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lune 23. 2004
Elderly Mexican Woman Carries Torch
Masters track and
field champion
honored
(AP) — The w orld’s fastest w om an -
at 93- w ears a T -shirt, a cheap, blue-
c h e c k e re d d re ss an d fad e d ca n v as
sneakers. The only hint o f a sports
achievem ent is a sponsor’s jacket that
announces a w ebsite in her name.
If there’s not much glam our to the life
o f a m asters track and field cham pion,
there is occasional honor. Last week,
the 93-year-old carried the O lym pic
torch before tens o f thousands o f people
on the fea tu re d leg o f its passag e
through M exico en route to A thens.
Rosario Iglesias, a 93-year-old m a s te r s
“I’m very proud that they included
m
e d a ls in M exico City. (AP photo)
m e,” said Rosario Iglesias, know n as
“C hayito.”
delivering them to subscribers, co v er
For m ost o f her life, Iglesias rose well
ing six to seven m iles a day, according
before dawn, collected new spapers from
to her grandson C onrado Peralta, 46.
distributors and ran though the streets
Born in Mexico City on Aug. 31,1910,
Wary of Immigrants
track a n d field ch a m p io n sh o w s her
she was 80 years old before taking up
sports. A custom er who w as also a run
ner noticed her rushing about and sug
gested she enter a race.
She did, she won and she started
training, aided by her grandson, who
had learned about physical co n d itio n
ing w hile on a p ro fessio n al so ccer
te am ’s backup squad as a youth.
“I had to go running around with the
n ew sp a p ers" so train in g for a race
“w asn ’t a lot o f w ork,” she said.
She kept entering, and kept w inning.
And she kept delivering new spapers at
least part tim e until about two years
ago, when she w as 91.
A fter w in n in g a se rie s o f local and
n atio n al c h a m p io n sh ip s at 200, 400,
800 and 1,500 m e ters, Ig lesias began
co m p etin g ab ro ad . She has w on races
in Ja p a n , S o u th A fric a , B a rb a d o s,
B rita in , A u stra lia , C a n ad a , P u erto
R ico and th e U n ited S tates an d p lan s
to a tten d n ex t y e a r’s w o rld c h a m p io n
sh ip s in Spain.
She trains about an hour a day at local
parks, driven there by P eralta, w hose
work as a train er follow s his chores as a
new s vendor and taxi driver.
Polls show concerns on jobs and terrorism
(AP) — Immigrants take the
to limit access for newcomers to
POLL
jobs local citizens don’t want in
their labor markets.
some o f the w orld's leading in Poll: How immigrants are viewed
Gilles Corman, who monitors
dustrial nations, but the new People living in the United States and other countries see immigrants
European public opinion for Ipsos,
comers are still viewed nega as valued workers, but views on their overall influence differ, AP
says immigration is among the top
polls found
tively, a recent poll found.
issues Europeans want dealt with
1. Do you think immigrants
In the United States and in
2 What influence do
in
elections there, behind unem
tend to take jobs away from
you think Immigrants
Britain, France, Germany, Italy
ployment.
your country s citizens, or
are having on the way
and Spain - people were more
do they take jobs that people
things are going in your
In one country after another,
In your country do not want?
likely to say they had negative
country?
those with more education tended
views of the influence o f immi
,$1 Take away jobs
H Very good/somewhai good to have the most positive view of
Take jobs people don t want
grants, according to the AP-
Very bad/somewhat bad
the influence of immigration.
Ipsos polls. The poll findings
Britons expressed the strongest
come at a time o f high concern
negative feelings o f any o f the nine
over unemployment, jobs and
countries polled. Six in 10 Britons,
worries about terrorism.
