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...United States stands alone (together with El Salvador, Zaire and Costa Rica) in recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. All the other countries who have diplomatic ties with Israel have refused to do so, and have their embassies based in Tel-Aviv rather than Jerusalem. (Currently, the U.S. has its embassy in Tel-Aviv, but that is likely to change given the change in policy towards Jerusalem...
...More than half of the children are first generation," says Myers. "Many of them are Haitian. We have some from the Carribean Islands, Trinidad, Ethiopia, El Salvador and two from the Barbados...
...wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. The downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they are in the county, police and sanitation services are poor, and increasingly businesses don't see it as worth it," says Gene Stearns, a Miami lawyer and community activist...
...Cold War pattern, the atrocities committed by America's right-wing and reactionary allies were ignored or even encouraged and praised using twisted anti-communist logic. For example, the Reagan administration pretended that the rape, torture and murder of civilians ranging from students to nuns in El Salvador was merely a legitimate attempt to resist Soviet encroachment in the Western hemisphere. These myths were also propagated by the mass media...
East Jerusalem remains under international law as an occupied territory indistinguishable in status from West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel stands virtually alone in the international community (with the exception of El Salvador, Zaire and Costa Rica) in declaring the city as its unified capital. In the midst of Israeli rhetoric, Netanyahu confirms the real motives behind the opening of the tunnel as an "expression of our [Israeli] sovereignty over Jerusalem...