MEXICO CITY - The Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Mexico for a meeting today with President Vicente Fox in a bid to quash tensions following an inflammatory comment by the Mexican leader about American blacks. Jackson arrived in Mexico on Tuesday, the same day Mexico's Assistant Foreign Secretary, Patricia Olamendi, issued a formal apology for the president's remark that Mexicans take jobs that "not even" blacks want in the United States. Olamendi said: "If anyone felt offended by the statement, I offer apologies on behalf of my government.
THE good news from the American Tort Reform Association is that West Virginia is no longer the nations worst judicial hellhole. The state has dropped to No. 4. Two professors at West Virginia University disagree that the state is overly litigious, and point out that the number of civil suits filed here has fallen. The association agrees that progress has been made, thanks to reforms begun by the state in 2003 with changes in medical malpractice. But the number of cases is not the best way to quantify the problems created by hostile legal atmospheres. As the Washington Examiner pointed out in a recent editorial, even winning a case can be a loser for the defendant. The District of Columbia got a well- deserved Dishonorable Mention for a widely ridiculed case involving former administrati...
I am troubled by some of the statements of Amando Solorzano in the article on "Church and Immigrants" (Oct. 14): First, "Latinos do not think of themselves as illegal immigrants, Solorzano says, 'It doesn't matter if I go to my sacred land illegally or legally. What matters is my spirituality.' " So why do the "spiritual immigrants" hide out or why not ask for religious refuge? Second, Solorzano says: "Somewhere in the back of Mexican people's minds, they fantasize about the idea that the LDS Church will apologize for taking the territory." I don't believe for a moment that the majority of immigrants think, or even care, about the Mormons coming into Mexican territory in 1847. The fantasy is in Solorzano's mind. And what apology has ever come to the native people from Spain or Mexico fo...
Armando Solorzano is waiting for the LDS Church to apologize to Mexico for the illegal immigration of persecuted Mormons to Utah ("Calling Utah home," Oct. 14). Two points: If today's immigrants from Mexico were fleeing a government that had determined to kill them for their religion (such as the so-called Extermination Order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs in 1838), we Americans would welcome them as political refugees seeking asylum. And the Navajos and other Native American tribes are still waiting for Mexico's apology for illegally claiming their territory in the first place. Rich LaRocco
Syrian troops storm neighborhoods BEIRUT - Syrian troops stormed a restive neighborhood in Homs on Monday, kicking in doors and making house-to-house arrests in an area that has spiraled out of government control after nearly a week of deadly assaults, activists said.
...Mexico sorry for not protecting women. CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mex...The apology is a response to a 2009 ruling by the Interamerica...
MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox tried to smooth relations with the U.S. black community Wednesday after saying Mexican immigrants take jobs that "not even" blacks want, promising to work with the Rev. Jesse Jackson to improve labor rights for minorities in the United States. The meeting between Fox and Jackson at the presidential residence was a sharp contrast from a few days ago, when Jackson called on the Mexican president to issue a public apology.
MEXICO CITY (AP) President Vicente Fox again refused to issue a formal apology Monday for remarks about blacks that some people construed as racist, but he accepted an invitation from a U.S. civil rights activist to meet with blacks in New York. After meeting with Fox, the Rev. Al Sharpton said the president still needed to apologize for saying Mexican migrants take jobs that "not even blacks" want in the United States. But he also said he would join Fox in pushing for U.S. migration reforms that would favor Mexican workers.
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...Mexico City mayor. demands apology. MEXICO CITY - Mexico ...
Every circus has its sideshows. And this year, the state Capitol was crawling with them.
... are determined to reclaim this area for Mexico," the letter said. Offended, Latino Democrats callled for a public apology and denounced Klein and Pearce, who had distribute...
MEXICO CITY -- Two Indian women freed by Mexico's Supreme Court for lack of evidence after spending almost four years in prison on kidnapping charges demanded a public apology Thursday. Otomi Indians Alberta Alcantara Juan and Teresa Gonzalez Cornelio, whose case drew international outrage, said that if Mexico wants to repair the damage done, the very least that officials should do is recognize and acknowledge the mistake.
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