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ViP's Opinion Americas Global Foundation's President Victor Pinzon (ViP)

If Hispanics -including indocumentados- put 18% of the braved dead in the Iraq War, Hispanics in the US must get similar percentage of the U.S. direct contracts in rebuilding Iraq.

Exigiendo Democracia en Latin America                                      Latin America Governments Corruption       
Hispanics Latin America future    Cocaine Huge Profit Margins     Hispanics ask What has Dick Cheney done for them? 
Important Hispanic Groups Ignored Vs Opportunities                   Do We Want Plutocracy or Democracy?
Restitution to Hispanic Americans and to Latin America                  Immigration -TPS for Colombians and others
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On this page you find the following views/opinion:
Money Should not Buy Political Elections                                                 Historic Perspective and Some Relevant Thoughts
Marshall Plan for Latin America and the Caribbean                                  Hispanic Americans Substantial Contributors
Invasions and Imposing, Installing and Supporting Dictators                     African Americans and minorities labor
Corporate Social Responsibility                                                                 Illegal Drugs
Europe and Latin America-Caribbean Democracy vs. Royalty                 Equal and Interdependent Regardless
Washington's Mayor Candidate Chavous pledges Services for Latinos
Distrito de Columbia discrimina a Hispano Latinos

Money should not buy political elections

Elections, funds, and media publicity during political elections.

To avoid undue monetary advantages to promote a candidacy over other candidates, we suggest the following: whenever certain candidates do not have the funds to match the advertisement campaigns of other candidates, then the corresponding media should provide equal time at no cost to the  candidates unable to pay. There must be equal time and space opportunity to all candidates in campaign advertisement.
Equal opportunity is critical to maintain democracy. Money should not buy political positions!
Media here, I am referring to Radio and Television primarily, because their medium of broadcasting (air waves) is owned by the people - which is a national resource.

Historic Perspective and Some Relevant Thoughts

The purpose of this historic review is no to chastise neither Washington nor The White House nor to develop a defiant posture. In general, these great institutions have done a very good job, as supported by what we are today: the greatest country ever developed by men. However, we can do better, and must do much better in certain areas that we have historically being lacking.

The author’s purpose is to:
1. Review the historic facts that have and continue to impact the economic, political and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Hispanic Latinos in the United States.

2. Avoid and attempt to stop erroneous, harmful policies at The White House and its administrative departments and agencies.

3. Advocate at the White House and State Department, Pentagon to take sound corrective action to truly help rectify the wasteful and divisive past.

4. Contribute to the effective, fair, democratic development and growth of the Latin American and Caribbean countries and of their substantial human resources thereby truly empowering the people of the Americas.

The history of the United States has been written under The White House acceptance with a myopic, distorted sense of certain facts, particularly as it relates to Spain's and Hispanic Americans' substantial contributions to the United States -purposely, ignoring and or leaving totally out, or distorting the historic valuable and substantial contributions of Spain and Hispanic Americans to the United States. Contributions from the time even before the arrival of the first northern Europeans, in the Mayflower, to what was to be Jamestown. San Agustin in Florida was already a thriving working community.

The writer invites anyone to contribute to this dialogue to help us achieve our mission, goals by writing to us, contributing time and resources to study, research, publish and celebrate or make available our findings to enrich and enlighten the people of the Americas with the correct historic facts.

Anyone interested in contributing their thoughtful views and or knowledge based on historic facts, please let us know, write to us, send us materials, copies of anything which support your views, comments or opinions.

Marshall Plan for Latin America and the Caribbean

Does Latin America or the Caribbean need to become hostile to the few Washington’s decision makers at The White House, State Department and other departments to get their attention so that then they will decide to provide the desperately needed fair and just effective assistance to the region?
The United States exports more to Brazil than to Russia. We export more to Ecuador than to Poland and Hungary combined. Our exports means thousands of jobs to our people and produce a great multiplying impact in our local and national economy.

We, the people of the United States must truly contribute to the economic and political development and empowerment of the peoples of the countries of the region with a Marshall plan like. Such process will substantially help us reduce or eliminate the immigration to the US of unskilled and socially, politically desperate people. There would be litle need for them to come to the United States as they would have plenty of opportunities at their home countries. They would be able to buy more US made goods and services.

The White House has earmarked over $13 billion for Kosovo. Zero or peanuts for Central America, Caribbean, South America. Why?

