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Students learn life skills Financial literacy taught with Minitropolis program S P ECIAL T O T HE T I ME S

Students at Villarrealville, a small city inside Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary, celebrated the grand opening of their Minitropolis program with a ribbon-cutting event on Friday. IBC BankZapata Chairman of the Board Renato Ramirez, and IBC Bank-Zapata CEO and President Ricardo Ramirez conducted the official ribbon cutting.

The Minitropolis program allowed students to see how a community works together for

the good of its citizens.

Through the program, the children at all grade levels held a variety of real world positions, depending on their individual interests and passions.

They also performed various adult responsibilities, such as writing checks, making deposits and withdrawing money.

Villarrealville had a fictitious bank, where citizens had a chance to earn “Hawk Bucks” for good behavior during school, and learned how to manage it.

“Financial literacy and real-

world job experience are essential to the growth of schoolaged children seeking lessons in personal and professional responsibility,” Ricardo said.

“We’re proud to join forces with Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary as our first Minitropolis launch. The goal is to build up our financial literacy initiatives so that we can provide a Minitropolis to every elementary in Zapata and around Brush Country. Financial literacy lessons to school-aged children lay the foundation for a bright future.”

IBC Bank, Zapata County Sheriff’s Department, Zapata County Independent School District administrators, Zapata County Chamber of Commerce, along with the U.S. Postal Service and RSL Recycling Center, were also present to commemorate the occasion.

About IBC Bank IBC Bank–Zapata is a member of International Bancshares Corporation (NASDAQ: IBOC), a $12.2 billion multi-bank financial holding company headStudents continues on A5

SAN YGNACIO, TEXAS

SMALL TOWN CELEBRATES HIGHWAY EXPANSION

BP agent saves life Performed CPR in urgent case SPECIAL TO THE TIME S

LAREDO — On Thursday, a Border Patrol agent from the Zapata Station rendered aid to a Zapata resident who was in need of immediate medical attention.

The agent, a certified Emergency Medical Technician, responded to assist the Zapata County Fire Department and provided Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation chest compression efforts on the local resident. The critical CPR efforts Agent continues on A5

STATE

Texas jobless rate improves Number drops to historic low ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Julia Wallace / Laredo Morning Times

State Rep. Tracy King addresses an audience Thursday in San Ygnacio, Texas during a news conference to announcer the expansion of U.S. Highway 83

County officials mark expansion of major artery

By Julia Wallace LA R ED O MORNI NG T IME S

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AN YGNACIO — On Thursday morning heavy trucks groaned by the justice of the peace office in San Ygnacio, masking for a few seconds the voice of a young woman wearing an Astros shirt, who was singing the national anthem into a microphone.

But this traffic was the occasion for the celebration.

Residents of this small town, current and former Zapata County commissioners, a few Laredoans and Houstonians, TxDOT officials and Texas Rep. Tracy King all coalesced in rows of metal folding chairs to mark the exHighway continues on A5

Julia Wallace / Laredo Morning Times

Officials and residents of San Ygnacio, Texas held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly expanded U.S. Highway 83 on Thursday morning.

AUSTIN — The Texas unemployment rate fell for the sixth straight month with an October jobless figure of 3.9 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.

A TWC statement said it’s the lowest unemployment rate in four decades.

September unemployment for Texas was 4 percent. The nationwide jobless rate in October was 4.1 percent, the lowest in nearly 17 years.

Amarillo and Midland had the lowest unemployment rates in Texas last month at 2.4 percent. The Beaumont-Port Arthur area had the state’s highest jobless rate in October at 6. 3 percent, TWC officials said.

Hurricane Harvey slammed Texas on Aug. 25, leading to storms and heavy rain that swamped parts of Houston, Beaumont and Port Arthur.

The Texas economy added 71,500 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs in October. Annual employment growth for Texas was 2.6 percent in October, marking 90 consecutive months of annual growth, according to the TWC. “By adding an impressive 71,500 jobs over the past month and 316,100 jobs over the year, Texas employers have once again demonstrated their unmatched innovation and ability to achieve success in our country’s premier place to do business,” said Andres Alcantar, TWC chairman.

Leisure and hospitality employment rebounded by adding 34,700 jobs in October, after declines in September due to Harvey-affected business closures, the agency said.

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AROUND THE NATION

TODAY IN HISTORY

SATURDAY, NOV. 18

ASSOCIATED PRE SS

FamilySearch.org Workshop (Genealogy): Research your family history. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2017. There are 43 days left in the year.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. All ages. Free event.

Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 18, 1942, "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning allegory about the history of humankind, opened on Broadway.

Percy Jackson Book Club. To Discuss Sea of Monsters. 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Free Books While Supplies Last.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. All ages. Free event.

On this date:

Enriching your faith through scouting. 2 p.m. Mass at 6 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament Parish Hall, 2219 Galveston St. The Diocese of Laredo Catholic Committee on Scouting presents a mini retreat for all adult leaders and volunteers. The fee is $20. For information on how to register, contact Alexandra Manrique at amanrique@gsgst.org or Rodolfo Sanchez at san1a5s9b1@sbcglobal.net.

TUESDAY, NOV. 21

John Lovretta / Associated Press

Katrina Johnson becomes emotional at the South Lee County Courthouse in Keokuk, Iowa after the jury returned a guilty verdict for Jorge Sanders-Galvez in the death of her transgender child.

Knit with Us: Learn to Knit. For adults. Free and open to the public. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. For more information, call 956-795-2400, ext. 2403.

LEGO Night. 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Play with LEGOs and LEGO robotics. All ages. Free and open to the public.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22

TRANSGENDER KILLINGS RISE

By David Crary ASSOCIATED PRE SS

First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

Teen Volunteers Weekly Meeting. 6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Middle school and high school students can earn community hours.

THURSDAY, NOV. 23 Preschool Books & Boogie: Songs and crafts for toddlers. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Free event.

NEW YORK — At least 25 transgender people in the United States have been homicide victims so far this year, the highest annual total on record, according to advocacy groups that have been monitoring the grim phenomenon and seeking ways to reduce the toll.

The Human Rights Campaign, in a report released Friday, calculated that 102 transgender people have been killed in the U.S. over the past five years — including 25 this year.

Its report, jointly sponsored by the Trans People of Color Coalition, was issued ahead of Monday's annual Transgender Day of Remembrance observations, commemorating the hundreds of transgender people killed worldwide each year.

It said that 88 of the victims were transgender women, and that nearly all of them were black or Hispanic.

Nearly three-quarters were under age 35, including four minors. And 55 of the victims were killed in the South, including 16 of this year's victims.

SATURDAY, NOV. 25 FamilySearch.org Workshop (Genealogy): Research your family history. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. All ages. Free event.

TUESDAY, NOV. 28 A family night event. St. Patrick Church Men's Club bowling tournament fundraiser. 5:30 p.m.

Jett Bowl North for scholarships and other parish needs. $125 per team of five. Lane sponsorships are $500, $300, $200. Information call Dennis Eveland 286-2118 or Narciso Castro 740-2226.

Knit with Us: Learn to Knit. For adults. Free and open to the public. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. For more information, call 956-795-2400, ext. 2403.

LEGO Night. 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Play with LEGOs and LEGO robotics. All ages. Free and open to the public.

Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-México Boundary. 7:30 p.m. TAMIU Student Center Ballroom, 5201 University Blvd.

International Bank of Commerce Keynote Speaker Series presentation featuring Ronald Rael, author and associate professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

The event is free and open to the public.

The author will be available for book signing following the lecture.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

Teen Volunteers Weekly Meeting. 6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Middle school and high school students can earn community hours.

THURSDAY, NOV. 30 Preschool Books & Boogie: Songs and crafts for toddlers. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco. Free event.

Couple detained after hibiscus mistaken for pot SARVER, Pa. — A couple who say they were handcuffed for hours in a police patrol car after their hibiscus plants were confused for marijuana are suing the police and an insurance company.

