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A network of politic-ians and businessmenfrom the Mexican state ofCoahuila relocated to SanAntonio over the pastseven years, and prosecu-tors say a corrupt groupamong them invested mil-lions of dollars in illegalkickbacks here from drugtraffickers and state con-tractors.

San Antonio hasstrong historic ties to Sal-tillo, Coahuila’s capital.Intellectuals and land-

holders from the state,which borders Texas,took refuge here duringthe Mexican Revolutionin the early 1900s. Fur-ther back, in the 1800s,Coahuila y Tejas was onestate under Mexican rule.

Camouflaged amongthose escaping the morerecent problems in thestate are drug traffickers,unscrupulous business-men and high-rankingCoahuila officials wholaundered more than $35million in kickbacks forstate contracts, U.S. au-

COAHUILA, MEXICO

The governor of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011, Humberto Moreira,whose in-laws own property in San Antonio, left office to leadthe national Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Photo by Harry Cabluck | AP file

Corruptgroup spreads

influenceMillions spent in illegal kickbacks,

drug traffickers in San AntonioBy JASON BUCH AND

GUILLERMO CONTRERASSAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

See CORRUPT PAGE 9A

A priest in Hutto, Texaswill deliver to the Vaticana handful of letters writ-ten by Laredoans who areurging the pope to allowconstruction of the Catho-lic Student Center adja-cent to Texas A&M Inter-national University.

Diocese of Laredo Bish-op James A. Tamayo’s de-cision to halt constructionof the fully funded centerhas provoked communitymembers into action.

Tamayo has refused toexplain his reasoning toanyone close to the 10-year-old project, includingto TAMIU President Ray

Keck, DennisNixon, presi-dent andCEO of IBC-Laredo andchairman ofInternation-al Banc-shares Corp.,and a slew of other donorsand supporters.

Father Robert L. Kincl,a canon lawyer and for-mer judicial vicar for theDiocese of Laredo, told La-redo Morning Times thisweek he has around 30 let-ters he plans on deliveringto the Vatican post office.

All of the letters arewritten by Laredoans.

“There are some reallycompetent people who

wrote someexcellent let-ters” Kinclsaid. “Iwould thinkonce PopeFrancis andhis staff readthese letters,

there will certainly besome sort of reaction.”

Kincl will be in Romeon April 15.

The Laredo MorningTimes received copies of ahandful of the letters Fri-day.

Within the contents in-clude pleas for assistanceto help move the projectforward, commendationstoward the Brothers of St.John for the work they

have done within the cam-pus ministry and disap-pointment concerning Ta-mayo’s recent and past be-havior and decisions.

Some of the letters werewritten by students, ac-cording to Kincl.

Canon law violationIt’s unclear why the

bishop stopped construc-tion of the center. But ac-cording to the project’ssupporters and donors, Ta-mayo said a 2009 agree-ment to allow for the cen-ter’s formation was nulland void because he was

CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER

Dear Pope FrancisLetters going to Vatican plead for construction

By PHILIP BALLITHE ZAPATA TIMES

See VATICAN PAGE 10A

KINCLTAMAYO

After sitting dormant fornearly a year for lack offunding, a border securityproject aimed at riddingthe banks of the RioGrande of an invasive plantthat hides smugglers is fi-nally sprouting roots.

But fearing that herbi-cides used for the projectwill pollute the river, theprimary water source forseveral border communi-ties, an environmentalgroup is planning a full-fledged effort to halt theplan and is recruiting localgovernments to join itsside.

Signed in June, SenateBill 1734 by state Sen. Car-los Uresti, D-San Antonio,directed the Texas StateSoil and Water Conserva-

tion Board to create a planto eradicate Carrizo cane,which can grow up to 30feet tall on the river banksand area floodplains. Theproject was listed on Gov.Greg Abbott’s list of bordersecurity priorities, and hisproposed budget included$9.8 million for it.

Budget writers didn’tfund the effort, however,and project coordinators atthe conservation boardcouldn’t do much morethan plan.

Last month, state leadersdecided to transfer $500,000from the Texas Parks andWildlife Department to cov-er a pilot eradication pro-ject. The plan calls for us-ing a combination of me-chanical, biological andchemical methods, which

RIO GRANDE

ERADICATION EFFORT

Border Patrol agent Isaac Villegas makes his way through Carrizo cane in Roma, Texas while searching for a group of undocumented im-migrants reported to have crossed the river on March 8.

Photo by Martin do Nascimento | Texas Tribune

Members of the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board andother officials release Arundo wasps into a stand of carrizo cane aspart of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot era-dication program for Carrizo cane in Starr County, Texas, onWednesday, June 9, 2015.

Photo by Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg

Carrizo cane planreignites old debate

By JULIÁN AGUILARTEXAS TRIBUNE

See CARRIZO CANE PAGE 9A

WASHINGTON —Hundreds of thousands ofpeople could soon losefood stamps as statesreimpose time limits andwork requirements thatwere suspended in recentyears because of high un-employment, state offi-cials and advocates forthe poor said.

Liberal groups said thetime limits, which date tothe 1996 welfare law,could result in many un-employed childless adultswith low incomes beingcut off, starting thismonth.

About 45 million peo-ple receive benefits in thefood stamp program, nowknown as the Supplemen-tal Nutrition AssistanceProgram, or SNAP. In Za-pata County, about 4,723people receive the bene-fits, according to the Tex-as Health and HumanServices Commission. Ap-proximately 2,066 of themare adults. The Center onBudget and Policy Priori-ties, a liberal-leaning re-search and advocacy

group, estimates that500,000 to 1 million peoplewill lose benefits thisyear.

The federal Food andNutrition Service saidmany adults would needto take steps to meet workrequirements or risk los-ing aid.

“Able-bodied adultswithout dependents areeligible for SNAP for onlythree months in anythree-year period unlessthey are working or parti-cipating in qualifyingeducation and trainingactivities,” said Kevin W.Concannon, undersecreta-ry of agriculture incharge of food assistanceprograms.

During and after thelatest recession, whichended in mid-2009, moststates qualified for waiv-ers from the time limits.But the time limits willbe in effect this year inmore than 40 states. In 22states, the limits are com-ing back for the first timesince the recession.

As the economy im-proves, the Food and Nu-

FOOD STAMP LIMITS

Some couldlose SNAP

benefitsBy ROBERT PEARNEW YORK TIMES

See SNAP PAGE 10A

PAGE 2A Zin brief WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6Meet your mayor. 6–7:30 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. MayorSaenz is inviting all South Laredoresidents to meet him, the fellowsouth side council members andvarious department directors. Resi-dents are urged to come and dis-cuss any issues or ideas they mighthave regarding the district.

Laredo Animal Care Facility Ra-bies “VACUNA” Clinic. 6:30–7:30p.m. City of Laredo Animal Care Fa-cility, 5202 Maher Ave. Space is lim-ited to the first 100 animals. Rabiesshot for pets is $12; microchip is$10; registration is $5.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7Elysian Social Club meeting. 7

p.m. Laredo Country Club. For moreinformation, call Herlinda Dubuissonat 285-3126.

Opening reception for “Post-cards from the Past.” 6–8 p.m. VillaAntigua Border Heritage Museum,810 Zaragoza St. The public is cor-dially invited to attend this exhibitof historical postcards of Laredo andNuevo Laredo from the private col-lection of Armengol Guerra III. Host-ed by the Webb County HeritageFoundation. For more information,visit www.webbheritage.org or call727-0977.

Preschool Read & Play. 11a.m.–12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Sa-linas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blan-co St. Story time and crafts for pre-schoolers. For more information,contact Priscilla Garcia at priscil-la@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts.4–5 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa SalinasBranch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St.For more information, contact Pris-cilla Garcia at priscilla@laredoli-brary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

MONDAY, APRIL 11Chess Club. Every Monday from

4–6 p.m. LBV – Inner City BranchLibrary. Free for all ages and skilllevels. Basic instruction is offered.For more information call John at956-795-2400 x2520.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12Knitting Circle. 1–3 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Pleasebring yarn and knitting needles. Formore information, contact AnalizaPerez-Gomez at analiza@laredoli-brary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Crochet for Kids. 4–5 p.m.McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Pleasebring yarn and a crochet needle. Formore information, contact AnalizaPerez-Gomez at analiza@laredoli-brary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Rock wall climbing. 4–5 p.m.LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202W. Plum St. Free. Take the challengeand climb the rock wall! Fun exer-cise for all ages. Must sign releaseform. For more information, contactJohn Hong at 795-2400 x2521.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13IBC Keynote Speaker Series. 7

p.m. TAMIU Student Center Ball-room, 5201 University Blvd. Open tothe public and free of charge. “StillMidnight in Mexico? Mexico’s Chal-lenges, Journalism and the Border-lands, and the New American Narra-tive” presented by Alfredo Corchado,Mexico bureau chief for the DallasMorning News.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14Preschool Read & Play. 11

a.m.–12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Sa-linas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blan-co St. Story time and crafts for pre-schoolers. For more information,contact Priscilla Garcia at priscil-la@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts.4–5 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa SalinasBranch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St.For more information, contact Pris-cilla Garcia at priscilla@laredoli-brary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Spanish Book Club. 6–8 p.m.City of Laredo Public Library, 1120E. Calton Road. For more informa-tion call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810.

MONDAY, APRIL 18Chess Club. Every Monday from

4–6 p.m. LBV – Inner City BranchLibrary. Free for all ages and skilllevels. Basic instruction is offered.For more information call John at956-795-2400 x2520.

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Wednesday, April 6,the 97th day of 2016. There are269 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On April 6, 1896, the firstmodern Olympic games for-mally opened in Athens,Greece.

On this date:In 1830, the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints wasorganized by Joseph Smith inFayette, New York.

In 1886, the Canadian city ofVancouver, British Columbia,was incorporated.

In 1909, American explorersRobert E. Peary and MatthewA. Henson and four Inuits be-came the first men to reachthe North Pole.

In 1945, during World WarII, the Japanese warship Ya-mato and nine other vesselssailed on a suicide mission toattack the U.S. fleet off Okina-wa; the fleet was interceptedthe next day.

In 1954, a month after beingcriticized by newsman EdwardR. Murrow on CBS’ “See ItNow,” Sen. Joseph R. McCar-thy, R-Wis., was given thechance to respond on the pro-gram; in his pre-filmed re-marks, McCarthy charged thatMurrow had, in the past, “en-gaged in propaganda for Com-munist causes.”

In 1965, the United Stateslaunched Intelsat I, alsoknown as the “Early Bird”communications satellite, intogeosynchronous orbit.

In 1971, Russian-born com-poser Igor Stravinsky, 88, diedin New York City.

In 1980, 3M introduced its“Post-it Notes,” a re-brandingof a product formerly knownas “Press ‘n Peel.”

In 1996, actress Greer Gar-son died in Dallas at age 91.

In 1998, country singerTammy Wynette died at herNashville home at age 55.

In 2014, actor Mickey Roo-ney, 93, died in North Holly-wood.

Ten years ago: At thedeath penalty trial of al-Qaidaconspirator Zacarias Mous-saoui, former New York CityMayor Rudolph Giuliani de-scribed his own harrowing ex-periences in lower Manhattanon Sept. 11, 2001.

Five years ago: Libyanleader Moammar Gadhafi ap-pealed directly to PresidentBarack Obama in a letter toend what Gadhafi called “anunjust war”; he also wishedObama good luck in his bidfor re-election.

One year ago: The PhiKappa Psi fraternity at theUniversity of Virginia an-nounced it would “pursue allavailable legal action” againstRolling Stone, saying a Colum-bia Journalism School reviewshowed the magazine actedrecklessly and defamed itsmembers by publishing a dis-credited article that accusedthem of gang rape.

