Topic: Honduras | VivirLatino http://vivirlatino.com/ US Latino life in blog form. en Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:27:39 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Texas Executes Another Latino 48 Hours Later Amid international outrage and diplomatic pressure, the state of Texas has put to death yet another undocumented immigrant who was allegedly denied his right to see consular officials after arrest.

Earlier this week Mexican national José Medellín was executed, and last night Honduran national Heliberto Chi was put to death at Huntsville Prison. Al Jazeera reports:

Heliberto Chi, 29, was pronounced dead at 23:25 GMT after receiving a lethal injection at a death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas department of criminal justice said in a statement on Thursday.

The execution took place after the US Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.

Chi, who was living in the US illegally, shot his former boss dead and wounded a colleague in 2001 during a robbery in the Texan city of Dallas.

The New York Times reports that Chi's last words were “God forgive them, receive my spirit.”

Via / Al Jazeera

]]> http://vivirlatino.com/2008/08/08/texas-executes-another-latino-48-hours-later.php http://vivirlatino.com/2008/08/08/texas-executes-another-latino-48-hours-later.php Justice Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:27:39 -0500 Mother's Day at the Border 311xInlineGallery.jpgFlowers, chocolates, cards, perfume. These are the most common mother's day gifts. Along the U.S. Mexico border, all some mothers and daughters wanted was to hug each other.
You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca's immigration lawyer advised her, but don't put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said.....

The Menchacas, who drove from Phoenix, are among those who gather here annually on Mexico's Mother's Day along the kinder portion of an otherwise unforgiving border that separates the United States and Mexico....

"We're hoping that by next year, they have their immigration papers," she said, clutching a family photo album, as her grandchildren gathered daisies for her and pushed them through the fence.

This is the human aspect of the boder debate that the pundits want to gloss over. Too many want people to look at this as strictly an issue of laws and numbers, not people, faces, women, children, and their families and how they are separated by borders and laws.

]]> http://vivirlatino.com/2008/05/12/mothers-day-at-the-border.php http://vivirlatino.com/2008/05/12/mothers-day-at-the-border.php Mexico Mon, 12 May 2008 09:57:14 -0500 Felix Killed At Least 40 felix.jpgHurricane Felix has taken as least 40 lives in Central America and many more people are still unaccounted for. Especially hard hit is the Nicaraguan indigenous community, the Miskitos, many who had to be rescued.

Story and Image Via / Yahoo! News

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Via / Yahoo! News

]]> http://vivirlatino.com/2007/09/05/felix-does-central-america.php http://vivirlatino.com/2007/09/05/felix-does-central-america.php Nicaragua Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:59:54 -0500