Dos Mundos Newspaper V31I18

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Volume 31• Issue 18• May 05 - May 11, 2011

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Entretenimiento •Entertainment

Farándula

Comunidad •Community

Camila ¿Se separa?

Feliz

Cirque Du Soleil

Festejos del Día del Niño

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KC se prepara para la KC prepares for fiesta hispana Hispanic holiday

Millones de personas se preparan para celebrar el Cinco de Mayo. Muchos piensan erróneamente que el Cinco de Mayo (Mayo 5) es el Día de la Independencia Mexicana; cuando en realidad, se conmemora la victoria de México sobre Francia en la Batalla de Puebla. Comandados por el Gen. PÁGINA 2A>

By Lilia Garcia Jimenez

illions of people are getting ready to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. M Many people mistakenly think Cinco de

Mayo (May 5) is Mexican Independence Day. Actually, it commemorates Mexico’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla. Led by Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, more than 4,000 Mexican soldiers defeated 6,500 French troops. The victory led to the end of France’s invasion of Mexico. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has become a day for Latinos to gather to party, PAGE 2A>

Happy Cinco de Mayo

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Celebra�do a nuestras Madres Maria Chaurand with his mother Teresa. (Photo by Gabriel Martinez)

Bin Laden está muerto

l domingo (1 de mayo), un equipo especial SEAL de la Naval en Paquistán dirigido por la CIA mató a Osama bin Laden, líder del grupo terrorista al Qaeda. Bin Laden, quien supuestamente planeó los ataques terrorista del 11 de Sept. del 2001, a la costa este, fue muerto en un pequeño vecindario cerca de Islamabad, la capital paquistaní. Obama anunció su muerte en cadena nacional PÁGINA 10B>

Honoring our mothers Latinas and their remarkable moms By Edie R. Lambert

Mothers are their daughters’ role model, “ their biological and emotional roadmap, the arbiter of all their relationships,” observed author Victoria Secunda. In this Mother’s Day edition, Dos Mundos invitedsomeLatinastocelebratetheirrolemodels. The following are their tributes:

Maria Teresa Medina Chaurand (restaurateur, dancer, choreographer) and her mother, Teresa Garcia Medina The family matriarch of the Medina clan and patron to countless nieces and nephews has seeded family fidelity, faith, courage, industry and charity for nearly 10 decades. On March 15, Medina turned 88, but her appearance and bearing belie that, reported her namesake, daughter Maria Chaurand. “She loves to dance. And she’s so strong. She’s been dealing with diabetes for five or six years now. I know she’s in pain sometimes, but she Las madres son el ejemplo de sus hijas, su ruta biológica y never complains,” Chaurand said. emocional, el árbitro de todas sus relaciones”, observó la autora Born and raised in Kansas City, Mo., Medina Victoria Secunda. met Agustin, her future husband while visiting En esta edición del Día de las Madres, Dos Mundos invitó a algunas relatives in Mexico and married at age 27. She worked as a supervisor for a local candle comlatinas para celebrar a sus ejemplos.

Las latinas y sus mamás extraordinarias

Los siguientes son sus tributos:

Al Qaeda leader falls: Bin Laden is dead By Lilia Garcia Jimenez

n Sunday (May 1), a Navy SEALS team in Pakistan led by the CIA killed Osama O bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist group al

Qaeda. Bin Laden, who allegedly planned the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the East Coast, was killed in a small neighborhood near Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Obama announced bin Laden’s death on national television after supervising the operation. According to the White House, the operation took more than eight months of planning, but lasted for about 40 minutes when conducted. In a press release, the White House explained the CIA had located where bin Laden was hiding in August 2010, via a courier it was tracking. However, it wasn’t until April 29 that U.S. President Barack O b a m a authorized SEAL Team 6, led by CIA Director Leon Panetta, to act. The operation started when helicopters flew over the compound where bin Laden was hiding. Navy SEALS repelled down on ropes and entered the house in the compound where bin Laden was located. Several people started firing at them. Eventually, they found bin Laden, who was

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n conocido activista del área de Kansas City fue honrado el sábado (30 de abril) con el Camacho receives community premio “Sí Se Puede” de la Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos (LULAC) Kansas, por service award su servicio a la comunidad desde hace mucho By Edie R. Lambert tiempo. Florentino “Tino” Camacho Jr. recibió el well-known Kansas City area activist reconocimiento durante una ceremonia en la was honored Saturday (April 30) with convención estatal de LULAC, realizada en la a League of United Latin American Citizens Universidad Estatal de Kansas en el salón Flint (LULAC) Kansas “Si Se Puede Award” for his Hills de la unión estudiantil. longstanding community service. “Es un gran honor”, comentó Camacho, quien Florentino “Tino” Camacho Jr. will received fue notificado a través de una carta de Elías García, the award during a ceremony at the LULAC Director Estatal de LULAC. state convention at the Kansas State University El activista en derechos civiles y líder laboral in the student union’s Flint Hills Room. César Chávez acuñó la frase “Sí se puede” “It’s a great honor,” said Camacho, who was durante los 1970s como un grito de protesta para notified via correspondence from Elias Garcia, el movimiento de los derechos de los trabajadores LULAC state director. del campo. En honor a la defensa de los derechos Labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar civiles y sociales de Chávez, las divisiones Chavez coined the phrase “si se puede” (“yes, estatales de LULAC establecieron los premios “Sí

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Tino Camacho addresses the audience at Kansas State University.


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