Today’s Birthdays: NobelPrize-winning scientist JamesD. Watson is 88. Composer-con-ductor Andre Previn is 87.Country singer Merle Haggardis 79. Movie director Barry Le-vinson is 74. Former U.S. Rep.Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.,is 60. Actress Ari Meyers is 47.Actor Paul Rudd is 47. ActorZach Braff is 41. Actor JoelGarland is 41. Actress ElizaCoupe is 35. Actor CharlieMcDermott is 26.

Thought for Today: “Nev-er think that you’re not goodenough yourself. A manshould never think that. Mybelief is that in life people willtake you at your own reckon-ing.” — Isaac Asimov (1920-1992).

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUSTIN — The U.S. Supreme Court hand-ed Texas a victory Monday, upholding thestate’s system of drawing legislative votingdistricts based on everyone who lives there— not just registered voters.

But it was liberal groups, rather than theRepublican-controlled state’s top leaders,who applauded the 8-0 ruling loudest since itlikely bolsters the voting power of Texas’booming Latino population over sparselypopulated rural areas dominated by conser-vatives.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s office declined to com-ment. Attorney General Ken Paxton put outa statement saying only that his office waspleased with the decision and “committed todefending the Constitution and ensuring thestate legislature, representing the citizens,

continues to have the freedom to ensure vot-ing rights consistent with the Constitution.”

Contrast that with the head of the TexasDemocratic Party, which hailed the ruling asaffirming the principle of “one person, onevote,” a requirement laid out by the Su-preme Court in 1964.

“This is a victory for our democracy andevery Texas family,” party Chairman Gilber-to Hinojosa said in a statement.

Added American Civil Liberties Union Le-gal Director Steven Shapiro: “The argumentthat states are forbidden from treating every-one equally for redistricting purposes nevermade any constitutional sense and was prop-erly rejected.”

That was a far cry from the years TexasDemocrats have spent arguing in federalcourt that the Republican-controlled Legisla-ture discriminates against minority voters.

AROUND TEXAS

In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Texas state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa looks at maps on display prior to a Senate Redistrict-ing committee hearing, in Austin, Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court handed Texas a victory Monday, April 4, 2016, upholdingthe state’s system of drawing legislative voting districts based on everyone who lives there, not just registered voters.

Photo by Eric Gay | AP file

Voting districts upheldBy WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

UT-Austin: body in creekpossible homicide

AUSTIN — A body has beenfound in a creek at the Universi-ty of Texas in Austin in what au-thorities describe as a possiblehomicide.

UT President Greg Fenvessays the body was discoveredTuesday in Waller Creek behindthe Etter-Harbin Alumni Center.Fenves didn’t release the name ofthe victim, the gender of the per-son or say who located the body.

Woman unharmed afterlocked in library for hours

WACO — An elderly womanhas survived being locked alonein a Central Texas library forabout 36 hours after she wastrapped in a bathroom stall.

Waco authorities say the wom-an, whose name wasn’t released,was unharmed when she wasfound Monday morning as work-ers arrived. The incident hap-pened at the West Waco Library& Genealogy Center.

Dogs help at Houston’sIntercontinental AirportHOUSTON — Trained dogs

will be making the rounds atGeorge Bush IntercontinentalAirport in Houston as a pet-friendly way to help stressed-outtravelers relax.

Volunteer dog teams will visitvarious terminals and gates. Asystem statement says passen-gers will have an opportunity topet and interact with the four-legged ambassadors.

Sting found most sites didnot sell alcohol to minors

AUSTIN — Texas regulatorssay most businesses targeted inan undercover operation duringspring break did not sell alcoholto minors.

The Texas Alcoholic BeverageCommission on Tuesday an-nounced 92 percent of retailersdeclined to sell to anyone under-age during the stings.

Nearly 1,500 TABC-licensedbusinesses were visited.

16 with ties to AryanBrotherhood indicted

TYLER — Federal prosecutorsin East Texas say 16 people withties to the Aryan Brotherhoodgang have been indicted on fire-arms and drug trafficking con-spiracy charges. U.S. AttorneyJohn Bales announced the indict-ments, which were handed downlast month by a federal grand ju-ry, were the result of a 10-month,multi-agency investigation in theGregg County area.

Body found on beach ID’das that of missing teenCORPUS CHRISTI — Author-

ities say a body found on PadreIsland National Seashore hasbeen identified as a North Texasteen who disappeared in roughwaters in the Gulf of Mexico atCorpus Christi last week.

Family members positivelyidentified the body found earlierin the day as 16-year-old CarlosPerez.

— Compiled from AP reports

Alabama lawmaker plansto impeach governor

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ala-bama Gov. Robert Bentley washit Tuesday with a longshot im-peachment effort in the wake ofa scandal involving a former topaide, the latest sign of his grow-ing political troubles.

Republican Rep. Ed Henry in-troduced the articles of impeach-ment, saying lawmakers and vot-ers have lost confidence in thetwo-term GOP governor.

“We are looking at this gover-nor who has essentially betrayedthe trust of the people of Alaba-ma through actions and lies thathave caused us to have somedoubt about his leadership,”Henry said.

Wal-Mart to sell only cage free eggs by 2025NEW YORK — Wal-Mart

Stores Inc., nation’s largest foodretailer, is pledging to sell only

cage-free eggs by 2025, joining agrowing list of retailers and foodmakers making the switch.

The pace picked up whenMcDonald’s announced in Sep-tember that it will phase out theuse of eggs laid by caged hensover the next 10 years. Since

then, Target and Costco havebeen among major retailers to of-fer specific pledges.

But with Wal-Mart garnering25 percent of total grocery salesin the U.S., it will have outsizedinfluence on suppliers’ practices.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley speaks during a news conference at Limestone Cor-rectional Facility in Harvest, Ala., Monday. Bentley says he is asking people fortheir forgiveness after his admission of inappropriate behavior with a former aide.

Photo by Bob Gathany/AL.com | AP

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 National THE ZAPATA TIMES 3A

WASHINGTON — Do-nald Trump would try toforce Mexico to pay for aborder wall by targetingbillions of dollars in remit-tances sent by immigrantsliving in the U.S., accord-ing to a memo released byhis campaign Tuesday.

The memo outlines innew detail how Trumpwould try to compel Mexi-co to pay for the 1,000-milewall he’s promised to buildalong the Southern borderif he becomes president.

In his proposal, Trumpthreatened to change arule under the USA PatriotAct, an anti-terrorism law,to cut off a portion of thefunds sent to Mexicothrough money transfersknown as remittances. Hisplan would also bar non-Americans from wiringmoney outside of the U.S.unless they can providedocumentation establish-ing their legal status in thecountry.

Trump said he wouldwithdraw the threat ifMexico makes a one-timepayment to finance thewall.

“It’s an easy decision forMexico: make a one-timepayment of $5-10 billion toensure that $24 billion con-tinues to flow into theircountry year after year,”the memo reads.

“Good luck with that,”President Barack Obamasaid Tuesday in responseto questions about Trump’sproposal. He warned of theramifications such a planwould have on the Mexicaneconomy which, in turn,would drive more immi-grants to cross the borderin search of jobs.

“People expect the presi-dent of the United Statesand the elected officials inthis country to treat theseproblems seriously, to putforward policies that havebeen examined, analyzedare effective, where unin-tended consequences are

taken into account,” Oba-ma said. “They don’t ex-pect half-baked notionscoming out of the WhiteHouse. We can’t affordthat.”

The billionaire business-man has estimated his pro-posed wall would cost be-tween $10 billion and $12billion, and has arguedthat it would protect thecountry from illegal bordercrossings as well as haltingdrug shipment. Mexico’sPresident Enrique PeñaNieto has said his countrywill not pay for any suchwall.

The U.S. is home toabout 12 million Mexicans,some living here illegally,according to various re-search organizations thatmonitor trends in immi-gration. They and othermigrants use money trans-fer agents or banks to send

money home, often withthe objective of supportingtheir families.

The Mexican centralbank reported that moneysent home by Mexicansoverseas hit nearly $24.8billion last year, overtakingoil revenues for the firsttime as a source of foreignincome. Cutting off thosetransfers would thereforerepresent a significantblow to the Mexican econo-my.

The memo also lists oth-er potential areas for lever-age, including threats oftrade tariffs, canceling vi-sas — including targeting“business and tourist visasfor important people in theMexican economy” — andincreasing visa fees, in-cluding includes fees onborder crossing cards.

The release of the memowas first reported by the

Washington Post earlyTuesday, the same day asthe Wisconsin primary.Trump has been trailing ri-val Ted Cruz in the state insome recent opinion sur-veys.

This is not the first timethat Trump has spelled outoptions for pressuringMexico into paying for hissignature policy proposal.

In an immigration over-haul plan released in Au-gust, Trump’s campaignsuggested a number of op-tions for compelling Mexi-co to pay for the wall.Those included impound-ing “all remittance pay-ments derived from illegalwages,” increasing fees ontemporary visas issued toMexican CEOs and diplo-mats — “and if necessarycancel them” — increasingfees on border crossingcards, increasing fees on

NAFTA worker visas fromMexico, and increasingfees at ports of entry be-tween the two countries.

“Tariffs and foreign aidcuts are also options,” theimmigration paper stated.

Trump’s campaign didnot immediately respondto questions, includingwhether he still envisionsimpounding any money. Itis also unclear whetherTrump would seek any in-put from Congress. He andother Republicans havelong criticized Obama forrelying too heavily on exec-utive orders to ramthrough his agenda.

Under the Patriot Act, agovernment-issued identifi-cation is already requiredfor routine money trans-fers in the United States.For high-dollar transac-tions additional documen-tation or identification can

be required. According to Matt

Chandler, a former deputychief of staff at the Home-land Security Department,financial institutions mustknow their customers andare required to routinelyshare information with thegovernment to ensure thattheir banking servicesaren’t being used to laun-der money or fund terror-ism.

Trump’s wall is his sig-nature policy proposal —and mere mention of theword elicits boomingcheers and applause at hisrallies, where supporterssometimes dress in wallshirts and costumes.Trump often leads call-and-response sessions where heasks his audience who willpay for the wall.

“Mexico!” they thunderin response.

Trump proposes plan for funding wallBy VIVIAN SALAMA AND JILL COLVIN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this April 1, 2008 file photo, a Mexican soldier patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border wall on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico. The billions of dollars in U.S. remittances thatDonald Trump is threatening to force Mexico to pay for a border wall are a financial lifeline for the Latin American country’s economy.

Photo by Guillermo Arias | AP file

PAGE 4A Zopinion WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SEND YOUR SIGNED LETTER TO EDITORIAL@LMTONLINE.COM

You know how it iswhen you’re a kid — espe-cially stinky little ol’ boys— and someone has some-thing just a little differentabout them, little ol’ boyswill tease the dickens outof the odd duck.

Being the oldest of fourboys (three at the time ofthis story), I was chargedwith keeping an eye on theothers. And, of course, itwas your bound and dutyto prevent any harm com-ing their way. Sort of likean Old West movie … pro-tect the good guys fromany and all harm.

As I’ve laid claim often,I AM a country boy. I wasborn in a log farmhousealthough I make no AbeLincoln-like claims. Welived on a farm/ranch outin the country near Donie(Big D as I have laughinglyreferred to it). Dad’s dayswere spent out in the vari-ous pastures where hisbeef cattle grazed.

When I was eight, I wasgiven the task of “watch-ing” my younger brotherswhile our mother workedin the garden or tendedthe chickens. My next-old-est brother was sitting onthe floor playing andyoungest brother, still atoddler was ensconced in asmall jumper chair —made of metal (frame) andcloth and in a way thatdidn’t allow him to climbout. It included a tray forfood or toys. The chair wasplaced at the edge of thehearth in front of a toasty-warm fire.

I was seated on the floorbeside baby brother, whowas perhaps six monthsold. Usually, I had a book— either a storybook or atextbook — but one eyewas always on “the baby.”What was perceived as pre-ventable harm was an ab-solute in our household.That meant “eyes on” allof the time.

One of his toys was arattle made of celluloid, athin, flimsy plastic.

