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Comenz? su carrera como el constructor m?s importante de viviendas econ?micas en La Florida pero en los ?ltimos 26 a?os, el urbanizador Jorge P?rez se ha convertido en el Donald Trump del tr?pico, con casi 50 edificios de condominios en diferentes etapas de construcci?n en el sur de la Florida, Fort Myers y Las Vegas. Su compa??a, Related Group of Florida, report? $2.1 mil millones en ganancias en el 2004, colocando a P?rez en el tope mismo de la lista de los 500 hispanos m?s relevantes del mundo de los negocios. En algunas de sus lujosas torres, se han vendido...
...doesn't hit the air until July 24, but the new Caracas-based regional television network Telesur is already being called the Latin al-Jazeera. Like the Qatar-based network, which since its debut in 1996 has become the broadcasting voice of the Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Chávez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration...
...constitutional debate should cite the French Revolution to bolster their case." You should have mentioned a key worry of many French citizens: the "democratic deficit," or the lack of democratic legitimacy of nonelected E.U. bodies, some of which have more authority than they merit. Françoise Blin Vers sur Selle, France The critical issues at stake during the debate on the E.U. constitution included increased unemployment, the loss of social advantages, offshore industries, cheap imports from countries with low labor costs and increased immigration. It was rare, however, that one heard of the progress that has been made since...
...were killed when security forces moved against a protest in the town of Escalante, 310 miles south of Manila. The violence was not only on the government's side. Last week gunmen believed to be members of a Communist death squad assassinated Gregorio Murillo, the governor of Surigao del Sur province on Mindanao. Murillo, 58, was the highest civilian official killed by rebels this year...
...early 1944 an officer from the SS second division, some of whose members are buried at Kolmeshöhe, was shot by a French resistance sniper. In retaliation, soldiers from the division rounded up the inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane, a nearby village, and massacred all 642 of them, including 207 children. They then burned the town to the ground. During the Battle of the Bulge, a Waffen SS battle group from the first division gunned down 71 American prisoners of war captured at Malmédy, Belgium, 40 miles northwest of Bitburg. Afterward, boisterous SS men used the bodies for target...