Edward and Audrey Cramer say in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that a Nationwide Insurance Co. agent investigating a fallen tree at their Buffalo Township

home sent photos of their flowering plant to police. The lawsuit alleges that Buffalo Township police officers with assault rifles went to their home on Oct. 7 to investigate.

Audrey Cramer, 66, said she was partially dressed when she went to the door and police would not let her put on pants before she was handcuffed.

"I was not treated as though I was a human being," she said.

"I was just something they were going to push aside."

Edward Cramer, 69, said he returned home a half-hour later

to find his wife in the back of a police cruiser and officers pointing guns at him. He also was placed in the cruiser despite trying to convince the officers the plants were hibiscus, not marijuana.

"They actually ignored me," he said. "They wouldn't even listen. I said, 'I can show you pictures on the internet.'"

The Cramers eventually were released without charges. They are seeking monetary and compensatory damages and court costs.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE WORLD Argentine navy loses contact with submarine BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's Navy said Friday it has lost contact with a submarine carrying 44 crew members off the country's southern coast and has mounted an extensive search.

The Navy said that ships and aircraft were searching near the last known location of the ARA San Juan, a German-built diesel-electric vessel, which had not been heard from since Wednesday.

The Navy said it was scanning all possible radio transmission frequencies for a sign of the San Juan.

Adm. Gabriel Gonzalez, chief of the Mar del Plata base that was the submarine's destination, said the vessel had sufficient food and oxygen.

"We have a loss of communications; we are not talking of an emergency," he said.

Argentina Navy / NYT

Argentine military ships and aircraft are searching for the ARA San Juan submarine, which has been missing since Wednesday.

Balbi said the sub was headed from the naval base at Ushuaia in Argentina's extreme south to Mar del Plata.

He asked for patience while the search is carried out and said that the sub must surface so visual or radar contact can be made.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a statement that

the governments of Britain, Chile and the United States had offered "logistical help and an exchange of information for this humanitarian search."

The statement also said that Argentina is also working with authorities in neighboring countries in case it needs support to locate the submarine.

— Compiled from AP reports

In 1883, the United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones.

In 1886, the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New York.

In 1916, the World War I Battle of the Somme pitting British and French forces against German troops ended inconclusively after 4 1/2 months of bloodshed.

In 1928, Walt Disney's first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York.

In 1936, Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.

In 1959, "Ben-Hur," the Biblicalera spectacle starring Charlton Heston, had its world premiere in New York.

In 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, which did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent.

In 1976, Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

In 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.

In 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland, the American dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.

In 2000, actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were married in an extravagant wedding at The Plaza hotel in New York City.

Ten years ago: Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, a day after a visit by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte.

Five years ago: In the deadliest single attack in Israel's offensive against Islamic militants, 12 people were killed when an Israeli missile ripped through a two-story home in a residential area of Gaza City. Jus One year ago: President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp policy shift to the right by picking Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Brenda Vaccaro is 78. Author-poet Margaret Atwood is 78. Actress Linda Evans is 75. Actress Susan Sullivan is 75. Country singer Jacky Ward is 71. Actor Jameson Parker is 70. Actress-singer Andrea Marcovicci is 69. Rock musician Herman Rarebell is 68. Singer Graham Parker is 67. Actor Delroy Lindo is 65. Comedian Kevin Nealon is 64.

Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon is 61. Actor Oscar Nunez is 59. Actress Elizabeth Perkins is 57. Singer Kim Wilde is 57. Rock musician Kirk Hammett (Metallica) is 55. Rock singer Tim DeLaughter is 52. Actor Romany Malco is 49. Actor Owen Wilson is 49. Actor Dan Bakkedahl is 49.

Singer Duncan Sheik is 48. Actor Mike Epps is 47. Actress Peta Wilson is 47. Actress Chloe Sevigny is 43. Country singer Jessi Alexander is 41. Actor Steven Pasquale is 41.

Rock musician Alberto Bof (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 40. Rapper Fabolous is 40. Actordirector Nate Parker is 38. Rapper Mike Jones is 37. Actress Mekia Cox is 36. Actress-comedian Nasim Pedrad is 36. Actress Allison Tolman is 36. Actor Damon Wayans Jr. is 35. Country singer TJ Osborne (Brothers Osborne) is 33. Actor Nathan Kress is 25.

Thought for Today: "If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history." — Pierre Bayle (bayl), French philosopher and critic (born this date in 1647, died 1706).

SATURDAY, DEC. 2 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

AROUND TEXAS

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25.

Prison guard turnover nears 30 percent

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25.

HOUSTON — State data indicates many prison units in Texas are understaffed as the state struggles to retain prison guards, with a nearly 30 percent statewide turnover rate last year.

Data from the Texas State Auditor's Office show a 28 percent turnover rate in the state's roughly 26,000 officers

CONTACT US at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice last year.

The rate exceeded 40 percent in some places. The department had a 23 percent turnover rate a year earlier.

"A lot of these guys don't want to work in a prison," said Lance Lowry, a spokesman for the Texas Correctional Employees union. "There's other job opportunities opening up."

Some experts said officers are leaving for better-paying jobs in oil and gas.

Data show officer pay starts

at about $32,000 per year and plateaus at $43,000 after seven years.

To boost the workforce, the Criminal Justice Department started offering daily pre-employment tests, accelerated pay schedules for some workers, more part-time jobs and some job fairs.

The department has also begun offering $4,000 recruitment bonuses at 25 units particularly hard-hit by staffing issues.

— Compiled from AP reports

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STATE

Greg Abbott: White House disaster aid bill ‘inadequate’

By Will Weissert A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

AUSTIN — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday criticized as “completely inadequate” the Trump administration’s $44 billion request to Congress for disaster relief in his hurricaneravaged state and other areas hammered by storms. The White House shot back that Texas may want to foot more of the bill for its own recovery.

Abbott has lavished praise on the federal government since Hurricane Harvey killed more than 80 people, triggered historic flooding in Houston — the nation’s fourth largest city — and caused an estimated $180 billion in damage. On Friday, he refused to criticize President Donald Trump by name, but said his administration’s request “is completely inadequate for the needs

of the state of Texas, and I believe, does not live up to what the president wants to achieve.”

“The president has told me privately what he’s said publicly, and that is he wants to be the builder president,” Abbott said at a news conference inside his Texas Capitol office. “The president has said that he wants this to be the best recovery from a disaster ever.”

A short time later in Washington, however, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to contradict that, suggesting that Texas hasn’t put up enough of its own money for Harvey recovery.

“We feel strongly that they should step up and play a role and work with the federal government in this process,” Sanders said. “We did a thorough assessment and that was completed and this was

Ricardo B. Brazziell / Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speak on Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery efforts at FEMA headquarters in north Austin on Wednesday.

the number that we put forward to Congress today.”

The request is Trump’s third since hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria hit Texas, Florida and the Caribbean. If approved, it would bring the total appropriated for disaster relief this fall close to $100 billion — and that doesn’t include most of the money to rebuild Puerto Rico’s devastated housing stock and electric grid.

Abbott complained that Congress approved more funding, more quickly to areas affected

by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 “which was half the storm of what Hurricane Harvey was.”

“You can see that this falls short,” Abbott said.

“Hopefully, this is just one of multiple steps along the pathway.”

Abbott has visited Washington repeatedly in recent weeks, lobbying for $61 billion in disaster relief he says his state needs just for infrastructure — including ambitious projects meant to combat future floods. Not only is Friday’s request far less than that, but Texas will have to share

it — which didn’t sit so well with Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chamber’s powerful majority whip.

“It’s really time for the federal government to live up to its responsibilities,” Cornyn said at the same Austin news conference.

He recalled that Puerto Rico’s governor requested more than $90 billion, just for his island’s recovery.

“Just imagine, given the size and scope of our great state, extrapolate that,” Cornyn said.

“We’re not asking for

that. We are asking to be treated fairly. And we intend to fight for that.”