He was bouncing in thechair, shaking the rattleand it flew from his handand went rolling towardthe fire. I had visions ofMother punishing me forallowing his rattle to be de-stroyed. I reflexivelygrabbed for it and just as Iclutched it, the rattle

blazed and melted all overmy left hand.

Of course, I screamed inagony.

This was in 1945, eightmiles out into the ruralcountryside. Mother camerunning into the housefrom the garden and didall she knew to do. She ap-plied an ointment andwrapped my hand in agauze-like bandage to easethe pain.

Beyond the pain I wor-ried about “allowing” littlebrother’s celluloid rattle tobe destroyed.

I missed almost sixweeks of school. Motherkept the hand wrappedwith the gauze and oint-ment.

Gradually, the healingprocess took place underMother’s watchful eye andnatural instincts. All theblisters (on all five fingers)went down and healed.The hand was functionaland as the blisters disap-peared and the discomfortsubsided, I began to usethe hand normally. All thescarring went away excepton my thumb. Seventyyears later, the only discer-nible mark is on my leftthumb and it merely looksa big odd when held nextto the right thumb. Forperhaps 65 years, therewere two nails on the leftthumb. The top one did notquite cover the bottom one.

So, it has taken onlythree-quarters of a centuryfor the scar to disappear al-most completely.

When I was younger,other boys would say:“What in the world did youdo to your thumb, dip-stick? It looks weird andfreaky.” Ah, the diplomacyof young men.

Of course, the girlsmade up for it: “Oooo, youpoor thing. What happenedto your little ol’ thumb?”

“Aw, shucks, hon, it onlyhurts when ah smile.”

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspaper edi-tor-publisher of more than50 years experience. He canbe reached by email atwwebb1937@att.net.

COLUMN

Left thumblooks almost

normal

Donald Trump, as partof his ongoing rhetoricabout the wall he wantsbuilt along the U.S.-Mexicoborder, inadvertently tar-geted American publiclytraded companies thistime: MoneyGram Inter-national and WesternUnion.

The billionaire Republi-can presidential hopefulhas insisted that the fence,which would hypothetical-ly stretch for 1,000 or somiles, wouldn’t cost theU.S. a dime because he’llget Mexico to pay for it.How? Well, until now, hehadn’t answered that ques-tion. In so many words,former Mexico PresidentVicente Fox pretty muchsaid that there’s a betterchance of pigs flying: "I’mnot going to pay for thatf—-ing wall," is how he putit in a Univision interview.

Amount of remittancesMexico receives each year:

$25 BillionSo what’s the idea? In a

plan he released to theWashington Post, Trumpproposes cutting off thebillions of dollars in remit-tances that Mexican immi-grants living and workingin the U.S. send backhome to family members.This would be quite pain-ful for Mexico’s economy:It receives around $25 bil-lion in remittances an-nually, a large portion ofwhich comes from the U.S.

Trump says he wouldstop this money flow untilthe nation made a one-time payment of $5 billionto $10 billion to the U.S.,for the wall, and he citesthe USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law as a way toenforce his idea. Bloom-berg Politics’ Toluse Olo-runnipa writes that it’sunclear whether Trumpwould be able to do thiswithout approval fromCongress. Academics andeconomists told the Wash-ington Post that the effectscould be "devastating" forpoor families that rely onsuch funds for food andshelter.

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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

When you think about it,there are four big forcescoursing through modernsocieties. Global migrationis leading to demographicdiversity. Economic globali-zation is creating wider op-portunity but also inequali-ty. The Internet is givingpeople more choices overwhat to buy and pay atten-tion to. A culture of autono-my valorizes individualchoice and self-determina-tion.

All of these forces haveliberated the individual, orat least well-educated indi-viduals, but they have beenbad for national cohesionand the social fabric. In-come inequality challengeseconomic cohesion as theclasses divide. Demographicdiversity challenges cultur-al cohesion as different eth-nic groups rub against oneanother. The emphasis onindividual choice challeng-es community cohesion andsettled social bonds.

The weakening of the so-cial fabric has created arange of problems. Alienat-ed young men join ISIS sothey can have a sense of be-longing. Isolated teenagersshoot up schools. Many peo-ple grow up in fragmented,disorganized neighbor-hoods. Political polarizationgrows because people oftendon’t interact with those onthe other side. Racial ani-mosity stubbornly persists.

Odder still, people are of-ten plagued by a sense ofpowerlessness, a loss of effi-cacy. The liberation of theindividual was supposed to

lead to mass empowerment.But it turns out that peoplecan effectively pursue theirgoals only when they knowwho they are — when theyhave firm identities.

Strong identities cancome only when people areembedded in a rich socialfabric. They can come onlywhen we have defined so-cial roles — father, plumber,Little League coach. Theycan come only when we areseen and admired by ourneighbors and loved ones ina certain way. As RalphWaldo Emerson put it,“Other men are lensesthrough which we read ourown minds.”

You take away a rich so-cial fabric and what you areleft with is people who areuncertain about who theyreally are. It’s hard to livedaringly when your veryfoundation is fluid and atrisk.

We’re not going to rollback the four big forcescoursing through modernsocieties, so the question ishow to reweave the socialfabric in the face of them.In a globalizing, diversify-ing world, how do we pre-serve individual freedomwhile strengthening socialsolidarity?

In her new book “Com-monwealth and Covenant,”Marcia Pally of NYU and

Fordham offers a clarifyingconcept. What we want, shesuggests, is “separabilityamid situatedness.” Wewant to go off and createand explore and experimentwith new ways of thinkingand living. But we alsowant to be situated — em-bedded in loving familiesand enveloping communi-ties, thriving within ahealthy cultural infrastruc-ture that provides us withvalues and goals.

Creating situatedness re-quires a different way ofthinking. When we go outand do a deal, we make acontract. When we are sit-uated within something itis because we have made acovenant. A contract pro-tects interests, Pally notes,but a covenant protects re-lationships. A covenant ex-ists between people who un-derstand they are part ofone another. It involves avow to serve the relation-ship that is sealed by love:Where you go, I will go.Where you stay, I will stay.Your people shall be mypeople.

People in a contract pro-vide one another services,but people in a covenant de-light in offering gifts. Out oflove of country, soldiers of-fer the gift of their service.Out of love of their craft,teachers offer students thegift of their attention.

The social fabric is thusrewoven in a romanticframe of mind. During an-other period of nationalfragmentation, AbrahamLincoln aroused a refreshed

love of country. He playedupon the mystic chords ofmemory and used the Dec-laration of Independence asa unifying scripture andguide.

These days the social fab-ric will be repaired by hun-dreds of millions of peoplemaking local covenants —widening their circles of at-tachment across income, so-cial and racial divides. Butit will probably also requireleaders drawing upon U.S.history to revive patriotism.They’ll tell a story that in-cludes the old themes. Thatwe’re a universal nation,the guarantor of stabilityand world order. But it willtranscend the old narrativeand offer an updated love ofAmerica.

In an interview with BillMaher last month, Sen. Co-ry Booker nicely defined pa-triotism by contrasting itwith mere tolerance. Toler-ance, he said, means, “I’mgoing to stomach your rightto be different, but if youdisappear off the face of theearth I’m no worse off.” Pa-triotism, on the other hand,means “love of country,which necessitates love ofeach other, that we have tobe a nation that aspires forlove, which recognizes thatyou have worth and dignityand I need you. You are partof my whole, part of thepromise of this country.”

That emotion is what itmeans to be situated in ashared national life.

David Brooks is a col-umnist for The New YorkTimes.

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“DAVID BROOKS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 Zentertainment PAGE 5A

NEW YORK — A cliff-hanger ending to its sixthseason fascinated morethan 14 million viewers of“The Walking Dead,” al-though AMC’s blockbusterhit continued to showsome signs of erosion.

During the final episodeon Sunday, new villain Ne-gan killed someone with abarbed wire bat he namedLucille. Viewers will haveto wait until next season tofind out who he killed,however.

It was down from the15.8 million who watchedthe fifth season finale onthe night it aired, anddidn’t approach the 17.3

million who watched thefirst episode of the fifthseason in October 2014 —the show’s high point.

It’s not unusual for hitshows to begin to fade af-ter they have been on theair for a couple of years. Amore complete barometerof the show’s performancewill come in a few weeks,when the number of peoplewho watched it via delayedviewing are counted in.

In its first year on ca-ble’s TBS on Mondaynight, an estimated 17.8million people watched Vil-lanova’s last-second victoryover North Carolina forthe NCAA men’s basketballchampionship. That’ssharply down from the 28.3million people who saw

last year’s Duke-Wisconsingame on CBS, the Nielsencompany said. It showsthat broadcast TV still hasan advantage over cablenetworks although, to befair, last year’s game wasthe most-watched NCAA fi-

nal since 1997.The Academy of Coun-

try Music awards saw itsviewership take a steepdrop — from 16 million lastyear to 11.2 million Sundaynight on CBS, Nielsen said.

CBS won the week in

prime time, averaging 7.9million viewers. NBC had 6million viewers, ABC had4.8 million, Fox had 4 mil-lion, Univision had 1.8 mil-lion, the CW had 1.5 mil-lion, ION Television had1.24 million and Telemun-do had 1.23 million.

Buoyed by Saturday’sNCAA basketball semifi-nals, TBS was the week’smost popular cable net-work, averaging 2.55 mil-lion viewers in prime time.AMC had 1.96 millionviewers, Fox News Chan-nel had 1.82 million, HGTVhad 1.66 million and USAhad 1.53 million.

NBC’s “Nightly News”topped the evening news-casts with an average of 8.6million viewers. ABC’s

“World News Tonight” wassecond with 8.2 million andthe “CBS Evening News”had 7 million viewers.

For the week of March28-April 3, the top 10shows, their networks andviewerships: “The BigBang Theory,” CBS, 14.24million; “The WalkingDead,” AMC, 14.19 million;“Empire,” Fox, 12.46 mil-lion; “Dancing With theStars,” ABC, 11.95 million;“The Voice” (Monday),NBC, 11.36 million; “LittleBig Shots,” NBC, 11.33 mil-lion; “Academy of CountryMusic Awards,” CBS, 11.2million; “The Voice” (Tues-day), NBC, 11.1 million;“Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.4million; “NCIS,” CBS, 10.38million.

14.2 million watched ‘Walking Dead’ finaleBy DAVID BAUDERASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image released by AMC, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, standing left,appears in a scene from "The Walking Dead."

Photo by Gene Page/AMC | AP

NEW YORK — Even forsomeone as loved as TinaFey, a reported $6 millionadvance seemed like a lotof money for a book of es-says.

But five years after itspublication, “Bossypants”has sold 3.75 million co-pies, according to Little,Brown and Co. And it con-firmed a market forsmart, funny nonfictionsuch as Amy Poehler’s“Yes Please” and MindyKaling’s “Is EveryoneHanging Out WithoutMe?”

In an email interviewTuesday with The Associ-ated Press, Fey discussed“Bossypants” and some

books shehas en-joyed re-cently. Shealso had afew wordsfor author-journalistGay Talese,who saidlast week-

end that he could think ofno women journalists whoinspired him when he wasyoung.

Q: When the book wasfirst published, what wereyour expectations?

A: My goal was just toavoid humiliation. Afteryears of writing charac-ter-based comedy in agroup process with otherwriters, a book “about mewritten by me alone”

made me feel panicky andvulnerable. I kept tellingmy husband, “This is go-ing to ruin me.”

Q: Why do you think ithas done so well, beyond,of course, your fame andthe quality of the writing?

A: It’s also edible. Well,I guess all books are ifyou’re hungry enough.

Q: Any books you’d liketo recommend that you’veread lately?

A: I enjoyed Diane VonFurstenberg’s autobiogra-phy. I loved “Americanah”by Chimamanda NgoziAdichie. I’m currentlyreading “Dinosaurs in theAttic” — nonfiction aboutthe American Museum ofNatural History. Nothingby Gay Talese has movedme.

