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Nestor Torres can seen playing at Yoshi’s

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Standing on the shoulders of flute giants from worlds as diverse as Rampal & Galway in Classical Music; Richard Egues’ Cuban Charanga style; rocker Ian Anderson’s Jethro Tull; Herbie Mann and – most influential of all – Hubert Laws as pioneers of Jazz Flute, Latin Grammy Award winning Nestor Torres’ rhythmic and mellifluous flute sound remains apart in a class all by itself.

His 14 recordings as a soloist; 4 Latin Grammy nominations, one Grammy nomination and one Latin Grammy Award; collaborations with diverse artists such as Gloria Estefan, Kenny Loggins, Dave Mathews, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, Michael Camilo, Paquito D’ Rivera and Arturo Sandoval; as well as performances with the Cleveland, Singapore, and New World Symphony Orchestras among many others, are testament to the remarkable journey of an Artist who continues to grow and enrich the lives of those who experience his talents.

At Oakland’s Yoshi’s on Tue April 9. Doors open at 7:30 p.m./Show: 8 p.m.

National Poetry Month
World renowned poets grace the Library’s stages

April is National Poetry Month and the San Francisco Public Library has scheduled abundant programs to entice the entire community. From readings by world renowned poets to films about national poets laureate, from poems in your pocket to blackout poetry crafts, the Library has something for everyone in honor of National Poetry Month.

The celebration kicks-off on April 2 with a Poetry in Song Concert. Singers perform art-song arrangements of poetry by Victor Hugo, John Masefield, Friedrich Rückert, Albert Samain, Paul-Armand Silvestre, Théophile de Viau and others, with live piano accompaniment by Britton Day.

On April 9, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck hosts an event celebrating Maya Angelou with local poets reading their own work, as well as Angelou’s own poems.

On April 11, the Library celebrates National Poetry Month with a screening of short documentary films about two famous Poets Laureate of the United States. Rita Dove: An American Poet is a portrait of the African American poet and essayist who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate is a humorous, engaging documentary about the man who has been called “the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim.” Collins served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003.

Tiburon Film Society will present “The Jazz Ambassadors”

The Jazz Ambassadors tells the little-known story of when America deployed jazz legends like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman, along with their mixed-race bands, to fight on the front lines of the Cold War, giving the Civil Rights Movement a voice on the world stage when it most needed one.

Drawing on an incredible performance archive and detailed personal accounts of the tours, as well as cinematic re-constructions of crucial sequences, the 90-minute film immerses viewers in this thrilling journey, accompanied by a truly swinging soundtrack.

Admission is FREE and open to the public. At the Tiburon Library located at 1501 Tiburon Boulevard in Tiburon, on Thursday, April 11, 2019 @ 6:30 p.m.

Greening Economic Summit

This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.

From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland.

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The great big Autism obfuscation

by Jon Rappoport

“How is a self-contained world built? Well, you can take a major situation which has an obvious cause, and then relabel the situation with a new name and say the cause is unknown. Then you can claim you’re looking for the cause, and you can keep looking and stalling for 50 years.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport).

First of all, there is NO definitive evidence that autism is a specific condition with a single cause.

If you doubt this, look up the definition of autism in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and try to find a definitive lab test that leads to a diagnosis of autism. There is no such test.

That means there is no confirmed cause of autism. And THAT means there is no proof autism is a single and specific condition.

Like other so-called developmental disorders or neurological disorders, autism is a collection of behaviors and symptoms, clustered together by committees of psychiatrists.

Basically, what is being called autism is DAMAGE. Various forms of neurological damage.

This means the cause(s) could be coming from a variety of places.

For example, vaccines can and do cause damage.

Neurological damage, brain damage.

Parents of damaged children know this. There were there. They saw their children before vaccination and after vaccination.

Everything else claimed about these children is diversion. High-class sophisticated deceptive diversion.

For example: shuffling various disease and disorder labels; studies claiming there is no link between vaccines and autism; the hoops the government makes parents jump through, in order to try to obtain financial compensation for their damaged children; the legal deal allowing vaccine manufacturers to avoid law suits; the invented cover stories claiming autism begins in utero or is a genetic disorder; the pretension that autism has even been defined—
All lies. All avoidances.

A child gets a vaccine. The child suffers brain damage. That happens.

That’s the truth which the government buries in a mountain of obfuscation.

In general, how much damage do vaccines cause every year in the US?

Unsurprisingly, there is no reliable count.