Our US people's resources rebuilt Western Europe after WWII
Our US people's resources rebuilt Japan after WWII
Our US people's resources rebuilt Korea after Korean War

The White House’s policy decisions have caused historically high death tolls, pain, suffering, substantial losses in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The following is a brief perspective of some past decisions of The White House impacting Latin America and the Caribbean:
Mexico. Unprovoked invasion in 1840’s leading to the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty. The White House with its invaders forced Mexico to give up its vast territory to the US: Texas, New Mexico, California.
Spanish American War
Reportedly the blowing up of the US gun boat "The Maine" was done by US operatives in Havana Bay to ignite the short war against Spain as part of the Manifest Destiny policy of The White House.
Panama: Noriega
El Salvador: devastating war in the 1980s
Honduras: devastating war in the 1980s
Guatemala: Arbenz and Armas in 1950s
Nicaragua: Somoza dictator and his son
Haiti: Duvalier and his son
Dominican Republic: Rafael Trujillo and his son
Venezuela: Romulo Betancourt
Chile: Allende assassinated and democracy killed with Pinochet coming to power. The plan reportedly was choreographed by The White House and its CIA
Argentina: The White House supported England in Malvinas war; negating its own Monroe Doctrine.
Cuba: Batista and Fidel Castro
Colombia: the planning and implementation of Panama’s break from Colombia early 1900 as part of Manifest Destiny.

The Monroe Doctrine as a component of Manifest Destiny, Gun Diplomacy: "Talk softly but carry a big stick:" is a White House warning to Europe and the rest of the world not to meddle in its Latin America and Caribbean back yard and stronghold.

Numerous wrong, short vision, tunnel vision White House’s policy decisions have historically harmed and crippled the economic, social, educational and economic political development of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Individuals in the local governments in Latin America and the Caribbean have in general administered their countries more to please Washington, the White House, the World Bank and other powerful entities in Washington than to benefit their own people or countries. In many cases, historically, individuals in those regional governments reportedly have sold their decision making authority, to the detriment and against the interests of the people of their countries, to satisfy Washington, The White House, influenced by the powerful economic interests of a few multinational corporations.

It is long overdue that we at the United States develop and implement a sound, realistic and mutually benefitial Marshall plan like program in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on equal opportunities for all, contributing to develop true effective, strong, modern, transparent democratic governments. The result of this program will be a brilliant and wonderful future, full of opportunities and growth for the peoples of the United States and most important -the rest of the Americas.

Hispanic Americans Substantial Contributors

Historically, Hispanic Americans have been and will increasingly continue to substantially, with their constant hard work, paying taxes, contribute to the vital economic strength and growth of the United States.

Hispanic Americans send vast and valuable aid resources monthly, annually to their families in Latin American and Caribbean. There are certain opportunities being lost in the process, as governments and certain private sector players benefit directly, with the absence of a strategic plan directed to spread the benefits of said family donations.

TAF offers to be the agency or vehicle of choice for Hispanic Americans to send their money to their countries, as part of a proposed strategic plan.

Help us research and investigate the amounts of money sent to each country, monthly and annually.
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Mexico
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Colombia
Ecuador
Bolivia
Peru
Brazil
Venezuela

The White House -African Americans and minorities labor

Reverend Jesse Jackson recently said in Washington, DC that the United States for over 200 years exploited slave labor; and we add historically has an ongoing mandated low minimum wages for all minorities. We need to turn this around. Provide a decent minimum wage to give pride and equal opportunity to the have-nots or those barely making it with back-braking jobs. We must overcome the ongoing huge income and wealth accumulation disparity. Let us give everybody a fair chance and equal opportunity. The result will be a stronger and dynamic growing society.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Company and private sector profit motive is a just and acceptable goal. But it is also just as important the goal to give back to their markets, to their customers and to their communities where their sale their goods and services in the spirit of corporate social responsibility.

The private sector has a debt to their communities to offer equal opportunity, fairness and assist them to achieve economic, educational and political empowerment, particularly to the disadvantaged communities. In the end, the private sector will substantially benefit as the market size grows with those who historically have been economically disadvantaged and underproductive. As the have nots are given the opportunity through training and newly developed jobs available to them to produce, become productive and get a decent wage. Then, they will have disposable income to purchase goods and services, thereby increasing the revenues and profits of companies and businesses. Even, the government will benefit through higher tax revenues from the newly engaged in the productive economy, reducing thereby most of the welfare programs.

We must teach people how to fish, rather than given to them the fish!

Illegal Drugs

The White House has been authorizing expenditures, reportedly, of nearly $100 billion annually to fight illegal drugs. The drug business and culture has been destroying the fiber value and culture of numerous societies, towns, cities, and countries. Including the US and countries like the author’s country of origin: Colombia.

This fight has been going on for over the last 20 years, and it may continue to go indefinitely, unless a courageous evaluation and proper, realistic policy decision is made to truly solve the problem at its root

Questions
    1. Is the ongoing White House policy effectively working?
    2. Are the nearly $100 billion a year, of our hard earned money and resources, well invested or
        spent in the on-going drugs-war?
    3. Should there be a fundamental review of the current policy?
    4. Would eliminating the illegal profit margins, along with a massive and constant education
        campaign about the effects of consuming drugs win the war?

