Word: hernandez
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...classic example is the letter which Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle recently released. Commenting on two recent incidents of racial insensitivity, she asked the campus to pay attention to its language, so as not to make others feel excluded. But the incidents she described trace the line from the old racism to the new perception of insensitivity. To many, the letter was a parody of the kind of demands which minorities now make...
...hope that we ourselves embrace the hopes for a just society so persistently fought for by Martin Luther King, whose day was being celebrated at the time when one of the incidents occured. The incidents described above demonstrate the need for continuous efforts to stop bigotry and racism. Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle Assistant Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs
...former secretary-general and current strongman of the 200,000-member oilworkers union, Hernandez, nicknamed La Quina, had built up a personal fortune and a large following among those beholden to him for jobs, education and health care. Many of the area's poor people regarded him as something of a Mexican Robin Hood. The enmity between Salinas and Hernandez dates back to the President's tenure as Secretary of Planning and Federal Budget in the administration of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. At that time, Salinas accused both the oil union and Pemex, the state oil company, of inefficiency...
Immediately after the raid, the government announced it had found 200 automatic weapons and 30,000 rounds of ammunition in Hernandez's house. Hernandez and his colleagues were quickly flown to Mexico City, where they were arraigned on charges of illegally possessing weapons, resisting arrest and killing a police officer...
...raid, coming just over a month after President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office following a campaign that promised major political and economic reforms, fueled speculation that Hernandez's arrest was the government's opening shot in its efforts to control the country's powerful unions. For much of its 59 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) has given considerable autonomy to union leaders in exchange for industrial peace and delivering votes at election time...