For a sane reference, see “In the Wake of Vaccines,” by Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the private National Vaccine Information Center. Her article was published in the Sept./Oct. 2004 issue of Mothering Magazine.

Gathering information from several sources, Fisher makes a reasonable estimate of vaccine damage—actual figures are not available or carefully tracked or vetted. The system for reporting adverse effects is broken.

Fisher: “But how many children have [adverse] vaccine reactions every year? Is it really only one in 110,000 or one in a million who are left permanently disabled after vaccination? Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler observed in 1993 that less than 1 percent of doctors report adverse events following prescription drug use. [See DA Kessler, ‘Introducing MEDWatch,’ [JAMA, June 2, 1993: 2765-2768]”

“There have been estimates that perhaps less than 5 or 10 percent of doctors report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths, or other serious health problems following vaccination. The 1986 Vaccine Injury Act contained no legal sanctions for not reporting; doctors can refuse to report and suffer no consequences.”

“Even so, each year about 12,000 reports [of vaccine damage] are made to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; parents as well as doctors can make those reports. [See RT Chen, B. Hibbs, ‘Vaccine safety,’ Pediatric Annals, July 1998: 445-458]”

“However, if that number represents only 10 percent of what is actually occurring, then the actual number may be 120,000 vaccine-adverse events [damage]. If doctors report vaccine reactions as infrequently as Dr. Kessler said they report prescription-drug reactions, and the number 12,000 is only 1 percent of the actual total, then the real number may be 1.2 million vaccine-adverse events annually.”

Then why does the government say, over and over, that vaccines are safe?

Because they want to lie.

What about all the studies that show this vaccine and that vaccine are safe?

The following quote will give you a clue. The writer is an insider’s insider, and a doctor. She’s scrutinized more published medical studies than all the “highly educated” science-blog writers in the world put together.

Dr. Marcia Angell, for 20 years, was the editor of the most prestigious medical journal in America.
On January 15, 2009, the NY Review of Books published Dr. Angell’s devastating assessment of medical literature:

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” (Marcia Angell, MD, “Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption.” NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.)

Vaccine damage is being called autism.

It diverts attention from the grave harm vaccines are causing.

Autism is essentially any kind of severe neurological damage a child suffers from unknown causes.
When the cause is obvious and known—as in the case of vaccines—the names and labels are changed:
To protect the guilty.

(Jon Rappoport is Tthe author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

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Opposition gives Ortega six days to accept elections

by Donaldo Hernández
VOA

MANAGUA – Negotiations between the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the government of President Daniel Ortega are at their most tense, because the president has not ruled on the demand of various sectors to accept the advance of elections to solve the socio-political crisis that is almost one year old.

The chancellor Denis Moncada assured that the possibility of advancing elections was not an issue that “is on the negotiation table”, arguing that this would imply “a violation of the Political Constitution and (create) a bad precedent for future governments”.
“The current Constitution in our country establishes clearly defined presidential periods (…) imagine, what will happen if we use as a method, as a precedent to be ahead of the elections to each president that can be produced over time, would be very difficult thus strengthen democracy, “said Moncada.

Hours later, representatives of the opposition in the national dialogue spoke at a press conference, where they said they would give him six days for the Nicaraguan president to accept the advance of elections, as requested by the opposition coalition. as well as the United States government.

“The negotiation has points or red lines: absolute and unconditional freedom of political prisoners and advancement of elections. If there is not that, there is no possibility of another negotiation, “said Azahalea Solis, substitute member at the negotiating table.
So far, the Ortega government has only accepted the release of political prisoners, as well as agreements to restore rights and guarantees, established in the Nicaraguan Constitution but that have ceased to apply, according to the opposition.
Within the rights and guarantees the opposition alliance to Ortega has demanded freedom of mobilization, as well as freedom of expression, and have directly requested that the television media 100% Noticias, as well as the writing of the weekly Confidential, be returned to their owners.

Likewise, the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy requested that the raw material of national newspapers that have been detained for six months in the Customs Directorate, in Managua, be delivered to prevent them from ceasing to circulate.
Marco Rubio: “Advanced elections that are free and inclusive”
On the negotiations in Nicaragua, US Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, expressed his opinion on his Twitter account stating that the government of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, must meet at least five conditions.
1. Unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners.
2. Freedom of expression and mobilization.
3. Security guarantees for the return of exiles.
4. Disarmament of irregular paramilitary groups.
5. Advance elections that are free and inclusive.
On Wednesday, April 3, it is planned to know if President Daniel Ortega will accept the advance of “free and transparent” elections. Otherwise the representation of the opposition in the dialogue will abandon the negotiations.
The international community is pending the talks in Nicaragua, considering that it is the only way to find a peaceful solution to the sociopolitical crisis that according to international human rights organizations has left 325 dead, thousands of injured and more than 60,000 Nicaraguan exiles.