Tina Fey discusses‘Bossypants’ and more

By HILLEL ITALIEASSOCIATED PRESS

FEY

OLIMPIADAS ESPECIALESEl Zapata County ISD

invita a las Olimpiadas Espe-ciales 2016 que se realizaránhoy miércoles 6 de abril, apartir de las 9 a.m. en elEstadio Hawk. Es la etapadel Área 21 Local de Atletis-mo.

NOCHE DE COMEDIASe presentarán los có-

micos Sergio Mejorado y Ma-yito Show Man en MirageSocial Events en Río Grandeel 8 de abril. El evento es abeneficio de Alejandro Cañe-do, para la adquisición deuna prótesis ya que perdióuna pierna en un accidente.Informes en 956-437-2629 y956-437-7247.

BECAS ZCISDSe informa a poten-

ciales donadores de becasque el paquete conteniendola carta del director, formapara donadores de becas ysolicitudes generales de be-cas, se están entregando enZapata High School. El 9 deabril es la fecha límite paraque donadores sometan laforma como donador de be-ca; en tanto que el 27 deabril se llevará a cabo la No-che de Becas a las 6 p.m. locual pemitirá que donadoresy receptores se conozcan.

Igualmente se tiene con-siderado entregar certifica-dos de agradecimiento a losdonadores. Informes llaman-do a Jennifer Sánchez o Pa-tricia Flores al (956) 765-0280.

TORNEO DE PESCANueva Ciudad Guerre-

ro, México, invita al 11º Tor-neo de Pesca Aniversario“Rogelio Olivares” en Cam-pos Los Olivos del Falcon La-ke, el 9 y 10 de abril. Enembarcación el costo es de1.250 pesos por persona yen la orilla es gratis. Infor-mes en Hotel Los Olivos(956) 353-9629.

TORNEO DE PESCAEl sábado 23 de abril

se realizará el torneo depesca Bass Champs FishingTournament, en ZapataCounty Public Boat Rampdesde las 8 a.m. hasta las 5p.m.

TORNEO DE SÓFTBOLUn torneo de sóftbol

tendrá lugar el 23 de abrilen Zapata. Lo recaudado se-rá a favor de Alejandro Ca-ñedo, para la adquisición deuna prótesis ya que perdióuna pierna en un accidente.Equipos femeninos y mascu-linos. Cuota 150 dólares. In-formes en 956-251-3075.

RECOLECCIÓN DEMEDICAMENTOSLa Coalición Comuni-

taria del Condado de Zapatay la DEA realizarán el eventonacional Pill Take Back (re-colección de medicamentos)el 30 de abril, de 10 a.m. a2 p.m. en el Palacio de Jus-ticia del Condado de Zapata.Se buscan medicamentoscaducos o que ya no se es-tén utilizando a fin de reti-rarlos de forma apropiada.Informes en la oficina deSCAN en el 765-3555.

PRÉSTAMOS FSALos Condados de Ca-

meron, Hidalgo, Starr y Wi-llacy Counties fueron decla-rados elegibles para lospréstamos de emergenciaante desastres del FSA. Estosignifica que los agricultoresque hayan perdido al menos30 por ciento de su produc-ción o que hayan sufridocualquier perdida en produc-ción o física causadas portormentas severas, vientosconstantes, tornados, e inun-daciones, en el periodo del22 al 31 de octubre del2015. La fecha límite parapresentar su solicitud depréstamo es el 25 de juliodel 2016.

Ribereñaen Breve

WASHINGTON — Unoshablan de resolver favora-blemente la situación delos 11 millones de extranje-ros que se cree están en elpaís ilegalmente. Otros secomprometen a hacer loposible por expulsarlos delpaís.

Son los contrastes entrelas propuestas de demócra-tas y republicanos sobre eltema de la inmigración ile-gal.

Mientras que los demó-cratas Hillary Clinton yBernie Sanders dicen quedarán prioridad a una re-forma integral a las leyesde inmigración que inclu-ya la opción de la naturali-zación a los inmigrantesno autorizados, los republi-canos Donald Trump y TedCruz plantean aumentarlas deportaciones, culmi-nar la construcción de unmuro a lo largo de la fron-tera con México y anularlos alivios del presidenteBarack Obama para 5 mi-llones de personas.

Clinton y Sanders tienenpropuestas generalmentefavorables a los extranjerosque están en el país sinpermiso. Quieren regulari-zar su status sin recurrir ala deportación, siempre ycuando no hayan cometidodelitos violentos o no re-

presenten unriesgo a laseguridad na-cional.

Ambos ha-blan de man-tener los pro-gramas dealivio migra-

torio que dejaron en sus-penso las deportaciones decinco millones de personas,en su mayoría inmigrantesque fueron traídos por suspadres cuando eran niños.

Sanders cerraría los cen-tros de detención de inmi-grantes manejados por em-presas privadas y amplia-ría el alivio migratorio atodas las personas que hanresidido en Estados Unidossin autorización al menoscinco años para que inclu-ya a los nueve millones depersonas a las que hubieraamparado el proyecto deley aprobado por el Senadoen 2013.

En el otro extremo,Trump y Cruz proponendeportar a todos los inmi-grantes sin autorización,anular los alivios tempora-les que dispuso el gobiernode Barack Obama y com-pletar el muro a lo largo detoda la frontera con Méxi-co.

NumbersUSA, una orga-nización que postula redu-cir la cantidad de inmi-grantes que recibe EstadosUnidos, critica a Trump

porque no hadicho especí-ficamente simantendríala loteríaanual de50.000 resi-dencias per-manentes ni

si eliminaría la opción queactualmente tienen los re-sidentes permanentes desolicitar el ingreso legal deparientes no inmediatos.Cruz descartó ambas posi-bilidades.

Trump, por otro lado,plantea darle carácter obli-gatorio a E-Verify, un pro-grama del gobierno federalque permite a los patronosdeterminar si sus emplea-dos están autorizados paratrabajar en Estados Uni-dos, y detener la migraciónlegal durante uno o dosaños.

Cruz se ha referido a lanecesidad de contar con unE-Verify “sólido”, aunquesin especificar si su uso se-rá obligatorio.

Los dos candidatos repu-blicanos proponen asimis-mo triplicar la cantidad deagentes de la PatrullaFronteriza, negar fondosfederales a las ciudadesque rehúsen a cooperarcon las autoridades migra-torias para identificar a in-migrantes no autorizados yeventualmente deportarlos,y modificar la Constitución

para elimi-nar el dere-cho a la na-cionalidadestadouni-dense por na-cimiento.

Pero a di-ferencia de

Cruz, Trump ha especifica-do que aspira trasladar aMéxico el costo de termi-nar de construir el murofronterizo, incautando re-mesas provenientes de sa-larios percibidos, según di-ce, ilegalmente, incremen-tando las tarifas de lasvisas solicitadas por capi-tanes de empresa y diplo-máticos mexicanos, de lastarjetas fronterizas que unmillón de mexicanos recla-ma cada año en los puntosde entrada aéreo y terres-tre.

Trump, por otro lado, de-ja abierta la posibilidad deimponer aranceles comer-ciales y recortar la coope-ración bilateral a México sino colabora. El comerciobilateral supera los 500.000millones de dólares cadaaño.

El magnate se distinguede Cruz en otra propuesta:ha dicho que permitiría elreingreso a Estados Unidosde aquellos deportados quereúnan requisitos aún pordefinir.

John Kasich, el tercerprecandidato republicano

que ya no tie-ne posibilida-des de reunirla cantidadrequerida dedelegados an-tes de la con-vención, hadicho que de

convertirse en presidentebuscará culminar el murofronterizo, ampliará unprograma de trabajadoresinvitados y permitirá la le-galización de aquellos sinantecedentes penales.

Entre los demócratas,Sanders ha criticado aClinton por oponerse en2007 a una iniciativa paraotorgar licencias de condu-cir a inmigrantes sin auto-rización. Escasos días des-pués de lanzar su candida-tura el año pasado, Clintonse declaró a favor de otor-gar las licencias de condu-cir, tal como ocurre en Ca-lifornia, Colorado, Nevaday otros siete estados de lanación.

Por su parte, Clinton haseñalado a Sanders por ha-ber votado en contra de unproyecto de reforma migra-toria patrocinado en 2007por el senador Ted Ken-nedy. El senador por Ver-mont ha justificado su votopor considerar como abusi-vas las condiciones vigen-tes en un programa de tra-bajadores invitados conte-nido en la legislación.

PRE-CANDIDATOS PRESIDENCIALES E INMIGRACIÓN

ContrastesPOR LUIS ALONSO LUGO

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLINTON CRUZ SANDERS TRUMP

PÁGINA 6A Zfrontera MIÉRCOLES 6 DE ABRIL DE 2016

La Sociedad Americanadel Cáncer pintará de mo-rado a Laredo durante elevento anual Relay For Li-fe, del 18 al 21 de abril. Eltema de este año es “RelayAround the World: It’s AWorld Full of Hope”.

Los voluntarios de RelayFor Life han estando con-tactando grupos, escuelas,iglesias y negocios del áreapara alentarlos a partici-par en el Relay for Life, unevento recaudador de fon-dos para la Sociedad Ame-ricana del Cáncer.

Los participantes quereúnan 100 dólares o másse convierten en miembrosdel Hope Club. Basados enel tema anual, los equiposde relevo pueden competirpara el Best Campsite,Best Spirit Stick/Baton,Best Banner, Best T-Shirt,entre otros.

Participantes tambiénpodrán competir para elMr. y Ms. Relay For Life2016 al donar 10 dólares pa-ra entrar al concurso yjuntar votos por el precio

de 1 dólar por voto.Este año el Relay For Li-

fe del Condado de Webb se-rá realizado en el SAC deUISD desde las 7 p.m. del22 de abril, a las 7 a.m. del23 de abril.

El evento consiste enque personas y/o equipossiempre deben tener un re-presentante en la pista deatletismo.

Los equipos hacen lamayor parte de la recauda-ción de fondos anterior alevento, pero algunos equi-pos también realizan re-caudaciones creativas du-rante el relevo.

Negocios y residentestambién pueden mostrarsu apoyo en la batalla con-tra el cáncer al ordenar unlistón morado que puedenponer en su propiedad du-rante la semana “Pinta deMorado a Laredo”. Los lis-tones están disponibles poruna donación sugerida de10 dólares.

El 22 de abril es el díaoficial para vestir de mora-do. Pida informes con Lau-ra Nanez al 956-286-6955 ómlnanez@att.net.

SOCIEDAD AMERICANA DEL CÁNCER

DetallanRelay for Life

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El cuerpo de una perso-na disecada se exhibía enel Museo Darder en Ban-yoles, en Cataluña. Haciafinales del siglo XX, unmédico español demandaque se suprima el deni-grante espectáculo.

Francisco Darder, vete-rinario, taxidermista, yfundador del museo pro-movía en la guía obsequia-da a los visitantes hacia

1888: “No figura en los mu-seos de historia natural yno sabemos de ningunoque posea un ejemplar quese conserve …como unanimal cualquiera”, yagregaba, “A fuerza de sa-crificios, hemos consegui-do uno que es betchuano”.

El hombre disecado, po-seía un cuerpo menudo, elcual estaba relleno de fi-bra vegetal. Por dentro,clavos, alambre y barrasmetálicas lo mantenían er-guido. Lucía ojos de vi-drio, cubiertos de betún elpelo crespo y la piel.

Al interior de una am-plia vitrina, el hombresostenía en la mano dere-

cha una lanza; en la otra,un compacto escudo. Lle-vaba taparrabo y tocado.Cuentas pequeñas compo-nían el collar alrededordel cuello.

Los informes disponi-bles hacen suponer queproviene de Botsuana, re-pública de África. Habíagobernado alguna tribu debosquimanos, cazadores-recolectores del Kalahari.Acaso enfermo, muere aprincipio del siglo XIX.Conforme a su investidu-ra, su pueblo lo inhumacon honores.

(Con permiso del autor,publicado en La Razón, el 1abril)

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España repatria cuerpodisecado a Botsuana

Nota del editor: Esta es laprimera de dos partes sobrecuerpo disecado de un jefetribal.

