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Failures in Mexican program Frontera Sur

by the El Reportero’s news services

Civil organizations from Mexico criticized governmental program FRONTERA SUR, which increased the arrests and deportations of migrants and violations to human rights.
The result of an investigation, gives a vision on security aspects and the access to justice for the migrants.
According to the results, between July 2014 and June 2015, the deportations grew 73 percent, compared to the previous period.
Also, the abuse in the operations by the security agents, and the houses or refugees of migrants are still showing cases of kidnapping, extortion, robbery and aggressions all over the nation.
The investigation said that the Mexican Commission of Help to Refugees (COMAR in Spanish) only has 15 officers to guarantee the access to international protection to a population of more than 100,000 arrested people in a single year.
The number of recognized refugees is minimal (413 last year) regarding the repatriations, said the report.
“It is probable that many individuals were eligible potentials for asylum,” it added.

Mexican space agency points out possible projects in Mexico
The general director of the Mexican Space Agency, Francisco Mendieta said that there are possibilities of undertaking joint projects in Nicaragua, especially in areas such as conservation, ecology and knowledge of resources.
Mendieta, who participated in the Seventh Space Conference of the Americas, in this capital, also made reference to other areas, including actions related to the use of platforms for communications and navigation, global positioning.
He also stressed the spirit existing in the forum, which aimed to use this great resource that is space, for social and economic benefit of this Central American nation and the continent.
The space to establish communication among people, to protect us from natural disasters, safeguarding the environment and increase safety as well as observe, manage and rationally exploit the natural resources of the region, he said.
About Mexico’s main projects in the peaceful use of outer space, the specialist said that initial plans are related to the field of telecommunications
We have 30 years of experience in geostationary communications satellites, initially for analog telephony and Direct TV, and now to connect citizens to the Internet, providing mobility and universal coverage.
The Seventh Space Conference of the Americas, held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Nicaragua, focused its discussions on the use of outer space for peaceful purposes and was attended by representatives from more than 10 countries.
The first of these meetings was held in San Jose, Costa Rica (1990), the second in Santiago de Chile (1993), the third in Punta del Este, Uruguay (1996), the fourth in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2002) the fifth in Quito, Ecuador (2006) and sixth in Pachuca, Mexico (2010).

Important Panamanian bank hopes to open subsidiary in Cuba
Multibank, third bank in Panama in assets, could open an office in Cuba as part of the promotion made by the island to attract foreign investment.
We see great opportunities in that country that will develop rapidly and Multibank would like to be hand in hand with that development, both to support the Cuban financial institutions and the businesspeople who pretend to invest there, said the executive president of the bank, Isaac Btesh.
At this moment, that financial entity is the only one in the isthmus to have correspondence with Cuban entities, as part of the support to trade transactions made by companies radicated in Panama, mainly at the Colon Duty-Free Zone.
On the technical elements of those transactions, Btesh clarified they do not violate established regulations by the United States, nation whose laws prevent Cuba from using the dollar for charges or payments, but in the case of Panama, movements are made in Balboas (local currency) which has a parity with the US dollar.

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Affordable housing teach-in in Berkeley

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Berkeley faces a housing crisis. Rents are soaring and home prices are out of reach for most of us. The city is an increasingly unaffordable place for low and moderate-income households and for students, which is threateningthe city’s valued diversity.  People can’t find housing and live in fear of eviction.
A teach-in on Berkeley’s housing crisis will be held Facilitated by Paola Laverde, Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner, the panel speakers are Stephen Barton, Ph.D., Former Director, Housing Department and
Deputy Director of the Rent Stabilization Program in Berkeley, Moni Law,  Affordable Housing Activist, Rick Lewis, Executive Director, Bay Area Community Land Trust and former Housing Advisory Commission member, Austin Pritzkat, President, Berkeley Student Cooperative and Katherine Harr, Berkeley Tenants Union.
On Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. at the Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley.
Dance Mission Theater and CubcaCaribe present
Explosión Cubana: Una Noche Tropical, a Holiday Extravaganza!
A new holiday tradition. Come and rejoice renewed relations between Cuba and the US! In the spirit of Havana’s celebrated Tropicana nightclub, CubaCaribe and Dance Mission Theater present a sizzling evening of Cuban cabaret featuring Alayo Dance Company and guests, complete with dinner and a show.
With artistic direction by Ramon Ramos Alayo and a live ten-piece Cuban orquestra directed by Patricio Angulo, this dance extravaganza takes its audience on a journey celebrating the evolution of Cuban dance and music from Folkloric to Popular to Modern (and everything in between).
At the Mission Theater Dance, at 3316 24th St, San Francisco, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5. Friday-Saturday 7:30 p.m. (seating at 7:15 p.m.), Sunday 6:30 p.m. (seating at 6:15 p.m.

