Commentary:
Timely Demise for Free Trade Area of the Americas
By Laura Carlsen
The stage was set for a showdown. When the Bush cabinet announced intentions to revive the moribund Free Trade Area of the Americas at the Fourth Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, the countries of the Southern Common Market closed ranks to prevent it. What followed was a diplomatic melee that reflects not so much divisions within Latin America, as a growing resistance to the current free trade model throughout the developing world.

Comentario:
El Plan Bush: Inmigración Bajo Control
Por Manuel R. Villacorta O.
En todo el mundo se han incrementado las migraciones humanas, factores como las guerras, falta de empleo o hambrunas, empujan a millones de seres humanos a dejar sus países para preservar la sobrevivencia. Hay naciones que por sus condiciones son promotoras de inmigración, mientras otras se constituyen en receptoras. Estados Unidos se incluye dentro de estas últimas.

Commentary:
Higher Education: Heading for Obesity?
by Neal McCluskey
American higher education is getting dangerously fat. Unfortunately, the federal govern-ment’s idea of a diet is to feed colleges more and cut back on their exercise.

Commentary:
Alito’s Dirty Secrets
By: David Bauer
After the Harriet Miers nomination debacle, President Bush realized his decision to look outside the “system” was a mistake, and a big one. Miers had been nominated because she had shown party loyalty and had no previous record to attack. She also showed a glaring lack of experience, which led to her demise. To avoid the same problem, President Bush tried the exact opposite strategy. He nominated Samuel A. Alito Jr., a justice with a long history of judicial rulings. The President is finding that an experienced nominee can be difficult to defend as well.

The Public Forum . . . El Foro Público
What is the true sense of Christmas?
A favorite season for many has arrived. It is almost Christmas, the time of the year where I was told as a child is a good opportunity to rejoice, make wishes, forgive and give. It just seems to me that the giving part has been misinterpreted by all of us and used well by the huge retail industries’ publicity campaigns. People seem more anxious and desperate for lining up every morning after Thanksgiving Day to get the best “deals” in town. I have heard calling this need of buying, a tradition. This “tradition” has become one of the most important things to do for many people around the country. Buying, exchanging presents, and expecting a gift as a symbol of Christmas.

TEZOZOMOC SPEAKS:
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in history. Billions of dollars were donated as well as material goods to assist the citizens impacted by the hurricane. La Gente came together to support the relief effort. Well almost all. Assemblyman Juan Vargas, however, saw the distress as a political opportunity. According to the Barrio chisme, first, he paid Weldon Donaldson, a media consultant, $25,000 to promote his Katrina relief project. Then Vargas paid another $25,000 to advertise his Humanitarian efforts on local television. What a Guy!!!

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Entertainment, Reviews, Sporting news, and other tid bits

Guillermo Gómez Peña: Cultural Exchange As Political Praxis At Sushi Performance and Visual Art
By Michael Klam
Critical artist and radical pedagogue, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, comes home to San Diego’s Sushi Performance and Visual Art for two nights only, Dec. 2nd and 3rd, at Saint Cecilia’s Playhouse.

Bulbo: De un programa de televisión a un proyecto de transmisión multimedia… y apenas van comenzando
Por Luis Alonso Pérez
Para el equipo Galatea audio/visual, el 2005 ha sido un año muy importante, ya que han logrado llevar su proyecto Bulbo más allá de los medios tradicionales como radio, prensa o televisión, y crear su propio espacio de transmisión por Internet, sin alejarse del objetivo inicial: reflejar la realidad cotidiana de los habitantes de esta compleja región fronteriza.

Desk jockeys
By Al Carlos Hernandez
I think I may have found the key to happiness. Lower your goals so they are easier to attain. Hang on to what you got, until you get what you want, stop all that sniveling, everyone is smarter than their boss.

Local film screened at a New York festival premiers in North County
Por Martha Sarabia
What started as a project to transform a story into a play for a local event celebrating the Day of the Dead turned into a film that could not only be shown locally but that was also selected to participate in the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.

