Date: 01-July-07
From: News Center Publications
Subject: July Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Take a look at the U.S. Senate vote on immigration in late June. It was fairly one sided.
There was plenty said by Democrats and Republicans. According to the Associated Press, the measure was the product of a liberal-to-conservative alliance led by [Sen. Edward M. ] Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., intended to withstand challanges from left and right.
But it failed and probably will not be considered again until after the 2008 presidential election.
So what was missing?
It may be because the debate didn't go deep enough. That means they didn't broaden the discussion to include what countries are doing to improve conditions at home for their own people to cut down on the number of immigrants coming to our country.
Why would we say such a thing?
Here is one reason. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon gave an opinion about the U.S. vote. The Senators failed, however, to include his country and others into what was being considered.
U.S. lawmakers could have asked Calderon and others a simple question.
"What are you doing to help your people in your own country?"
Apparently not enough. Many risk life and limb to make the border crossing. Too many bodies end up floating in the Rio Grande.
Mexico's president called the U. S. Senate vote a "grave error."
The action, he said, would cut off legal immigration, permit continued unlawful immigration and human rights violations and decrease security on both sides of the border.
Maybe he made the bold statement because he knew--lawmakers and news reporters--aren't prepared or interested enough to ask him hard questions.
Instead, he attempted to manipulate our system for his country's advantage.
Our five novels attempt prepare anyone interested in knowing more about the Caribbean and Latin America. In our view, U.S. senators could have benefited by reading one or more of them.
Maybe we don't have all the answers, but at least we get started. There's no need to be
caught short in any debate. They can be viewed on the WebSite:natcarnes.com. In Puerto Rico, the novel `San Juan' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel bookshop in San Juan.
Also take a look at our BLOG SITE [Caribbean Memo-2007] for other memos you may have missed this year. And there is more here: nmcarnes.blogspot.com.
With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Extremist Groups Attack
Date: 06-June-07
From: News Center Publications
Subject: June Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Small extremist groups--a mix of Islam and leftists--are on the attack against the West with two ideas in mind: to destroy democratic institutions and to control the world.
We at News Center Publications have long believed that to be true.
A new book and the recent arrest of four men from the Caribbean underline our position.
Former CIA chief George Tenet, who wrote `At the Center of the Storm,' says "today's terrorists are interconnected," much like Internet users. For years, he said, "I tried to convince two administrations [one Democrat, one Republican] the terrorist threat was SEAMLESS" or without boundary.
In short, "the world has one single war-theater."
After the book's release, the FBI announced the arrest of four men who allegedly planned to blow-up a fuel pipeline connection at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport. All are natives of the old English Caribbean, three from Guyana and a fourth from Trinidad.
While Tenet's book and the four arrests provide better political focus, our position as outlined in other Caribbean Memos and in five historical-political novels remain unchanged.
A sixth one--now being planned and to be written--will be another and a more up-to-date attempt to better define the global threat. Our purpose will be to separate extremist Islam from Islam and then unite Islamic extremism and leftist politics.
Our five novels can be viewed on the WebSite:natcarnes.com. In Puerto Rico, the novel `San Juan' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel bookshop in San Juan. Also take a look at our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com].
With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
From: News Center Publications
Subject: June Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Small extremist groups--a mix of Islam and leftists--are on the attack against the West with two ideas in mind: to destroy democratic institutions and to control the world.
We at News Center Publications have long believed that to be true.
A new book and the recent arrest of four men from the Caribbean underline our position.
Former CIA chief George Tenet, who wrote `At the Center of the Storm,' says "today's terrorists are interconnected," much like Internet users. For years, he said, "I tried to convince two administrations [one Democrat, one Republican] the terrorist threat was SEAMLESS" or without boundary.
In short, "the world has one single war-theater."
After the book's release, the FBI announced the arrest of four men who allegedly planned to blow-up a fuel pipeline connection at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport. All are natives of the old English Caribbean, three from Guyana and a fourth from Trinidad.
While Tenet's book and the four arrests provide better political focus, our position as outlined in other Caribbean Memos and in five historical-political novels remain unchanged.
A sixth one--now being planned and to be written--will be another and a more up-to-date attempt to better define the global threat. Our purpose will be to separate extremist Islam from Islam and then unite Islamic extremism and leftist politics.