AMLO’s request for apology by Spain criticized, ridiculed and defended

One lawmaker suggested seeking an apology from the CNTE teachers’ union for disrupting Congress

by Mexico News Daily

President López Obrador has come under fire from opposition lawmakers and others for his request to the king of Spain and Pope Francis that they apologize for the conquest of Mexico.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Senator and former interior secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong appeared to question the president’s sanity in light of López Obrador’s revelation that he sent the two men a letter “to ask that they make an account of the injustices and apologize to the indigenous peoples for the violations” committed “with the cross and the sword” during the conquest.

“President Andrés Manuel López Obrador should be subjected to constant medical evaluation,” Osorio said. “That apology that he requested from the king of Spain and the Vatican about the conquest, that’s out of order.”
Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera said that López Obrador’s apology request only served to drive Mexico and Spain apart and damage “the friendly relationship” that the two countries enjoy today.
The former Mexico City mayor also charged that by making his request public, the president had sought and succeeded in diverting attention from more pressing issues.
“Now we’re all talking about this issue,” Mancera said.

National Action Party (PAN) Senator Mauricio Kuri also contended that López Obrador’s intention was to distract people from focusing on issues of real importance such as security and corruption at Pemex.
“…Why is he diverting attention to other issues instead of looking at what’s happening in his government,” he said.

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California Congressman introduces resolution honoring the life of César Chávez

by the El Reportero’s wire services

California Senator Tony Cárdenas introduced on Thursday, March 28, a resolution in the House of Representatives recognizing the late farmworkers champion César Chávez.

This resolution honors the life of the labor leader who organized migrant and farm laborers in the western United States.

“I am thankful that 70 of my colleagues in Congress have committed to support this bill, and will advocate for its passage in the People’s House,” Cárdenas said
He said his father came to this country to work as a farm laborer, and his parents worked hard to support our family. Chávez fought for respect and human rights for all workers, regardless of how humble their job was.
César Chávez once said, “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity for our community.” That’s what I work to do every day to make sure my constituents and all Americans have access to the American Dream.

Chávez is perhaps best known for founding the National Farm Workers Association, which became the United Farm Workers of America.

In 1994, Chávez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2012, President Obama declared March 31st, Chávez’s birthday, as César Chávez Day and, later that year, directed the Secretary of the Interior to establish a César Chávez National Monument in Keene, Calif.

Cárdenas’ legislation recognizes the accomplishments and example set by Chávez, pledges to promote Chávez’s legacy, encourages the people of the United States to commemorate that legacy and honors Chávez’s famous rallying cry, “Sí se puede!” Spanish for “Yes, we can!”

50% of organized crime orchestrated from prison cells: Durazo
Public security secretary blames corruption in the system

Half of all organized crime in Mexico is planned inside jails due to corruption in the prison system, according to the federal public security secretary.

“Unfortunately, the prisons in the country are marked by corruption and the high rates of corruption sadly translate into 50 percent of organized crime being run from within prison facilities. This is an example of the challenge we have in front of us,” Alfonso Durazo said.

The secretary said that acknowledging the reality does not reflect poorly on the current government because it is not responsible for creating the situation. However, it does have an obligation to solve the problem, Durazo added.

The official also acknowledged the wider problem of corruption in Mexico, ironically describing Mexico’s low position on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index as a “feat” of past governments.
“In the year 2000… Mexico was in 53rd place on the worldwide corruption rankings, six years later, the government of president [Vicente] Fox left our country in 70th place. Six years later, the government of Felipe Calderón left it in 100th place. In 2016, we’re in 123rd place, then 134th in 2017 and 138th in 2018 out of 175 evaluated countries,” Durazo said.

“Understand that it is quite a feat to move from one position to another when there are only 175 countries evaluated and that speaks to us about the scale of the challenge we have,” he added.

To stamp out corruption in federal security forces, the Secretariat of Public Security is implementing an anti-corruption and open government program, Durazo said, explaining that its goal is to create a culture of accountability.

