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...organizations voiced a variety of concerns related to U.S. policies regarding Latin America besides the SOA. These included: U.S. military exercises at Vieques in Puerto Rico; a $1.3 billion military aid package to Colombia; and construction of U.S. military bases in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic...
Rodriguez's father (now deceased) hailed from Puerto Rico, and her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She was raised in both places and in Texas and New Jersey to boot. She dropped out of high school in ninth grade but later got a G.E.D. Her decision to go into acting came after one of her two older brothers told her to get a job. "I don't like working at anything I don't like to do," she says. "I figured, Why not become an actress so I can see what it's all about and meet people...
...odds seemed stacked against Rodriguez. Born in Texas to a Puerto Rican dad and a Dominican mom, she bounced around the Caribbean, then moved to Jersey City, N.J., before reaching her teens. Her dad died early on, so she spent her teen years living with her mother and grandmom, both devout Jehovah's Witnesses. She struggled for years to express herself creatively, and she had a hard time at school - she was expelled at least a half-dozen times...
...should take the lead in lobbying the nation's capital on behalf of technology interests. Not so. Executives who live just outside the Washington Beltway had to be dragged into the political fray by Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Manatt struggled for years to organize the executives but didn't get it done until a conference of business leaders from the Potomac River region last year led to a breakthrough. "It was a difficult sell, and it still isn't easy," Manatt says...
...representative of something I want to comment on," says Wright, 34, "a self-absorption and a nihilism which I see in our culture now." While members of the Latino community complained last week about the sometimes comical accent he uses for the Dominican bad guy, Wright insists he "did it that way to point out that Peoples wasn't assimilated...