At the same event, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that $5 billion was being allocated to Texas in federal grants that will help meet the long term needs of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Harvey. But even that may be a relative drop in the bucket since Abbott has said that, ultimately, his state will likely seek more than $50 billion in federal housing funding alone.

Report: Texas juvenile lockup Bush unlikely to be prosecuted struggles with staffing despite women’s statements

A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

DALLAS — Juvenile justice advocates say operational and behavioral problems have persisted at a Texas lockup under state control for more than a decade.

Documents collected by the Dallas Morning News show the Gainesville State School for delinquent juveniles has been on the verge of crisis for more than a year.

“It’s a bad culture,” said Debbie Unruh, an independent watchdog assigned with ensuring juvenile safety in the state’s custody. “It’s a dangerous culture.”

Officials with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department said the troubles are largely due to their inability to hire and retain qualified staff to supervise hundreds of youth, many of whom have severe mental health and behavioral issues.

“The constant churning of staff presents significant operational challenges, and has a detrimental effect on youth outcomes,” said David Reilly, the department’s executive director. “TJJD is continually evaluating options within available resources to address these concerns.”

In monthly reports from August 2016 to Sep-

By Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Mona Reeder / Dallas Morning News / AP

State officials blame longstanding problems at Gainesville State School in North Texas on the inability to hire and retain qualified staff to supervise hundreds of juvenile delinquents, many of whom suffer from severe mental health and behavioral problems.

tember 2017, Unruh found the facility housed dozens more students than it had the capacity to monitor. The reports each month also documented how critical the staffing shortage was.

During that time, data show 160 employees at the facility either quit or were fired. The department reported that the staff turnover rate at Gainesville in 2017 has been nearly 40 percent, the highest of the state’s

five youth lockups.

Unruh said that the few staff members who do show up to work are often exhausted and less attentive due to overtime.

“If you’re not able to supervise these kids, they act up and they do things to each other,” she said. “That makes it a very unsafe environment.”

Lawmakers who were told this week about the facility’s troubles said that the department

should be investigated.

But youth advocates said the state can’t wait any longer to fix problems in the department.

“There needs to be an urgency among people who have the ability to change the system,” said Lindsey Linder, attorney at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. “You can’t say as a lawmaker that you care about public safety and not respond to a situation like this.”

HOUSTON — Allegations that former President George H.W. Bush inappropriately touched seven women involve potential crimes punishable by fines or jail time, if they had been prosecuted.

All but one of the cases is ineligible under state laws that limit when a prosecution can begin after an alleged crime, and several lawyers interviewed said that it would be difficult to win a conviction against Bush, who has vascular parkinsonism, a rare syndrome that mimics Parkinson's disease.

"You're still going to be facing prosecuting a 93-year-old man in a wheelchair that's a former president," said Toby Shook, a lawyer who previously served as a prosecutor in Dallas. "I doubt if you could ever find a jury that would ever want to convict him."

There's no indication prosecutors are planning to pursue a case against Bush. Jordana Grolnick, an actress who alleged

Pat Sullivan / AP

Another woman has stepped forward to accuse former President George H.W. Bush of inappropriately touching her. Roslyn Corrigan told Time magazine that she was 16 when Bush grabbed her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him in 2003 at a gathering of CIA officers north of Houston.

that Bush groped her behind last year as his wife, Barbara, stood nearby, told The Associated Press that she has no plans to report the 41st president to authorities. That appears to be the only incident that hasn't reached the local statute of limitations on how long a crime can be prosecuted after it ocBush continues on A5

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We’re with stupid

By Timothy Egan TH E N EW YORK T IME S

It would be much easier to sleep at night if you could believe that we’re in such a mess of misinformation simply because Russian agents disseminated inflammatory posts that reached 126 million people on Facebook.

The Russians also uploaded a thousand videos to YouTube and published more than 130,000 messages on Twitter about last year’s election.

As recent congressional hearings showed, the arteries of our democracy were clogged with toxins from a hostile foreign power.

But the problem is not the Russians — it’s us.

We’re getting played because too many Americans are ill equipped to perform the basic functions of citizenship. If the point of the Russian campaign, aided domestically by right-wing media, was to get people to think there is no such thing as knowable truth, the bad guys have won.

As we crossed the 300day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency on Thursday, fact-checkers noted that he has made more than 1,600 false or misleading claims. Good God. At least five times a day, on average, this president says something that isn’t true.

We have a White House of lies because a huge percentage of the population can’t tell fact from fiction. But a huge percentage is also clueless about the basic laws of the land. In a democracy, we the people are supposed to understand our role in this power-sharing thing.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans cannot name a single branch of government.

When NPR tweeted out sections of the Declaration of Independence last year, many people were outraged. They mistook Thomas Jefferson’s fighting words for anti-Trump propaganda.

Fake news is a real thing produced by active disseminators of falsehoods. Trump uses the term to describe anything he doesn’t like, a habit now picked up by political liars everywhere.

But Trump is a symptom; the breakdown in this democracy goes beyond the liar in chief. For that you have to blame all of us: we have allowed the educational system to become negligent in teaching the owner’s manual of citizenship.

Lost in the news grind over Roy Moore, the lawbreaking Senate candidate from Alabama, is how often he has tried to violate the Constitution.

As a judge, he was removed from the bench — twice — for lawless acts that follow his theocratic view of governance.

Shariah law has been justifiably criticized as a dangerous injection of religion into the public space. Now imagine if a judge insisted on keeping a monument to the Quran in a state judicial building.

Or that he said “homosexual conduct” should be illegal because his sacred book tells him so. That is exactly what Moore has done, though he substitutes the Bible for the Quran.

I don’t blame Moore. I blame his followers, and the press, which doesn’t seem to know that the First Amendment specifically aims to keep govern-

As we crossed the 300-day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency on Thursday, fact-checkers noted that he has made more than 1,600 false or misleading claims.

Good God. At least five times a day, on average, this president says something that isn’t true.

ment from siding with one religion — the socalled establishment clause.

My colleagues at the opinion shop on Sunday used a full page to print the Bill of Rights, and urge Trump to “Please Read the Constitution.”

Yes, it’s come to this. On press freedom, due process, exercise of religion and other areas, Trump has repeatedly gone into Roy Moore territory — dismissing the principles he has sworn to uphold.

Suppose we treated citizenship like getting a driver’s license. People would have to pass a simple test on American values, history and geography before they were allowed to have a say in the system. We do that for immigrants, and 97 percent of them pass, according to one study.

Yet 1 in 3 Americans fail the immigrant citizenship test. This is not an elitist barrier. The test includes questions like, “What major event happened on 9/11?” and “What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?”

One reason that public schools were established across the land was to produce an informed citizenry. And up until the 1960s, it was common for students to take three separate courses in civics and government before they got out of high school.

Now only a handful of states require proficiency in civics as a condition of high school graduation.

Students are hungry, in this turbulent era, for discussion of politics and government. But the educators are failing them.

Civics has fallen to the side, in part because of the standardized test mania.

A related concern is historical ignorance. By a 48 percent to 38 percent margin Americans think states’ rights, rather than slavery, caused the Civil War. So Trump’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, can say something demonstrably false about the war, because most people are just as clueless as he is.

There’s hope — and there are many ways — to shed light on the cave of American democracy.

More than a dozen states now require high school students to pass the immigrant citizenship test.

We should also teach kids how to tell fake news from real, as some schools in Europe are doing.

But those initiatives will mean little if people still insist on believing what they want to believe, living in digital safe spaces closed off from anything that intrudes on their worldview.

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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ offers a timely history lesson

By Stephen L. Carter BL OOMBERG NEWS

There’s a clever set piece in the new Marvel film “Thor: Ragnarok” in which the villainous Hela (played by Cate Blanchett) marches into the throne room of Asgard and begins tearing from the ceilings all the inspiring frescoes of the brave and wonderful deeds of the rulers of the realm. This isn’t random vandalism. When the paintings come down, we see older images of an Asgard built by violence and cruelty. This quite different history has somehow been airbrushed from ... well, from history.