Measures to combat corruption “historically haven’t existed in the security forces,” he added.
“They haven’t existed because these forces have been used to commit abuses against the population . . . In this government, we will never use public force to repress. Consequently, we won’t have anything to hide . . .”

Despite recent spates of violence in Guanajuato and Veracruz, Durazo said that the security situation in both states is under control.

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MISSION POSSIBLE: New SF building demonstrates that it is possible to build 100 por ciento affordable housing

by Fernando A. Torres

Full of optimism were different community leaders who attended the ceremony of the “first stone” of a pair of buildings that will be built on the grounds of the 1950 Mission Street with 16th Street. The departments that will be built in the heart of the neighborhoods will be 100 percent affordable for low and middle-income families.

The project promoted by the Mission Housing Development Corporation and Housing BRIDGE not only marks a milestone in the brutal housing crisis that suffers the city of San Francisco but also shows that with the unity of various community organizations, it is possible to build 100 percent affordable apartments.

According to the community leaders who attended the inauguration event on Monday 18, the inauguration of this new building means that the unity and persistence of the community bear positive fruit and that solutions should never be underestimated from the grassroots, nor should hope be lost in the forces live from the community.

The president of the Council of the 24th Street Latino Cultural District, Erick Arguello, said that the project is also an example for the whole country that is possible – contrary to the predictions of millionaire builders (developers) – to build homes that are not at the price of the runaway market and that they are 100 percent affordable.

According to the executive vice-president of the organization Mission Housing Development Corporation, Marcia Contreras, 157 units will be part of two buildings; one of nine and another of five floors that will occupy a plot of 3,381 square meters. A family of 4 with an income of more than 70 thousand dollars a year could pay in rent about 30 percent of their income according to the Average Income of the Area / Area Median Income, said Contreras.

“The community had a lot to do when they had to raise their voices saying ‘we need more homes that we can afford’. This is their solution and it is one of the reasons why we are in this area today and we are part of this community, we are a community organization established more than 46 years ago,” she said.

Twenty-five percent of the units will be for homeless people, who lack housing and another 25 percent will be for people who live in the neighborhood of District 9. On the first floor, there will be a childcare center ran by Mission Neighborhood Centers; a bicycle exchange youth program called Bicis del Pueblo, ran by the Poder organization. There will also be space for small merchants and studios for artists. “The Mission is not The Mission without our artists. We will also have space for them, “said Contreras.

“It’s the effect of community work. The fruit of the work that the community has been doing for the last eight years. It is a great emotion to see this. When we were pushing for 100 percent affordable housing, they told us that it could not be done, that the city did not have money, that you could not build housing that was not at the market price, luxury housing. And they said no. But we did not listen to them, the community did not listen to them. And the community continued to work; We had a vision, a dream and this is part of the dream and it’s just the beginning, “said Arguello.

For the well-known leader of the Mission and executive producer of the SF Carnival Roberto Hernández, many Latinos have been forced to leave the Mission. “So many rich people who have come here and they are taking us out. This is another opportunity to keep Latinos here in the Barrio and in San Francisco … For me this is something historic. I am very happy because I have many years of fighting with many people for housing for the dishes, for the lady who is a nanny or who cooks and people who do not have the income to live in San Francisco, “said Hernandez, who Mayor London Breed named him the “Mayor of the Mission.”

Hernandez said that the main problem is the price of housing rents that continue to rise. Leasing a studio in San Francisco can cost up to $3,700. “Who can pay for that? It is a crime what they are doing and there is no way to control that. The only way is to build housing for people who are not rich. People have to sign up to opt for the homes we’ve fought here in San Francisco. Compared with other groups, Latinos are not registering, “Hernández warned.

Anne Cervantes is the architect in charge of the project. She proposed ideas and concepts to incorporate the community as a fundamental part in its development. In his 25 years as an architect, this project is special because it has to do with the eviction and displacement, “the eviction of families, the eviction of the homeless, eviction of artists.” The project will offer construction work to young people who will be trained by special programs in the city. “Never lose hope. This project means hope for all, “said Cervantes.

It is important “to identify cultural assets because if you take away our language and culture, we are left without a place. It is language and culture that create a place. To recognize this is to surpass the colonization of being assimilated to the American society. And that’s why we all love each other for our culture and our language, “said Cervantes.

