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...priority even on the more internationalist side of that equation. That much was underscored, too, in the fact that Bush used some important media time during his EU summit day to trawl for Latino votes back home by ordering the Navy to close down its bombing range of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
After years of local resistance - and a few months of high-profile protests and arrests - the U.S. has decided to end Navy training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
...goal: to own the coveted stretch of desert from Tijuana to Mexicali. During a 1992 summit of Mexican druglords at a Sinaloa ranch, they raised the fees charged to others for using their turf. In response, rival druglord Joaquin (Chapo) Guzman sent gunmen to kill the Arellanos at a Puerto Vallarta disco. As bullets rained, the brothers escaped through a bathroom skylight (after struggling to shove Ramon through it). To retaliate, they targeted Chapo the following year at the Guadalajara airport--and mistakenly killed Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, who arrived in a car similar to Chapo...
...York taught me that culturally I was more than a Mexicana. There were Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on my street; I went to school with them, along with Cubans, Argentines and Peruvians; I bumped into Salvadoran and Chilean refugees in community centers. I began to see that I was part of a continent--from Patagonia to el Caribe. I still called myself a Mexicana, but I came to consider myself something bigger, a Latina without borders...
...also a New Yorker. Fast forward 10 years to the summer of 1989. I was working the overnight shift at CBS network radio and living in Spanish Harlem, in the heart of the Puerto Rican barrio. One steaming summer night at 4 a.m., on my way to work, I rolled down the window of the cab and heard ranchera music blaring out of a boom box. A small group of Mexicanos was singing along with a melancholy tune. My sleepy eyes popped open, my head shot out the window, and I gave a little grito. I was witnessing history...