Word: julio
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...already wholly controlled by Chavez allies, next week the assembly plans to pass an "Enabling Law" that will give Chavez broad powers to pass the laws he wants by decree. "We think a democracy needs autonomous powers, and you're giving the president all the control," opposition leader Julio Montoya, a former lawmaker, told legislators this week...
...Julio D. Montejo ’10 anxiously eyed his computer screen, preparing for the worst. Having applied to UCLA last year, Montejo worried that he might receive an e-mail notifying him that he was one of the 800,000 students whose personal information might have been accessed by a hacker who penetrated UCLA’s applicant database over the past year. After a tense interlude, Montejo relaxed. “Apparently, I’m safe,” he said. He was one of the lucky ones. Bearing the subject line, “UCLA Warns...
...Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Jorge Julio Lopez, 77, a former torture victim and retired construction worker, was reported missing from his home on the last day of a trial in which he'd testified against his torturer, former police commissioner Miguel Etchecolatz, who ran clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship. His apparent abduction has sent a chill down the spines of many Argentines, unsettled by memories of the state of terror imposed by the military in the 1970s. Lopez's disappearance "has touched a sensitive nerve in society," said an editorial in Clarin, Argentina's largest-selling newspaper. "It revives fears...
...Workers in the Vineyard TIME's July 17 issue reported that wines are being put out by everyone from golf pros to porn stars. Long before the celebrity marketing trend, bottles bore the names of our Nov. 27, 1972, cover boys, Ernest and Julio Gallo, the post-Prohibition pioneers of the U.S. wine industry...