POR RAÚL SINENCIOESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

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APRENDIZAJE

Estudiantes del pre Jardín de Niños de Zapata South Elementary School visitaron el Rancho de DanielGonzález. Esta oportunidad les permitió experimentar y conocer directamente acerca de los animalesque han estado estudiando durante clase. Los alumnos pudieron tocar y dar de comer a los animales.

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Adriana Valadez, Adriana García, David González, Enrique “Kike”Ramos y Derek González, de Zapata North Elementary School, par-ticiparon en la segunda caminata anual de Atención al Autismo delCondado de Zapata.

Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

HOUSTON — Some playsyou can’t draw up. Otherplays you can.

The double-clutch 3-point-er North Carolina’s MarcusPaige made came right off aplayground. It might godown as college basketball’smost spectacular footnoteever.

The buzzer-beating 3 thatVillanova’s Kris Jenkinspoured in on top of that wasthe result of months, evenyears, of practice makingperfect. It might go down asthe sport’s most memorablegame-winner.

Two huge buckets in thespan of 4.7 seconds Mondaynight turned a back-and-forth, edge-of-your-seat na-tional title game into some-thing even better.

Jenkins walked away thewinner. His 3 at the buzzer,two steps behind the arcand with a 6-foot-9 defenderflying in his face, gave Villa-nova a 77-74 victory and thesecond national title in pro-gram history.

“I think every shot’s go-ing in,” Jenkins said, “andthis one was no different.”

’Nova coach Jay Wrightbarely flinched when Jen-kins’ shot fell with the buzz-

er blaring. “Bang,” he said,calmly, before walking tomidcourt to shake Carolinacoach Roy Williams’ hand.

Wright has been coach-ing that play for months,even years.

With the game tied and4.7 seconds left, Jenkins in-bounded under the Villano-va basket to point guardRyan Arcidiacono. ForwardDaniel Ochefu set a pick atmidcourt to free things up,then it was up to Arcidiaco-no to create. He underhandflipped a pass to Jenkins,who was open. The juniorspotted himself up, and withNorth Carolina’s IsaiahHicks running at him,launched the shot.

Swish. Confetti. Partytime. Or, as Jenkins put it,“One, two step, shoot ’emup, sleep in the streets.”

The Wildcats (35-5) tookthe title for the first timesince 1985, when Rollie Mas-simino coached the pro-gram to a title-game victoryover Georgetown. Villanovashot 78 percent that night.In this game, the Cats shot58.3 percent in the first half,58.3 percent in the secondhalf and 100 percent withthe final buzzer sounding.

Wright said every coachdesigns plays for game-end-ing situations with less than

four seconds, four to sevenseconds, seven to 12 sec-onds.

They practice it. A lot.When showtime comes, thecoach puts the ball in hisplayers’ hands and hopesthey can execute. He knowsthat with the senior, Arci-diacono, running the play,odds are the Wildcats willget a good look.

“Every kid dreams aboutthat shot,” said Arcidiacono,who finished with 16 pointsand two assists, one morememorable than the other.“I wanted that shot, but Ijust had confidence in myteammates, and Kris wasable to knock down thatshot.”

Not too much earlier,trailing 74-71, Paige knockeddown his.

No coach could draw upthat sort of thing.

The senior guard took askip pass from Joel BerryII, almost lost the handle,dribbled twice, and with Ar-cidiacono running at him,hit a double-clutch 3 fromtwo steps behind the arc.

“He’s been doing that hiswhole career here,” Berrysaid. “He just that tough aguy.”

The Tar Heels (33-7), theonly No. 1 seed in the FinalFour, trailed by 10 with 5:30

left. At that point, Williamssaid he promised his teamthat if he did what theysaid, they would have achance to win.

Then, after Paige hit hisshot, the senior told histeammates they just neededto play 4.7 seconds of de-fense, and they would winthe overtime.

Never happened. “It was helpless,” Wil-

liams said. “It was not agood feeling.”

The tears flowed out ofthe 65-year-old coach, whofell to 2-3 in title games. It’snever fun being on thewrong side of hoops history.

Back in 1983, LorenzoCharles dunked after an airball to lift North CarolinaState to its improbable title.

In 1987, Keith Smartmade one from the side lateto lift Indiana to a cham-pionship.

In 1992, Christian Laettn-er took Grant Hill’s passand hit a turnaround jump-er to help Duke beat Ken-tucky and make the FinalFour.

Now, this. “The last play, we were

just calm in the huddle,honestly,” Arcidiacono said.“We knew what we were go-ing to do and we just exe-cuted.”

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Wild win for ‘Cats

Villanova’s Kris Jenkins high fives fans after hitting the game-winning 3-pointer in the Wildcats’ 77-74 victory on Monday night.

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Villanova hits buzzer beater to win championshipBy EDDIE PELLS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The biggest mysterysurrounding the GoldenState Warriors’ run athistory is how motivatedSan Antonio will be tostop it.

The NBA’s two bestteams this season willmeet twice this week, per-haps the biggest remain-ing obstacles to the War-riors’ quest for an NBA-record 73 victories.

Or, the Spurs might de-cide not to be much of anobstacle at all.

With less than twoweeks until the playoffsand the Spurs (64-12) allbut locked into the No. 2seed in the Western Con-ference, coach GreggPopovich has already be-gun resting his players onoccasion. So it’s impossi-ble to predict who will bein uniform for San Anto-nio when it travels toGolden State on Thursday,or hosts the Warriors(69-8) on Sunday.

“It doesn’t matter, tome, how he plays it,”Warriors coach SteveKerr said of Popovich,one of his former coaches.“His team is a little olderthan ours, too.”

Kerr said the youngerWarriors told him theydon’t feel they need a rest,but Popovich doesn’t ex-

actly give his players theoption. When he made La-Marcus Aldridge sit outone of his first practiceswith the team in October,Popovich joked that hetold the All-Star forward,“Welcome to the Spurs.”

The Spurs will be open-ing a back-to-back Thurs-day in Oakland, soPopovich figures to sitsome regulars either thatnight or Friday in Denver.San Antonio is then offuntil the Warriors visit,and follows that gamewith another night off be-fore hosting OklahomaCity.

San Antonio will be39-0 at home when GoldenState arrives, two victo-ries from becoming thefirst team in NBA historyto go undefeated at homefor an entire season. Thatcould motivate the Spursto make everyone availa-ble — and leave Kerr asthe one who might playthe rest card.

The Warriors will beplaying for the secondstraight night after agame in Memphis, andKerr said he may give re-serve guard Shaun Li-vingston one of thosegames off.

“Other than that, wehave a lot of young guyswho have no reason to sitout because they’re feel-ing great,” Kerr said.

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way of historyWill Spurs prioritize stopping Golden

State from breaking wins record?By BRIAN MAHONEYASSOCIATED PRESS

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES International WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016

AUSTIN, Texas — Therevelations in the PanamaPapers could add to thepopulist outrage in thepresidential race by con-firming many of the fearsof Bernie Sanders sup-porters on the left andcontributing to the dis-trust that drives people toDonald Trump on theright.

So far, the 11.5 millionleaked documents haveshed light mostly on for-eign figures such as theprime minister of Iceland,who resigned Tuesday af-ter the public learned thathe used a shell companyto shelter large sums ofmoney while his country’seconomy foundered. Thereaction in the U.S. hasbeen relatively muted.

But voters and expertssuggested that the paperscould still validate thefrustration of blue-collarSanders supporters whofeel that hard work is nolonger enough to getahead in America and theanger of Trump partisanswho say it will take some-one who knows the in-sider system to dismantleit.

Retired Wisconsin highschool teacher SteveNibbe, who was voting forSanders on Tuesday inWisconsin’s presidentialprimary, said word of thedocuments made him “situp and take notice.” But

he said he was notshocked.

“It just seems that thosewho have wealth — andsometimes that comeswith privilege — are ableto do things that otherpeople are not,” saidNibbe, 60, from Verona,outside the state capital ofMadison.

Joe Brettell, a Republi-can strategist based inHouston, doubted whetherthe public’s fury could getmuch worse.

“The populist anger be-

ing fueled primarily bywhite working-class Amer-icans didn’t need anymore fuel,” Brettell said.“They’ve already livedthrough the financialmeltdown. They’ve al-ready lived through thelack of middle class wageincreases even as thestock market boomed.”

The papers illustratehow a small class of globalelites amass staggeringwealth and find elaborateways to hide it from taxcollectors, bank regulators

and police.The passports of at least

200 Americans are includ-ed in the documents, ac-cording to news organiza-tions that have access tothem, though none arethought to be as famous ascelebrities and politiciansfrom other countries, suchas Russian President Vla-dimir Putin and Argen-tine soccer star LionelMessi.

In all, 12 current or for-mer heads of state are in-cluded in the legal records

from Panama’s MossackFonseca law firm. Theywere first leaked Sundayto the Sueddeutsche Zei-tung newspaper based inMunich, Germany.

Charles Postel, a histo-ry professor at San Fran-cisco State University whohas studied American pop-ulism and wrote a book ti-tled “The Populist Vi-sion,” said of Sanders,“This is just the type ofthing that is animatinghis base.”

He described Trump as

“more of a nationalist.”“His issue is not that

these rich people are notplaying by the rules. It’sthat we need powerful peo-ple who will protect Amer-icans,” Postel said. “That’sa different thing that pro-vokes outrage.”

The New York billio-naire might even actuallywin points with support-ers if he were among therich and famous men-tioned in the documents,Postel said.

“If Trump said, ‘Ofcourse I put half of mymoney in the Virgin Is-lands,’ none of his voterswould object to that,” Pos-tel said. “They’d say, ‘Sure,he’s a billionaire. If I wasa billionaire, I wouldn’tpay my taxes either.”’

That was a sentimentechoed somewhat by 24-year-old factory workerDemetrius Rimmer of Mil-waukee, who had notheard about the scandalbefore a reporter men-tioned it. But he was nonetoo impressed: “It’s alwaysabout money.”

Rimmer voted for Sand-ers.

If the papers becomemore of a presidential is-sue, it won’t be confinedto the Trump or Sanderscamp.

“Both sides do it,” saidMike Feiler, a 52-year-oldauto dealer in Verona whosaid he voted for TexasSen. Ted Cruz in the pri-mary. “Both sides try tohide their money.”

Revelations could add to outrage in raceBy WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

People hold banners and protest in front of Parliament building in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday. The leak of millions of records on offshoreaccounts claims its first high-profile victim as Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns.

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JACKSON, Miss. — Mis-sissippi’s governor signed alaw Tuesday allowing reli-gious groups and privatebusinesses to deny servicesto gay and transgender peo-ple — echoing attemptsmade in other states withvarying levels of success fol-lowing last year’s SupremeCourt ruling that effectivelylegalized gay marriage na-tionwide.

Saying he was protectingreligious freedom, Republi-can Gov. Phil Bryant signedthe bill without hesitationor fanfare just hours after itcleared its final legislativeobstacle Monday, and beforeopponents could try to talkhim out of it. In addition toopposition from gay-rightsactivists, two leading statebusiness associations and anumber of large corpora-tions in recent days hadcome out against the bill,which allows religiousgroups and some privatebusinesses to refuse serviceto lesbian, gay, bisexual andtransgender people basedon religious beliefs.

It was unclear whetheropponents would continueto marshal their forces inan attempt to repeal themeasure as they are doingin North Carolina, however,where the Republican gov-ernor signed a law limitingbathroom options for trans-gender people and prohibit-

ing local communities fromenacting anti-discriminationordinances. The Mississippilaw also prohibits local com-munities from passing theirown ordinances. The law isslated to take effect on July1.

“We’re still gatheringtroops,” said Erik Fleming,director of advocacy andpolicy for the American Civ-il Liberties Union of Missis-sippi. “We’re disappointed.We were hoping that thebusiness community step-ping up the way they did,and people of faith, would atleast have him reflect on thedecision.”