60 percent, said immigrants are a
O f the nine countries polled,
bad influence on their country.
only the Canadians had a posi
About ih » poti About t 0 00 lew leot« oi Bruu n Canada France Germany Italy
“The U.K. has historically em
Japan Mexico S p an and the United Stales interviewed Iro n . May ' 17, plus or
tive view of the influence o f im
minus 3 purcentaoe ponts oi tna.q.n p i error lor each country Noi sure response
b
rac
ed d iv e rs ity ,” sa id Sam
is not metuded in Sgures
migrants, according to the polls
McGuire, with Ipsos-UK. He said
conducted for the AP by Ipsos, S O U R C t AP tpsos pons
*p the high negative ratings may have
an international polling firm. The
to do with Britons’ fears about the
Japanese were divided on the influence of Union has raised fears among longtime EU recent expansion o f the European Union,
immigration on their country.
members o f a wave of immigration. Many
fanned by stories predicting a flood of
The recent expansion of the European o f those countries have announced plans immigrants.
Another country where residents said
they had a fairly negative view of immigra
tion was Germany, where 57 percent said
immigrants have been a bad influence.
W hile people in the United States,
Canada, the European Union and Japan
generally said immigration provides a work
force that takes unwanted jobs, almost
half o f Mexicans, whose country has less
industrial development than others polled,
said they see immigrants as a threat to their
own work force.
“In spite o f so many Mexicans migrat
ing to the United States, M exicans have a
harsh view on immigration in general,”
said Jorge Buendia o f Ipsos-Bimsa in
Mexico.
A large majority o f M exicans, 71 per
cent, said they think it’s better if almost
everyone in a country shares the same
customs and traditions.
Residents o f the United States dis
agreed with that sentiment by a 3 - 1 margin,
and the Japanese tended to disagree by a
smaller margin
rfottnes in
A m erica
Encylopedia
explores pioneers
of pop culture
(A P )— Tw o Arizona State U niver
sity professors have put together a
tw o-volum e set o f encyclopedias d e
signed to explore the im pact o f D esi
A rn az, Je n n ife r L opez an d o th e r
L atinos on A m erican pop culture.
T he E ncyclopedia o f L atina and
L atino P opular C ulture in the United
D esi A m a z a n d Lucille Ball s ta r a s
R icky a n d Lucy Ricardo in “I Love
Lucy" in th is 1 9 5 6 file p h o to .
States is designed to give readers a
com prehensive look at the diversity
am ong L atinos in the U nited States
and exam ines pioneers in literature
art, m usic, religion, politics, sports
and other areas. It is ex pected to be
released in the fall.
C o rd elia C a n d e la ria an d P ete r
G arcia, uni versity professors and co
editors on the project, focused atten
tion on the three largest L atino popu
lations in the U nited States - M exi
can, C uban and Puerto Rican.
The essays exam ine the popularity
o f the subjects and th eir lasting influ
ence.
F or e x a m p le , A rn az, th e C u b an -
b o r n a c to r w h o p la y e d R ic k y
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(AP) — Federal officials are
th rea ten in g to bring crim in al
charges against 81 current and
former Mexican law enforcement
officers for incompetence in their
failure to solve adecade-long string
of w omen’s slayings in the border
city o f Ciudad Juarez.
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m illion across the border from El
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killings were sim ilar, with the vic
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tim s sexually assaulted, strangled
report b y a
and dum ped in the nearby desert
sp ecia l
- leading to fears o f serial killers
p ro secu to r
and prom pting the governm ent
charging
to undertake a case-by-case re in c o m p e te n c e in th e failure to
view.
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Special Prosecutor Maria Lopez th e border city o f Ciudad
Urbina said the 50 cases her office Juarez. (AP p h o to )
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"W e can’t give immediate an
swers to why these killings are hap
pening,” she said Thursday in her
first report since she was named to
the post six months ago.
The review did, however, reveal
that 81 state and local officials, in
cluding investigators, forensic ex
perts and police officers, lost evi
dence, contaminated crime scenes
and had been slow to act to protect
endangered women.
M ario Alvarez, deputy federal
attorney general for human rights,
called the allegations o f incom pe
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He said state prosecutors were
weighing criminal abuse o f power
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