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VOL. II No. 6 San Antonio, Texas
COMMUNITY DEMANDS JUSTICE - '
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Marzo/Abril, 1981
Santoscoy Murde-r Remains Unpunished
Miles de San Antonianos han protestado el asesinato de Hector Santoscoy por un policia.
Thousands of San Antonians have protested the murder of Hector Santoscoy by the police.
Practices at
The cold-blodded murder of
Hector Santoscoy by the po­lice
continues to go unpu­nished.
In spite of thousands of
San Antonians who have protes­ted
this latest murder by po­li~
e, city officials have re­fused
to take action against
policeman James Camma~k.
Everyone admits that this
is, at the very least, aclear
case of police abuse. Even
the usual apologists for the
corrupt and racist rich who
control this city have called
for "retraining of policemen."
But, what a0out Santoscoy's
mother and family? Are they _
to simply shrug-off his death
and forget him'?
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connnunity? Are we to simply
ignore that our people are
still being murdered like
animals?
And, what about James
Cammack? Is he to simply go
on with his business as if ' l
he had not murdered another j
human being? Is he excempt i
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Kelly -AFB Continues
El Salvador: Another
Vietnam Tragedy?
By: TOM MAUER for military training and $40
million for economic support. \
By: PAUL D. PALACIO
If you are a Mexican-Ameri­can
or a Black in the Direc­torate
of Maintenance' -- be
very careful, you stand a
great risk of being fired.
If you are Anglo the chances
of not being fired are highly
in your favor. Please make
note of the following
stgtistics:
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The Directorate of Mainten­ance
removed 41 employees from
Federal Employment at Kelly
AFB from January 1, 1980 to
December 31, 1980. Of the 41
maintenance employees removed
32 were Mexican-Americans or
78%; 7 were Blacks or 17%;
and 2 were Anglos or 5%.Main­tenance
has a workforce of
5279 Mexican-Americans or 68%
533 Blacks or 7%; and 1911
Anglos or 25%.
Minority maintenance em-ployees
are not the only em­ployees
.at Kelly AFB subject­ed
to disparate treatment. I
am told the other director­ates
have similar or worse
statistics.
The .above statistics are in
keeping with past commander
General Lynwood E. Clark's
policy of no disciplinary,
adv~rse, or removal action
against non-minorities. Gen­eral
Clark allows non-minori­ties
to get away with very
serious violations of law and
regulations withou.t adverse
action.
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. Blaming the civil war in El
Salvador on an "international
communist conspiracy," the
Reagan administration is in­creasing
its aid to that coun­try's
ruling junta.
Despite growing opposition
to US involvement in "another
Vietnam," Reagan is asking
Congress for an additional
$25 million in arms and mili­tary
equipment , $1 million
In addition, there are al­ready
over 65 US military ad­visors
-in El Salvador.
The State Department claims
that Salvadoran rebels are
receiving arms from communist
countries through a "pipeline"
organized by Cuba.
No one outside the U.S.
government has yet seen the
".documents" which allegedly
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Over 200 people joined a recent march in S.A. to support the people of El Salvador.
MaS ae zoo personas marcliaron en s.A. respaldarido ai pueblo sa1v8d0re1io.
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PRJ-Regime Charged With Rights Violations
The CoffirrUssion of the International
Federation of the Rights of Man (IFRM)
was in Mexico recently investigating
the constant violations of a Charter
signed by the Mexican government at the
United Nations (UN). This Charter co­mmits
all its signers to respect human
rights and the laws of their own coun­try.
para-military White Brigade under the
cormnand of the infamous General Miguel
Nassar Haro.
Santana. He too refused to receive them
trying to block the investigation.
The PRI attempts to block the investi­gation
failed because dozens of people
and organizations went daily to the
hotel where the commissioners were
staying and presented evidence.
This area has been in conflict for
several years.
The International Commission is made
up of the French lawyers Daniel Jacobi
and Martine Clavel, and the northameri­can
Robert Goldman.
The large landowners have conspired
with local politicians of the ruling
PRI-regime to steal the communal lands
of the native peasants who belong pri­marily
to the ethnic Nahoas groups.
Last year, for example, rich land­owners
and the federal judicial police
of Pachuca, Hidalgo, were holding over
180 peasants in jail without any formal
The Comrrassion was later invited to
travel to the Sierra Hidalguense, where
26 representatives of the Nahoas commu­nities
were waiting to give them import-ant
additional evidence. -
The results of the ' investigation were
announced at the U.N. International co­mmission
on Human Rights' biannual meet­ing
held in Geneva.
legal charges. _
The IFRM was invited by the Indepen­dent
Comrrattee for Political Prisoners,
Disappeared, Exiled and Persecuted of
Mexico and by the National Democratic
Popular Fran t.
They had asked the Commission to· in­vestigate
the cases of over 500 kidna­pped
political prisoners and the gpvern­ment's
violence in the area known as La
Huast;eca.
These political prisoners had spent
more than two -years without receiving
even the most basic legal process.
When the Commission arrived at the
Pachuca state jail, local authorities
not only refused to allow interviews
with the prisoners but sent guards and
paid gunmen to escort the jurists to the
bus terminal sending them to the capital.
An official denounciation of the PRI
regime in Mexico was passed charging the
regime with failing to respect human
rights as well as using torture as an
investigative tool.
The regime was also charged with fo­menting
a growing tide of political kid­nappings
by para-military groups coinman­ded
by General Miguel Nassar Hare.
Up to the arrival of the Commission,
there were over 180 agri-workers held
prisoners in this area. They had been
severely tortured by the army and the
The Commission then turned to the Mi-nister
of the Interior, Olivares (Fran: arRO POR QUE?- San Antonio)
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'Some of us died, while you . .. '
HANDCLASP poster calls for usoli­darity
with the people of El Sal­By
SHEILA COLLINS
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WE DRIFTED into death
on our way to work,
coming bacls from mass,
in Bible study classes,
while hoeing the grouod
in Santa Ana, La Libertad
and Chalatenango.
Some of us went easily,
knowing only the sharp,
quick sting which marked
our transformation.
Some of us went slowly
in great agony, like Christ,
recognizing our own sight
in the vacant eyes of our assassins;
Sheila Collins is director of the office
of voluntary service, United Methodist
Church, New York. vador." (From: The National Catholic Reporter)
in the hands that tensed
before strangling, our own strength;
in the lips that cursed our persistence,
our own voice.