Hela, of course, is meant to be a baddie. But in this particular episode, surely she’s doing right: exposing the truth beyond the myths on which her society is built. Perhaps she’s doing it too suddenly, and certainly she’s doing it too savagely. Nevertheless, she’s following the right course.

The same urge to uncover the true history -the thing that really happened -- lies behind large chunks of contemporary controversy. Just consider the wave of harassment and assault charges that is flooding the entertainment world, with no end in sight. The happy-business-as-usual frescoes are falling everywhere, but particularly in Hollywood.

The same storm is beginning to thunder its way across Capitol Hill, and the outcome isn’t easy to predict. (Will Roy

The makers of “Thor: Ragnarok” could hardly have imagined that their well-received and hugely popular entertainment would be released at so timely a moment, and contain so sharp an allegory for the era.

Moore withdraw from the Alabama Senate race?

Will Al Franken resign his Senate seat? And, by the way, who’s next?)

Surely the rising tide will soon drown other institutions as well. Watching the disaster unfold isn’t pleasant, but the pain of following the disclosures cannot compare with the pain of suffering through what is being disclosed, or of coming forward to discuss what happened.

Sometimes the effort to find the truth behind the myth is more contested.

In the battle over monuments to Confederate war heroes, for example, both sides have a point. The case for taking the statutes down is basically that those being honored are undeserving, and that only a whitewashed history pretends otherwise.

The case for leaving the statues in place is that the raising of the monuments was itself an act of history, and to take them down is to airbrush away the era in which people gloried in putting them up. Some political leaders have reached for the obvious compromise -- to leave them in place and add historical context -but this act of differencesplitting seems to make

neither side terribly happy.

Removing statues and related honors for the country’s founders is more troubling. It’s not as though George Washington wasn’t actually the first president or the commanding general of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. It’s not as though Thomas Jefferson didn’t write the Declaration of Independence. That they also had physical ownership of other human beings is horrific, but in the context of their era merely made them unheroic. Their statutes (and frescoes) shouldn’t come down. But, again, we most certainly should add context, as much as necessary, to give a truly rounded picture of both the founders and their era.

And not all the context has to be official. When I was in the eighth grade in Washington, my history teacher told us that most of the slaves were happy and weren’t particularly interested in freedom. I went home and shared this fascinating nugget with my astonished parents. In return, I got a history lesson, in my house, that was quite a bit closer to the truth.

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History is a creature of immense energy and complexity. Trying, as we often do, to twist it to suit our interests is (to borrow from Harold Schonberg in another context) like trying to put handcuffs on an eel. Sometimes we even think we’ve succeeded -- every generation has its Ministry of Truth; these days it’s located largely on the campus -- but, in the end, the eel almost always wriggles free.

Sometimes, however, too much context can obscure the truth, and those frescoes simply have to come down.

When facing an accusation of being abusive toward women, it’s no defense to say such behavior was common in the industry. We’re not talking about two centuries ago; we’re talking about living memory.

And in living memory, abuse and assault are simply outrages. To paper them over with context is to blur the everclearer pictures that the frescoes are covering up.

The makers of “Thor: Ragnarok” could hardly have imagined that their well-received and hugely popular entertainment would be released at so timely a moment, and contain so sharp an allegory for the era. But it does. And although Hela is, obviously, the villain of the film, on this point she’s plainly right. Obscuring history is wrong, and if we look too carelessly, we’ll see all the wrong images.

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist.

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The incidents occurred in three states over a decade. In all of the cases, the women say Bush touched their buttocks as they stood next to him to take photos. All three states have laws against touching someone without their consent.

The women's stories broadly follow the same outline: Bush patted them below the waist as they stood next to him to take photos, sometimes with a joke about his favorite magician or writer being named "David Cop-a-Feel."

Bush has issued repeated apologies through a spokesman "to anyone he has offended." The spokesman, Jim McGrath, said in a statement last month that Bush has used a wheelchair for roughly five years, and that "his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures." In a statement Monday, McGrath said, "George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he offended during a photo op."

McGrath did not respond to a request for additional comment Tuesday.

Actress Heather Lind was the first to accuse Bush of groping her, saying in an Oct. 24 Instagram post that Bush "touched me from behind" and told "a dirty joke" while they posed for a photo at a Houston screening of the AMC television series "Turn."

Six more women have come forward since then, including Roslyn Corrigan, who told Time magazine Monday that Bush groped her as they took a photo in 2003, when Corrigan was 16, during an event in The Woodlands, a Houston suburb.

Broadway actress Megan Elizabeth Lewis also told NJ.com that Bush groped her at the performance of a musical in Houston in

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The AP generally does not identify victims of sexual assault without their consent, but is using the names of women who have spoken publicly on social media or in news reports.

Four of the incidents are reported to have occurred in Texas. Shook said that under Texas law, touching someone's buttocks over the person's clothing would most likely be grounds for a misdemeanor assault charge, with only a $500 fine and no jail time.

In Maine, where Bush is accused of grabbing two women, those allegations could give rise to a charge of assault or unlawful sexual touching, punishable by up to a year in jail, said Walt McKee, a defense attorney in Augusta, Maine.

And in Pennsylvania, where a retired newspaper journalist has accused Bush of touching her during an event in Erie, the state's law against indecent assault could apply, said Richard Settgast, an adjunct law professor at Penn State University.

A key question in any prosecution, the lawyers said, would be whether the suspect touched the victim for sexual gratification or by accident.

While age and physical disability would factor into any determination, Settgast said, "I don't necessarily think that just because someone's infirm, they wouldn't be able to be held accountable."

Bush, who served as president from 1989 to 1993, is a beloved figure in both Texas and Maine, the two states where he lives. Two days after the first woman accused Bush of misconduct, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted that Bush was "a statesman and role model to me."

Days later, Bush joined his son, former President George W. Bush, on the field before Game 5 of baseball's World Series to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

in Laredo, Texas for further medical treatment.

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reflects the bank’s dedication to the growth and success of both the customers and the communities it serves. International Bancshares was ranked 46th on Forbes’ prestigious list of 100 Best Banks in America in 2017.

IBC Bank–Zapata has been serving the Brush Country area since 1984 and has a retail branch network of 10 locations.

HIGHWAY From page A1 pansion of the major artery that runs through their community — U.S. Highway 83.

About $7 million was spent along this stretch of highway to bump up the number of lanes from two to four, and to add drainage structures, guard rails and other safety features, according to Eduardo Garcia, TxDOT area engineer for Zapata County.

He said the Texas Department of Transportation has spent $100 million in Zapata County, from its northern border to its southern border, to expand U.S. 83 to four lanes.

This project is more than 10 years in the making, and it almost didn’t happen for San Ygnacio.

Angel Garza, a former Zapata County commissioner, said TxDOT initially wanted to build this expanded highway around this town rather than through it. This would have diverted the abundant commuters, ranchers and truckers away from San Ygnacio and its businesses.

Garza said Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini was instrumental in making sure this didn’t happen to this little border town.

Zaffirini was not in attendance Thursday, but issued a statement to LMT. “Were the highway to have bypassed San Ygnacio, local businesses would have suffered, and fewer travelers would have accessed the community’s beautiful historical district,” she said.

“Accordingly, I strongly agreed with San Ygnacio residents that the new Highway 83 should not bypass the community, and I am glad that it ultimately did not.”

However, the plan to build a loop around the town is actually still in place, Eduardo Garcia said.

TxDOT ended up running low on funds leading up to this project, so Garcia said they decided to make the best of what they had, and simply expanded the highway already running through San Ygnacio.

But there are significant curves in the road

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Father Daniel Ramirez Portu blesses the road during a ceremony commemorating the expansion of U.S. Highway 83 in San Ygnacio, Texas.

going into and out of town, which slows traffic, he said.