Oakland Public Library offers résumé help and other veterans assistance programs  
Oakland, CA – With Veterans’ Day fast approaching, the Oakland Public Library is pleased to announce several programs offered to help veterans. On Friday, November 20, from 2 to 3:30 pm, volunteers from the Veterans Resource Center and a representative from Swords to Ploughshares will be available for a Veterans’ Resume Workshop at the Main Library, 125 14th Street. This reflects an ongoing effort at the Library to address veterans’ issues.
In 2014, the Oakland Public Library won funding and support to participate in California Humanities’ group reading and discussion program on the theme of the veteran experience. In 2015, the library won additional funding to open a Veterans Resource Center, staffed by trained volunteers.
The Veterans Resource Center at OPL helps veterans and/or their families learn about the benefits for education, health, employment, housing, and more.  It is staffed by trained volunteers on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 3 to 5 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m.; at other times, reference librarians are also trained to assist veterans.

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Neruda’s lasts hours in Manuel Araya’s words

** ARCHIV ** Der Schriftsteller und Literatur-Nobelpreis-Traeger Pablo Neruda, aufgenommen am 21. Okt. 1971. Der Chilene waere am Montag, 12. Juli 2004, 100 Jahre alt geworden. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz) ** zu unserem Korr APD3466 **

by the El Reportero’s news services

An injection to the stomach ended the life of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on Sept. 23, 1973, says completely convinced his driver and personal assistant Manuel Araya.
In an interview with Prensa Latina, Araya insisted on the idea that Neruda, who was hospitalized in the Santa María clinic, was in such a stable condition that he sent him and his wife Matilde Urrutia to look for some books in Isla Negra.
The interview fuels the theory that Araya has incessantly repeated along the years: the Literature Nobel Prize was murdered.
One of the author’s three residences is located in Isla Negra. His mortal remains should lie there, according to his own will, but now they have remained somewhere else.
Funding from the Chilean Government to transfer the remains to Europe is still on hold. European scientists will carry out new tests to determine his real cause of death.
Officially, Neruda died there on Sept. 23 from natural causes. But suspicions that the dictatorship had a hand in the death have lingered long after Chile returned to democracy in 1990.
The Chilean Interior Ministry released a statement last Thursday amid press reports that Neruda might not have died of cancer.
For the first time, an official document stated that it was “clearly possible and highly probable that a third party” was responsible for Neruda’s death.
Araya completes the story, saying that a young doctor had told him to leave Neruda and go fetch a specific medicine but he refused. However, the doctor gave him a prescription and forced him to go.
He said it was strange that in such an expensive clinic, he had to go looking for a medicine himself.
Afterwards, he was arrested, tortured and shot by Pinochet’s police. Thanks to Cardinal Silva Enríquez’s intervention I was saved, he remembered.
That is when I heard the terrible news. Neruda had died the previous night at 10:30 p.m. I was so distressed; I told the military to kill me once and for all.
Neruda had died and that was all it mattered to his driver and assistant.

Exhibitions will show links between European and Mexican art
The link between European and Mexican art will be displayed at the exhibition Los Modernos, open from today until April 3 at the National Art Museum in this capital.
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, head of the National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta), said that the works of the exhibition, with nine thematic clusters, will allow appreciating the dialogue between relevant creators.
Among the artists included in the exhibition he mentioned Pablo Picasso, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Angel Zarraga, Henri Matisse and Francis Bacon.
He noted that this is part of the great exhibition that Conaculta has brought to Mexico and today cover a wide circuit in the most important museums in the country.
He said the central themes titled Landscape, Nude, Portrait, Surrealism, Light and Color, Line, Space and Abstraction, will show how during the early twentieth century Mexican art was at the forefront.
Meanwhile, Maria Cristina Garcia, general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts, said this exhibition gives continuity to a cultural project that seeks to exhibit in Mexico the best of international art.
She praised that the exhibition will also travel to Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, and to the city of Lyon, France.

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How to stop police brutality

Why aren’t we holding cops to a higher standard?

by Eric Peters |
EricPetersAutos.com

That we have a cop problem is obvious, but how to fix it, not so much.
The problem – a chunk of it, at any rate – derives from an overweening postmodern concern for the “safety” of cops to the detriment of those they (ahem) serve. Plus what’s known in the lawyer game as qualified or (worse) sovereign immunity. It means they get away with doing things that would ruin ordinary people who did exactly the same things.
It’s a crazy idea.
If, that is, you don’t want to end up with a Cop Problem.
Take any group of people and make it known that even when they do something criminal, they will be held less responsible for the doing of it – and what do you suppose is likely to happen?
Bingo.
And, duh.
How about holding them – if they’re cops – more responsible?
Applying unto them a higher standard?
There is something ludicrous about the current dynamic – which (as an example) places exacting legal obligations – and repercussions – on the shoulders of ordinary citizens who possess a permit to carry a gun. If such a person so much as reveals the gun in a threatening manner it is brandishing – a felony and as serious as cancer. If an ordinary citizen fires that gun he had better be able to adduce compelling evidence that he did so under the most extreme duress, his own life in clear and present danger.
Or, how about striking another person – including minor children? A parent who smacks a kid on the rump to discipline him opens himself up to child abuse prosecution. What happens when a cop body slams a minor child? It’s accepted. Or at least, tolerated.
It shouldn’t be.
Is there any sane reason why a lesser standard should be applied to cops? Who are after all trained and supposedly more able than ordinary folks to exercise judgment as well as restraint?
Does anyone, upon reflection, doubt that the chief reason (or one of them, at any rate) why we have a Cop Problem is precisely because less is demanded of cops than of ordinary folks when it comes to the exercise of judgment and restraint?
In economics, there are these things called incentives. You want more of something, you encourage it by incentivizing its manufacture and consumption. To get less, you discourage it – typically, by making whatever it is cost more.
It ought to cost cops more when they fail to exercise at least the judgment and restraint we expect of ordinary people; but most especially when they resort to violence unnecessarily or excessively.
We’d then get less unnecessary and excessive violence.
So, not just the normal criminal (and civil) consequences that an ordinary Joe would face in the event, say, of a reckless discharge of a firearm that ended up with some other person injured or dead. A more severe standard for those who enforce the laws.
For exactly that reason.
Cops are given the literal power of life and death over us; its exercise had better be justified beyond any shadow of a doubt. We have a Cop Problem because hardly a week (often, hardly a day) goes by without a video or some such cropping up that clearly shows unjustified exercise of this power. It is infuriating. More so, when the follow-up news story reveals – as it often does – that the offending officers were not placed in handcuffs and frog-marched to a cage, as any of us would have been given identical actions. This is social dynamite – and if an explosion is not wanted, someone had better throw water on the cordite.
Twenty years for the cop – when an ordinary citizens would get ten for the same offense. This would be a step in the right direction.
It would require amending the law, so that different (more severe) penalties would apply to those empowered by the law to use violence for other than purely defensive purposes. But sometimes, it is necessary to adjust the laws. (It is already the case that if a trained/professional fighter hits you, he opens himself to more serious consequences than a regular Joe who threw a punch would face.)
Personal liability would be another valuable reform.
If an ordinary person, as an example, drives his car in a reckless manner and ends up killing an innocent person who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, his family can sue the pants off the guilty party, leaving him destitute. But when a cop does such a thing, he may never have to pay out a dime – although the county or city he worked for ends up paying out millions. Which of course is a malaprop, since counties and cities have no monies except for such as they mulct from the ordinary people who pay the taxes that finance the operation. Thus, the affront is doubled. The person responsible is not held responsible while the people who weren’t responsible are held responsible.
More social dynamite.
You might as well give your teenaged son a bottle of Jack Daniels, the keys to your Corvette – and let him know you’ll buy him a new one if he wrecks it.
Some professions require the individual to be insured; contractors, for example. Why not apply the principle to cops? If they behave prudently – responsibly – they have nothing to fear. But if not…
Which is as it ought to be.
These two measures alone, if enacted, would probably tamp down at least two-thirds of the current Cop Problem and restore a degree of sanity to the situation now sorely lacking.
Which, probably, is why it will never happen.

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Five of the mos elite secret society in history – Part 2

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers: I’ve been fascinated reading about some of the so many secret societies that have existed through out history. The more interesting part of them and which gives credence to these stories is their direct association with known political figures in government and high profile organizations and clubs. Many consider them just conspiracy theories, but I have arrived to the personal conclusion that most of them are real. I’ve seen videos by investigators who have infiltrated their rituals, showing important political figures – like a former US Secretary of State, participating in Satanic practices. – These MR
(Note: We previously published – on Oct. 21, the first four items of these 10 secret societies).

by Robert Anthony
Elite Today

Genuine secret societies have existed for centuries, conducting their business in darkened back rooms and, more often than not, exerting a mysterious influence upon our culture. Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies.
From political organisations to college frats, these groups require their members to conceal their activities, and sometimes their identities, from the public. Go behind closed doors as we examine the 10 most Elite secret societies in history.
5. The Hashshashin
The Hashshashin, or Nizari, were a mysterious band of Muslim assassins that operated in the Middle East during the 13th century. The group was made up of Shia Muslims who broke off from a bigger sect and banded together in order to establish a utopian Shi’ite state. Because their number was small, the group used guerilla tactics in their battle against their enemies, including espionage, sabotage, and, most famously, political assassination. The Hashshashin would plant highly trained moles inside enemy strongholds, with instructions to only attack when the time was right. They were known for their extreme discretion in minimizing civilian casualties, as well as their penchant for using stealth to intimidate their targets. As the story goes, enemy leaders would often wake in the morning to find a Hashshashin dagger lying on their pillow, along with a note saying “you are in our grip.” Their legend soon grew, and before the Mongols finally destroyed the group, they became well known contract killers, supposedly performing jobs for the likes of King Richard the Lionheart. Around the time of their downfall, the library that contained all Nizari records was destroyed, so much of what is known about them today has taken on the status of myth. The most controversial legend centers of the group’s use of drugs and other intoxicants– “Hashshashin” translates roughly as “Hashish user”–which some have said were employed by the members in battle. This has been widely discredited, but the term “Hashshashin” as it refers to the Nizari is believed to be the origin of the modern word “assassin.”
6. The Black Hand
The Black Hand was a secret society of anti-imperialist political revolutionaries that was started in Serbia in 1912. It formed as an offshoot from Narodna Adbrona, a group that sought to unite all of the Slavic people of Europe under one country. This required the separation of Serbia from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which had annexed the country some years before. With this in mind, the group began disseminating anti-Austrian propaganda and training saboteurs and assassins to disrupt political rule within the province. Their plan was to incite a war between Serbia and Austria, which would give them a chance to free their country and unite the different Slavic nations as one. Black Hand would be all but forgotten today if not for their unlikely involvement in one of the biggest events of the twentieth century. In 1914, the group engineered the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The job was badly botched, and was only completed when a low-level hood named Gavrilo Princip stumbled upon the Archduke’s car and shot him to death at close range (see photo). Still, the results of the assassination were catastrophic. Within days, Austria-Hungary had declared war on Serbia, and after the allies of both countries joined the fray, the small dispute managed to escalate into WWI. The aftermath of WWI eventually led to WWII, and this led to the Cold War, which makes the Black Hand one of the most strangely influential forces of the twentieth century.
7. The order of the Golden Dawn
The order of the Golden Dawn was created by Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. All three were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (an organization with ties to Masonry). It is considered by many to be a forerunner of the Ordo Templi Orientis and a majority of modern Occult groups. The belief system of the Golden Dawn is largely taken from Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Magic, and Renaissance writings. William Yeats, and Aleister Crowly are two of the more famous members of the group. The fundamental documents of the order are known as the Cipher Documents. These were translated into English using a cipher attributed to Johannes Trithemius. The documents are a series of 60 folios containing magic rituals. The basic structure of many of these rituals appear to originate with Rosicrucianism. There is a great deal of controversy surrounding the origins of these documents.

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Sugar causes more health damage than you’re being told

by David Gutiérrez

Sugar causes even more health damage than has been previously believed, suggests a study conducted by researchers from Touro University and the University of California-San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital that was published in the journal Obesity.
The researchers found that when they replaced the sugar in obese children’s diets with an equal number of calories from starchy food – including junk food such as potato chips – the children’s symptoms of metabolic syndrome began to reverse in less than ten days.
The study suggests that the harm caused by dietary sugar cannot be fully explained by its contribution to weight gain and obesity.
Shocking improvements in less than two weeks
The study was conducted on 43 children between the ages of 9 and 18 who had been referred to the children’s hospital due to obesity-related health problems. The children were asked about their typical home diets, and then they had all of their food prepared for them by the hospital for the next nine days. The researchers reduced the sugar in the children’s diets from an average of 28 percent of daily calories to 10 percent, and further reduced fructose specifically from 12 percent of calories to 4 percent of calories. The sugar was replaced with starchy foods (complex carbohydrates) containing the same number of calories as those that were removed. The starchy foods were not necessarily considered healthy, however, and included hot dogs, chips and pizza.
The children were instructed to weigh themselves daily. If they appeared to be losing weight, indicating a drop in daily caloric intake, the researchers increased the amount of food they were eating until they regained their initial weight. All diets were designed to keep the same fat-protein-carbohydrate proportions as the children’s initial diets.
After just nine days, the researchers saw improvements in the children’s levels of diastolic blood pressure, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, insulin and liver function.
The scale of many of the changes was remarkable. Insulin levels decreased by 50 percent, while fasting glucose and diastolic blood pressure each fell by five points.
“In other words we reversed their metabolic disease in just 10 days, even while eating processed food, by just removing the added sugar and substituting starch, and without changing calories or weight,” wrote lead researcher Robert Lustig in the Guardian.
Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist and the author of the book Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar.
The toxic effects of poor diet
Lustig says that the study supports his assertion that “a calorie is not [just] a calorie,” and that calories from different sources can make different contributions to metabolic disease.
“While this study does not prove that sugar is the sole cause of metabolic disease, it clearly demonstrates it is a modifiable one,” he writes.
An increasing number of public health advocates are focusing on reducing sugar consumption as a relatively direct way to improve health worldwide. A recent study by researchers from Tufts University published in the journal Circulation, for example, used prior estimates of how sugar consumption contributes to chronic disease to estimate that sugary soft drink consumption alone kills 200,000 people per year.
Another study found that for every 150 calories worth of sugar in a country’s food supply, the rates of type 2 diabetes increase by 11 times.
In a recent editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a group of health researchers emphasized the scientific consensus that it is impossible to reverse the effects of a poor diet – including excess sugar consumption – with exercise alone. The writers accused the fast food industry of borrowing from Big Tobacco’s playbook by attempting to play up the significance of exercise and obscure the toxic effects of a poor diet. Natural News.

