course.
Arroz Verde (Green rice casserole with Oaxaca and Manchego cheeses)
1 ea. poblano pepper, cut and deveined
1 ea. green bell pepper, cut and deveined
5 ea. garlic cloves, whole
2 small onions, one sliced, the other diced
3/8 cup epazote, roughly chopped
¾ cup cilantro
2 ½ water
3 T butter
2 cups Carolina long grain rice
Salt to taste
7 oz. Manchego cheese, finely grated
4 oz. Gouda cheese, finely grated
7 oz. Oaxaca cheese, finely grated
8 T heavy cream
1 ea. poblano pepper, cut and deveined
1 ea. green bell pepper, cut and deveined
5 ea. garlic cloves, whole
2 small onions, one sliced, the other diced
3/8 cup epazote, roughly chopped
¾ cup cilantro
2 ½ water
3 T butter
2 cups Carolina long grain rice
Salt to taste
7 oz. Manchego cheese, finely grated
4 oz. Gouda cheese, finely grated
7 oz. Oaxaca cheese, finely grated
8 T heavy cream
1. Make the green stock. In a blender, blend the peppers, garlic cloves, the sliced onions, epazote, cilantro and water until there are no visible chunks and mixture is smooth. Set aside.
2. In a large pot, melt butter over medium heat cook the diced onions until translucent. Add the green stock and season with salt. It should taste like seawater. Bring to a boil, add rice and let boil again. Lower heat to low and cover with foil. Cook for 45 minutes. DO NOT PEAK!
3. Meanwhile, in medium bowl combine the grated cheeses and set aside.
4. When the rice is cooked, put in a large bowl and combine with 1 T of cheese mixture and heavy cream; mix well.
5. When ready to serve, spoon rice into a shallow baking dish. Top with remaining cheese and bake 4 to 5 minutes in a 300 degree F oven, until cheese is crispy.
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