Word: vez
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...Infante releases, a cover sticker reads: "Por PRIMERA VEZ EN DVD EN EE. UU.!" (For the first time ever on DVD in the U.S.!) That's the first hint that this collection is aimed primarily at those Mexican-Americans who already know Infante as a legend or a loving memory -though it's available at amazon.com and, I'm assured, at Blockbuster and other large stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen...
Calderón's act is going over well in Washington too. After 100 days on the job, he is emerging as President George W. Bush's anti-Chávez--a conservative counterweight to a resurgent Latin American left led by Venezuela's gringo-bashing President Hugo Chávez. Leftists won seven of 11 Latin presidential elections last year, and Calderón beat his left-wing opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by only half a percentage point. Losing Mexico, the U.S.'s third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush...
...when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat López Obrador. "Calderón is an up-by-the-bootstraps story and has always gone against the odds," says political analyst Federico Estévez of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "To a lot of people, that's what Mexico needs at this fragile stage of its democracy...
...Person of the Year should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...
...Then Who? The person of the year [Dec. 25, 2006?Jan. 1, 2007] should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...