“If you build a fourlane divided highway approaching San Ygnacio, and then you keep it like it is here, it’s going to bottleneck,” Garica said.

To improve the flow of traffic, they need to increase speed limits, and in order to safely increase speed limits, they need to flatten out these curves, Garcia said.

So even as they celebrate this highway expansion, TxDOT is looking forward to the next round of road work, which could begin as soon as 2020, Garcia said.

He anticipates that still another $100 million will be spent on U.S. 83 in Zapata County. This could mean purchasing land along the road in San Ygnacio to expand it further, or even constructing an overpass.

The plan for the loop is still being reviewed, Garcia noted, and they’ll host another round of public meetings to gauge how locals feel about the diversion. Although it’s pretty clear that everyone wants to keep the highway where it is, he ad-

mits.

Alma Gonzalez is the poet laureate of San Ygnacio. When residents first heard about the expansion of the highway, they thought it would be the death of their town, she remembers.

She is thankful to the elected officials who ensured that the road stayed, but expressed concern about the speed limit along the curves, where houses hug the road.

“You never know when somebody’s sleep-deprived or had one too many. They could pile into somebody’s house,” Gonzalez said.

The irony of this important highway is that its travelers miss out on the heart of San Ygnacio, a tiny, beautiful town along the Rio Grande with some of the most well-preserved examples of Mexican vernacular architecture in the country.

San Ygnacio truly believes in its history and it fights for it, Rep. Tracy King said Thursday, and the people driving by on U.S. 83 need to pull off and take a drive through the town.

“It’s truly a treasure,” King said.

Alice Olson, an 80year-old from South Dakota, moved to San Ygnacio a couple of years ago for this reason.

She brought her own lawn chair to Thursday’s ceremony. She lounged behind the crowd in her dark sunglasses, black cowboy boots, black cowboy hat and black longsleeved shirt embossed with glittery sunflowers.

Olson owns a red brick house in San Ygnacio, where she spends nine months out of the year.

She says she loves the town, and feels welcomed by the community here.

She rides her threewheeled bike all over town, and feels safe doing so, Olson said. And she eats lunch every day at the Nutrition Center, which is provided by Zapata County.

She walked away from the event Thursday holding the hand of her friend, who swears that the gas station down the road has the best pizza in Texas.

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Inauguran programa Minitrópolis

CARNE ASADA 1 La Ciudad de Roma invita a su tradicional evento de carne asada Gobble Til you Wobble Cookoff el 18 de noviembre en el Parque Municipal de Roma. Registre a su equipo en Roma City Hall, 77 Convento Street. Mayores informes al 956849-1411 con Lily Sandoval.

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FESTIVIDADES NAVIDEÑAS. 1 La Ciudad de Roma y el distrito escolar Roma Independent School District invitan al arranque de las Festividades Navideñas el jueves 30 de noviembre en la Plaza Guadalupe.

Las festividades iniciarán con un desfile a las 6 p.m.

Evento gratuito.

DESFILE DE NAVIDAD 1 El Desfile de Navidad y la iluminacióm de la Plaza del Condado se realizarán el jueves 7 de diciembre, los tres coches alegoricos mejor decorados recibirán trofeos. El desfile comenzará a las 6 p.m. en 17th Ave. detrás de la Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Lourdes. Inmediatamente después se encenderán las luces del árbol de Navidad en la Plaza del Condado donde Santa estará repartiendo regalos.

AVIARIO 1 La Ciudad de Roma invita a visitar el aviario Roma Bluffs World Birding Center en el distrito histórico de Roma. El aviario estará abierto desde el jueves a domingo de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m. hasta enero. Mayores informes al 956849-1411

BOTES DE BASURA 1 La Ciudad de Roma informa a la comunidad que sólo estará recolectando basura contenida en botes propiedad de la ciudad. Informes al 849-1411

PAGO DE IMPUESTOS 1 Desde diciembre, los pagos por impuestos a la propiedad de la Ciudad de Roma deberán realizarse en la oficina de impuestos del Distrito Escolar de Roma, localizado en el 608 N. García St.

PAGO EN LÍNEA 1 La Ciudad de Roma informa a sus residentes que a partir de ahora el servicio del agua puede pagarse en línea a cualquier hora las 24 horas del día.

LLENADO DE APLICACIONES 1 La Ciudad de Roma ofrece el servicio de llenado de aplicaciones para CHIP, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, Chip, Prenatal y otros. Contacte a Gaby Rodríguez para una cita en el centro comunitario o en su domicilio al 956246-7177.

LABORATORIO COMPUTACIONAL 1 La Ciudad de Roma pone a disposición de la comunidad el Laboratorio Computacional que abre de lunes a viernes en horario de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m. en Historical Plaza, a un lado del City Hall. Informes en el 956-849-1411

Foto por Julia Wallace / Laredo Morning Times

Residentes de San Ygnacio, comisionados actuales y anteriores del Condado de Zapata, oficiales de TxDOT y el representante de Texas Tracy King se unieron para conmemorar la expansión de la carretera US-83.

Expanden carretera US-83 Ampliación requirió de inversión millonaria Por Julia Wallace TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

SAN YGNACIO — El jueves por la mañana, camiones de carga pasaron por la oficina del juez de paz en San Ygnacio, ocultando por unos segundos la voz de una joven que estaba cantando el himno nacional en un micrófono.

Pero este tráfico fue la ocasión para celebrar.

Los residentes de esta pequeña ciudad, comisionados actuales y anteriores del Condado de Zapata, algunos residentes de Laredo y Houston, funcionarios de TxDOT y el representante de Texas Tracy King se unieron para conmemorar la expansión de la arteria principal que atraviesa su comunidad, la carretera US-83.

Alrededor de 7 millones de dólares fueron invertidos a lo largo de este tramo de la carretera para aumentar el número de carriles de dos a cuatro y para agregar estructuras de drenaje, vallas de contención y otras características de seguridad, según Eduardo García,

ingeniero de área de TxDOT para el Condado de Zapata.

El Departamento de Transporte de Texas ha gastado 100 millones de dólares en el condado de Zapata, desde su frontera norte hasta su frontera sur, para expandir la carretera US-83 a cuatro carriles.

Este proyecto lleva más de 10 años en desarrollo, y estuvo muy cerca de no suceder. Ángel Garza, un ex Comisionado del Condado de Zapata, dijo que inicialmente TxDOT quería construir esta ampliación alrededor de esta ciudad en lugar de hacerlo a través de ella.

Esto habría desviado a los abundantes viajeros, rancheros y camioneros de San Ygnacio y sus negocios.

Garza dijo que la senadora de Texas Judith Zaffirini fue fundamental para asegurarse de que esto no le sucediera a esta pequeña ciudad fronteriza. Zaffirini no asistió el jueves, pero emitió un comunicado a LMT. "Si la carretera hubiera pasado por alto a San

Ygnacio, las empresas locales habrían sufrido, y menos viajeros habrían accedido al hermoso distrito histórico de la comunidad", dijo la senadora.

"En consecuencia, acordé firmemente con los residentes de San Ygnacio que la nueva carretera US-83 no debería eludir a la comunidad, y me alegro de que al final no lo hizo".

Sin embargo, el plan para construir un circuito vial alrededor de la ciudad todavía está vigente, dijo Eduardo García.

TxDOT terminó quedándose sin fondos antes de este proyecto, por lo que García dijo que decidieron aprovechar los recursos al máximo y simplemente expandieron la carretera que ya atraviesa San Ygnacio.

Pero hay curvas importantes en el camino que entra y sale de la ciudad, lo que entorpece el tráfico, dijo.

"Si construyes una carretera de cuatro carriles que llegue a San Ygnacio, y luego la mantienes como está aquí, va a haber embotellamientos", agregó García.

Para mejorar el flujo de tráfico, se necesita aumentar los límites de velocidad, y para aumentar los límites de velocidad de forma segura es necesario nivelar estas curvas, dijo García.