Republican Georgia Gov.Nathan Deal vetoed a simi-lar religious objections billlast week after big compa-nies including Coca-Cola,Delta Airlines and othersexpressed vehement opposi-tion, and national sports or-ganizations hinted that theymight hold their importantevents elsewhere. In NorthCarolina, an economic back-lash broadened Tuesday,with PayPal announcing ithas canceled a major expan-sion in the state. South Da-kota’s governor vetoed asimilar proposal limitingbathroom options for trans-gender people.

Such measures beganemerging in various statesin response to a U.S. Su-preme Court decision lastsummer that effectively le-galized gay marriage na-tionwide.

Service denial togays OK by law

By JEFF AMYASSOCIATED PRESS

MILWAUKEE — Repub-lican Ted Cruz and Demo-crat Bernie Sanders hopedto turn the tables on theirparties’ front-runners inWisconsin Tuesday andemerge from the Midwest-ern battleground reinvigor-ated in their pursuit of theWhite House.

Even with wins in Wis-consin, Cruz and Sanderswould still face toughmathematical odds of win-ning their parties’ nomina-tions before the summerconventions. Still, lossesTuesday for leading con-tenders Donald Trump andHillary Clinton would keepan aura of uncertaintyhanging over both races.

Sanders has vowed tostay in the Democratic racethrough all of the votingcontests, and the Vermontsenator has raised enoughmoney to make good onthat pledge. A win in Wis-consin would be a boost forhis campaign, but wouldstill leave him trailingClinton in the delegatecount.

It’s Republicans who arebracing for a real conven-tion fight, which could oc-cur if Trump can’t reachthe 1,237 delegates neededto clinch the nominationthrough the normal votingprocess. Cruz, the Texassenator who has emergedas Trump’s closest rival,was casting Wisconsin ascrucial to GOP efforts tostop the billionaire busi-

nessman.“What we are seeing in

Wisconsin is the unity ofthe Republican Party man-ifesting,” Cruz said duringone of his final campaignstops.

For Trump, the longlead-up to Wisconsin’s con-test has included one of theworst stretches of his can-didacy. He was embroiledin a spat involving Cruz’swife, which he now says heregrets, was sidetracked byhis campaign manager’s le-gal problems after an alter-cation with a female re-porter, and stumbled awk-wardly in comments aboutabortion.

Still, Trump made aspirited final push in thestate and predicted a “real-ly, really big victory.”

“If we do well here, it’sover,” he said. “If we don’twin here, it’s not over.”

Nearly 4 in 10 Republi-can primary voters in Wis-consin said they’re scared

about what Trump woulddo as president, accordingto exit polls. But more thanhalf say that if the GOPrace goes to the conven-tion, the party should nom-inate the candidate withthe most support in theprimaries, which so farwould be Trump.

Complicating the pri-mary landscape for bothCruz and Trump is thecontinuing candidacy ofJohn Kasich. The Ohiogovernor’s only victory hascome in his home state, buthe’s still picking up dele-gates that would otherwisehelp Trump inch closer tothe nomination or helpCruz catch up.

Trump has grown in-creasingly frustrated withthe governor and hasjoined Cruz in calling forKasich to end his cam-paign. Kasich cast Trump’sfocus on him as a sign thathe’s best positioned to winover the businessman’s

supporters.“They’re not really his

people,” Kasich said.“They’re Americans whoare worried about, they’rereally most worried abouttheir kids, are their kidsgoing to have a good life?”

If Cruz wins all of Wis-consin’s 42 delegates,Trump would need to win57 percent of those remain-ing to clinch the GOP nom-ination before the July con-vention. So far, Trump haswon 48 percent of the dele-gates awarded.

Paul Lorentz, was in lineat 6:30 a.m. in Sun Prairie,Wisconsin, on Tuesday tocast his vote for Kasich.Lorentz said he typicallyvotes Democratic in thegeneral election but Repub-lican in Wisconsin’s openprimary in order to swaythe GOP to a better candi-date.

“My hope is always tohave two acceptable candi-dates running for presi-dent,” he said.

Among Democrats, Clin-ton has 1,243 delegates toSanders’ 980 based on pri-maries and caucuses.When including superdele-gates, the party officialswho can back any candi-date, Clinton holds a muchwider lead — 1,712 to Sand-ers’ 1,011. It takes 2,383 del-egates to win the Demo-cratic nomination.

On the eve of voting inWisconsin, Clinton’s cam-paign manager argued thatSanders’ only path to victo-ry “relies on overturningthe will of the voters.”

Cruz, Sanders eye WisconsinBy JULIE PACE AND SCOTT BAUER

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A "Voter Registration" sign hangs at a polling location during thepresidential primary vote in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.

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Uresti’s office said are safe.“The herbicides involved

have been approved and re-approved by the [U.S. Envi-ronmental ProtectionAgency] who has deemedthem safe for use, and theyhave a long history of suc-cess in salt cedar eradica-tions across Texas,” saidaide Michael Ruggieri.

It’s not the first time theissue has stirred controver-sy. The U.S. Border Patroltried a pilot program insouthern Webb County thatwas suspended in 2009 afterenvironmental groups ob-jected. According to a set-tlement reached that yearbetween a coalition ofWebb County residents andU.S. Customs and BorderProtection, there is to be noaerial spraying in the 16-mile area where the initialpilot program was conduct-ed.

It’s still unclear what thestate’s project will entail,or if the $500,000 will be aone-time allotment. TomHarvey, a parks departmentspokesman, said an intera-gency contract isn’t com-plete. A program managerfor the TSSWCB did not re-turn calls seeking com-ment.

But a lack of details isn’tstopping the Laredo-basedRio Grande InternationalStudy Center from spear-heading the fight againstthe new program.

“Maybe Uresti, the gover-nor, and the folks at the

conservation board in Aus-tin think that it’s OK topush ahead with aerialspraying because theydon’t live here and don’thave to drink the RioGrande tap water,” TriciaCortez, the center’s execu-tive director, wrote in anopinion piece published bythe Austin American-Statesman last month.

It’s not that the grouplikes the plant. It agreesthe invasive species sucksup much-needed waterfrom the river while hin-dering efforts to patrol thebanks. It’s the method un-der consideration that thegroup opposes, Cortez in-sists.

She points to a seven-year project by the USDAthat uses a combination ofcane-eating wasps and acane-topping method withspecialty tractors to stuntthe Carrizo’s growth.

“The most importantquestion is why has thestate chosen to ignore theincredible work being doneby the USDA along a 558-mile stretch of the RioGrande, from Del Rio toBrownsville?” she wrote.“Results from the past sev-en years — which havebeen peer reviewed andpublished — show a dwin-dling of the cane’s biomassby nearly 25 percent.”

Abbott’s office said thedirective to the conserva-tion board isn’t differentfrom what the agency does

on a regular basis.“They will do this just as

they always have has done— with their Water SupplyEnhancement Program —reducing a variety of water-hogging plants all over thestate,” spokesman JohnWittman said. “And justlike they routinely do, theagency will utilize eradica-tion methods that fullycomply with the federalgovernment’s exhaustiveregulatory standards.”

Uresti’s office is quick tomention that the programis voluntary for landown-ers, that the state’s effortswon’t focus on Webb Coun-ty and that the bill was un-opposed by area lawmakerslast session.

“SB 1734 was supportedby the USDA, the TexasFarm Bureau, the TexasSeed Trade Association,the Texas Conservation As-sociation for Soil & Water,and every single borderlawmaker in both theHouse and the Senate,”said Ruggieri.

Cortez’s group isn’t con-vinced.

Its most recent victoriescame when the Laredo citycouncil and the WebbCounty CommissionersCourt last week passed res-olutions opposing any ae-rial spraying along the riv-er during the eradicationeffort. Cortez said she ex-pects communities up anddownriver from Laredo tofollow suit before too long.

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thorities say.Prosecutors have moved

to seize tens of millions ofdollars in San Antonioreal estate — including ahome in The Dominion,commercial property onU.S. 281 and a pharmacyon Stone Oak Parkway —and indicted six people un-der an investigation into anexus of politics, privateindustry and one of Mexi-co’s most notorious druggangs.

They say those millionswere looted from the Coa-huila government andflooded Texas starting in2007, during the term offormer Gov. Humberto Mo-reira.

Moreira has not beencharged, but his politicalcareer came to an abruptend in 2011 when it was re-vealed that under his gov-ernorship Coahuila hadracked up nearly $3 billionin debt.

Among those charged inSouth Texas are the inter-im governor who servedafter Moreira, severalbusiness owners withhomes on San Antonio’sNorth Side, and a formerstate treasurer who’s want-ed in Mexico on allega-tions of taking out fraudu-lent loans on the state’scredit.

Bexar County prosecu-tors say the treasurer, Héc-tor Javier Villarreal Her-nández, wired millions ofdollars to Texas that he re-ceived from kickbacks.

Some of the money camefrom inflated contracts,said First Assistant Dis-trict Attorney Cliff Herb-erg. On one occasion, hesaid, a state contract wentto a mineral extractioncompany controlled by theZetas drug gang, formeren- forcers for another car-tel who spun off into their

own criminal organiza-tion.

“It is our position thatit’s just a front for moneylaundering,” Herberg said.“They didn’t do anymining.”

Interviews, court docu-ments, property recordsand regulatory filingsshow that those under in-vestigation built a sprawl-ing business network inTexas, including commer-cial real estate develop-ments, private residencesand restaurants. They of-ten used a network of lim-ited liability companiesthat made it difficult forinvestigators to track theownership of those assets.

Along with the San An-tonio properties, prosecu-tors have filed lawsuits totake control of real estatein the Rio Grande Valleyand millions of dollars inbank accounts in Texasand Bermuda.

Investigators are askingwitnesses about Coahuilapoliticians — includingMoreira and his brother,the current governor —comprising a virtual who’swho of businessmen fromthe state and the Zetas,one court documentshows.

The multiagency task-force handling the case in-cludes the Drug Enforce-ment Administration, theTexas attorney general’soffice and the InternalRevenue Service.

Among those chargedare Villarreal, who is in aSan Antonio jail awaitingtrial, and Coahuila’s for-mer interim governor,Jorge Juan Torres López,a fugitive. Lawyers forboth men maintain they’reinnocent.

The situation is politi-cally fraught. Moreira, theformer leader of the Insti-

tutional RevolutionaryParty, or PRI, is close toMexican President En-rique Peña Nieto. Whenone defendant was broughtto court in San Antonio, aformer U.S. congressmanshowed up to support him.

Coahuila, with its largemanufacturing sector andborder crossings, is a ma-jor trade partner with Tex-as, and politically connect-ed people from the statewho are not under investi-gation have become closewith San Antonio cityleaders.

Fernando Salazar, a re-cently elected senator fromCoahuila who’s in the op-posing National ActionParty, or PAN, said hethinks the problem goeswell beyond the formertreasurer and interim gov-ernor. Salazar said Morei-ra deserves more scrutinybecause the state’s debtand the allegations of thefthappened on his watch.

“Torres and Villarrealwere the closest persons toMoreira,” Salazar said.“They worked for him.He’s the one that made allthis mess.”

Moreira’s attorneyswouldn’t comment for thisreport, but after Forbesmagazine included him ona list of Mexican politic-ians accused of corrup-tion, Mexico City lawyerChristian F. Zinser Cieslikwrote to the publication,saying the former gover-nor had been exoneratedin an investigation by theMexican attorney gener-al’s office.

“It was found that thereis no evidence to link Mr.Moreira Valdes to anywrongdoing in relation tothe debt contracted in thestate of Coahuila duringhis term as governor,” theattorney wrote.

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland —Iceland’s embattled primeminister, facing accusationsof conflict of interest be-cause of offshore accounts,stepped aside Tuesday andproposed that the vicechairman of his party takeover.

Sigmundur David Gunn-laugsson has become be thefirst major figure broughtdown by a leak of morethan 11 million financialdocuments from a Panama-nian law firm showing thetax-avoidance arrangementsof the rich and famousaround the world.

