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...into the public record in 1971, is just thrilled that his candidacy has given his idea so much attention - and by "so much," he means any at all. Just being a big party candidate and getting in the debates imparts a certain amount of fame. At the National Latino Congreso in L.A. back in October, he got to speak to 200 people right before the mayor, since they invited all the candidates and only he and Dennis Kucinich showed up - and Kucinich was late. "The day I filed for office I got more attention on the initiative than...
Cuando en 1980, Bill Richardson se postul? por primera vez para el congreso, un consejero le sugiri? que para la campa?a usara su nombre completo, Bill Richardson L?pez, ya que su madre era mexicana y en los pa?ses de habla hispana el apellido de la madre siempre va detr?s de el del padre. ?Demasiado obvio?, replic? Richardson. Hoy en d?a, como primer gobernador hispano de la naci?n, el pol?tico nacido en Nuevo M?xico sabe exactamente c?mo y cu?ndo mostrar sus ra?ces. "No, no me voy a postular para la presidencia?, dijo en junio ante una audiencia de latinos...
...start, everything seemed shipshape. Evita Perón planned to stage-manage the convention as if it were a Peronista rally. Inspecting the high-domed Congreso a few days before the convention opened, imperious Evita acted as if she owned the place. She announced when she would speak, decided where she would sit. She had already proclaimed that she would furnish some of the convention props. Among them: a portrait of Argentina's Liberator José de San Martin, a crucifix, a vellum-bound copy of the Gospels, and most important, a chair of native pipiribi wood with President...
Around Argentina's big marble Palacio del Congreso, Perón lined up 700 cops, then told the deputies inside to okay the Act of Chapultepec and the United Nations Charter. Grudgingly, the nationalist majority obeyed...
President Juan Antonio Rios last week opened a troubled session of the Chilean Congress. Orderly lines of soldiers, orderly crowds saluted him on his way through Santiago's streets to the Congreso Nacional. But the situation confronting him in Congress was far from orderly. Chile, democratic island in predominantly undemocratic South America, was struggling with the problems of democracy...