Europe and Latin America / Caribbean
Democracy vs. Royalty

It is the author’s view that every human being is created equal, we are fundamentally the same, same body parts and with similar needs and wants, regardless of country of origin, social condition or any other constraint. Of course, the social and economic level at which each individual starts his or her life varies; and additionally, each person has a different level of intensity and motivation to get the results or satisfaction he or she seeks in life.

Every human being is or should be his or her own sovereign. This concept of universal human sovereignty goes against royalty and other political systems with titles of nobility, as still practiced in Europe and other countries.

In each society group, each and all the members of that society group should be free and have equal opportunity to identify, develop, and elect as well as to remove their administrators and political leaders, within effective, well informed, participative electorate democratic process. Administratively experienced professionals should manage our governments, much like most successful modern corporations.

Equal and Interdependent Regardless

We are all equal, interdependent, need of each other to grow economically. The more people are in the market to buy products and services, the more everybody benefits and wins.

Given similar and equal opportunities of education and work; higher reward should accrue to those who excel because of their harder level of work and or creative, innovative work.

Anyone willing, motivated to work harder and longer hours and performing daily with more enthusiasm, dedication, perseverance; or simply working smarter, creatively, innovatively within the law, fairness and ethics deserves to receive the total fruit of his / her labor, rewarded, recognized and compensated accordingly.

We thank Mr. Chavous for stating his specific vision for Latinos in the
District of Columbia. We have not seen a plan for Latinos from the other
District of Columbia Mayor candidates. Mr. Chavous offers a five point plan
for empowering the Latino community:

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Distrito de Columbia discrimina a Hispano Latinos

El Distrito de Columbia, como ocurre a traves del pais, continua impunemente discriminando en todas sus dependencias a Hispano Americanos, especificamente en las posiciones de alto nivel decisorio.
"Impuestos sin representacion no es democracia", y "Home Rule' son temas favoritos que los lideres del Distrito como el Alcalde Marion Barry, la Congresista Eleanor Holmes Norton, la mayoria de los miembros del Council constantemente mencionan. Sin embargo, para ellos y para todos aquellos que dicen y actuan como ellos, los Hispano Americanos no existen en el Distrito, pues ellos mismos nos ignoran, nos enganan con promesas incumplidas, no entienden ni les interesa nuestras necesidades ni el potencial que representamos. Ellos olvidan el gran beneficio y productividad que todos los dias contribuimos a la economia, e impuestos que pagamos al Distrito. Los actuates lideres y el sistema bureocratico mantienen las puertas cerradas a los Hispanos, no tenemos representantes, y los pocos Hispanos que hay en el gobierno no parecen querer luchar por los demas Hispanos, parece que cierran las puertas a los demas Hispanos despues de ser nombrados a sus posiciones.

Mientras no tengamos Hispanos con experiencia, que realmente nos representen a niveles donde se parte la torta presupuestal, donde se deciden empleos y contratos de adquisiones continuaremos siendo discriminados, ignorados y nuestros derechos violados en muchas otras formas. No tenemos, y los que pueden y tienen el poder y mandato de ley nos niegan las oportunidades de igualdad. Esto significa que nosotros mismos, nuestros hijos y familias, perdemos sustanciales oportunidades que no recuperaremos -estan perdidas. De tal forma que cada dia que pasa no solamente los Hispanos sino toda la comunidad desperdiciamos enormes recursos por no permitircenos participar en el proceso economico y educativo de oportunidades iguales en este, nuestro Distrito y pais. ESTA SITUACION EXISTE POR NUESTRA PROPIA CULPA POR NO ORGANIZARNOS, UNIRNOS, PARTICIPAR, CONTRIBUIR, Y TRABAJAR ACTIVA Y EFECTIVAMENTE EN EL PROCESO POLITICO. NOSOTROS MISMOS DECIDIMOS SI QUEREMOS CONT!NUAR DEPERDICIANDO OPORTUNIDADES! Es una realidad historica de que no podemos depender de lideres insensibles quo no entienden, ni quieren entender nuestras necesidades, ni entienden nuestros sentimientos, idiosincracias, y cultura hispana.

La unica forma como los Hispano Americanos vamos a lograr tener influencia politica es participar y contribuir politicamento. Unidos somos un gran poder politico. Adicionalmente, debemos continuar buscando alianzas estratégicas con todos los otros grupos etnicos. Los beneficios de una actitud y actividad politica continua y unida son enormes. Los invito a que conozcan mas de The Americas
Foundation, se unan activamente y contribuyan o donen para lograr la implementación de nuestros
programas y proyectos para el beneficio de nuestra gente.

Por Victor Pinzon

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