Filme local proyectado en festival neoyorquino se presenta al norte del condado
Por Martha Sarabia
Lo que empezó como un proyecto para transformar un cuento en una obra de teatro para un evento local de día de los muertos terminó convirtiéndose en una película que no solamente se puede presentar localmente pero que también fue aceptada para participar en el Festival Internacional Neoyorquino de Filmes y Videos Independientes.

VAMOS AL CINE
Tengo planes hasta el 2009
Usher defiende su participación en la película “In the Mix”
Por Jose Daniel Bort
Los ejecutivos de más de veinte compañías de música se reunieron este año en Los Ángeles para hablar sobre los próximos talentos en el panorama de la industria. Prácticamente la mayoría coincidieron en dos nombres, como los más atractivos en este momento: Alicia Keys y Usher.

Media Arts Center San Diego Announces Call For Entries for 13th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (March 9-19, 2006)
Media Arts Center San Diego’s prestigious and internationally recognized San Diego Latino Film Festival, soars into 2006 with an impressive and exhilarating schedule of activities, special events and initiatives. The 13th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) is now accepting entries for the 2006 festival. SDLFF will take place March 9-19, 2006 at the UltraStar Theaters Mission Valley at Hazard Center located in beautiful San Diego, California.

RAZA SPOKEN HERE
Calaca Press, the Red CalacArts Collective and Chicano Perk presents the poetry of Ariel Robello and Angela Cervantes plus the Red CalacArts Collective’s own Sara Durán Garibay, Saturday Dec 3, 2005 at 7:00pm., Chicano Perk, 129 25th St. San Diego. The event is Free!

Holiday Calendar of Events

Teatro Máscara Mágica’s Delightful Nativity Play, La Pastorela Noel, Lights Up Globe’s Cassius Carter State
The Old Globe present’s Teatro Máscara Mágica’s acclaimed production of La Pastorela Noel by Max Branscomb, directed by William Virchis, playing in the Cassius Carter Centre Stage December 6 – 23.

Balboa Park December Nights’ 28 Years of Holiday Magic
Balboa Park December Nights, San Diego’s favorite kick-off to the holiday season, will take place for the 28th consecutive year on Friday, December 2, 5:00-10:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 3, noon-10:00 p.m. In the spirit of the holidays, participating Balboa Park museums open their doors free of charge from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. both evenings.

EL MUNDO
On Friday, December 9, at 8 p.m. the San Diego Early Music Society will present El Mundo: “Villancicos y Cantadas de Navidad” Christmas in Old Spain and Latin America

Canasta de Cuentos de Navidad con Ursula Tania en el Balboa Park
Por: Paco Zavala
Las convergentes corrientes artísticas que se gestan en Tijuana, ciudad de multiples contrastes ideológicos, políticos, religiosos, económicos, sociales, artísticos y culturales, día con día que transcurre en este contorno de tierras mexicanas, se vislumbran nuevos horizontes firmemente vinculados con la afición por las bellas artes y la cultura.

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Patience Pays Off for Sacred Heart’s Arciaga
By John Philip Wyllie
Following his record-setting high school career as a quarterback, 2001 Bonita Vista graduate Tyler Arciaga, anticipated fulfilling his dream of competing on the collegiate level as a scholarship athlete at UNLV. It didn’t happen. Arciaga earned his scholarship to the Las Vegas University, but found himself buried for three and a half years in the Runnin’ Rebels depth chart. He was literally left holding the clipboard as he watched other players get the opportunity that he craved. Most players would have given up after several consecutive years of frustration, but not Arciaga.

Smith Carrying on a Family Tradition at Eastlake
By John Philip Wyllie
As the younger sister to two former Eastlake High School soccer stars, a lot was expected from forward Andrea Smith when she arrived on the Titans South Bay campus two years ago. Smith, the daughter of Mexican-born parents, has more than lived up to those lofty expectations.

Bullfight World
By Lyn Sherwood
Monumental Scandal Involves Empresario of La Plaza Mexico
Perhaps, the biggest financial scandal in Mexican bullfight history has rocked the planet of the bulls in Mexico.

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