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...countryside the Sandinistas grabbed ranches and farms. Wilfredo Lopez Palma, an assembly deputy, took 2,650 acres in the department of Rivas. Luis Felipe Perez, the Sandinista mayor of the city of Leon, acquired a 600-acre farm. Mario Hurtado Jimenez, who headed the state Corporation of Aviculture, leased a chicken farm to himself on easy-to-pay terms. His rent: 500 dozen eggs a month...
...immigrants at the frontier. But human-rights activists say San Diego's racial attacks are a microcosm of hate crimes flaring nationally. In one of several attacks involving white youths, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, was questioned last May and remains a suspect in connection with the death of Emilio Jimenez, 12. The boy was shot as he crossed a field not far from the site of the protest and within range of Cuen's home...
BOSTON--Some 200 marchers braved rainy, gusty weather last night to attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Rosie Jimenez, a Texas woman who died in 1977 from complications resulting from an illegal abortion...
...last month, she suspended a Sandinista-passed law that prohibits firing government workers, most of whom are FSLN supporters. With public buses idle and the airport closed, the government gave way by Thursday, agreeing to a 100% pay hike and promising not to dismiss anyone. Said union leader Lucio Jimenez: "I hope the government learned something from this...
Advocates of language pluralism counter that English-only laws are thinly veiled and discriminatory anti-immigrant measures. "((They)) are not intended to help bring people in, or to teach them English, but to keep them out," maintains Martha Jimenez of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They prevent people from having meaningful access to the government to which they pay their taxes." Furthermore, say the pluralists, such laws are unnecessary: in the U.S. no one is more aware of the social, political and economic importance of learning English than those who cannot speak...