Some of us died in a jungle clearing,
our blood's rich protein
nourishing the forest floor;
Some qf us had to be gathered in pieces,
limbs severed from torsos
in gulleys an-d culverts~
Some of us had to be swept
from the plaza in front of the cathedral
of San Salvador.
Some of us died
while you were complaining
of broken contracts;-
Some of us died
while you were worrying
about what to wear;
Some of us died
while you were filling
your basket with groceries;
Some of us died
while you were arguing
about who was most oppressed.
Now there are 10,004 of us
Now you are learning to pronounce our
names
Now we are sometimes mentioned in
your papers
Now we are sometimes remembered in
prayers.
Perhaps when your sons return in boxes
from places called Chalatenango,
Santa Ana, and La Ubertad;
Perhaps when their nightmares
are filled with our faces,
Perhaps you will startle
to find we are kin.
Big Business 11Round Table" Uses Dirty Tricks
There is a dangerous group on the loose
and they want your job - and the job of
every other union member in the country.
This group is called the Business Round­table.
Its membership roster reads l!ke a
'Who's Who' of the Fortune 500. Such re­nowned
enemies of the people as Clifton
Garvin, Chairman of Exxon; William
Agee, Chairman of Bendix Corporation and
a member of Reagan's Business Commit­tee;
Alden Clausen, recently retired as
Chairman of the Bank of America; Justin
Dart, Chairman of Dart Industries and
"Godfather" of the Corporate PAC; ' Archie
McCardell, President of International
Harvest~r; and Rawleigh Warner, Jr.,
Chairman of Mobil Oil.
The Business Roundtable represents
the largest corporations in each sector of
the economy -the top of the oil, steel, au­tomobile,
banking, retailing, and utilities
industries. This organization has but one
aim- to promote the economic and politi­cal
interests of big business.
If all the members. of the . Roundtable
were to be combined into a separate nation
they would have a gross national product
second only to that of the United States.
This almost unbeliev~able power is used
without mercy on Capitol Hill and every
worker, every cQnsumer, feels the effects
of it every day. . ·
Roundtable's ·Underhanded Campaign
This gang's record of assaults on the
public interest is _endless and almost
always anonymous. The Roundtable's fight
against the Consumer Protection Agency is
a prime example. The campaign consisted
of three key parts: ( 1) the Big Lie techni­que,
(2) high pressure lobbying effort on ­Capitol
Hill, and (3) lots of money spent
very effectively.
For the Big Lie, the Roundtable with
help from the Chamber of Commerce,
wrote letters to congressmen stating that
the Consumer Agency w~uld be ''a needless
added layer of bureaucracy'' and repeated.
it so often that it sounded like a broken re­cord.
The truth-, however, was that the Con­sumer
Agency would actually combine
twenty government agencies costing $20
million per year into one office, saving the
taxpayers $5 million per year.
The Roundtable's lobbying campaign
was a smashing success for big business.
The Roundtable paid Leon Jaworski, the
Watergate· Special ·Prosecutor, $5000 to
write an opposing letter to the chairman of
the House committee considering the Con­sumer
Agency.
Jaworski's letter was later seen as an
editorial in a Washington newspaper, and
as an advertisement · in the New York
Times.-There was,-of course, never any in­d~
cation that Jaworski had taken five"~
for his "opinion."
Spared -No Expense
The Roundtable proved that "rponey is
the mother's milk of politics" in a big way
while fighting the Consumer Agency. They
mailed canned editorials and cartoons to
3800 newspapers around the country - no
consumer group in the country could -ever.
hope to match that power or that expense.
If the action against the Consumer
Ag€ncy seemed like a battle, the Round­table's
campaign against Labor Law Re~
form resembled a "Holy War," according
to one of their own lobbyists.
The Roundtable had allies in the
Chamber of Commerce ·and the National
Right to Work Committee. The entire east
coast supply of one post card company was
bought out on which to print anti-labor_
propaganda . .Lies were spead throughout
the country about supposed evils of Labor
Law Reform.
A filibuster command post was esfab:.
lished to make sure that there would be
enough obstructionists on the side of ~ilf
business at all times in the U.S. Senate.
The. results of all this effort is, of
course, sad history. The Labor Law Re­form
bill, which passed the House by a
wide margin, would have passed the Senate
had it been able to reach the floor and been
signed by the President, was killed by the
Senate filibuster.
Make no mistake about it; because ·of
the actions of the 'Business Roundtable and
the Chamber of Commerce, alt Americans
are-paying higher- prices for just abOut-ev~­rything
and the job of every union member
hi this country is less safe. With Reagan
in the White House and the Congress con­trolled
by conservatives, the potential for
danger from these gangs is even greater.
Former Congressman Wright Patman
once said, "I have been very curious about
this organization - the Business Round·
table - which seems to sweep out of the
· night, Kill public-interest legislation, and
· then disappear.''
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Pagina 3 EL PUEBLO Marzo/Abril, 1981
Nepotism In S.A.
Hiring Practices
Racism At Kelly
By: RAUL RODRIGUEZ
Unless you have · "inside"
pull in City Hall orrelatives
working in the S.A. police
department or the fire depar~
ment, it is, apparently, a
waste of time and effort to
apply for a job with the City
of San Antonio.
This is due to NEPOTISM: a
practice used by victorious
candidates to elective posts
to fire employees and replace
them with their father, mo­ther,
brothers and cousins.
This pr~ctice, which once
was forbidden by rules which
limited ONE family to ONE ci­ty
job, appears to be once
again being used to favor gi­ving
jo'bs to relatives of em­ployees
of the S. A. Police
and Fire Departments.
Newspaper articles have
shown that policeman Bob
Niemann and his policewoman
wife, Barbara Niemann, had a
third member of their family
hired by the police depar~ent.
Another example is the
Bodeal Cantu family. Her hus­band
Gerry,her brother-in-law
and two uncles are firemen
and now she is joining the
department also.
In the Police Department,
as another example, the
Akeroyd family has 5 members,
the Weilbacher has also 5 in­cluding
a sergeant and a
lieutenant.
The obvious question is:
Were these city workers hired
because they qualified pro­perly
or because they had re­latives
already in the city
payroll??