Sigurdur Mar Jonsson,press secretary of the Ice-landic government, said in

a statementTuesday thatGunnlaugs-son has sug-gested Sigur-dur Ingi Jo-hannsson, hisProgressiveParty’s vice-

chairman, takes over asprime minister for “an un-specified amount of time.”

Iceland’s president hasnot yet confirmed anychanges to the leadershipand the situation remainedmuddled as hundreds of pro-testers gathered outside par-liament to demand the oust-er of Gunnlaugsson.

There were contradic-tions throughout the after-noon and evening as offi-cials first said Gunnlaugs-son had resigned as primeminister, statements that

were later contradicted bythe press secretary’s com-munique, which indicatedhe was only stepping downfor a period of time. Thestatement also suggestedthat Gunnlaugsson wouldremain as party chairman.

It was not clear if newelections would be held or ifthe governing coalitionwould be able to weatherthe crisis that developed sev-eral days ago with the re-lease of the Panama papers.

The lack of a clear resolu-tion angered some protes-ters who blew whistles andbanged on pots and pans infront of parliament.

“I’m here because thegovernment still hasn’t re-signed,” said store managerElfar Petursson. “The fi-nance minister and the inte-rior minister are still sitting

in parliament, they refuse toresign, they both have off-shore accounts.”

Revelations in the Pana-ma Papers about offshoreaccounts held by Gunn-laugsson and his wife haveinfuriated many residentswho suffered during the fi-nancial collapse of 2008 and2009.

Gunnlaugsson has deniedwrongdoing and said he haspaid taxes and done nothingillegal regarding his off-shore holdings.

Opposition lawmakerssay the holdings amount toa major conflict of interestwith his job.

Gunnlaugsson said his fi-nancial holdings didn’t af-fect his negotiations withIceland’s creditors duringthe country’s acute financialcrisis. Those assertions did

little to quell the controver-sy.

The prime ministersought at first to dissolveparliament Tuesday and callan early election, but Presi-dent Olafur Ragnar Grims-son said he wanted to con-sult with other party lead-ers before agreeing to endthe coalition governmentbetween Gunnlaugsson’scenter-right ProgressiveParty and the IndependenceParty.

“I need to determine ifthere is support for dissolv-ing (parliament) within theruling coalition and others.The prime minister couldnot confirm this for me, andtherefore I am not preparedat this time to dissolve par-liament,” Grimsson said.

The president met withIndependence Party law-

makers later Tuesday to dis-cuss the governmental cri-sis. Gudlaugur Thor Thor-darson, chairman of theIndependence Party, criti-cized the prime minister forunilaterally seeking to dis-solve parliament.

“It was a total surprisefor us to see that. I don’tthink it was the rationalthing to do. I’ve never seenit done before in Icelandicpolitics and I hope that Iwill not see it again,” hesaid.

The impact in Icelandfrom the leaks has been themost dramatic, but leadingofficials in Russia, Ukraine,China, Argentina and othercountries are also facingquestions about possibly du-bious offshore schemes usedby the global elite.

The leaked documents al

Iceland’s PM steps down amid scandalBy DAVID KEYTON

AND JENNA GOTTLIEBASSOCIATED PRESS

GUNNLAUGSSON

PANAMA CITY — Pan-amanians have longshrugged off their coun-try’s checkered reputationas a financial haven fordrug lords, tax dodgersand corrupt oligarchs.They like to joke that ifthey’re crooks, they’velearned it from the world’swealthy nations.

That same defensivenesshas re-emerged amid thefallout from the leak of 11.5million confidential docu-ments from the Panama-based law firm MossackFonseca revealing detailsof how some of the globe’srichest people funnel theirassets into secretive shellcompanies set up here andin other lightly regulatedjurisdictions.

Ramon Fonseca, a co-founder of the firm, said

Monday that his country’ssuccess in establishing it-self as an offshore bankinggiant has bred jealousyfrom first-world rivals at atime of increasing competi-tion and scrutiny of the in-dustry in the aftermath ofthe global financial crisis.

“It’s very unfair what’shappening because there’snot a level playing field,”Fonseca told The Associat-ed Press in an interview.“Without a doubt if thishappened to a company inDelaware nothing wouldhappen, but because it’sPanama it’s the front pageof the world’s newspa-pers.”

Panama cemented itsstatus as a money launder-ing center in the 1980s,when dictator Gen. Manu-el Noriega rolled out thered carpet to Colombiandrug cartels. It has re-mained a magnet for illicitmoney, as well as for legiti-

mate funds, because itsdollarized economy sits atthe crossroad of the Amer-icas. Breakneck economicgrowth averaging 8.5 per-cent a year for a decadehas been fed by the flood ofcash, transforming thecapital’s skyline into LatinAmerica’s Dubai.

But Panama isn’t alonein its permissive attitudetoward shell companies,which the British-basedTax Justice Network esti-mates hide $21 trillion to$32 trillion in untaxed orlightly taxed financialwealth around the globe.Panama ranks 13th on thewatchdog group’s financialsecrecy index — betterthan the U.S., which is atNo. 3.

Panamanian PresidentJuan Carlos Varela haspromised to cooperatewith any judicial investiga-tions stemming from theleaked data.

Panama rejectsmoney-launder label

By JUAN ZAMORANO AND JOSHUA GOODMAN

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"under duress" when hesigned it. He had signedthe agreement with theBrothers of St. John.

Kincl said Tamayo’sstatement that he was un-der duress was “ridicu-lous.”

“That’s a lie,” he said.“A bishop has total andfull authority. Bishop Ta-mayo had promised themin a signed statement thathe would support this pro-ject. So he has an obliga-tion to fulfill that contractwith the Brothers of St.John.”

The Brothers of St.John, led by Fr. MichaelTherese Scheerger, toldLaredo Morning Times onFriday a statement on theissue is forthcoming.

Tamayo has yet to re-lease a statement regard-ing his decision.

His failure to fulfill hisobligation would be a vio-lation of canon law, ac-cording to Kincl.

Canon law of the Catho-lic Church is the system oflaws and legal principlesmade and enforced by thehierarchical authorities ofthe church to regulate itsexternal organization andgovernment and to orderand direct the activities ofCatholics toward the mis-sion of the church.

Kincl said Tamayo is vi-olating Canon 1294.2 of theCode of Canon Law, whichstates, “money receivedfrom the alienation is ei-ther to be invested careful-ly for the advantage of thechurch or to be expendedprudently according to thepurposes of the alien-ation.”

Alienation is the actionof taking money from anaccount or fund, accordingto Kincl.

“In not fulfilling hispart of the contract, whatTamayo has done is forcedthe brothers to alienate$200,000 from their bankaccount, which could havebeen used for other wor-thy projects” Kincl said.“In essence, what he hasdone is stolen $200,000from them. That is just aterrible act of injustice onthe part of Tamayo.”

Laredo tiesIn 1993, Kincl worked as

commander in charge ofclergy at the U.S. Navy. Heretired from the Navy in1995, after more than 25years of service.

Kincl said he receivedhis canon law degree in1997.

When the diocese wasfirst formed in Laredo in2000, Kincl said Tamayodid not have any canonlawyers.

At the time, Kincl was amember of the Diocese ofAustin.

“He called my bishop,Bishop Gregory Aymond,and asked if I could comedown once a month to re-view all the canon lawcases,” Kincl said.

Tamayo appointed Kincljudicial vicar for the Dio-cese of Laredo.

“I would drive down,spend a week in Laredoand then drive back everymonth to review thecases,” Kincl said. “Iworked with the tribunal,in peace, for the next fiveyears.”

According to Kincl, allthat ended once the dio-cese hired its new chief fi-nancial officer.

Kincl described his de-parture from the Dioceseof Laredo as a mutual de-cision between him andTamayo.

“I started filing com-plaints against the newCFO and thought, ‘it’stime for me to get out ofhere,’” he said. “Aroundthe same time, Tamayocalled me and told methey would no longer needme.”

Kincl said although hisexperience in Laredo didnot end well, he keeps upwith a lot of people in thecommunity.

Student centerbeginnings

The Brothers of St.John, along with Tamayo,started to build upon theidea of the project in 2006.

In October 2012, theBrothers of St. John told

LMT it had raised $2.3million, or half the fundsneeded to build a churchand campus ministry cen-ter.

Among the original fea-tures of the project were achapel that seats 300 peo-ple, a five-stories-tall belltower, a student lounge, adormitory for eight stu-dent residents and a stu-dent-run café.

The agreement betweenthe brothers and the dio-cese stated the brotherswould be in charge of theministry and then con-veyed to the diocese fiveyears after the completionof construction, with thebrothers continuing tooversee and implementcampus ministry on along-term basis.

What excited Scheergermost about the CatholicStudent Center is the in-frastructure it would pro-vide Laredo for the next200 to 300 years.

A groundbreaking cere-mony was held in fall2013. Tamayo was not inattendance.

On the eve of construc-tion, Tamayo, for reasonsunknown, stopped the pro-ject.

Currently, the money forthe project is being held ina quasi-endowment fund,according to Keck, whostated it “will be able togrow and perhaps sustainlimited student scholar-ships or programming.”

Kincl said if, for anyreason, Tamayo were totap into the quasi-endow-ment fund and use themoney for any other pur-pose, he would be violat-ing another canon law.

Specifically, it would bein violation of Canon1267.3, which states, “Of-ferings given by the faith-ful for a certain purposecan be applied only forthat same purpose.”

What can be done?Several donors and sup-

porters of the project haveprovided their stance onits inexplicable halt. Oth-ers have refused to com-

ment publicly one way orthe other.

If Tamayo continuesdown this path, the onlyrecourse Kincl suggestedis canonical action beingtaken against him.

Kincl put forward thename of Robert Flummer-felt, a Las Vegas-basedcanon lawyer whom helauded as “the best in theUnited States.”

“The president of theuniversity or one of thedonors could easily con-sult with Robert Flummer-felt and give him the de-tails of the case,” he said.

Kincl also mentionedthe St. Joseph’s Founda-tion, a group of canon law-yers that will go to bat forlay people.

“They are not on thegood side of most bishops,but I applaud their work,”Kincl said. “The founda-tion was formed to helppeople who are not prieststo address issues of cor-ruption by their bishops.They will take a case toRome against the bishop.”

The case would then betaken to the Apostolic Sig-natura, the supreme courtof the Catholic Churchbased in Rome.

“They could easily comedown really hard on Ta-mayo for alienating theproperty of the Brothers ofSt. John,” Kincl said.

Kincl speculated so faras to say there is potentialfor Tamayo’s removal asbishop of the Diocese ofLaredo.

Kincl said the old days,in which a bishop or apastor could say anythingand it be accepted, aregone.

“That’s not the case any-more,” he said. “If youcan’t preach the gospeland be a kind and goodbishop, then you need toleave. Tamayo has shownthat he simply doesn’tcare. This kind of stuff hasbeen going on far too longin the Catholic Churchand it has got to stop, andI think Pope Francisknows this.”

(Philip Balli may bereached at 728-2528 orpballi@lmtonline.com)

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trition Service said, manyplaces no longer qualifyfor time limit waivers.

Dorothy Rosenbaum, afood policy expert at theCenter on Budget andPolicy Priorities, said peo-ple could be particularlyhard hit in Southern andSoutheastern states in-cluding Arkansas, Floridaand Mississippi. In manystates, she said, the timelimits took effect in Janu-ary, and the first peoplewill be cut off this month.

Ellen M. Vollinger, legaldirector of the Food Re-search and Action Center,an advocacy group, notedthat the poet T.S. Eliothad described April as“the cruelest month,” andfor people losing SNAPbenefits, she said, that de-scription is appropriate.

“Many thousands ofjobless adults without de-pendents will lose alltheir SNAP benefits eventhough they are seekingwork,” she said.

The people at risk oflosing food aid are 18 to49 years old. Peopleyounger than 18 or olderthan 49, pregnant womenand people who are med-ically certified as “unfitfor employment,” becauseof a disability, are gener-ally exempt from the timelimits.

In 2016, Rosenbaumsaid, the three-monthtime limit will be in effectin areas with about 65percent of the U.S. popula-tion while the rest of thecountry can qualify forwaivers because of highand persistent unemploy-ment, and officials inthose states have request-ed a continuation of thewaivers.

By contrast, Rosen-baum said, the 2015 timelimits were in effect in ar-eas with about 30 percentof the country’s popula-tion.

The Labor Departmentreported Friday that thenational unemploymentrate was 5 percent, half ofwhat it was in late 2009.

“Although the overalljobless rate has beenslowly falling,” Rosen-

baum said, “other labormarket data indicate thatmany people who want towork still cannot findjobs. Cutting off food as-sistance does not enablethem to find employmentor secure more hours ofwork.”

People likely to losebenefits because of thetime limit have monthlyincomes averaging from$150 to $170 a person, or17 percent of the officialpoverty level for individu-als, Rosenbaum said.

Congressional aidesand food policy expertssaid they saw no immedi-ate prospect that Con-gress would step in to ex-tend any relief. In anyevent, states have discre-tion over whether to seeka waiver of the time lim-its, and some have chosennot to do so, even thoughthey could qualify.

Concannon, the federalofficial, said it was un-wise for states to reim-pose time limits in placeswhere adults seekingwork could not find jobsbecause of economic con-ditions.

More than 1 millionpeople received assistancelast year in an employ-ment and training pro-gram for SNAP recip-ients. But some states re-turned federal money tothe government, and 21states did not use any ofthe federal funds thatwere available to them inthe program, federal offi-cials said.

In a recent notice tochildless adults subject tothe time limits, the Oba-ma administration said,“To keep getting SNAPbenefits, you must workhalftime or do 80 hoursper month of educationalor training activities.”

Participation in theSNAP program morethan doubled from 2003 to2012. In December, 45.2million people were re-ceiving SNAP benefits.The number has fallen by2.6 million since reachinga peak in December 2012.

(The Zapata Times con-tributed to this report.)

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WASHINGTON — TheU.S. Justice Department isexpected to sue this weekto stop Halliburton Co.from acquiring rival BakerHughes Inc., according toa person familiar with thematter.

The person spoke oncondition of anonymityTuesday because the law-suit had not yet been an-nounced.

Representatives of Halli-burton and Baker Hughesdeclined to comment.

The $35 billion dealwould combine two of theworld’s three leading pro-viders of oilfield servicesto oil and gas companiesand create a bigger rival tothe industry leader,Schlumberger Ltd.

Halliburton and BakerHughes announced theirplan to combine in Novem-ber 2014, shortly after oilprices began to fall. Few,however, predicted thedepth and duration of low-er prices caused by a glob-al oversupply of oil.

The glut has slowed de-mand for drilling servicesand crushed the stockprice of both companies.

The Justice Department

indicated its concernabout the acquisition in alawsuit that it filed Mon-day against ValueAct Cap-ital, a hedge fund that hadbought more than $2.5 bil-lion in stock of Hallibur-ton and Baker Hughes.

The department said inthe lawsuit that a Hallibur-ton-Baker Hughes merger“threatens to substantiallylessen competition in nu-merous markets.”

Some investors havequestioned the deal for dif-ferent reasons.

“The timing of the dealwas not ideal and manyshareholders have ques-tioned the richness of the$19 per share cash compo-nent” and a long processto combine the two compa-nies, Evercore analystJames C. West said in anote to clients.

Low oil prices have ledoil and gas companies toseek price concessionsfrom the services compa-nies, which in turn havecut jobs. When Hallibur-ton completes layoffs an-nounced in February itwill have eliminated about26,000 jobs since its work-force peaked above 80,000in 2014.

Halliburton shares rose40 cents to close at $34.40.

In a Nov. 18, 2014 file photo, Halliburton Chairman, Presidentand CEO David Lesar rings the New York Stock Exchange bell.

Photo by Richard Drew | AP file

US expected tosue Halliburton

By ERIC TUCKER AND DAVID KOENIGASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — Ford MotorCo. plans to build a new $1.6billion auto assembly plantin Mexico, creating about2,800 jobs and shifting small-car production from the U.S.at a time when moving jobssouth of the border has be-come a major issue in theU.S. presidential campaign.

The company announcedthe plant in the San LuisPotosi state Tuesday with-out saying specifically whatcars it will build there. Butthe United Auto Workersunion has said Ford plansto shift production of the Fo-cus compact and C-Maxsmall gas-electric hybridfrom suburban Detroit toMexico, where the cars canbe made at lower cost andmore profitably.

The UAW’s new four-yearcontract with Ford, signedlast year, guarantees newvehicles for the Wayne, Mi-chigan, assembly plant anda $700 million investmentthat preserves the plant’s3,924 jobs. Union membershave said they expect thefactory to get a new versionof the Ranger small pickupand a new small SUV calledthe Bronco.

The announcement cameon the day of the key Wis-consin primary and drew astrong response from Re-publican front-runner Do-nald Trump, who calledFord’s move “an absolutedisgrace.” Trump has railedabout corporate Americamoving jobs to Mexico totake advantage of what hecalls a lopsided trade deal

and has vowed to rewritethe 1994 North AmericanFree Trade Agreement, taximports and punish U.S.companies including Ford.

Trump said in a state-ment that transactions likeFord’s will not happen whenhe is president. “Cheapgoods are not cheap whenyou consider the cost of low-er wages and higher unem-ployment,” he said, addingthat he would enforce traderules and reduce the incen-tive for companies to sendbusiness elsewhere.

In response, Ford high-lighted its investments inthe U.S., saying that thecompany spends more than80 percent of its capital inthe U.S. and has committedto spending another $8 bil-lion to $9 billion in the nextfour years.

“Since 2011 we’ve invest-ed over $10 billion in our fa-cilities. We’ve hired over25,000 people” in the U.S.,CEO Mark Fields said lastmonth at the New York autoshow.

Auto and other manufac-turing jobs having beenmoving south for years.Mexican auto productionmore than doubled in the

past decade, and the consult-ing firm IHS Automotive ex-pects it to rise another 50percent to just under 5 mil-lion vehicles by 2022. U.S.production is expected to in-crease only 3 percent, to 12.2million vehicles, in the next7 years.

Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s pres-ident of the Americas, saidFord is a global companythat builds cars where itmakes the most financialsense. He confirmed newplant would build small carsstarting in 2018. “We’ve talk-ed about improving oursmall-car profitability andthis is an important part ofthat,” he said Tuesday in aninterview with The Associ-ated Press.

Under the new UAW con-tract, Ford factory workersget about $60 per hour inwages and benefits, whileauto workers in Mexico av-erage about $8 per hour, ac-cording to the Center forAutomotive Research, a Mi-chigan industry think tank.

Trump began criticizingFord last summer after thecompany said it planned toinvest $2.5 billion in engineand transmission plants inMexico. Hinrichs said the

timing of Tuesday’s an-nouncement had nothing todo with the presidentialrace.

Trump hasn’t only target-ed Ford. He has, for exam-ple, pledged to give up Oreosafter Nabisco’s parent, Mon-delez International, said itwould shift production fromChicago to Mexico.

Other candidates havecriticized trade deals suchas NAFTA, but Trump hasgone further. He’s threat-ened to slap a 45 percent tar-iff on Chinese imports, andpledged to tax auto partsand other equipment madein Mexico.

The U.S. has long been anopen economy, and specifictrade deals like NAFTAhave not had a major effecton jobs, economists say. Thehuge wage gap between theU.S. and developing coun-tries and the increasing useof machines to replaceworkers have had a far big-ger impact.

Most of the cars built atFord’s new Mexican plantwould be sold in NorthAmerica, with the bulk be-ing exported to the U.S., theregion’s largest market.

The decision was criti-cized by the UAW.

“Companies continue torun to low-wage countriesand import back into theUnited States. This is a bro-ken system that needs to befixed,” union President Den-nis Williams said in a state-ment.

While Trump has singledout Ford, nearly all otherautomakers have Mexicanassembly plants includingGeneral Motors.

Ford to build Mexico plantBy TOM KRISHER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, the Ford logo shines on the frontgrille of a 2014 Ford F-150, on display at a dealership in Hialeah, Fla.

Photo by Alan Diaz | AP file

NEW YORK — U.S.stocks fell for a second dayon Tuesday, as the head ofthe International MonetaryFund sounded downbeat onthe outlook for the worldeconomy.

Disney fell after the com-pany’s expected successorto CEO Bob Iger an-nounced he was leaving thecompany. Allergan plungedafter the Treasury Depart-ment announced tax rulesthat would make its mergerwith Pfizer more difficult.

The Dow Jones industri-al average fell 133.68 points,or 0.8 percent, to 17,603.32.The Standard & Poor’s 500index lost 20.96 points, or 1percent, to 2,045.17 and theNasdaq composite fell 47.86points, or 1 percent, to4,843.93.

Stocks opened lower andremained down all day. In-vestors moved into tradi-tional areas of safety, in-cluding gold and U.S. gov-ernment bonds. Themarket is coming off a mul-

ti-week rally that erasednearly all of its losses fromearlier in the year.

The yield on the 10-yearTreasury note fell to 1.72percent from 1.76 percent.Gold rose $10.30 to $1,229.60an ounce.

After last month’s bigrally, investors are waitingto see how quarterly re-sults from companies comein. Earnings season startsnext week with Alcoa, thealuminum company, aswell as the big banks likeJPMorgan Chase.

“The market has beenexpected this quarter’searnings to be lousy so ifearnings come in betterthan expected, it might pro-vide some support to themarket,” said Scott Wren,senior global equity strate-gist at the Wells Fargo In-vestment Institute.

Christine Lagarde, thehead of the IMF, warned ina speech that “the recoveryremains too slow, too frag-ile.” She said the worldeconomy isn’t in a crisisbut that slow growth risksbecoming ingrained as a

“new mediocre.” She notedthe outlook for the next sixmonths has weakened, sug-gesting the IMF may be re-vising its forecasts lower.

Lagarde’s commentshelped cause European andAsian markets to closebroadly lower. Japan’sbenchmark Nikkei 225 in-dex lost 2.4 percent, hithard by a rise in the yen.South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.8percent and Hong Kong’sHang Seng sank 1.6 per-cent. In Europe, Germany’sDAX fell 2.6 percent,France’s CAC-40 fell 2.2 per-cent and the U.K.’s FTSE100 fell 1.2 percent.

Among individual com-panies, Allergan fell $41, or15 percent, to $236.55. TheU.S. Treasury Departmentannounced new tax rules todiscourage what are knownas corporate inversions,which is when a U.S. com-pany mergers with a for-eign company for tax pur-poses. Allergan was cur-rently in the process ofdoing an inversion withU.S. drug giant Pfizer.Shares of Pfizer rose 64

cents, or 2.1 percent, to$31.36.

Disney fell $1.68, or 1.7percent, to $97. The mediagiant said late Monday thatTom Staggs, the heir appar-ent to the company’s cur-rent CEO, would depart. Ig-er said he plans to retire in2018.

Benchmark U.S. crudeedged up 19 cents to closeat $35.89 a barrel on theNew York Mercantile Ex-change. Brent crude, usedto price international oils,rose 18 cents to close at$37.87 a barrel in London.

The euro inched down to$1.1385 from $1.1397, whilethe dollar fell to 110.49 yenfrom 111.26 yen.

In other energy com-modities, heating oil fell 1cent to $1.075 a gallon,wholesale gasoline was un-changed at $1.378 a gallonand natural gas fell 4 centsto $1.954 per thousand cu-bic feet.

In other metals trading,silver rose 17 cents to $15.12an ounce and copper fellless than 1 cent to $2.138 apound.

Stocks end low, Disney slumpsBy KEN SWEET

ASSOCIATED PRESS

12A THE ZAPATA TIMES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016