Word: cabral
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...?ngeles en mas de 130 a?os, diera luz a una nueva era para los latinos, que hist?ricamente han tenido poca representaci?n en la pol?tica. Pero Villaraigosa pronto indic? que sus planes eran para m?s de un grupo ?tnico. En un almuerzo con 200 dirigentes latinos, entre ?stos Anna Escobedo Cabral, tesorera de EE.UU. y Rub?n Barrales, segundo asistente al presidente Bush, dijo que ?La cuesti?n no es el poder latino. Es c?mo construir una coalici?n?. Dos horas despu?s, ech? otro cubo de agua fr?a al declarar en una reuni?n de m?s de 1,000 activistas del partido dem?crata que ve?a...
...heated race in Boston, incumbent Andrea Cabral defeated City Councilor Stephen Murphy for sheriff of Suffolk County. Cabral, who now faces no Republican challenger in November, will serve another six-year term after becoming the state’s first female sheriff...
...Anna Cabral, president of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility, in Washington, argues that board performance will improve as long as minority recruiting is part of a larger move to choose directors based on skills rather than title. Before last year, Cabral says, she got perhaps one phone call a month from someone looking for a Hispanic director, and the wish was almost always for a well-known figure with board experience at a marquee company. Now the calls come every week, and the primary desire is for expertise in, say, finance or marketing...
...boys' school, published in 1963) and Conversation in the Cathedral (entrenched corruption in Lima, 1969) foreshadow the harsh realism of this latest book. There are two main story lines. One is the sorrowful history of the Trujillo era, ending with his assassination. The other is the tale of Urania Cabral, a handsome New York City lawyer who returns to the Dominican Republic after a 30-year absence to visit her dying father and exorcise her demons...
...Cabral grounds the novel in intimate experience. Trujillo charges the narrative with his malignity. He was an avid racial cleanser. In 1937 he ordered the massacre of thousands of Haitians who settled on the wrong side of the border between the two countries. His murderous chief of police, Johnny Abbes, made sure that the Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping...