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Hit by Worldwide Headlines,
Chavez Launches Campaign
to Counter
B i B a r i J ones
Kicks O ff on October 12
Goal: To provide a forum for
community, government and
school districts to address
factors which Im pact the
a tta in m e n t of a quality
education and high school
completion by Latino youth.
O
n June 29th, the first Latino
E ducation Sum m it brought
together over 250 parents,
resources tow ard the shared goal o f
their ideas, concerns and suggestions.
Superintendent and Com m issioner
the Summit.
This fall. Part Two o f the Latino
Education Summit, the Kick-off, will
further review key recom m endations
and strategies o f im plem entation that
Cruz felt that it was their duty to take
it to the com m unity - they may have
concerns or see solutions yet unex­
plored. A nother im portant purpose
o f the Summit was also to create
partnerships am ong local govern­
m ent, school districts, and com m u­
nities that other districts and regions
can be used in our schools. T he K ick­
o ff is scheduled for O ctober 12th;
time and location will be determ ined
in the upcom ing weeks. O ur plan­
ning com m ittee and research sub­
m stu­
ay model.
educators, com m unity members,
The summit provided venues in
dents, governm ent and com m unity-
which to identity areasofconcem within
based organizations that shared sim i­
tour groups responsible for Latino’s
lar concerns about Latino student
student
success: Student Responsibil­
academ ic and social success. The
ity, School Responsibility, Parent Re­
idea w as borne o f talks betw een
sponsibility andCommunity Responsi­
Dr. Ben C anada, Superintendent o f
bility. Participants were asked to brain­
Portland Public Schools, and C om ­
storm ideas and suggestions that spe­
m issioner Serena C ruz about why
com m ittee are now w orking to en­
sure that the fall K ick-off is ju st as
beneficial to our m ission as our sum ­
m er W ork-session. Dr. C anada and
Com m issioner Cruz are com m itted
to changing and m odifying system s
in order to m ake sure they w ork for
our youth and com m unity.
W e invite you to becom e part o f
Latino youth drop-out rate in Port­
land Public Schools was dispropor­
tionately higher than other groups.
Rather than solely addressing the
cifically address key areas o f concern.
A nother aspect o f com m unity in­
volvem ent that was key was the indi­
vidual com m itm ents made by par­
problem at a bureaucratic level, an
idea em erged o f convening a gather­
ticipants. O ver 45 individual com ­
ing m ore inform ation or to b e added
m itm ents w ere made by Summit p ar­
ticipants in w hich they pledged vol­
unteer efforts, programs and other
to our Summit database, please call
me at 503/248-5239 or em ail me at
carm en.c.rubioihco.multnomah.
ing, or “summ it” o f com m unity m em ­
bers to have the opportunity to share
this very im portant process. I f you
are interested in participating in one
o f our four w ork groups, are request­
Consulado de Mexico
Portland, Oregon
T h e C o n s u la te G e n e r a l o f
M exico in P ortland, O reg o n has
the p leasu re to invite the Portland
co m m unity to attend the official
cerem ony o f the 189th anniversary
o f the M exican Independence D ay,
“T he G rito ” , w hich this y ear w ill
taking Venezuela toward dictatorship.
President Hugo Chavez acknowledges
he has an image problem.
The former coup leader is launch­
ing a cam paign to counter the critics.
Democracy in V enezuela can ’t be in
danger, he says, because it never
really existed.
V enezuela “ is com ing out o f its
tom b,” C havez told rep o rters in
Manaos, Brazil, on Saturday after
m eeting w ith B razilian P resident
Fernando H enrique Cardozo. O ld-
style politicians "transform ed the
country into a tyranny. They robbed,
they looted, they hum iliated, they
massacred the V enezuelan people.”
Chavez is ordering the country’s
embassies to step-up efforts to spread the
government ’ s viewpoint, and has brought
in a well-known local reporter who spe­
cializes in international news, Walter
Martinez, to help handle the foreign
media. Once reserved Cabinet members
suddenly are loquacious and accessible.
Controversy has broken out in Ven-
ezuela over a constitutional assembly
that was elected in July to write a new
constitution. Last m onth the pro-
be held at the W orld T rade C en ter
e x p la n a d e , lo c a te d at 121 SW
S alm on St. in dow ntow n, Portland
tio n a lly a n d w e ll- a c c la im e d
“Com apañia Regional de Danza de
Puebla,” a group that is the second
on W ednesday, S eptem ber 15th,
b e s t in o u r c o u n try , a f te r th e
Folklórico Ballet o f G uadalajara.
For more inform ation, please call
the C onsulate at 503/274-1442.
from 5 - 7 PM.
To m ake this a special occasion,
we will be presenting the intema-
CARACAS, V ENEZUELA (AP)
- Wildly popular at home, but w eath­
ering criticism abroad that he m ay be
Chavez assembly declared itself the
outside the Middle East, but more than
suprem e pow er o f the nation, giving
itself the power to fire judges and
half the population lives in poverty.
T he assem bly is helping push
overhaul the justice system.
Last week, the assembly virtually
shut dow n Congress, provoking a
street melee outside the Capitol build­
ing betw een pro- and anti-Chavez
dem onstrators. About a half-dozen
opposition lawmakers climbed over a
through long-delayed investigations
fence to try to retake their chambers.
C ritics charged that Chavez, a
former paratrooper who led a failed
1992 coup attem pt and was elected
sion is to write a constitution.
C havez, who enjoys a 70 percent
approval rating, said new, more demo­
cratic institutions will soon be cre­
ated: a national referendum on the
new constitution is likely in N ovem­
ber, with congressional elections likely
to follow a month later. Congress and
president in December, is taking Ven-
ezuela tow ard dictatorship by abol­
ishing its other government bodies.
During an interview with foreign
correspondents aboard the presiden­
tial jet as he returned from Brazil on
Saturday, Chavez insisted that the as­
sembly is provoking criticism mainly
because it is attacking the interests o f
V enezuela's corrupt oligarchy.
“The world is coming to realize that
I’m not the tyrant they said, the mon­
ster, the Hitler, the Mussolini,” he said.
He said the referendum voters ap­
proved in April to create the assembly
instructed it to reform Venezuela’s
public institutions, which are riddled
with some o f the worst political cor­
ruption in the world. Venezuela sits
atop the world’s largest oil reserves
o f the nation’s judges, some 80 p er­
cent o f w hom are accused o f corrup­
tion, Chavez said. The Supreme Court
has backed the move, though its presi­
dent resigned in protest and the court
earlier ruled that the assem bly's m is­
the assembly are close to reaching an
agreement through Catholic Church-
m ediated talks to coexist peacefully
in the meantime, he said.
Chavez got a boost on Friday when
V en ezu ela’s richest businessm an,
Gustavo Cisneros, met with assembly
leaders and saidhesupported theirwork.
Critics warn that Chavez may find ways
to pack the new courts and congress
with supporters, and that his move to
give the military a bigger role in society
- he’s appointed many soldiers to top
government posts raises the specter o f
a return to the days o f repressive mili­
tary regimes m Latin America.
DMV and Community Partners
Join to Aid Hispanic Drivers
O nasum m er evening ina Hillsboro
classroom, 25 students listen to a guest
speaker from the W ashington County
S h eriffs Office explain his role in
enforcing certain traffic laws. O n an­
other evening the same students might
have another guest speaker - from the
insurance industry, a judge, or an
em ployee o f the DMV.
The class is the result o f the H is­
panic Education and Licensing Pro­
gram , also know n as HELP. The
partnership includes O regon DMV,
the W ashington C ounty S h e riffs
O ffice, and Centro Cultural, an ad­
ness o f w hat we require as far as legal
dents are just getting ready to gradu­
ate. M ore than 70 percent o f the
students who com pleted the course
have passed the DM V know ledge
docum entation.”
As an exam ple o f that aw areness,
O liver said that few er people are
bringing in unacceptable identifica­
test on their first try, O liver said.
“For the dem ographic, there was
only about a 40 percent success rate
before the program ," O liver said.
In addition to being beneficial to
the students, the program also helps
the com m unity and the DMV. It fits
right in with many o f D M V 's goals,
O liver said. The H illsboro office is
tion papers.
HELP is also beginning to evolve,
O liver said. M ore people are becom ­
ing interested in participating - there
is a waiting list forupcom ing classes.
Currently there are two instructors,
already seeing a payoff.
“W e’re fostering an understand­
vocacy group for the W ashington
County Hispanic com m unity.
H ELP allows students to receive
ing about DMV and what w e're here
for,” O liver said. “W ord o f mouth is
also helping to educate the public
24 hours o f classroom instruction with
the intent ofhaving graduates pass the
about how we fit into the community,
and w e ’re seeing increased aw are­
knowledge tests on their w ay to re­
ceiving driver licenses. Hie six-week
course involves an in-depth study o f
the Oregon D river M anual. group dis­
We really hope we can find continued
funding to keep the program going."
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cussions and guest speakers During
the final two-hour session, DMV rep­
resentatives adm inister a group.
"O ur partnership has three goals
w ith this program ," said Bob O liver,
m anager o f the H illsboro DM V of­
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