Our five novels can be viewed on the WebSite:natcarnes.com. In Puerto Rico, the novel `San Juan' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel bookshop in San Juan. Also take a look at our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com].
With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
It's An Old Story
Date: 31-March-07
From: News Center Publications
Subject: April Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
It's an old story, one that happens all the time in Europe, Latin America, anywhere. And it's carried out by the political left in an attempt to accept little or no responsibility for anything no matter how deadly or cruel.
That's our view, of course.
Here is a perfect example.
After an Italian political leftist, Cesare Battisti, was arrested in Brazil earlier this month, the political left reacted as they always do. It didn't matter that Battisti, a member of the Communist Proletariat Party, had been condemned to life in prison for a series of homicides in Italy.
His seizure by Brazilian authorities at a Copacabana Hotel in Rio was reported and called a `brilliant operation.' They acted on intelligence provided by French authorities.
His arrest, according to the left, had little to do with his criminal activity.
The 52-year-old Battisti, they said, was stopped by Nicolas Sarkozy who wants to be France's next president after Jacques Chirac announced he would not seek another term. Before stepping down as France's Interior Minister to become a leading presidential candidate, he reportedly took steps to help capture Battisti to boost his election chances.
In our own hemisphere, the left has applied the same tactic against Chile's Augusto Pinochet and what he did on Sept. 11, 1973.
He stopped leftist Salvador Allende, who wanted to convert the South American country into a second Cuba.
The left points out Pinochet killed 3,000 in the process. For them its apparently okay to kill as long as it's done in the name of their kind of politics.
Why make what could be considered a crazy statement?
Because the left has never questioned Cuba's Fidel Castro, who did away conservatively between 20,000 to 30,000 men, women and children when he came to power in January of 1959.
One of our five novels, `Chile-New York: The Eleventh of September,' describes what happened in Chile during the Allende-Pinochet period. And it should not be shocking to learn the political left sees those events differently, much like their condemnation of the Battisti arrest.
All of our novels attempt to give the broadest kind of historical and political vision possible of events in our hemisphere in easy-to-read narratives.
But don't take our word for it. Get the novel and decide for yourself.
All five can be found on the WebSite [natcarnes.com]. One, `San Juan,' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also take a look out our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com].
With each purchase, let us know and we'll sent free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
Please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
From: News Center Publications
Subject: April Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
It's an old story, one that happens all the time in Europe, Latin America, anywhere. And it's carried out by the political left in an attempt to accept little or no responsibility for anything no matter how deadly or cruel.
That's our view, of course.
Here is a perfect example.
After an Italian political leftist, Cesare Battisti, was arrested in Brazil earlier this month, the political left reacted as they always do. It didn't matter that Battisti, a member of the Communist Proletariat Party, had been condemned to life in prison for a series of homicides in Italy.
His seizure by Brazilian authorities at a Copacabana Hotel in Rio was reported and called a `brilliant operation.' They acted on intelligence provided by French authorities.
His arrest, according to the left, had little to do with his criminal activity.
The 52-year-old Battisti, they said, was stopped by Nicolas Sarkozy who wants to be France's next president after Jacques Chirac announced he would not seek another term. Before stepping down as France's Interior Minister to become a leading presidential candidate, he reportedly took steps to help capture Battisti to boost his election chances.
In our own hemisphere, the left has applied the same tactic against Chile's Augusto Pinochet and what he did on Sept. 11, 1973.
He stopped leftist Salvador Allende, who wanted to convert the South American country into a second Cuba.
The left points out Pinochet killed 3,000 in the process. For them its apparently okay to kill as long as it's done in the name of their kind of politics.
Why make what could be considered a crazy statement?
Because the left has never questioned Cuba's Fidel Castro, who did away conservatively between 20,000 to 30,000 men, women and children when he came to power in January of 1959.
One of our five novels, `Chile-New York: The Eleventh of September,' describes what happened in Chile during the Allende-Pinochet period. And it should not be shocking to learn the political left sees those events differently, much like their condemnation of the Battisti arrest.
All of our novels attempt to give the broadest kind of historical and political vision possible of events in our hemisphere in easy-to-read narratives.
But don't take our word for it. Get the novel and decide for yourself.
All five can be found on the WebSite [natcarnes.com]. One, `San Juan,' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also take a look out our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com].