The tax-paying public has
the right to know if their
money is being used for the
private enrichment of a pri~
vileged class through nepo-tism.
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What , will the mayor and
. city council answer to these
questions~?
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Family Accuses Park
Ranger Of Abuse
The family of Ramon J Chavez After several minutes of
For instance:
1. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
managers at Kelly
AFB for being found guilty
of an unlawful unfair labor
practice of an administrative
law judge in early 1980.
2. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
managers · at Kelly
AFB for being found guilty
of violating Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 19Q4,
as amended by the Equal
Employment Opportunity Com­mission
and the Secretary of
the Air Force on numerous
occasions during 1980.
3. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
Deputy Director of
Material Management at Kelly
AFB who early in 1980 unlaw~
fully misused government
property, equipment, and em~
ployees .
4. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
chief of the Elec­tronic
Test Equipment Sec­tion
MIRE for sleeping
during duty Lours.
5. There was no removal
action taken against the
MMIRA non-minority manager ob­served
outside KELLY AFB dur­ing
duty hours on government
time on 6 and 7 October 1980.
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6. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
managers found to
have unlawfully used prohib­ited
personnel practices
throughout 1980 by the office
of Special Counsel.
7. There was no removal
action taken against non­minority
managers for remov­ing
from Kelly AFB ·property
of the U.S. government in the
form of six .(6) large aircraft
engines and numerous smaller
reciprocating engines nor for
all the other wrong doing
pointed out in the WFAA TV
film shown in Dallas, and San
Antonio, Texas.
8. There was no removal
action taken against Gen­eral
Clark over the fact that
there has been more decisions
of Title VII discrimination by
The Secretary of the Air
Force under his command than
any other commander before
him.
9 .· Space does not permit
additional examples to con­tinue.
All of the above allega­tions
are the basis for dis­crimination
complaints filed
by numerous individual Kelly
AFB minority employees who
have been disciplined or
fired. Jr. recently experienced a ho- being pushed, shoved and cus­rrifying
ordeal at the hands sed by Ranger Robinson, both ·ueueueueueueueueueueuellenettetteuetleneueuetteueuettetteuelletteltelteuettelteuetteueueuetten.
of a local park Fanget. brothers were tte:ttactH£c:a -a-~
Their experience typifies taken to jail charged with
the alarming increase in the public intoxication.
abuse and misuse of authori- After. spending 3 hours in
ty by local policemen. jail, they were released and
Early on the morning of Ramon immediately contacted
Febrt-lary 1, 1981, .Ramon, his MALDEF, the Civil Rights Liti­brother
and wife were parked gation Center, and other law­at
Espada Park when Park Ran- yers.
ger Alan Roolnson approached
their car, opened the back
door and dragged out '.Ramon's
brother.
Ramon, a 4-year U.S. Marine
Corps veteran .discharged in
1979, told EL PUEBLO that
neither he nor his brother
were drunk nor had they done
anything for Robinson to at­tack
them.
In fact, when Ramon asked
Robinson why he was abusing
them Robinson shot back, "you
shut up, you son of_ ,
Sandoval has you Mexicans
thinking you are smart ••. " ·
"It was obvious that he was
trying to provoke us s.o he
could kill us," Ramon told EL
PUEBLO, ~'I'm 6' -1" and my
brother and I could have
taken him but I kept telling
my brother to cool it because
I didn't want to give Robinson
an excuse to use his gun."
"They (lawyers) wanted too
much money to I dicided to
represent myself and asked
for a trial by jury," Ramon
said.
Ramon's trial finally took
place on March 3 in Municipal
Judge Albert McNight's Court.
Throughout the trial, City
prosecutor Edward Fallis kept
asking Ramon, "What are you
so mad about?" whenever Ramon ·
expressed · his anger over the
treatment he had received.
"I knew that Robinson had a
bad reputation in the neigh­borhood,"
explained Ramon
"But as a law-abiding citizen
I never expected to become
his target for abuse."
The jury found Ramon not
guilty of the charges.
However, nothing has been
done to discipline Ranger
Robinson and today he conti -
nues prowling the Southside.
Santoscoy Murder
from punishment because he is
Anglo? Because he "only"
killed a Mexican?
The U. S. "Justice" Depart­ment
is playing games on this
case as it has on many other
similar cases.
They keep hoping that the
whole incident will disappear
and that everyone will for­get
about it.
Mayor Cockre·ll and other
local racists have been inti­midating
people to keep them
away from the weekly protests.
They have used radio talk
shows to tell people that
the weekly protests may turn
into "violence."
Yet, the only violence has
come from another anglo po-
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liceman who stopped during a
protest rally and destroyed
some of the protest signs.
This policeman has also not
been punished in spite of all
the witnesses who saw him
attack one of the protestors
and destroy the signs.
Organizers of the protests
have vowed to continue until
justice prevails. The co~u­nity
has been supporting all
the rallies and marches in­cluding
the April 18 march
from Central Park to the fe­deral
building.
The community is angry. The
community is fed up with po­lice
abuse. The community
wants justice.
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La gente de San Antonio continua luchando para obtener
justicia en el caso de Hector Santoscoy. MUchos ternen que
si se permite que este abuso policiaco se pase sin castigo
cualquier rnexicano o persona pobre podria ser la victima
de cualquier policia racista.
La siguiente marcha de protesta
de abril del Central Park Mall al
Para mas informacion, por favor
tendra lugar el dia 18
edificio federal.
!lame a (512) 224-1061
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Reagan's Policies To
Hurt All Workers
EL PUEBLO warned working .people in San Antonio last No­vember
that Reagan was bad medicine.
His "solu-tions" to our economic and social problems are
proving us correct.
The entire Ronald Reagan "plan"
made by ultraconservative business
that tax "incentives" to them and
solve every national ill.
is based on proposals
interests who claim
less government will
The injustice of this "plan" is bad enough, but its
practical future effe~ts are even worse.
For example, under Reagan's Tax Plan, taxes would be re­duced
by $34.7 billion next year. What he is not telling
workers is that 55 percent of the money would go to the
richest 14 percent of all taxpayers and to corporations.
Corporations today bear less than half as much of the
federal tax burden as in 1946. The Reagan Plan will cut
that by an additional 50 percent.
A classical case of the rich getting richer. Is it any
wonder that the FBI, CIA and other watchdogs are being un­leashed
once again against thepoor and workers in the U.S.?