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Radical feminism is destroying young men

The Sexodus: Guys are checking out of society & relationships

by Paul Joseph Watson

Why are more and more young men giving up on women and checking out of society?
They’re calling it The Sexodus – an entire generation of boys abandoning female company, relinquishing relationships and retreating into a virtual reality world of pornography, video games, lad culture and chemical addictions.
Anecdotally, the flip side of the equation also seems to be true. How often do you hear women who have resisted the brainwashing of radical feminism bemoaning the fact that they can no longer find “real men”? Men who are actually confident enough to know how to act around women without being constantly terrified that every word they utter, every behavior they express, every opinion they espouse, may be taken as offensive, sexist or predatory.
In part one of a series of articles on The Sexodus, Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos notes that an entire generation of young people are being left behind in the wreckage of the social engineering project that is third wave feminism.
Yiannopoulos spoke to Jack Rivlin, editor of over 30 student newspapers, who told him of the increasingly troubling trend of young men on campus being completely clueless and scared when it comes to how to engage with women.
What’s to blame for this breakdown? The hysterical propaganda surrounding so-called rape culture, exemplified by the recent Rolling Stone/University of Virginia scandal, plays a major role. As does its consequences, mandatory “consent” classes and California’s onerous and confusing “yes means yes” law, where students, in whatever state of inebriation, need to secure a kind of arbitrary verbal contract with each other before they can engage in any kind of sexual activity.
The deadening of young boys’ naturally rambunctious behavior via ADHD drugs like Ritalin, as well as their educational abandonment, is also creating a generation of dysfunctional and reclusive adolescents devoid of all self esteem, miserable, and unable to relate to the opposite sex.
The discrepancy between what women say they want and what they actually want also serves to confuse young men further.
“Men are constantly told they should be delicate, sensitive fellow travelers on the feminist path,” writes Yiannopoulos. “But the same women who say they want a nice, unthreatening boyfriend go home and swoon over simple-minded, giant-chested, testosterone-saturated hunks in Game of Thrones. Men know this, and, for some, this giant inconsistency makes the whole game look too much like hard work. Why bother trying to work out what a woman wants, when you can play sports, masturbate or just play video games from the comfort of your bedroom?”
The divorce process is also set up to grossly favor women over men, leaving many men frightened to get married for fear of losing everything. Women are also becoming less and less interested in monogamy, claiming the ‘player’ mantle so often ascribed to men for themselves as some twisted form of sexual equality.
Are western men in increasing numbers at risk of turning into Japan’s herbivores, men who shun sex and prefer to go on long walks rather than flirt with girls? Is it any surprise that many men are turning to infamous pick up artists like Julien Blanc in a desperate last ditch effort to reclaim their confidence around women?
Traditionally male characteristics, qualities and traits have also been ridiculed by third wave feminism and contemporary culture. There are virtually no true positive male role models left at all. Men have been brainwashed that “white knight” behavior is the only recourse left to get them laid, when of course, that doesn’t work either.
The response to part one of Yiannopoulos’s article was overwhelming, with over 500 men responding to say how much they resonated with its message.
24-year-old Mark wrote, “Everyone I know feels the same. Your article spoke directly to us. We’re not all losers and nerds, we’re just normal guys who are either scared of being accused of terrible stuff by harpies or simply can’t be bothered any more. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I just can’t deal with hassle of women any more.”
“I’m an athlete. My parents have a lot of money. I have plenty of friends and a good social life. I don’t hang out with women any more, wrote 28-year-old Francis. “Occasionally I’ll have one night stands, but mostly I fill my time with other things. I got accused of molesting a girl at college and since then I’ve just thought, whatever. I play sports instead.”
This is the Sexodus – young men giving up on women entirely as a result of the destruction wrought by social engineering and radical feminism, a process which then punishes women by leaving them with a choice between the simpering, pathetic white knight or the emotionally or physically abusive thug.
Once again, the train wreck of radical feminism and the contrived gender war – promoted at every turn by the political class and establishment media – is driving a wedge between men and women, it’s derailing the cohesiveness of western society. This is the most ominous form of social engineering. This is divide and conquer on the biggest scale imaginable.
Are you a young man who has given up on women and because part of the Sexodus? Are you a young woman who has abandoned all hope of finding a real man? Infowars.