Santiago Ruíz is the executive director of Mission Neighborhood Centers / Mission Neighborhood Centers. The organization will be in charge of providing pre-school services to more than 40 children of future families living in the building. Ruiz said it is important “to continue the fight. This project is going to be carried out because there was always a strong voice from the community, which did not ask, but instead claimed. And it was through this claim that someone heard, he paid attention to us and followed the necessary steps so that those 150 families can live here, “Ruíz said.

At a cost of 105 million dollars, the project is expected to be completed in 2020. In the Mission District, eight affordable housing projects are in progress. The works have already begun in four of the sites; at 3001 Calle 24, 681 Florida Street and in 1990 Folsom Street. It is expected that the building of 82 affordable units in 490 Van Ness del Sur will also be completed in 2020.

NOTE:
One of the organizations that helps to fill out applications and forms for free is MEDA, Mission Economic Development Agency 415-282-3334 ext. 126;

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DHS created Fake university to identify undocumented immigrants

Court documents reveal stunning scheme used to trap 161 foreign nationals; Ice maintains the students knew the school was fake

by Amanda Holpuch

The University of Farmington website described a college that would prepare students to succeed in an “ever-globalizing economy”. Students would show up at campus wearing backpacks and asking questions about classes. The US government listed Farmington as eligible to enroll foreign students. The school president, whose LinkedIn page is still online, sent emails to students describing his institution as “a nationally accredited institution authorized to enroll international students”.

But it was all a sham to snare immigrants.

Court documents unsealed last month unveiled a stunning scheme by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to create a fake university – with no classes or professors, just a staff of undercover agents who went on to build a case that has seen 161 foreign nationals arrested.

“These are students who are trying to make their lives better, these are not criminals, these are not people who are here leeching off the system,” said Amer Zahr, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Detroit-Mercy and a spokesman for Najlaa Krim Musarsa, one of the students arrested.

Musarsa, a 29-year-old woman from Palestine, was one of those arrested without trial for civil immigration violations because she enrolled in the university, located just outside of Detroit in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Eight other people were charged with criminal violations and are accused of helping enroll the students in exchange for cash, kickbacks and tuition credits from February 2017 to January 2019.

Attorneys and civil rights advocates emphasize there is a stark line between the eight indicted on criminal charges and the students arrested on civil charges.

“Everyone was taken completely by surprise,” Zahr said. “There was no warning of this action. There was no notice given to her [Musarsa] that she was out of status, that this university was fake.”

Most of the students were Indian and the country’s government issued a rare “démarche” to the US embassy in New Delhi stating the government needed immediate access to the detainees. As of 5 February, India consular officials had visited 36 different detention centers across the US and created a 24/7 hotline for impacted students.

Since the indictment was unsealed on 30 January, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has maintained each of the more than 600 people enrolled at the University of Farmington knew they would not attend real classes or earn credits. “Their intent was to fraudulently maintain their student visa status and to obtain work authorization,” the indictment said.

Faiza Patel, the codirector of the liberty and national security program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, said it was not 100% clear that every student knew what they were getting into.
“Normally, we would like our law enforcement agencies to be investigating crimes that are already occurring as opposed to spending time and resources in creating elaborate sting operations,” said Patel.

Patel noted Ice has been under fire in recent years for its aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, which target criminals and people who have civil immigration violations in equal measure.
“It’s an open question as to whether this is the best use of Ice’s resources,” Patel said. “I think these days we have a lot of open questions about whether the way Ice is responding is a logical response to the problems this country faces.”

At the University of Farmington, federal agents posed as school officials in emails and registered the school with the state of Michigan, according to emails obtained by the Detroit Free Press. Workers at the building listed as University of Farmington’s location told local news channel WXYZ that students would come in asking what time the school opened and closed and complained they had trouble getting in touch with school representatives.

The undercover operation was led by the nation’s second largest investigative agency, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is one of the three branches of Ice. A 2008 Ice handbook leaked last year showed that while undercover agents are advised not to induce people to commit crimes, exceptions can be made and are internally regulated.

This is not the first sham university created by Ice. In 2016, the agency announced the University of Northern New Jersey was not a legitimate school and its only employees were undercover agents. Then, too, the government insisted the more than 1,000 students were aware they were participating in a fraud. About 20 brokers were also arrested for recruiting students.

Angelo Guisado, the staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said DHS carried out the operation aware that it could send hundreds of people to immigration courts, which do not have the same constitutional protections as other courts.

“Ice knowing this or DHS knowing this tries to ensnare as many people as possible and get them wound up in an immigration system where they know that the cards are going to be stacked against the immigrant,” Guisado said.