Así que incluso mientras celebran la expansión de la carretera, TxDOT está a la espera de comenzar la siguiente ronda de trabajo vial, que podría iniciar tan pronto como en el 2020, dijo García.

Anticipa que otros 100 millones de dólares serán destinados la carretera US-83 en el Condado de Zapata. Esto podría significar comprar un terreno a lo largo de la carretera en San Ygnacio para expandirlo aún más, o incluso construir un paso a desnivel.

El plan para el circuito vial aún se está revisando, señaló García, y organizarán otra ronda de reuniones públicas para evaluar cómo se sienten los residentes de San Ygnacio con respecto a la desviación. Aunque está bastante claro que todos quieren mantener la carretera donde está actualmente, admite.

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Repercusiones de la expropiación petrolera Por Raúl Sinencio Chávez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Recién concluida la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en 1948 México se vuelve anfitrión de combativo evento. Nos referimos al Congreso de Trabajadores Petroleros de América Latina.Hoy permanece entre aquellos sucesos de memoria proscrita.

Rescatémoslo del olvido.

Poco antes inicia el sexenio del presidente Miguel Alemán Valdés.

A cuenta de ello trata de imponerse el control oficialista al Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (STPRM). Fracasada la tentativa y dirigido por Eulalio Ibáñez, de 1948 a 1949 el gremio retoma los ideales que cimentan la gesta nacionalizadora de la máxima industria del país.

El STPRM estaba incorporado a la Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina, cuyo segundo congreso tiene verificativo en Cali, Colombia, hacia 1944. Los acuerdos contemplarían desarrollar magna asamblea obrera de la rama subcontinental del oro negro. Para realizarse, México resulta espacio idóneo. Decretado por Lázaro Cárdenas, apoyándose en decididos operarios, el rescate de los hidrocarburos marca a partir de 1938 un hito desde el río Bravo hasta la Patagonia. Esto adquiere enorme importancia en Venezuela, con ricos yacimientos de crudo, gobernada entretanto por el novelista Rómulo Gallegos, electo democráticamente tras larga dictadura.

Y el principal enclave mexicano del ramo era Ciudad Madero, en la esquina sureste de Tamaulipas. El rango provino de pujante complejo refinador, otrora perteneciente a El Águila, firma angloholandesa que mediante larga huelga en 1924 firma las primeras bases contractuales del sector productivo. Dicho municipio luego encabeza las tareas fundadoras del STPRM, correspondiéndole la Sección 1, cuna de Eulalio Ibáñez. Ciudad Madero obtiene, pues, la sede del encuentro.

Los gastos relativos ascienden en números redondos a 55 mil pesos.

Todo corre por cuenta del STPRM. A mediados de año el Comité Ejecutivo General empieza los preparativos. Según las tarifas aplicables, la Compañía Mexicana de Aviación proporciona transporte.

Instalada en Tampico, puerto contiguo, la radiodifusora XETU transmite asimismo los debates. Permanece aún la TV en proyecto.

El Taller de Gráfica Popular elabora carteles alusivos. Describiremos uno. Con gran formato y el lema “Petróleo para la paz”, muestra a un obrero flanqueado por

torres perforadoras y banderas patrias de los asistentes. Lo diseñan Pablo O’Higgins y Alberto Beltrán, renombrados artistas plásticos.

La cumbre latinoamericana arranca el miércoles 22 de septiembre de 1948 y cierra a tambor batiente el domingo 26. Le da cobijo el viejo edificio de la Sección 1, que demolería el quinismo, incómodo con los vestigios de hazañas proletarias.

Concurren representantes de naciones hermanas, incluida Colombia, donde los obreros daban tenaz lucha a favor de sus derechos, escamoteados por consorcios extranjeros.

Al finalizar, las delegaciones integran el Consejo Internacional del Petróleo, asignándole la presidencia a don Eulalio. No obstante, fue el primer y único congreso de gran alcance, descompuesta la escena semanas después por terrible cuartelazo en Venezuela, que casi tres décadas adelante nacionaliza los carburantes.

El STPRM acaba también descarrilado y sometido. El 1 de diciembre de 1949, a punto de instalar en la Ciudad de México su VI Convención General, personeros del oficialismo asaltan los puestos directivos, respaldándolos elementos policiacos y hamponcetes de la peor ralea. Eulalio Ibáñez y seguidores cercanos desalojan por último el recinto sindical. Salen a pie firme, sin que los golpeadores osen siquiera increparlos. Ningún líder posterior muestra tanta entereza ante la adversidad.

Estudiantes de Villarrealville, una pequeña ciudad dentro de la escuela primaria Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary, celebraron la gran apertura de su programa Minitrópolis con una ceremonia de corte de listón, el viernes. El presidente de la junta directiva de IBC Bank-Zapata Renato Ramírez y el CEO y presidente de IBC-Zapata Ricardo Ramírez realizaron el corte de listón.

El programa Minitrópolis permitió a los estudiantes ver cómo la comunidad trabaja junta por el bienestar de sus ciudadanos. A través del programa, los niños de todos los grados ocuparon una variedad de puestos del mundo real, dependiendo de sus intereses individuales y de sus pasiones.

También desempeñaron algunas responsabilidades de adultos, como emitir cheques, hacer depósitos y retirar dinero. Villarealville tenía un banco ficticio donde los ciudadanos tuvieron la oportunidad de ganar “Hawk Bucks” (dólares ficticios), por buen comportamiento durante la escuela, y aprendieron cómo manejarlo.

“La educación financiera y la experiencia de empleo en el mundo real son esenciales para el crecimiento de los menores en edad escolar, buscando lecciones en responsabilidad personal y profesional”, dijo Ricardo Ramírez.

“Estamos orgullosos de unir fuerzas con la primaria Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary como nuestro primer lanzamiento Minitrópolis.

La meta es poner en marcha nuestras iniciativas en educación financiera para que podamos proporcionar Minitrópolis a cada escuela primaria en Zapata y sus alrededores. Las lecciones de educación financiera para los menores de edad escolar descansan sobre la base de un futuro más brillante”.

IBC Bank, el Departamento del Alguacil del Condado de Zapata, los administradores del distrito escolar Zapata County Independent School District, la Cámara de Comercio del Condado de Zapata, junto con el Servicio Postal de EU y el centro de reciclaje RSL Recycling Center, estuvieron presentes para conmemorar la ocasión.

Acerca de IBC Bank IBC Bank–Zapata es miembro de la corporación International Bancshares Corporation (NASDAQ: IBOC), una compañía multibancaria de acciones financieras de 12.2 billones de dólares, con sede en Laredo, con 193 sucursales y más de 296 cajeros automáticos sirviendo a 88 comunidades en Texas y Oklahoma. En el 2016, IBC celebró su 50 aniversario desde que abrió sus puertas en 1966. El lema de IBC Bank, “We Do More” (Hacemos más) refleja la dedicación del banco al crecimiento y el éxito tanto de sus clientes como el de las comunidades a las que sirve. International Bancshares fue catalogado en la prestigiosa lista de Forbes en el número 46 entre los 100 mejores bancos en América en 2017.

IBC Bank–Zapata ha servido al área de Brush Country desde 1984 y tiene una red de sucursales en 10 ubicaciones.

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

Dallas aims to cool Eagles’ hot start Young QBs Prescott, Wentz meet again in NFC East matchup

By Schuyler Dixon A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles started fast just as they did a year ago and have sustained it this time.

Dak Prescott hasn’t quite found the formula that carried the Dallas Cowboys to the best record in the NFC when he and Wentz were fellow rookie quarterbacks in 2016.

Now Wentz has a chance to push his team to the brink of the NFC East title on Sunday night against the defending division champions.

Win, and the Eagles (8-1) would be four games up with six to play in pursuit of their first division title since 2013.

Meanwhile, the secondplace Cowboys (5-4) would be scrambling for a playoff spot while facing four more games without suspended star running back Ezekiel Elliott, who paired with Prescott for remarkable rookie seasons in 2016 while Wentz and the Eagles faded from contention.