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Panama celebrates First Cry of Independence

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The festivities for the 194th anniversary of the First Cry of Independence in Panama started today with a 21-gun salute and the traditional exclamation of freedom, marking the events that took place in the central village of Los Santos, this day in 1821.
Afterwards, more developments in several other parts of the country like Parita, Las Tablas, Penonomé, Ocú, Natá de los Caballeros, San Francisco de Veraguas y Alanje, in Chiriquí, led to Panama’s Independence from the Spanish crown on Nov. 28, 1821.
The constant abuse by the authorities, the serious economic situation, and especially the fragility of the colonial government, among other elements, led to the independence quest led by Segundo Villarreal, historians say.
History states that when Liberator Simon Bolivar learned about Panama’s first emancipating act, he called Villa de los Santos a heroic city, thus the name by which the city is known today: ‘La Heroica Villa de Los Santos’.

 

Elected officials dissatisfied with possible budget in Guatemala
Elected officials from Guatemala will stop participating from today in the legislative debate on the budget for 2016 because they are dissatisfied with the increase of some costs provisions for unnecessary spending.
According to what was stated in a letter by the chosen President Jimmy Morales, the determination of his team to leave that analysis in Congress responds to disagreements with certain unjustified increases in certain areas and the neglect towards their proposals.
Morales, who must assume the leadership of the Government on Jan. 14, 2016, thanked the space given to his party -National Convergence Front (FCN-Nación, in Spanish) – to submit a spending plan in line with the deep analysis made to each budgetary program.
The proposal submitted by the FCN-Nación shows a significant reduction in the budget ceiling of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, for it is betting on public works through an eventual Law on Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure.
The legal body being planned, of which the elected president declined to give details, will rule activities in that order and would allow to redirect the reduced budget of that ministry to the Judiciary and the Public Ministry.
The strengthening of both entities, to fight corruption, was part of the political program presented by the actor and evangelical producer looking to attract the citizen vote in the general election this year.

 

More than 6,000 Missing Children in Mexico
Executive Director of the Network for Children’’s Rights Juan Martin Perez affirmed that more than 6,000 children and teenagers were missing in Mexico.
Out of the 26,000 missing people in the country, 6,676 are children under the age of 18, he said.
Seven out of 10 missing youths aged 15 to 17 years are women, which is an increasing trend, he stated.
Martin Perez underlined that such figures have confirmed several complaints made by civilian and human rights organizations concerning presence and actions by criminal groups devoted to female slavery.
His statements came during the presentation of the report 2015 Kids Count in Mexico, that took place before UN and government members and municipal employees.
We may add poverty, sexual abuse, early marriage, school dropout, femicide, and disappearance to the list of things that affect minors in the country.

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A high-energy fusion of cumbia, hip-hop, reggae & rock

by the El Reportero’s news services

An early evening high-power music by local group La Gente.
A high energy fusion of Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Reggae & Rock featuring live music by La Gente (Check it out : www.lagentemusicsf.com)
La Gente is a group of musicians who incorporate a high energy fusion of totally different genres. A short power point presentation by Professor Rudy “El Professor” Ramírez and Raffael Sarria on the origins of these genres will be discussed.
Music is the universal language of the world. It crosses all boundaries, cultures and ethnicities and communicates between them all like nothing else can.
An event organized by San Mateo Community College Ethnic Studies. There will be dancers and refreshments there as well. On Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 7:15 p.m. Location: CSM Theatre Building #3, FREE parking at Bethoven lot #2 $. 5 suggested donation.

Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Please join us for the “Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow.” Raul was an integral part of the Santana Band for almost 4 decades (from 1976 to 2013).
Coming from the Mission District of San Francisco (the heart of Latin Rock) he worked his way up playing for Dakila, Malo and Sapo prior to joining Santana. Not only an impassioned performer, Raul was also a clinician of Latin music and drumming.
Over the years Raul has lent his talents to recording and performing with artists including Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston, Tremaine Hawkins and Herbie Hancock.  When off the stage with Santana, Raul also loved to perform with local groups in the Bay Area (his home), which included many of his musician fans, friends and family.  He never forgot the musicians that he began with under the Golden Gate Bridge at Aquatic Park.
The Rekow Family asks you to join them for a musical celebration of Raul’s life Just as Raul would want it. At the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, 4-8 p.m. There will be live music, sharing of fond memories and smiles all around.

Ytaelena Open Studio this weekend!
Artist has been working in a new series called Rapture, using resin as paint and working with an abstract version of her figurative lines. It is a beautiful series that aim to achieve catharsis of our shared anxieties.
You can check other piecopportunity to check examples of this kind of work.
1890 Bryant St. #317, Friday, Nov. 6,  6-10 p,m., Saturday Nov. 7,  11-6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8,  11-6 p.m.

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Colombia will celebrate Serrat in his 50 years of artistic career

CICLO VALLADOLID VIVE LA MUSICA.- JOAN MANUEL SERRAT.- CONCIERTOS.- MUSICA.- VALLADOLID

by the El Reportero’s news services

Seventy-one-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat will celebrate fifty years of artistic career with concerts in four Colombian cities, where he will perform songs from his latest album titled “Antología desordenada”, organizers said today.
The album compiles a total of 50 songs by the writer of pieces like “Mediterráneo” and “Palabras de amor”, which have been recorded by around 30 singers.
The performance that takes place on Thursday night at Bogota’s Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater will be the first of a series of performances in the country.
After three days of performances in Bogota, Serrat will then travel to Manizales, Cali and Medellín.
“I still don’t know if this is my destiny, I don’t know what I will do for the rest of my life,” said the artist to Semana magazine.
Serrat holds nine doctorates honoris causa for his contributions to the Spanish music and literature, as well as the 2014 Latin Grammy for Person of the Year, among other awards.

Buena Vista Social Club at The Beacon Theatre in New York
The Buena Vista Social Club, one of the most prestigious Cuban groups worldwide, will perform today at The Beacon Theatre in New York, as part of its Adios Tour through the United States.
We are here, New York. Two nights with all sold out. Candela, Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias and much more we will be singing tonight, commented the band on social networks.
Last month, the orchestra and its lead singer Omara Portuondo, added another great event to their privileged acting career at the White House, the first Cuban band to appear there in the last half century.
In addition, the band gave concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, the Denver Botanic Gardens and Rialto Center for the Arts, among others.
Mostly comprised by veteran musicians from the Caribbean island, defenders of son, bolero, danzon and salsa; the project brings together since 1996 prestigious exponents of Cuban traditional music, especially that of the 1930s to 1950.
Under the leadership of guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, they recorded an album that won a Grammy and an Oscar-nominated documentary in 2000.

International Children and Youth Book Fair In Mexico announced
The 35th International Fair of Children and Youth Books will take place November 6 to 16 at the National Center of Arts of the Mexican capital, with France as guest of honor. According to organizers, it will have five spaces destined to readers of all ages, a cabin to record podcast and a Reading Center.
The Hall of Interactive Reading will have as main scenario the space called On this Earth, in tribute to deceased Mexican writer Eraclio Zepeda.
Panamanian writer Mariela Sagel said the country could be rescued trough culture, thus the need for a dynamic Ministry, which is able to be in touch and interact with artists.
The author of “Fuga” (2015), an edition that compiles 80 articles about the country’s cultural work, gave details about the activities like handicrafts, painting, reading, among others, which are successfully being implemented at penitentiary centers. “Even writers go there to talk about their books”.
While assessing the performance of the sector in the country, Sagel said that theater is the most developed artistic expression, as she lamented that culture is in no government’s agenda.

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