He cautioned that creating a sham university was in line with other tactics used by Ice, such as its habit also revealed last month of creating fake court dates for immigration hearings.
Guisado said: “This is not the first fake university that DHS created and I don’t think it will be the last.”

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López Obrador vows to sign accord that he won’t seek another term

Opposition claimed constitutional change would let the president run again

by Mexico News Daily

President López Obrador vowed today to sign a declaration that he will not seek another term in office after opposition lawmakers said that a constitutional change allowing for a referendum to cut short the six-year presidential term opened the door to his re-election.

The president said at his morning press conference that he will present a signed commitment on Monday declaring that he will not stand for re-election in 2024.

“I give my word and what I consider most important in my life is honesty, but in any case, I’m going to make a public commitment,” López Obrador said.

The Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to have their say on a president’s performance three years after taking office.

The vote would be held on the same date as mid-term congressional elections. López Obrador says that if citizens choose to revoke his mandate, he will resign.

Supported by lawmakers from the ruling Morena party and its coalition partners, the reform received the required support of two-thirds of members in the lower house. The reform will now be passed to the Senate for debate and another vote.

“It’s a trick,” said National Action Party (PAN) Deputy Marcos Aguilar Vega of the midterm vote.
“We must switch on all the warning signs because the examples are clear: revocation of mandate was proposed in Venezuela and that opened the door to the ambition of Hugo Chávez to perpetuate his power.”

PAN Deputy Xavier Azuara said “these changes will allow the executive [branch of government] an intense political campaign in a shameless way in 2021 just when this chamber and 13 governorships are renewed.” It’s a “path to re-election,” he added.

On Twitter, PAN national president Marko Cortés wrote: “Today Morena and the Mexican government begin their quest to perpetuate themselves in power. The National Action Party categorically rejects the terms in which the popular consultation and revocation of mandate proposals were presented . . .”
Politicians from other opposition parties also voted against and criticized the approval of the constitutional reform.

“The next step is re-election,” said Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy María Alemán Muñoz Castillo, warning that Mexico could head down a path similar to that taken in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Citizens’ Movement lawmaker Alan Falomir charged that the reform is a political ploy designed to not only perpetuate López Obrador’s power but also to ensure that his Morena party is successful in the 2021 midterm elections.

“They need daddy AMLO” to campaign for the continuation of his rule in order to be swept to power by the tide of the president’s popularity, he contended.

López Obrador today acknowledged the criticism before reasserting his commitment to serve just one term.

“I heard the statements made by PAN lawmakers, saying that it [the revocation of mandate vote] is a rehearsal for re-election,” the president said before outlining details of what he intends to say in his public declaration.

“I will say that I am a supporter of democracy, that I agree with the [revolutionary and former president Francisco Madero’s] maxim of ‘effective suffrage, no re-election,’ that I am a maderista [adherent of Madero], that I’m not overambitious.”

Three and a half months after he was sworn in as president, López Obrador continues to enjoy strong public support, according to recent opinion polls.

A poll published earlier this month by the newspaper El Financiero showed that 78 percent of respondents approved of the president’s performance, while another published by El Universal this week to coincide with the completion of the government’s first 100 days in office gave an almost identical result.
Considering the survey results, there appears to be little chance that Mexicans would choose to remove López Obrador from the top job in a referendum on his rule.

In other business, lower house lawmakers also passed constitutional amendments that make it easier for the government to hold public consultations such as those held on the Mexico City airport project and a thermal power plant in Morelos.

Source: El Financiero (sp), El Universal (sp), Noticieros Televisa (sp), Reuters(en).

Due to lack of confidence, indigenous communities say no to national guard
They don’t expect complicity between federal security forces and criminal groups to change

Representatives of community police forces that operate in 38 Guerrero municipalities and one in Puebla have spoken out against the entry of the national guard into their territory.

“The people of our communities don’t believe in a simple change of name or uniform of the police.

There is no confidence that the national guard will work in favor of indigenous peoples and their communities,” said Sabrás Aburto, a spokesman for CRAC, an umbrella group of community police forces.

About 12,000 community police, or self-defense force members, operate in the Costa Chica, Tierra Caliente, Sierra, North and Central regions of the state.

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López Obrador confirms meeting with Donald Trump advisor

by the El Reportero’s wire services

President Andres Manuel López Obrador described Wednesday as a meeting in good terms the one held with Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, to finance with 10 billion dollars development plans in Mexico and Central America.

