https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/ en-us Copyright 2006 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:30:39 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss D-Day is getting close and I can feel the ghosts of 2004 swirling around me. On the night of those elections - 2 November 2004 - I was at Republican Party headquarters. Some of my friends asked me how I... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/11/parties_parties_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/11/parties_parties_1.html Lourdes Heredia Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:30:39 +0000 How things have changed since 2004! Iraq was used to win the elections that year. Has it become a liability today? I feel the new mood everywhere. Last weekend, for example, I saw Heather Raffo's amazing, exquisite one-woman play Nine... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/changing_times_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/changing_times_1.html Lourdes Heredia Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:55:21 +0000 Immigration stirs so many emotions that it is hard to have a constructive debate about it - just ask Lou Dobbs, who had a special programme last night on CNN. It is so controversial that it divides the members of... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/dont_fence_me_in.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/dont_fence_me_in.html Lourdes Heredia Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:04:55 +0000 Making assumptions can be dangerous. Recently I made a big one and it was a Hispanic student, Lorena, who told me how wrong I was. I asked her how the heated immigration debate would affect her vote - and got... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/latino_surprise_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/latino_surprise_1.html Lourdes Heredia Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:02:30 +0000 President Bush said today that "you cannot kick 12 million people out of your country", at a ceremony celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month. He was referring to the 12 million illegal immigrants, mainly Latin Americans, who already live in the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/devil_in_the_detail_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/devil_in_the_detail_1.html Lourdes Heredia Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:26:28 +0000 President Bush has just signed a bill that includes the funding needed to build several hundred kilometres of fence along the Mexican border. The Democrats insist the Republicans are using the immigration issue to win votes, but the bill to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/the_immigrant_vote.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/the_immigrant_vote.html Lourdes Heredia Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:01:34 +0000 I've worked for the BBC since 1997, and, amongst other things, I was the bilingual reporter in Buenos Aires during the build-up to the Argentine economic crisis that consumed four presidents in less than a month. I was born in... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/lourdes_heredia.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/lourdes_heredia/2006/10/lourdes_heredia.html Lourdes Heredia Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:15:00 +0000