Word: pescador
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...during the 1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic cleansing. ``History is taught one way in Mexico and another way in the U.S.,'' says former Public Education Secretary Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, consul in Los Angeles. ``It is our psychological trauma that the U.S. robbed us. But in the U.S. textbooks portray Mexicans as bandits who invaded Texas...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
When members of Bogotá's Tolima colony recently brought the bambuco to the capital, instructors had to show the city folk how the bambuco was done. But that was all that was needed. By last week city slickers whistled Pescador, Guabina Chiquinquirena and other mountain favorites as if they had known them all their lives...
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