With each purchase, let us know and we'll sent free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
Please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
Many Think So
Date: 05-May-07
From: News Center Publications
Subject: May Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Many think so. I've heard it repeated many times. Not only is the Soviet Union over, so is that old worn out political Marxist-Leninist political philosophy.
Not so, according to Carlos Alberto Montaner, a Cuban political writer who lives Spain's capital city of Madrid.
In a recent column, appearing in El Nuevo Dia, a large Spanish language newspaper in Puerto Rico, he wrote: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela wants to create a new Soviet-type political bloc in Latin America.
It would be centered in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, and it would include--like the old Soviet model--other countries starting with Cuba and including Ecuador in South America and Nicaragua in Central America. All of them would be under Chavez's direction and control.
Strange? Off the wall?
After all a Cuban anti-Fidel Castro exile said it. But so do two men close to President Hugo Chavez Frias. According to Luis Bonilla Molina and Haiman El Trouche, it's all true. If those three men agree on something, it just may be so.
In a 37-chapter Internet book about the Bolivarian Revolution, Bonilla Molina and El Trouche point out mistakes made by the Soviet Union. Chavez, they say, has learned from these errors.
In doing so, this Latin Marxist-Leninist plans to associate with any political party, any rebel or extremist group, whose leadership and purpose is to defeat the West led by the United States.
There are a lot of loose terrorists hanging around since the old Soviet days just waiting for a leader with oil money. If that be true, Chavez would welcome Islamic extremists in the Middle East and elsewhere to be part of this new Soviet Union based in South America. In other words, the link is there.
In our view, this does not come as a startling surprise.
Before, the Soviet Union used Fidel Castro and the Eastern Germans to carry out a political plan in the western hemisphere. All of that is recorded in two of our five novels, `San Juan,' and `Chile-New York, the Eleventh of September.'
Now, Chavez wants to reverse the process.
President Chavez apparently feels his improved Communist theory will not only work in Latin America, but the World. If true, he would be known as World President Hugo Chavez.
So how should we react?
Montaner thinks Chavez will crash eventually. And we do too. BUT it also means we all have a responsibility and an obligation to take what he says seriously enough to understand this rehash of twisted political thinking. A new novel is being written to explore the tie between Islamic extremists and people like Chavez.
Our five novels can be viewed on the WebSite:natcarnes.com. In Puerto Rico, `San Juan' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel bookshop in San Juan. Also take a look at our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com]. With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
From: News Center Publications
Subject: May Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Many think so. I've heard it repeated many times. Not only is the Soviet Union over, so is that old worn out political Marxist-Leninist political philosophy.
Not so, according to Carlos Alberto Montaner, a Cuban political writer who lives Spain's capital city of Madrid.
In a recent column, appearing in El Nuevo Dia, a large Spanish language newspaper in Puerto Rico, he wrote: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela wants to create a new Soviet-type political bloc in Latin America.
It would be centered in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, and it would include--like the old Soviet model--other countries starting with Cuba and including Ecuador in South America and Nicaragua in Central America. All of them would be under Chavez's direction and control.
Strange? Off the wall?
After all a Cuban anti-Fidel Castro exile said it. But so do two men close to President Hugo Chavez Frias. According to Luis Bonilla Molina and Haiman El Trouche, it's all true. If those three men agree on something, it just may be so.
In a 37-chapter Internet book about the Bolivarian Revolution, Bonilla Molina and El Trouche point out mistakes made by the Soviet Union. Chavez, they say, has learned from these errors.
In doing so, this Latin Marxist-Leninist plans to associate with any political party, any rebel or extremist group, whose leadership and purpose is to defeat the West led by the United States.
There are a lot of loose terrorists hanging around since the old Soviet days just waiting for a leader with oil money. If that be true, Chavez would welcome Islamic extremists in the Middle East and elsewhere to be part of this new Soviet Union based in South America. In other words, the link is there.
In our view, this does not come as a startling surprise.
Before, the Soviet Union used Fidel Castro and the Eastern Germans to carry out a political plan in the western hemisphere. All of that is recorded in two of our five novels, `San Juan,' and `Chile-New York, the Eleventh of September.'
Now, Chavez wants to reverse the process.