We are reaching a commitment of understanding to foster cooperation for investment, employment generation and economic growth in Mexico and Central American countries, he pointed out.
We insist, he said, that to face the migratory phenomenon the best thing is to develop in Central America and in the south southeast of our country.

There has been progress in this purpose, we deal with this issue in a friendly way, there is a very good relationship with the U.S. government and that is why this meeting was held, he added.

He revealed that the meeting was in a private home of a mutual friend, and were present Marcelo Ebrad (Foreign Minister) and the charge d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy.

“We were talking until 11 p.m. about development cooperation, a bilateral agreement to guarantee 10 billion dollars investments in Central America and the south of our country, so that there will be job, work and that migration will be optional, voluntary, not forced by the lack of opportunities or by violence,” he said.

The other issue discussed, he said, was to reaffirm the commitment to approve a trade treaty in which we can maintain the current terms to avoid misunderstandings because what was already achieved was good for both countries.

There will be work, he said, the Sowing Lives programs already benefit 80,000 farmers who are already receiving resources to work their own plots and so on in almost all states of the country.

Just the Mayan Train, he said, will result in the creation of 300,000 jobs, and we will have employment throughout the country. People don’t go to the United States just because they like it, but because they need it.

We are talking about a 5 billion dollars Mexican investment and the same for Central Americans, that is what is most important to us, not because of what the money means but because it is an investment to generate jobs and so that people do not have to abandon their comforts, customs and cultures, stated the president.

In other news in Mexico:

López Obrador affirms that Mexico leaves neoliberalism behind

President Andres Manuel López Obrador said on Friday that Mexico leaves neoliberalism behind and replaces it with a new policy, including the economic one, and that he will soon announce his new post-neoliberal project.
In his morning press conference at the National Palace, he promised that next Monday he will announce what he called the new national development plan, which is, in practice, a post-neoliberal project, a model that has sunk the country.
The president didn’t go into many details on the matter and created expectations for the next conference on Monday by admitting that many are wondering what is the government’s alternative proposal to neoliberalism, its economic policy and how this new era will be distinguished from the previous one.
What is sought, he said, is to do everything necessary for the country to move forward, to bring about the rebirth of Mexico. He added that consultations and forums will be held to define the national development plan.

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Study reveals turmeric is more effective at killing cancer cells than chemo or radiation

by Isabelle Z.

The mere mention of cancer strikes fear in the hearts of many people, and rightfully so. Having certain types of cancer often means you’ll be facing years of brutal treatments – if you’re lucky enough to live that long. Although it’s hard to imagine the disease could one day be considered non-threatening the way that many of the illnesses that used to kill people hundreds of years ago are viewed now, scientific breakthroughs like a recent study exploring turmeric’s effects on cancer cells are starting to give patients some hope.

This ancient Indian spice has been the subject of many studies in recent years as it continues to demonstrate its strength when it comes to fighting and preventing a host of diseases. Its inflammation-fighting properties are already well documented, and now a study published in Anticancer Research provides a comprehensive view of how the primary polyphenol in turmeric extract can selectivity kill cancer stem cells safely in ways that put radiation and chemotherapy to shame.

Many natural cures are valued for their simplicity, but turmeric is surprisingly complex in the way it fights cancer. It uses multiple molecular mechanisms to attack cancer stem cells, which are responsible for producing the cells in tumors. These stem cells resist chemotherapy and radiation, and surgery can sometimes even cause them to spread, which is why they’re often behind conventional treatment failures and tumor recurrence.

One aspect of curcumin’s intelligent approach is its ability to downregulate interleukin-6. The over-expression of this cytokine has been linked to inflammation progressing to cancer, and curcumin stops it from being released and stimulating cancer stem cells. It also directly and indirectly downregulates interleukin-1, which plays a vital role in the growth of cancer cells, and interleukin-8, which stimulates the regrowth of tumor-forming cancer stem cells.

Another way curcumin can fight cancer is by decreasing the binding of CXCR1 and CXCR2 and modulating pathways like the Wnt Signaling Pathway, the Notch Pathway, the FAK/AKT/FOXo3A Pathway, and the Hedgehog Pathways. If those terms are unfamiliar to you, you’re not alone – cancer is a complicated disease, but the bottom line is that curcumin targets deadly cancer stem cells in eight different and very powerful ways.