“Any time you’re playing a divisional rival it just seems there’s more riding on it just because division title’s the No. 1 goal,” said Wentz, the NFL leader with 23 touchdown passes . “We definitely view this game as a big one, but at the

same time it’s the next game.”

Prescott is without his friend and backfield mate, who decided this week not to pursue the legal battle and accept the remaining five games of his six-game suspension over alleged domestic violence. Elliott had a federal appeals court hearing scheduled Dec. 1, four games into the ban.

The Cowboys could be without left tackle Tyron Smith again after replacement Chaz Green gave up five of Adrian Clayborn’s Atlanta franchise-record six sacks in the Falcons’ 27-7 win last weekend.

Byron Bell replaced the benched Green against the Falcons and is likely to start if Smith, a fourtime Pro Bowler battling groin and back issues, can’t go.

Dallas is likely to be missing 2016 All-Pro linebacker Sean Lee as well with a recurring hamstring problem. The Cowboys lost both games Lee missed earlier this season, and struggled to stop Atlanta after he left in the first quarter.

“We know the importance of this rivalry especially when they’re playing the way that they’re playing, people counting us out or whatever you want us to say, people claiming them to be the best team,” Prescott said.

“We’re ready for it.”

Things to consider going into the 117th meet-

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Dak Prescott was 23 of 47 for 324 yards with two touchdowns and an interception against the Eagles last season. Prescott and the Cowboys host Carson Wentz and the Eagles at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

ing between franchises that have claimed three of the past four NFC East titles: TWO SIDES OF HISTORY The Eagles, tied with New Orleans for the longest active winning streak at seven games, have started 8-1 four other times. Twice they won the NFL championship, and the twice they reached the Super Bowl before losing. On the flip side, they’re coming off the bye a year after they went into the break at 3-0 and lost nine of the first 11 on the other side of it.

“It’s a fine line,” coach Doug Pederson said. “But at the same time, when

you’re on a little bit of a roll, you just want to continue to play. It was a good time for us. Now it’s just a matter of getting guys refocused.”

NO ZEKE, ROUND 2 The Dallas running game wasn’t terrible without Elliott against the Falcons. Alfred Morris, a 1,600-yard rusher as a rookie in Washington five years ago, had 53 yards on 11 carries. But the Cowboys were too far behind in the fourth quarter for the ground game to be a factor. “One game in is not going to be really enough of a sample size of where we are,” offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said.

SECONDARY CHANGES Eagles CB Ronald Darby is expected to return after missing eight games because of a dislocated ankle sustained in the opener. Darby would return to his spot on the left side and Jalen Mills would move to the right side. His return should solidify a unit that has played well during his absence. Mills and nickel cornerback Patrick Robinson each have three interceptions.

MUTUAL RESPECT Linehan coached Wentz at the Senior Bowl before he became the No. 2 overall pick in 2016.

Philadelphia’s Frank

Reich paid attention to Prescott, a fourth-rounder, since the Eagles were so focused on quarterbacks. Both coordinators have always had high praise for the player who went to a division rival.

Linehan on the former North Dakota State standout Wentz: “A lot of these guys don’t even watch pro football. This guy’s been watching pro football since he was in grade school.”

Reich on the former Mississippi State star Prescott: “I had very, very high grades on Dak in every aspect, from his college tape. Then you could just tell he had that X-factor as far as natural leadership ability.”

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS

TEXANS TRY TO GET BACK ON TRACK Houston eyes end to skid against Arizona

By Kristie Rieken A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HOUSTON — Tom Savage is tired of talking about how he’s playing and what he needs to do to improve.

As the Houston Texans look to end a threegame skid when they host the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, the quarterback is only worried about one thing.

“It really doesn’t matter what I say right now or how I view this upcoming week,” he said.

“The only thing that really matters is just winning, and that’s it.

“I can sit here and tell you all day that I want to throw 75 percent or I feel like I’m getting better — that doesn’t matter. No one cares about any of that stuff. What matters is winning, and that’s what we’re going to try to do this weekend.”

Savage has had a tough time in the last two games since Deshaun Watson sustained a season-ending knee injury on Nov 2. The 27year-old has five turnovers and has led Houston’s offense to two touchdowns in the past two weeks.

The Texans are stick-

ing with Savage despite his struggles. However, keeping him in the starting lineup is likely more out of necessity than anything else because their other quarterbacks T.J. Yates and Josh Johnson have only been with the team since Watson was injured.

Still, the Texans insist that Savage has the capability to play better as they try to get back on track.

“He works very hard, it means a lot to him and ... he’s got the arm talent ... and the smarts to get it done,” quarterbacks coach Sean Ryan said.

“And I just feel like that combination gives him a good chance to really to fix things and to play better.”

In Arizona, the quarterback situation is uncertain with Drew Stanton dealing with a sprained knee. He returned to practice in a limited capacity on Wednesday while backup Blaine Gabbert got most of the work with the first team. Coach Bruce Arians wasn’t ready to say who would start on Sunday.

He said Stanton could play if he’s able to “protect himself and move

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Texans linebacker Jadeveon Clowney leads the AFC with 12 tackles for loss this season along with adding six sacks and two fumble recoveries with one returned for a touchdown. Clowney and Houston host the Cardinals Sunday at noon as they attempt to end a three-game losing streak.

around.” Regular QB Carson Palmer is out with a broken arm.

Some things to know about the CardinalsTexans game: BUDDA MOVES UP The season-ending knee injury to Tyvon Branch has moved rookie Budda Baker into the starting lineup at free safety. It’s a promotion he certainly earned.

The second-round draft pick from Washington has been Arizona’s best special teams player, maybe the best in the league. He leads the NFL in special teams tackles with 13, five in the last two games. And he’s played in some of the

team’s nickel and dime defensive packages.

But now he is a fulltime starter, calling the plays for the secondary.

“I feel like I’m really ready,” he said. “Doing all the special teams and all that stuff was great, and watching them (play), getting good visuals. Now it’s time to play.”

DRE DAY Houston will induct Andre Johnson as the inaugural member of the Texans Ring of Honor on Sunday. Johnson spent 12 seasons in Houston and is the team’s all-time leader in yards receiving (13,597), receptions (1,012) and touchdown recep-

tions (64).

The honor had people from both teams raving about Johnson’s contributions in a 14-year career that ended with a season each in Indianapolis and Tennessee. “(He’s) the guy that you want to build your franchise around and show all your young players, this is how you do it,” Arians said. “This is the person you want to be.”

Houston receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who thinks of Johnson as a big brother, cherishes his first two seasons when Johnson took him under his wing and guided him as he adjusted to the NFL. He reminisced about the most important lesson Johnson taught him.

“Try to be consistent no matter the circumstances around you,” Hopkins said. “That’s really the main thing he told me and showed me with his play.”

FITZ CLIMBING Larry Fitzgerald keeps climbing the career receiving lists.

Last week, he had 10 catches for 113 yards against Seattle, becoming the second-youngest player to top 15,000 yards receiving. He needs 62 yards receiving to pass Tony Gonzalez for sixth on the NFL career list.

Fitzgerald ranks third in

NFL career receptions at 1,185, behind only Jerry Rice and Gonzalez.

At age 34, Fitzgerald is tied for second in the NFL in receptions this season with 60, one fewer than Jarvis Landry.

He’s caught a pass in 204 consecutive games. Of his 211 career games, there’s been only one, dating back to his rookie year, in which he had no receptions.

CLOWNEY’S WORK Jadeveon Clowney’s performance this year has led Houston’s defense in a season when J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus had seasonending injuries, and Brian Cushing received a 10-game performanceenhancers suspension.

The top overall pick in the 2014 draft has continued to produce despite dealing with near-constant double teams. He has six sacks, leads the AFC with 12 tackles for losses, and has two fumble recoveries, one of which he returned for a touchdown.