By "less government" Reagan's administration means only
one thing: Unleash Big Business to do as they please and
stop federal programs aimed at helping the poor.
For example, Reagan's move to de-control oil companies
means that they can charge whatever they want and increase
prices whenever they want.
Today the oil companies are already making profits ten
times higher than they were in 1972.
On the other hand, Reagan's "less government" strategy
for the poor and working people is ·as follows:
*Abolition of the Comprehensive Employment and Training
Act (CETA)
*A $1 billion cut in funds to pay for medical expenses
of the poor.
*A ~5% rent hike for the 3.3 million families living in
federally subsidized housing. r .. - ~-. 'kt .... 6 b!i::i:l~~ ..,;;.:-cu:t·-i.n s-e.hool 1une-h- funds- and- oth-e-:r,
child nutrition programs.
These and other budget cuts will have a drastic effect
upon the workers and poor of this nation.
The solution to stop these cuts is through organization
and active involvement by everyone who_ is truly concerned.
Labor unions, community organizations, etc. must become
more active in their resistance against Reagan's plans.
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EI .Salvador
verify this claim.
The guerrillas deny the
charge as well as the authen­ticity
of the documents.
Alleged Soviet and Cuban
involvement is widely seen,
here and around the world, as
a pretext for U.S. military
intervention in El Salvador.
President Lopez Portillo of
Mexico has denounced US policy
toward El Salvador as "the
unscrupulous arrogance of mi­litary
power," and called for
"rigorously preserving the
principles of self-determina­tion
and non-intervention."
The Foreign Ministry of
Brazil reports that US "proof' ·
of 'Soviet and Cuban involve­ment
in El Salvador is "not
conclusive."
Panama's President Aristeres
Royo, referring to the use of
US military bases lrithe Canal
Zone to process arms ship­ments
to the Salvadoran junta
and to train its army off~ers
says the US "has used our te­rritory
against our will to
interfere in El ·Salvador."
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Several other Latin American
countries have also protested
US involvement in El Salvador
and the strong-arm tactics
being ·used to obtain support
for such tactics from other
countries.
Locally, Archbishop Patrick
Flores is among many reli­gious
leaders who have oppo­sed
iJS aid to the junta.
Last year, Flores wrote to
then President Carter asking
him "not to feed the flames
of violence in El Salvador by
providing instruments of war
and destruction to the oppre­ssive
rulers of that nation."
The Bexar County AFL-CIO
voted last month to oppose US
military involvement in El
Salvador and to set up a
trade union committee to in­form
unionist about the issue.
The record of the junta in
El Salvador is simply too
bloody and too well known for
the State Department to slan­der
the rebellion against it
as a "plot" hatched in · other
countries. q- 5
EDITORIAL.
El ••plan'' De ·R·eagaD
Es Anti-Obrero
EL PUEBLO le advfrtid al sector trabajador de San Antonio
el pasado noviembre que Ronald Reagan .es peligroso.
Sus "soluciones" que ha implantado para resolver nuestros
problemas economicos y sociales prueban que estabamos co-rrectos.
El "plan" de Reagan esta basado en propuestas heehas por
negociantes ultraconservatives que alegan que ·al cobrarles a
ellos menos impuestos y al disminuir el gobierno, se re~
solveran todos lo_s problemas _de la naci6n.
La injusticia de ~ste "plan" es tremenda pero peor seran .
los efectos que tendra'en la practica en el futuro.
· Por ejemplo, bajo el plan de Reagan, los -impuestos seran
reducidos por $34.7 billones ei proximo a~o. Lo que ~1 no
le esta explicando a los obreros es que el 55 porciento de
ese dinero irapara el 14% de los contribuyentes mas ricos
y para las corporaciones. Nada mas ellos se be~eficiaran.
Hoy las corporaciones pagan unicamente la mitad de impue~
tos de lo que pagaban en 1946. El plan de Reagan reducira
ese percentage por la mitad. · ·
Esto es un ejemplo clasico de robar al pobrepara hace-r
mas rico al rico. (,Aun se sorprenden de ver -que el FBI, el
CIA y otros aparatos policiacos estan preparandose para
mantener la "ley y el orden" entre los obreros y los pobres?
Cuando Reagan habla de "recortar ' al gobierno" se refie­re
a una cosa: · Dejar a las corporaciones que hagan lo que
gusten y destruir los programas ·que ayudan al pobre.
Por ejemplo, al cancelar los controles gubernamentales
de las companias petroleras, Reagan les abrio las puertas
para que cobren lo que quieran y aumenten los precios como
mejor les conve:n:ga.
Hoy en dia las companias petroleras ya estan hacienda
ganancias 10 veces mayores que en 1972.
Al mismo tiempo, la estrategia de Reagan de ".recortar al
gobierno" a resultado en los siguientes efectos para
la gente pobre y trabajadora:
*Se cancela~a el ·programa de enti=enamiento para ._,,tra-bajos.
i~Se aumento por un · 25% la renta a las 3. 3 millones de
familias pobres que viven en viviendas pq_blicas.
*Se recorto por $1 billon los fondos para pagar gastos
medicos para gente po'!>re. . .,,
*Se recorto por $1. 6 billones los fo-ndos para desayunos
en las escuelas para ninos pobres y otros programas de· nu­tricion.
Estos y otros recortes de fondos tendran · un e·fecto dras­tico
entre los pobres y obreros de esta naci6n.
La solucion para poner alto a este "plan" es la organi­zaci6rr
·y la participacion activa de toda persona.
Los sindicatos y grupos comunitarios necesitan aumentar
sus actividades de resistencia para poner alto al "plan" de
-R-ona-ld -Re-ag-an-. -------------------
El Salvador
The causes of the civil war
are not to be found in Havana
but in El Salvador itself.
Here in San Antonio, the
Latin America Assistance
committee has been conducting
an educational campaign to
inform the people about El'
El Salvador
(Continued from Page 4)
Salvador.
Latin America Assistance is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan
group. Anyone interested in ·
heiping stop the war in El
Salvador, please call~
(512) 732-0960.
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Compromise muadlal
Crisdanos de Z6 paises
delienden las·
armas del pueblo
salvadoreiiO
CARTA·ABIERT:A. -A LOS OBISPOS DE CENTRO
AMERICA REUNIDOS EN PANAMA
Reunidos en la ciudad de Me­xico
representantes de las comu·
nidades cristianas de America La­tina
( f6 paises) asi como envia­dos
de las comunidades de Euro­pa,
Canaday Estados Unidos,
participando en el"ler. Encuen­tro
Internacional de .Cristianos
Monsei'ior Oscar ArnuHo Rome­ro",
hemos conocido y reflexio­nado
las esperanzas y las Iuchas
del pueblo de El Salvador y de los
proyectos de dominacion que pa­dece.
Aqui nos hemos dado cuenta
de que, mientras el pueblo salva­dorefio
c:onstruye heroica y dolo­rosamente
su historia, los pode­rosos
se reunen en Ia OEA, en Ia
ONU y en el Consejo de Seguri­dad
de · E U, don de la voz de las
mayorias pobres no es escucha­da;
y, ustedes, pastores de nues-
- tros pue-blos empobrecidos y cr(
yentes, se reunen tam bien en Pa­nama.
Es por esto que sentimos ur­gente
el dirigirnos a ustedes pa-ra
manifestarles lo que sucede en
El Salvador y aportarles elemen­tos
para su reflexion:
I. La lucha del pueblo salvadore­i'io
es esencialmeme popular
Es el pueblo que desde hace
muchos ai'ios busca Ia verda­dera
paz, basada en Ia satisfac­cion
de sus necesidades funda­mentales
y en Ia justicia, ha­ciendo
pres~nte el Reino de
Dios; pero ~n respuesta a sus
justas demandas solo ha reci­bido
fraudes, represion y
muerte. El pueblo ha comen­zado
a defender su vida y dig­nidad,
legitimado su vida y
digriidad, legitimado por Ia
doctrina de Ia iglesia que re­conoce
el derecho a Ia insu­rreccion
popular. Es una gue­rra
·de autentica liberacion.
(Cf. Populorum Progressio
(Paulo VI) y Medellin. Ex. 3, 7)
2. En esta lucha el pueblo ha
identificado a sus opresores en
Ia tirania militar, Ia oligarquia
y el im perialismo norteameri-cano,
encubierto con etiq'ueta
cristiana; (Junta Militar De­mocristiana),
este pueblo ca­da
dia experimenta en su car­ne
la crueldad y las entrai'ias
de muerte del proyecto impe-
- rialista.
Por esto les manifestamos nues~
rra profunda preocupacion por
una mas directa intervencion mi­litar
norteamericana en el area.
Sabemos que el pueblo esta coris­ciente
de esto y que no esta dis~
puesto a ceder el derecho a su
liberacion ante cualquier agresor
por poderoso que este se crea. (Sa­muel,
17,32-51)
3. Motivados por el Evangelic y
animados por el testimonio
profetico de monseiior Oscar
A. Romero y fieles al testimo­nio
de tantos cristianos descu­brimos
que todo proyecto de
dominaci6n no es compatible
con Ia vivencia de Ia fe. El pro­yecto
militar, con fachada .. de­mocristiana,
es un proyecto de
dominaci6n, antipopular e
idolatrico que asesina al n.ue­blo
y por tanto criminal. (Ex.
20).
La lucha del pueblo salvadore­fio
es legitima y justa. Esta es Ia
conciencia del pueblo s~lvadore­iio
que ha sufrido mas de 50aiios
Ia dominadon militar y por eso
su proceso es ahora irreversible.
4. Conscientes de las dificulta­des
que supQne en estos mo­mentos
Ia fidelidad al carisma
episcopal ·en nuestra America
conflictiva y donde el Espiri­tu
va suscitando p.ovedad, LES
SO LICIT AMOS~
~ a/-Manlfiesleflsll ·noerTcid~
evangeiica frente a los po­derosos,
poniendose en es­tos
momentos en Ia pers­pectiva
de los pobres y asu­miendo
su causa. (Puebla)
b) Esten vigilantes para de­nunciar
cualquier tipo de
intervencion de EU en El
Salvador.
c) Ejerciten el discernimien­to
evangelico para no caer
en las trampas•de las ma­niobras
de mediatizaci6n de
Ia lucha del pueblo por las
que pretendan utilizar Ia
buena fe de ustedes. En El
Salvador Ia lucha esta dada
entre el pueblo explotado
y los imereses represema­dos
por una tirania mili­tar.
No hay posibilidad de equivo­caci6n
hist6rica en Ia fe cristia­na:
"Lo que ustedes hicieron con
mis hermanos, los pobres, con­migo
lo hicieron" dice Jesus
(Mt. 25).
Como hermanos de un mismo
continente los sufrimientos y las
esperanzas de nuestros hermanos
salvadoreiios y el mandato de Je­sus:
"Haz tu lo mismo" nos im­pulsa
a estar solidarios con ellos
y a solicitar esto mismo a nues­tros
obispos de Centro America.
(Lc. 10,25-37)
Cristo muere hoy en El Salva­dor,
pero nos fortalece Ia espe­ranza
de Ia resurrecci6n: La vic­toria
definitiva del pueblo salva­doreiio.
Representantes de las
comunidades cristianas
·de America Latina.
Mexico i>F, a 24 de noviembre
de 1980. k
(Tornado .d.e. - D.I.). .... _.
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IS come f ~.th b th t' The interest in those 19 n?mes. O?, ~ ~
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maneuvered by our Collectiv~s other suits . !discipline and determination. The court victories won by
Now they kn,?w that EL PUEBLO Jesse Botello and David Glrcia_
is not run by publicity-hungry stand as prc:.~d testimony to I egois_ts pretending to "fight the growing professional so­for
the poor" from an expen- phistication and political
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• • _ • P_ wt r - eaeau-s I The DA ms1sted that we pressure, to not comprom1se ..-.p:..,h, dt. rniliJiy weather and
I give him the "index file" or principles and to finally win I the landmark decision in Te~as
I the grand jury would be un- the battle to publish will got' ~llowing a newspape~ to p~b-lleashed
against us. (need - down in the history of the Iish names from a ~t which
I less to say the DA never got Chicano movement as the first . p~rported to contam ~3 000
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h~s hands on the f1le) such v1~tory by_ a newspap:.:__:___.,;j -~-:-$' . ....._ ~ , -·
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preparing to run off 40.000 copies of the
remainder of the list. No one in San An­tonio
doubts who the first 3.000 buyer$
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LETTERS
Dear Sir:
I applaud you for your ef­forts.
