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AN UNKIND CUT FOR LOPEZ ON SIGN NEAR COURTHOUSE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNld75GKz9MUTfjkupDwYC4DWjTBOAxLUzJPwWYB0Rb_Yfk4goixTXU1hTQcETlnkvJ3ayauTwhbRWzHSYty_jaDw2AudOqaPgNwRvhXlXrbcBXgAT9y5rfiEJEmYNgDOoEjJXfpPKOiU/s1600/signs.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 379px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5734998433641834818" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNld75GKz9MUTfjkupDwYC4DWjTBOAxLUzJPwWYB0Rb_Yfk4goixTXU1hTQcETlnkvJ3ayauTwhbRWzHSYty_jaDw2AudOqaPgNwRvhXlXrbcBXgAT9y5rfiEJEmYNgDOoEjJXfpPKOiU/s400/signs.jpg" border="0" /></a>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br /><div>Perhaps one of the quirkiest defacing of a political sign is the prank pulled on the political signs of Justice of the Peace 2-2 candidate Raul Lopez, who's running as a Republican.</div><br /><div>Now, we have known Raul over the years and would swear under oath that the born-again Christian has absolutely nothing in common with mass murderers Osama Bin Laden or Adolph Hitler.</div><br /><div>Osama was responsible for the Twin Towers massacre where some 3,000 innocent victims perished when they collapsed after being struck by two jet-fuel laden airliners.</div><br /><div>Hitler, well, who doesn't know that he was responsible for killing millions before and during WWII?</div><br /><div>It's difficult to tell what the intent of the prankster was to associate these monsters with Raul, but well, how do you explain insanity?</div><br /><div>Joseph Kony is one of the world's worst war criminals, and many are calling for world leaders to support the international efforts now led by the United Nations and African Union to arrest him and his top commanders and bring his child-soldiers army home.</div><br /><div>The "Stop Kony" movement was launched to make indicted Ugandan war criminal and International Court fugitive globally known in order to have him arrested by December 2012, the time when the campaign expires.</div><br /><div>Now, we don't know where Lopez stands on Kony, but if the defacing of his campaign sign encourages people to join the protest against the war criminal, perhaps it has already served its purpose. No doubt Lopez will have someone go out to the spot across the street from Ernesto Gamez's law office and remove the offending artwork improvisation. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2547457189322178970?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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ZAVALETA'S 40-YEAR WORK OF LOVE WELL RECEIVED
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<span style="font-weight: normal; ">By </span><b>Juan Montoya<br /><br /></b><div style="font-weight: normal; ">They could have been at the park, lounging on their patios on the balmy Sunday afternoon or getting the grill going for the weekend BBQ.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Instead, the standing-room only crowd gathered at the Brownsville Heritage Museum </div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 90px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9GY_dWQKMLZGiAvpiRW1asFHqeCFHiDNeELY-xxGGN5bSCkCCZ-X4xA6-O122ASQZ129SnQ_jFnTmaPQwZ-Ir_KeM-dDf5G7VcylCdl6eoAO0ZcjpHvau2bvmXDJsmWQ0YizY_Y7acU/s200/zavaletabook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5734996949099717858" border="0" /><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" > (the Porfirio Diaz's cuartel next to the Stillman House) and listed raptly as Dr. Antonio N. Zavaleta presented his newly-published book on medicinal herbs used along the Rio Grande borderlands.</span><div style="font-weight: normal; ">"This is not a how-to book, and I am not giving out remedies for any ailments you may have," he told the audience. "People have already called me up from different places asking me how to fix this herb or that one and this is not what this book is about."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The compendium of medicinal plants used along the borderlands is lengthy, some 625 plants are listed in the attractive tome decorated with an original artwork depicting the revered Niño Fidencio administering a treatment using medicinal herbs.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The illustration for the book's cover is by local artist Daniel Maldonado Nuñez titled <span style="font-style: italic;">"El Niño Fidencio Curando con Plantas,"</span> commissioned for the publication of Zavaleta's work. Maldonado was present and receive a round of appreciative applause from the audience.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><div>Zavaleta published his medicinal plant opus through AuthorHouse Publishers in Bloomington, Ind. The 314-page compendium is as its title claims: A (Semi) Bilingual Resource Gu</div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu1xY3a_M82emP8sTqxe2-jojoUnGtN_G8SoK095S5j-HyJW2coiWP3hCwkZj5GNxjtGElgJzYL8zqe9kcuKk6IiXCjN75hNtuoEJkeiCSYMEolSCQR5RLoH1FNhTS9phNNU1THRuBT6Y/s320/yonybook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5734997676790273890" border="0" /><div>ide of the Borderlands, or <em>Plantas Medicinales Fronterizas, Un Guia Bilingue</em>.</div><div>Zavaleta says he started the journey some 40 years ago to this eventual publication when, as he studied curanderismo (folk healing), he realized that medicinal plants were an integral part of the native healing traditions.</div><div>"You can't study curanderismo without encountering the medicinal plants curanderos use in their remedies, remedios," he writes on the "how-to use this book" preface to the tome. "For 40 years I have collected plants and researched their names and how they are used to treat illnesses."</div><div>He broke the book into five basic categories: English plant names, Spanish plant names, plant pharmacognosy properties; and which specific illnesses or condition the plant is believed to treat in the cultural realm.</div><div> The author is very explicit on what he expects to achieve with his work.</div><div>"The information contained in this book is a virtual treasure trove for anyone who needs awareness of plant medicine or delivers health care to people who continue to utilize pre-pharmacy plant medicine," he writes. "This book provides information that guides both the serious enthusiast through the world of medicinal plants "plantas medicinales" and more finely detailed information by studying specific plants."</div><div>In the 1982 interview, Zavaleta told the Herald that "the use of botanical remedies in the contemporary America is part of the continued cultural Renaissance of man's awareness in his place in nature. This basic need is evidenced in a universal tradition of use that crosses continents, cultures and social status."</div><div>Although the initial shipment of the book at the Heritage Museum ran out before all the audience could purchase their copy, staffers there said they would gladly order them their copy and they would even foot the shipment if they so desired. Among the audience were local plant healers, academics and medical doctors. </div><div>You can purchase the book through Amazon.com, Barnes&Nobles.com and can be ordered through the UTB-TSC bookstore.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8138254992487735192?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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