Curcumin is a very efficient cancer fighter, targeting the most dangerous cells of all, cancer stem cells, without touching normal cells. Contrast this with chemotherapy, which damages the DNA of quickly-replicating cells while they’re vulnerable during the mitosis stage of cell division. It does this without determining if the cells are cancerous or completely healthy.

This is essential because normal stem cells are needed to maintain good health. They differentiate into the cells needed to replace those cells that become damaged or sick, and killing them is one of the biggest problems of chemotherapy and radiation.

Scientists aren’t exactly sure why curcumin doesn’t have these negative effects on normal stem cells. One possible explanation is that malignant cells simply take in more curcumin than normal cells do. It’s also possible that curcumin encourages cancer stem cells to differentiate into more benign cells. Others theorize that it changes cells’ microenvironments in ways that benefit normal stem cells and harm cancer stem cells.

We might not yet know precisely how it works its magic, we do know that it can be very effective. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s very safe compared to the currently available cancer treatments. Curcumin has been safely used as a cooking spice in many cultures for hundreds of years, and it causes very few, if any, side effects in trials.

Scientists are still trying to determine the best ways to harness curcumin’s healing power as a cancer therapy and the amounts needed to safely make a difference, but in the meantime, you can enjoy some of the benefits on a smaller scale by adding this bright yellow spice to your cooking. Remember to use a bit of black pepper as well to boost its bioavailability, and stay on top of the latest curcumin research. It’s possible that cancer will eventually become a far less frightening prospect as researchers develop curcumin-based treatments for the disease.

Sources for this article include:
WakingTimes.com
AR.IIARJournals.org

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Presidio picnic’s eighth season begins

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Multi-cultural community celebration unveils new mobile food creators and cultural dance groups at San Francisco’s Presidio National Park

This month, the Presidio of San Francisco, in partnership with Off the Grid, unveils an 8th season of Presidio Picnic with an exciting line up of new and returning mobile food creators and cultural dance performances.

Presidio Picnic takes place every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, through early October on the Presidio’s beautiful Main Parade Ground, an expansive seven-acre lawn with views of the park, the city skyline, and the San Francisco Bay. In addition to the monthly dance performances, Presidio Picnic will feature the return of other family-friendly elements that visitors love: more than 30 international mobile food creators representing the best of the San Francisco food scene, free bike safety classes for kids offered by the Presidio YMCA, nature-based arts and crafts for kids, lawn games, yoga from LubbDubb, music, and free bike valet by the SF Bicycle Coalition.

Cultural dance performances will be offered the third Sunday of each month and will be announced shortly.
Returning creators include Oakland-based Nashville-style hot chicken purveyors Hot Bird (easily identified at last year’s Presidio Picnic by their sizable queues), masters of Peruvian fusion Lamas Peruvian, and Pacific Island-meets-Philippines dessert favorite Hula’s Sweet Treats.
The season opens on March 31 at 11:30 a.m.

SF art exhibition by Antony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Anthony Holdsworth features the start of a new series entitled “Day and Night in the Mission”. Using a LED lamp attached to his easel, he documents locations as they transition into night.

The Mission District opens a window on Latin America while simultaneously enriching the culture of San Francisco. He works on site to channel the unique energy of this community and also to bear witness to the changes that are being forced on it by gentrification.
The exhibition includes works El Farolito by Day and Night, by Anthony Holdsworth, oil/panel, and Rise and Shine, by Beryl Landau.

Beryl Landau calls her work “symbolic landscape”. The acrylic paintings in this show depict geographical locations but evoke inner feelings. Each image draws the viewer into a particular space and mood. Landau’s clear colors range from high contrasts to subtle gradations.

Images of changing San Francisco are prevalent in her recent work. The paintings often convey the juxtaposition of nature and the modern world.
Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco. Exhibition through March 31.

¡Viva Cesar Chavez holiday on April 1!
On Monday, April 1, 2019 California will observe the official state holiday for labor and civil rights leader, César E. Chávez. San Francisco will celebrate this important Holiday with two special events: the Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Breakfast on Friday, March 29th;
and the César E. Chávez Holiday Parade & Festival, Saturday, April 13, 2019.

Greening Economic Summit
This year’s Economic Summit happens with an exciting, fully revamped program.

From our redesigned, interactive Equity Lab to an array of exciting racial justice panels to a fireside chat with an internationally renowned headliner to be announced shortly, you don’t want to miss your chance to attend the Bay Area’s largest racial equity conference. On April 26, 2019, The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland,

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