It is my pleasure to contri­bute
to your newspaper. Keep
up the good work.
Jan Bettge
Los Gatos, CA
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Dear Sir:
Enclosed is check for one
year subscription.
I read the last issue of
your newspaper and
immpressed with the
paper.
was very
entire
Claude Bernal
San Antonio TX
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Dear Sir:
May I take this opportunity
to applaud you on your
stand for what you believe.
I am an inmate here at
Ellis Unit prison farm with
a life sentence for robbery.
I do not believe I need to
express my gratitude as there
would be no words (to ex­press
it).
Jesus H. Flores
Ellis Unit B-2
Huntsville TX
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Dear Sir:
It is with pleasure that
I write to not only compliment
you .... but also to subscribe.
Here, at Audie Murphy, I
along with my fellow officers
and Stewards fight the bat­tle
day in and day out with
alh~c,
the Veterans Administration Dear Si!:
another powerful arm of Go- Saludos. He lei do el pe-:
vernment. ri6'dico cuando lo pu~do conse-
I know exactly where youare guir por aca en California.
coming from and again I com- Ayer le{ en el Oakland Tri-pliment
you on a job well done. bune sobre su .periodico.
Benito Garcia Guillermo Suarez
AFGE-3511, S. A. Oakland CA
**************************~fr~ ****************************** Dear Sir: · ·
I am delighted with your de­cision
and of your "Victory
Step for the Little People"
journalism. Dear Sir:
The idea of your paper stan- I have read the articles in
ding up to and for what .YOUEL PUEBLO and I was surprised
believe is right even under of what's going on not only
pressures I am sure you have the '1 "trick list" but the
been under is admirable. shooting of one of our Me-
Congratulations and Good- xican brothers.
Luck.
Charles Juarez
Elsa Olson San Antonio
Liberty MO
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lnvestigacion lmparcial Lo Prueba Pagina 7 EL PUEBLO Marzo/Abril, 1981
El Regimen PRI Viola Derechos Humanos
Recientemente se present6 en ~xico
una Comisi6n de la Federacion Interna­cional
de los Derechos del Hombre a fin
de investigar las constantes violacio­nes
que se vienen perpetrando a la Car­ta
firmada por el gobierno mexicano
ante la Organizacion de las Naciones
Unidas (ONU), que compromete a sus sig­nataries
a respetar los derechos huma­nos
y las leyes de vigencia en sus pro­pies
paises.
La Comisi6n Internac1onal esta
da por los abogados franceses
Jacobi y Martine Clavel, y el
americana Robert Goldmqn.
forma­Daniel
Norte-
La F.I.D.H. fue invitada en esta o­casic5n
por el Comi te Independie.nte por
los presos, Desaparecidos, Exiliados y
Perseguidos Politicos de Mexico y por
El Frente Nacional Democratico Popular.
Se pidio que investigara directamente -
los casas de mas de 500 desaparecidos
(secuestrados) politicos y la situaci6n
de violencia represiva gubernamental en
la regi6n idalguense de La Huasteca.
tra en conflicto desde hace ya var1os
anos, pues los latifundistas, en com­plicidad
con los polrticos locales del
PRI, han venido robando las tierras co­munales
a los campesinos ind{genas de
La Huasteca, que pertenecen principal­mente
a grupos etnicos nahoas.
El ano pasado, contando con la com­plicidad
de los funcionarios juridicos
de la capital del estado, Pachuca, habia
en la c~rcel de esa ciudad mas de/ 180
campesinos, verdaderos presos politicos,
acusados de decenas de delitos, sin
que mediara siquiera una declaracidn
formal de prision, as1 habian pasado ya
hasta dos anos en el mas completo ol­vido
procesal.
Ala llegada-de la Comision ala Peni­tencieria
de Pachuca las autoridades
penales no solarnente impidieron que los
visitantes entrevistaran a los prisio­neros
sino que, armadas hasta los dien­tes,
guardias y pistoleros, condujeron .
a los juristas hasta la terminal de au­tobuses
embarcandolos hacia la capital.
de personas y organizaciones se pre­sentaron
diariarnente en el hotel donde
se hospedaron los comisionados.
Se aportaron cientos de elementos de
prueba, testimonies, declaraciones ,
grabaciones, etc.
Mis tarde fueron invitados a viajar
hasta la Sierra Hidalguense donde 26
representantes de comunidades nahoas
les esperaban para proporcionarles
todas las pruebas necesarias.
Asi, la labor escurridiza de las auto­ridades
priistas quedo plenamente de­rrotadas.
Por eso fue que a fines del mes de
enero en la reunion semestral de la Co­mision
Internacional de los Derechos
Hurnanos de la ONU que se celebre" en
Ginebra, Suiza, la Comisi6n presento, y
fue admi tida, la denuncia oficial de
ese organisrno internacional.
Se denuncio al gobierno del PRI de
En esta region se encontraban hasta
la llegada de los miembros de esta Co­mision,
mas de 180 camp~sinos presos,
Ellos habian sidos gravemente tortu­rados
por el ejerci~o y.los miembros
de la Brigada Blanca al mando del tris­temente
.celebre general Miguel Nassar
La Comision -se dirigio entonces con
el secretario de gobernaci6n, Olivares
Santana, al cual tambien se le habia
informado con anticipacidn la visita de
la F.I.D.H.
Este funcionario "presidenciable" se
negoa recibirlos a fin de entorpecer
las actividades investigadoras.
Mexico, no solamente por no respetar ks
Derechos Humanos sino que tambien por
usar cada dia mas la tortura como metoda
de investigacion. -
Adernas se denuncid' que cada vez mas
crece el nrlmero de secuestros politicos
perpetrados por el grupo paramilitar
que con diversos motes comanda Pl ge­neral
Miguel Nassar Haro.
