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PCUN was founded in 1985 to help organize farmworkers. Taking inspiration from Caesar Chavez, the organization helped a group of farmworkers sign the first collective bargaining agreement with growers...
It’s little wonder, then, that Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has been getting cozy with the U.S. State Department’s usual suspects, Cuba and Iraq, and has been persuading other Latin American leaders to follow suit. At a recent conference in China, he denounced Americans as cold-blooded “imperialists,” making the developing world even less receptive to American tourism...
...training the next Martin Luther King, Jr. or Cesar Chavez,” said Gary Orfield, co-director of Harvard’s Civil Rights Project, one of the three programs sponsoring CRS. The other two sponsors are the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
...circumventing Tijuana and going right to Los Angeles without paying the Arellanos' fee--as proved by last month's record U.S. seizure of 13 tons of cocaine being ferried overseas by Ukrainians. No one is suggesting that the era of the Tijuana cartel is over, but as DEA agent Chavez says, "We're definitely pushing back...
...have the most satisfying job in Juarez," says Arturo Chavez. He drives what the locals call a pipa, or water pipe. For poor Mexican neighborhoods like Anapra, a desert slum of 5,000 families with no water or sewer lines, tanker trucks like Chavez's are the only source of water clean enough for drinking and bathing. So when pipa No. 415 pulls up over the dunes, it's a community event: families emerge from their shanties as if to greet a rich uncle bearing gifts. Chavez pumps 500 gal. of free water into concrete cubes called pilas, which...