“He’s having an AllPro season. Maybe an MVP season,” Arians said. “And ... they’re doing such a good job (moving him), so you can’t really game plan for him. Each guy on the offensive line may end up having to block him, and that’s a heck of a chore.”

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FCC relaxes the limits on owning newspapers, TV stations

Trump warned of political pain of NAFTA death as talks resume prices would take a hit from an end to NAFTA. Negotiators are set to pay highest attention to rules of regional content, including for cars, as well as financial services in this round, according to an agenda obtained by Bloomberg.

By Andrew Mayeda, Josh Wingrove and Eric Martin BL OOMBERG NEWS

By Tali Arbel A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

NEW YORK — Federal regulators have weakened rules meant to support independent local media.

Now, one company can own newspapers and broadcast stations in one market, undoing a ban in place since 1975. Thursday's decision by the Federal Communications Commission also makes it easier for one company to own two broadcast TV stations in one market and coordinate operations with stations owned by others.

Although the changes won't affect AT&T's pending bid for Time Warner and its cable channels, they come as cable and phone companies have grown into industry giants through acquisitions. The newspaper and broadcasting industries say they need the changes to deal with growing competition from the web and cable companies.

The Republican-dominated FCC approved the changes in a 3-2 vote along party lines. The two Democratic commissioners and other critics say that dumping these rules, by encouraging consolidation, hurts media diversity.

The FCC previously

granted exceptions for companies such as News Corp. to own both a newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market. Scrapping the rule would let more companies do so without needing to make the case for an exception.

The FCC is also loosening restrictions on one company owning two TV stations in the same market. TV station owner Sinclair is expected to benefit from these changes.

The Sinclair deal has drawn criticism from an unusual coalition: consumer advocacy groups that generally oppose media consolidation, conservative media companies that are rivals to the right-leaning Sinclair and cable and satellite TV companies that worry that a beefed-up Sinclair will be able to get even higher fees from them.

The FCC has already taken steps favorable to broadcasters and Sinclair.

It scrapped a rule that required TV and radio broadcasters to maintain a local studio and withdrew a technical measure that hindered media consolidation. Sinclair would reach 72 percent of American households if the Tribune Media deal goes through.

The lead negotiators for the three NAFTA countries joined the latest round of talks as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned that an American pullout would hit hardest some key swing states that President Donald Trump took on his road to power.

The three chief negotiators -- John Melle for the U.S., Kenneth Smith Ramos for Mexico and Steve Verheul for Canada -were scheduled to take part starting Friday in Mexico City during the fifth round of talks on a new North American Free Trade Agreement. Junior officials spent the past two days laying the groundwork for the round, which is scheduled to wrap up Nov. 21.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts, Chrystia Freeland and Ildefonso Guajardo, will not attend this round, an approach that officials hope will dial down the political rhetoric and allow bureaucrats to move the ball forward on issues where the nations have common ground.

Still, Trump and his trade deputies haven’t backed down from the threat to withdraw the

Alejandro Cegarra / Bloomberg

Security officers stand during the fifth round of North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday.

U.S. from the 23-year-old accord, which governs more than $1 trillion in annual trade and has shaped the supply chains of companies from General Motors Co. to Caterpillar Inc. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said this week the talks are “on a very short time fuse” as a general election in Mexico and Congressional elections in the U.S. approach next year.

NAFTA States Several of the bluecollar states key to Trump’s victory, including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Indiana, would be hit hardest if the U.S. walks away from the deal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday in an analysis. Other big losers would include North

Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Arizona, Nebraska and North Carolina, said the group, the largest business organization in the U.S. With 65 percent of its exports heading to Mexico and Canada, Michigan could suffer from the most with about 366,000 jobs at risk if NAFTA collapses, the chamber’s Senior Vice President for International Policy John Murphy said in a blog post.

Other estimates of NAFTA’s demise haven’t been as dire. Moody’s Analytics projects that withdrawal would hurt all three economies, with Mexico the most vulnerable. But none of the three would slip into recession, according to Moody’s forecasts.

See how U.S. grocery

Contentious Proposals One of the most contentious U.S. proposals focuses on the so-called rules of origin for cars, which govern how much of a vehicle must be produced in North America to trade without tariffs.

The Trump administration called for increasing the regional content requirement to 85 percent from 62.5 percent, and added a 50 percent minimum for U.S. content.

Another contentious U.S. proposal is adding a sunset clause, which would automatically terminate the pact after five years unless the parties agree to extend it. Ahead of this round, Mexico backed a five-year review of the deal without a withdrawal clause.

Canada is open to discussing the Mexican proposal and to the idea of some kind of periodic re-examination, but considers a full sunset clause as proposed by the U.S. to be a non-starter, according to a Canadian government official speaking on condition of anonymity.

Tesla wants to electrify big trucks, adding to its ambitions

By Dee-ann Durbin A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

DETROIT — After more than a decade of making cars and SUVs — and, more recently, solar panels — Tesla Inc. wants to electrify a new type of vehicle: big trucks.

The company unveiled its new electric semitractor-trailer Thursday night near its design center in Hawthorne, California.

CEO Elon Musk said the semi is capable of traveling 500 miles on an electric charge — even with a full 80,000-pound load — and will cost less than a diesel semi considering fuel savings, lower maintenance and other factors. Musk said customers can put down a $5,000 deposit for the semi now and production will begin in 2019.

Even so, the company already is starting to get orders. Wal-Mart Stores

Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said in a statement Friday that it has pre-ordered five Tesla units in its Walmart U.S. division and 10 units at Walmart Canada. Midwest retailer Meijer said it has reserved four trucks.

And Arkansas trucking company J.B. Hunt said it has reserved “multiple” tractors that it will deploy on the West Coast but didn’t specify how many.

The truck will have Tesla’s Autopilot system, which can maintain a set speed and slow down automatically in traffic. It also has a system that automatically keeps the vehicle in its lane. Musk said several Tesla semis will be able to travel in a convoy, autonomously following each other.

Musk said Tesla plans a worldwide network of solar-powered “megachargers” that could get the trucks back up to 400 miles of range after

Tesla / Associated Press

This photo provided by Tesla shows the new electric semitractor-trailer unveiled on Thursday. The move fits with Tesla CEO Elon Musk's stated goal for the company of accelerating the shift to sustainable transportation.

charging for only 30 minutes.

The move fits with Musk’s stated goal for the company of accelerating the shift to sustainable transportation. Trucks account for nearly a quarter of transportationrelated greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to government statistics.

But the semi also piles

on more chaos at the Palo Alto, California-based company. Tesla is way behind on production of the Model 3, a new lowercost sedan, with some customers facing waits of 18 months or more. It’s also ramping up production of solar panels after buying Solar City Corp. last year. Tesla is working on a pickup truck and a lower-cost SUV and ne-

gotiating a new factory in China. Meanwhile, the company posted a record quarterly loss of $619 million in its most recent quarter.

On Thursday night, Tesla surprised fans with another product: An updated version of its first sports car, the Roadster. Tesla says the new Roadster will have 620 miles of range and a top speed of 250 mph. The car, coming in 2020, will have a base price of $200,000.

Tesla’s semi is venturing into an uncertain market. Demand for electric trucks is expected to grow over the next decade as the U.S., Europe and China all tighten their emissions regulations. Electric truck sales totaled 4,100 in 2016, but are expected to grow to more than 70,000 in 2026, says Navigant Research.

But most of that growth is expected to be

for smaller, medium-duty haulers like garbage trucks or delivery vans.

Those trucks can have a more limited range of 100 miles or less, which requires fewer expensive batteries. They can also be fully charged overnight.

Long-haul semi trucks, on the other hand, would be expected to go greater distances, and that would be challenging. Right now, there’s little charging infrastructure on global highways. Without Tesla’s promised fastcharging, even a midsized truck would likely require a two-hour stop, cutting into companies’ efficiency and profits.

Irwin says truck companies will have to watch the market carefully, because tougher regulations on diesels or an improvement in charging infrastructure could make electric trucks more viable.

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