Haro. -
Como es sabido esta regi6'n se encuen- Pero esto no fue posible pues decena$ (Tornado de: OI'OO POR QUE? -San Antonio)
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3 i catan una chaspa puede . ,
i en '/U _____ ~nc~i~-~~ Ia. -~r~r~ ., E 1 lunes 5 de enero de 1981, en una acc16n · · el serf a el responsable y pagarfa caro par esto.
espontanea, cerca de 700 ejidatarios pertene- El tiempo pasaba y Ia situaci6n en cada mo-t
• cientes a diferentes grupos solidarios Y econ6- men to se pan Ia mas ten sa, al final Ia presi6n
micos que operan con l.a S4cursal de Banrural de los trabajadores oblig6 al gerente a firmar
• ce Tix.kokob, tomaron virtuaimente par asalto un convenio, en donde se comprometla a par- t el ·local de dicha instituci6n, para exigir les tif del viernes 9 de enero, a proporcionarles
• fuera aumentado el 36 por ciento -que corres- dicho aumento. Los ejidatarios se retiraron, t ponde al aumento del salario minima rural en no sin antes advert1r que de no cumplirles,
• esta zona econ6mica..:... ante tal exigencia, el regresarfan y tomarlan el local de nuevo. f gerente de Ia Sucursal Prof. Villarreal, les expuso As( comienza aqul en Ia Zona Henequenera f
• que ese aumento s61o les correspond(a a los el ana de 1981, Ia situaci6n econ6mica ~e es- • t asalariados y q~e elias no lo eran, sino que eran tos companer~~ -como Ia de todos los d~mas- f
• sujetos de cred1to. es realmente msoportable, puesto que m1entras • t La gente encolerizada, les grit6 que ellos ganan un promedio de $600.00 a Ia semana, t
• t?ran -asalariados del Banco, que ·este era su pa- el coste de Ia vida es de aproximadamente •
t ~ron y que como tal, estaba obligado Q aumen- $1,600.00 con vistas a mayor au menta, como t
• tarles el precio de sus trabajos. Ante tal acti-' en el caso de Ia tortilla, alimento basico en Ia"
A :ud, el Prof. Villarreal solicit6 el apoyo de Ia regi6n, que subi6 a $5.80 Kg. ., ! • .Jerza publica, acudiendo esta y a punta de Un empleado del Banco interrogando a
t culatazos, trat6 de ?esalojar Ia SL!cursal .. f:!an- un ejidatario pregunt6: ,.
caria. Esto en vez de amedrentar a los e11data- -lA ustedes quien los agita?
., rios _ence~di6 mas los animo.s, amenazando ~I A lo que el trabajador respondi6 lac6ni· .,
;Jrop1o Villarreal que de contmuar con esa act1- camente: i t"o o de solicitar mas refuerzos de Ia autoridad, -EI hambre sefior. * i
• (Tornado de: •
t VOCES DEL CAMPO) t
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' CARTA
ABI~E-RI~ ... ·~----
A todo el artista profesional
de San Antonio:
La Asociacibn de Artistas
Unidos se ha integrado en esta
ciudad con el prop6sito de
proporcionar los medios ade­cuados
para que el artista de
teatro profesional, en cual­quier
de sus ramas, cantante
solista, en dueto, tr1o, bai­lar1n,
etc., participe y se
de a conocer a traves de los
programas organizados por la
Asociacion.
Con tal motivo, por medio de
EL PUEBLO deseo, como Coordi­nadora
y a nombre del Co­mite,
extender una cordial
invitacion para que todo a­quel
artista profesional de
esta ciudad se una a este gru­po,
cuyo principal objetivo
es que el artista tenga la
oportunidad de _que demuestre
su talento, se desarrolle y
se le promueva dentro de la
comunidad a la que pertenece.
Para mas informacion, llame
a: (512) 224-6062 o 224-6727.
Atentamente, -
Raque-1 Escobar "La Huasteca"
Proxirnamente saldra'a la venta un disco sencillo por:
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L_£DiiiJ¥1:l!•J oa oo!
! ! EL IXJETO LIBERTAD ! !
Cantando una cancion con el terna del caso de Hector Santoscoy
y otras victimas de policias racistas.
La cancion "Gri to Del Pueblo" fue compuesta por sirnpatizantes
de la Colectiva El Pueblo. , -
Esperarnos su respaldo. Para mas informaci6n sobre este gran
disco y c6mo adquirirlo, llame a: 226-1552 o 922-3783.
Pagina 8 EL PUEBLO Marzo/Abril, 1981
isteria Derethista Desatarcl ~ • _______________ ..;. _____ .,.. ___________ Mas Repres1cSn
Por: CARLOS CALDERON
El pendulo politico para los mexica­nos
en EUN ha virado drasticamente a
la derecha.
Por lo general, la presidencia de
Ronald Reagan refleja una situaci6n que
va ernpeorando para la gente latina en
los EUN. Reagan puntualizo reciente- ~
mente su opinion particular de los la­tinos
cuando rehuzo contestar un tele­grama
que le enviaron 12 organizacio­nes
reformistas latinas que le ped1an
una junta.
Esta falta de preocupacibn toma lugar
dentro del contexte de otras indica­ciones
de la clase dominante que los
derechos de los latinos no son una
priori dad.
En enero, por ejemplo, la Suprema
Corte de EUN proclamddos fallos que
fueron un atraso para los mexicanos.
Uno de los fallos dejoen pie el des­pido
de un trabajador por haber habla­do
espanol en el trabajo. El otro fa­llo
amplio el poder de la Migra de po­der
parar cualquier vehiculo sospecha­do
de llevar trabajadores indocumenta­dos.
Las organizaciones estuvieron parti­cularmente
enfurecidas ya que sus es­fuerzc
_ en la campana electoral, junto
con la frustacion general sobre la ina­bilidad
de Carter para cumplir con sus
anteriores promesas de campa'iia, resul­taron
en un record de apollo latino
para Regan . .
El presidente obtuvo 25% del voto la­tina,
que marca un incremento de 52%
de lo que recibio Ford en 1976.