President Chavez apparently feels his improved Communist theory will not only work in Latin America, but the World. If true, he would be known as World President Hugo Chavez.
So how should we react?
Montaner thinks Chavez will crash eventually. And we do too. BUT it also means we all have a responsibility and an obligation to take what he says seriously enough to understand this rehash of twisted political thinking. A new novel is being written to explore the tie between Islamic extremists and people like Chavez.
Our five novels can be viewed on the WebSite:natcarnes.com. In Puerto Rico, `San Juan' is on sale at the Ritz Carlton Hotel bookshop in San Juan. Also take a look at our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com]. With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
A Hot Debate
Date: 15-Feb-07
From: News Center Publications
Subject: February Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Let's look for a moment at the current debate in the U.S. Congress about President Bush's decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.
To start off with, we have a question about the discussion. Can Middle Eastern solutions be found with so much focus on American troops?
Our brief answer is NO.
Why?
Lawmakers--in this case--are talking like they argue any U.S. domestic issue and such an approach diverts focus on what's happenng there. Admittedly, that's easier, reducing the scope of inquiry to how they might respond to issues in San Francisco, California; Kansas City, Missouri; or New York City.
On the other hand, why can't these men and women do something a little different? Why not dig deeper into the WHY of this CRISIS, this WAR, by attempting to know more about the culture, history, language and politics of the region?
They should if they are really interested in solutions.
Less than a week ago, following a church service at Calvary Baptist Church in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Southern Baptist missionary from St. Louis, Missouri, was asked this same question. But instead of pointing to Iraq, she was asked to comment about Ghana, where she had served nearly seven years. Ghana is in east Africa and speaks English.
These are not exact quotes but she said something like this. `I thought using English and using my education and general knowledge of the world would be enough to get started there. I was wrong. I had to be quiet, listen and learn before I could more foward.'
Here was the next question. Do you think what you learned in Ghana could help in the Iraq debate?
`They are different, but similiar,' she said. By similiar she meant, USE the same starting point she learned in Africa in the Middle East and then move forward.
And we agree.
That's what our five novels about the Caribbean and Latin America talk about. Those principles learned here can be used in Africa and Iraq, anywhere. In other words, our lawmakers should be looking for answers not reducing the inquiry to numbers like in U.S. soldiers.
All of our novels can be found on the WebSite [natcarnes.com]. Also take a look out our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com]. With each purchase, let us know and we'll sent free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
Please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
From: News Center Publications
Subject: February Caribbean Memo
Dear Friends:
Let's look for a moment at the current debate in the U.S. Congress about President Bush's decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.
To start off with, we have a question about the discussion. Can Middle Eastern solutions be found with so much focus on American troops?
Our brief answer is NO.
Why?
Lawmakers--in this case--are talking like they argue any U.S. domestic issue and such an approach diverts focus on what's happenng there. Admittedly, that's easier, reducing the scope of inquiry to how they might respond to issues in San Francisco, California; Kansas City, Missouri; or New York City.
On the other hand, why can't these men and women do something a little different? Why not dig deeper into the WHY of this CRISIS, this WAR, by attempting to know more about the culture, history, language and politics of the region?
They should if they are really interested in solutions.
Less than a week ago, following a church service at Calvary Baptist Church in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Southern Baptist missionary from St. Louis, Missouri, was asked this same question. But instead of pointing to Iraq, she was asked to comment about Ghana, where she had served nearly seven years. Ghana is in east Africa and speaks English.
These are not exact quotes but she said something like this. `I thought using English and using my education and general knowledge of the world would be enough to get started there. I was wrong. I had to be quiet, listen and learn before I could more foward.'
Here was the next question. Do you think what you learned in Ghana could help in the Iraq debate?
`They are different, but similiar,' she said. By similiar she meant, USE the same starting point she learned in Africa in the Middle East and then move forward.
And we agree.
That's what our five novels about the Caribbean and Latin America talk about. Those principles learned here can be used in Africa and Iraq, anywhere. In other words, our lawmakers should be looking for answers not reducing the inquiry to numbers like in U.S. soldiers.
All of our novels can be found on the WebSite [natcarnes.com]. Also take a look out our BLOG SITE [nccarnes.blogspot.com]. With each purchase, let us know and we'll sent free of charge an e-book version. They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
Please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors
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