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IL DUCE IN 1934: A NEGRO IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 100 YEARS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />No one will credit Benito Mussolini with the gift of prophecy.<br />After all, his quest for a Great Italy based on his "great battles," was a failure. He foresaw that Italy would become a great European power if it won the Battle for Land, the Battle of the Lira and the Battle for Grain.<br />Not only did he lose his battles, but he also lost his life when he and his lover were hanged upside down by Italians who saw their country suffer the ravages of war that impoverished them and placed them under the control of the Allies after World War II.<br />Still, he even made a believer of poet Ezra Pound who recited some of his "Cantos" for the dictator.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpZUnmKvWYcIVZ4dF8bz0LXwXv4DnYvkSarGemoG0KF1RwdnE4jDz1tPZ5OALW3NoxUgaUn79iGUwWNDNNjFIUX84yiC4XUrIwzkUTEohX7omIyXbNviz8bonBr9_Y3nRRtzmshChhlE/s1600/abenito" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hea="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpZUnmKvWYcIVZ4dF8bz0LXwXv4DnYvkSarGemoG0KF1RwdnE4jDz1tPZ5OALW3NoxUgaUn79iGUwWNDNNjFIUX84yiC4XUrIwzkUTEohX7omIyXbNviz8bonBr9_Y3nRRtzmshChhlE/s200/abenito" width="140" /></a>And if we put aside our dislike of the dictator who joined Germany's Adolph Hitler to form the Axis that fought the Allies in World War II, he did have make at least one true prediction: there would be a black president in the United States before 100 years were over.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In fact, in March of 1934, Mussolini was the premier of Italy, having had his fascist party virtually hijack the Italian government and murdered or driven his his opponents to exile. He also was the editor of the Fascist party political propaganda organ <em>Il Popolo D'Italia</em>.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Now, thanks to the research by Texas Southmost College trustee Rene Torres, there has been unearthed an article published at the time indicates that "Il Duce" was a student of history and in fact predicted that â€" based on his study of birth rates in the U.S. â€" there would be a black man as president within 100 years.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In fact, Mussolini was prescient since the fact occurred a full 26 years before the century was past in 2008.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Foj8IxdKQ404OsGo187QGHYVebNaAQyRrxIGPVyK-rKMriKKlT_gSPPJGp-OctBze_zvJAZy3Uj8v_66wZHGc_svypyla1XD4t7JERwNyvA5YX8Y3tIh-66grO-cxwRFiQQEDg4WhK0/s1600/mussolini+3.25.34%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" hea="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Foj8IxdKQ404OsGo187QGHYVebNaAQyRrxIGPVyK-rKMriKKlT_gSPPJGp-OctBze_zvJAZy3Uj8v_66wZHGc_svypyla1XD4t7JERwNyvA5YX8Y3tIh-66grO-cxwRFiQQEDg4WhK0/s400/mussolini+3.25.34%5B1%5D.jpg" width="380" /></a>Now, before some of our three readers take issue with the term "Negro," please understand that in the 1930s there was no such things as political correctness, therefore the term.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Rene will probably spend the rest of his twilight years looking for a narrative of the baseball game played between the soldiers stationed at Ft. Brown under the coaching of Abner Doubleday and a pickup team from Matamoros. Frankly, we have our doubts he'll find it, but then again, over the course of his teaching and public service career he has never taken "no" for an answer.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3870659677570462100?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/09/il-duce-in-1934-negro-in-white-house-in.html
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IN ROBERTO CADRIEL-ERNIE HERNANDEZ CASE, WHERE IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY? JUSTICE DELAYED, JUSTICE DENIED?
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Well, how long has it been now?<br />In July and August of 2011, Roberto Cadriel, a convicted felon and brother-in-law of Pct. 2 Cameron County Commissioner Ernie Hernandez, resigned suddenly from his position as a non-commissioned security girad at the Veterans Memorial Bridge following the disclosures in the local media that someone else might have taken the Civil Service exam for him after having failed it twice.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The commissioners court in September passed on the information to the Brownsville Police Department in September, only to have then-chief of police Carlos Garcia artfully dodge the political hot potato.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">That was more than a year ago. After all that time, there has been little, if any, movement on the case.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And now, after all this time, <em>El Rrun-Rrun</em> has learned that there are affidavits on record from some bridge employees that then-Human Resources director Robert Lopez or one of his representatives had told them that Hernandez wanted his his brother-in-law hired.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">BPD Chief Garcia â€" now at a cushy job at the Port of Brownsville â€" at the time relayed to County Supervisor Pete Sepulveda his reply that the BPD would decline to investigate allegations that another county employee took a civil service test for him.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov6O0-df3k6tJf-WmkHjoPUW5QKRVlZBVGzSWC34vilMOD324Z9DNyIo2JGzxf_HBBSNftRnoEp7SFv9i_Gx9BVhvG3ebrWsmnEbvsItlYyrGGh8h0mOHOg8JzsXBqmwcpcv11-BPjpU/s1600/ernie.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" hea="true" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov6O0-df3k6tJf-WmkHjoPUW5QKRVlZBVGzSWC34vilMOD324Z9DNyIo2JGzxf_HBBSNftRnoEp7SFv9i_Gx9BVhvG3ebrWsmnEbvsItlYyrGGh8h0mOHOg8JzsXBqmwcpcv11-BPjpU/s400/ernie.png" width="400" /></a>That employee since has left the county and subsequently filed for unemployment benefits with the Texas Worforce Commission and stated one f the reasons that her employment ended was directly as a result of her role in the scandal. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">With all those political players involved, it is little wonder that BPD's Garcia wanted no part ot it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"They should contact either the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office or the Texas Rangers to conduct the inquiry," Garcia told <em>The Brownsville Herald</em> at the time.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And, coincidentally, Lopez, the former director of the Human Resources Department, also resigned from his position just as the scandal erupted, ostensibly for "personal reasons." <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Then, in October of that year, the Cameron County Commissioners Court voted to refer the matter to District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos for investigation.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Many things have happened since. Aside from Lopez resigning suddenly, Villalobos has been indicted for racketeering and taking bribes in connection with the conviction of disgraced 404th District Judge Abel Limas. He is due to go to trial in federal court in April, after his term is over.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And now, more than a year after the Roberto Cadriel scandal erupted, there seems to be very little movement in the case. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">With Villalobos' term ending this January 1, will the case linger on the shelf for the decision by the next DA to decide whether to pursue the matter?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And even when Hernandez has said that he didn’t know anything and that neither he nor his assistant or acquaintances had pressed anyone into taking the exam for Cadriel, it's not like there isn't enough proof available that the commissioner may have had a hand in pressuring the HR department and its personnel to give Cadriel a helping hand.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Evidence was presented to the the commissioners that Cadriel had twice taken the exam and twice scored in the 30s. The last examination taken under his name tested in the 90s.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Based on that, Cadriel, a convicted felon, was hired by the county as a noncommissioned security guard to provide security over the pedestrian gate and toll facilities at the international bridges. When he resigned he was assigned to the Veterans Memorial Bridge.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">There was more intrigue to this hiring than the mere fact someone might have taken the exam for him. In his application for employment, he disclosed that he was on probation and that he had been dismissed from the city of Brownsville due to misconduct.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And still, he was hired.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It is interesting to note that when the local daily requested the information related to the Cadriel hiring and the apparent irregularities surrounding it, Hernandez â€" his brother in law â€" apparently took part in the deliberations, later also voting to submit the matter to Villalobos for investigation.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And there we stand more than a year after the matter first came to the public eye. Will justice delayed result in justice denied?</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8584849600408097252?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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