Tota.lmente embobados con el rechazo
de Reagan, unas organizaciones le es­cribieron,
"Esta expectacion (que
Reagan les ayudar!a a los 'hispanos')
se baso' en parte sobre los pronuncia- los latinos." ·
mentos hechos durante la campaiia ... II Tambien anadio' "Esto es singular-
"Yo pienso que deber{amos de haber mente la mas grande manifestacion de
pedido una junta con el," dijo Blache nuestro colonialismo que nos niega lo
Darley del grupo Dem6cratas Mexico- que se nos garantizo baj o el Tratado de
Americana (MAD) con base en Texas. Guadalupe Hidalgo." (El Tratado fina-
Otras organizaciones rechazaron la lizo la guerra de EUN contra Mexico en
importancia o significacion de tener 1848 y garantizo' a los mexicanos que
oficiales latinos de alto nivel. resid!an en el sudoeste plenos dere,
Herman Baca del Comite Sabre Derechos chos civiles, de idioma y propiedad)
Chicanos (CCR) con cede en San Diego, Si eso no fuese bastante, la Supre-dijo,
"tales nombramientos vendidos ma Corte tambien opto por ampliar el
solo encarecen la posicion de los nom- poder de agentes de la Migra para
brados y sus intereses especiales." parar veh:lculos "sospechados" de car-
Tambien lo califico como "una forma gar a trabajadores indocumentados.
bancarrota llegandoles con el sombre- En efecto, la decision racista iden-ro
en la ~ano rogandoles aceptacion tifica a cualquier mexicano o personas
de f · "1 t · " dentro de una sociedad que no nos acclones a lnas como una perso-acepta."
El CCR anadio que "es preci- na con potencial de estar envuelto en
"activid d · · 1 " samente este tipo de pol!tica que nos a es crlmlna es.
ha traido a la situacion en que esta-mos
hoy en 1981."
"No _logramos nada al negociar sobre
la mesa con reaccionarios como Reagan,"
dijo Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales de la
Cruzada de la Justicia de Denv:er, "Lo
que tenemos que hacer es salir a las
calles."
Algo que afecta mas directamente a
las comunidades mexicanas a traves del
sudoeste, fue la negaci6n por parte de
la Suprema Corte de escuchar las · ape­laciones
de las decisiones de cortes
inferiores que decretaron que Gloor
Lumber & Supply ,de Brownsville, Texas,
actuo legalmente al prohibir q11e sus
trabajadores hablen espanol.
El caso viene de un incidente en
el cual Hector Garc:Ca fue • despedido
por hablar espanol con su companero de
trabajo·.
Baca, del CCR, ve el fallo como el
comienzo de Hla legitimaci6n de un si!5-
tema de aparteid en el sudoeste para
/ Mucbos grupos estan preocupados de
la posibilidad de arrestos masivos y
deportaciones.
Lucy Acosta, directora de LULAC en
El Paso, dijo, "Parece que nos estan
encaminando a un estado policiaco."
En esto esta de acuerdo Marfa
Martinez del Partido Raza Unida, "Este
tipo de represion conlleva al racismo
descarado .•. parece que estan alistando
un campo de concentraci6n.'"
El aumento de represion en la comu­nidad
mexicana sin duda levar~ a mas
resistencia. No ha sido sino desde
los principios de los 1970s que tan
distintas formaciones polfticas mexi­canas
han sido igualmente indignadas
con los desarrollos que afectan a sus
comunidades.
Como dijo un activista, "Esto quiza
signifique el resurgimiento del movi­miento
Chicano."
Us ted Y Su Sa I ud Vacunas Para l.os Ninos
Por: Dr. MARIO JIMENEZ
Todos los nilios que van a
la escuela por primera vez
deben de tener completas sus
vacunas. Los ninos que asis­ten
a guarderias infantiles
tambi~n requieren las inyec- . ,
clones.
A los bebes se les deben de
principiar las inyecciones a
los dos- meses de edad para
protejerlos contra las enfer­medades.
Estas enfermedades
incluyen la difteria, teta­nos,
poliomielitis,sarampion,
sarampion aleman, tos ferina,
y paperas. Asegure que sus
ninos tienen completas sus
vacunas. Lo siguiente es la
divicion en cual se debe pro­tejer
al nino:
(Se presentara~la informaci~n
en espanol y luego se
repitira en {ngles)
Difteria, tetanos, tos ferina
y polio ... a los 2, 4, y 6 me­ses.
Otra vacuna a los 15
meses.
(Diphtheria, tetanus, pertu-sis
and polio •.. at 2, 4 and 6
months. Another shot at 15
months old)
Sarampion, paperas y rubeola.
.. a los 15 meses
(Measles, mumps and three-day
measles or german measles •...
at 15 months)
Despu{s de tener la prime­ra
inyeccion hay un periodo
de espera. Se debe de poner
una inyeccion de refuerzo. Lo
siguiente es recommendable:
Difteria y tetanos .... a los 6
anos.
(Diphtheria and tetanus .... at
6 years)
Tos ferina, polio, tetanos,
difteria ... a los 14-16 anos.
(Pertusis, polio, tetanus and
diphtheria ... at 14-16 years)
Tetanos y difteria ... :cada 10
anos.
(Tetanus and diphtheria .....
every 10 years)
Uno debe saber algo sobre
estas enfermedades por lo
tanto dar~ una descripcion de
cada una: -
Rubeola (Sarampion Aleman):
La causa es un virus que se
encuentra en la nariz y la bo­ca
de las personas infectadas.
El sarampion aleman afecta
por lo regular a los ninos pe­quenos,
pero los adultos tam­bien
lo pueden contraer. Es
una enfermedad muy contagiosa.
Los sintomas son fiebre le­ve
por un dia y por lo regu­lar
salpullido o pequenas
manchas color de rosa que
principian en la cara y el
cuello y duran de uno a tres
dias. Los resultados son
leves pero si una mujer emba­razada
lo contrae, su hebe
puede nacer sordo, ciego o
- puede resultar con otros
problemas f1sicos severos.
Sarampion {Sarampion de 10
dias):
La causa es un virus que
entra al cuerpo a traves de
la boca o la nariz.
El sarampion es· una enfer­medad
muy contagiosa.
Los sintomas son cansancio
general, fiebre y escalofrios
y tos. Hace que la luz in­tensa
lastime los ojos y que
se produzcan lagrimasabundan­tes.
Aparecen pequenas man­chas
rojas en la cara y el
cuerpo. El resultado es que
puede causar otros problemas
de salud, incluyendo pulmonia
bronquitis, sordera y puede
danar el cere~ro.
Paper as:
La causa es un virus que
.entra al cuerpo a t,raves de
la boca o la nariz. Se pueden ­contraer
por contacto con al­guien
que tenga la enfermedad
Los sintomas son glandulas
inflamadas, dolor de - cabeza,
dolor de Didos, perdida de
apetito y fiebre.
Los resultados pueden ser
sordera, infecci6n del sis­tema
nervioso, dano al cora­zan.
rinones, y los organos
reproducti vos.