Monday, July 29, 2013

The fear of Sabino's assassins

Source:
This post has been edited, it is not the same one, it is similar, but it was taken from the one above.

The fear of Sabino's assassins


Sociedad Homo et Natura

Fear and terror is not only felt by the Yukpa noways, it comes back the year the city was being built by the Canary Island descendants. In the year of 1872 some troops, commanded by Venancio Pulgar, started to burn the Villa, a territory where Yukpas lived, by 1890 their territory was stolen in the name of "progress" and a "more civilized" culture, and of course power.

Although it is a constant and painful fear, the cards are turning around, fear is now being felt by the ranchers who inherited the stolen lands, whom they are now facing trials for their terror methods, organized crime and the murder of Yukpas. One of the Yukpas killed was Sabino Romero.

The family structure of the ranchers is a closed minded one, they think they are above the law and that the murder of social leaders or Yukpas is not a big deal as long as they support the same law they brake. Those rancher are using all their power in order to keep that stolen land theirs, and with some criminal and indirect methods they send to kill any Yukpa leader who defy them, or corrupt them through gifts like some cows, goats and money.

Moreover, those methods have consequences and the Yukpas aren't falling for it anymore and are being moved by the lost of their leader who died for their land, the libertarian Sabino, a leader who spark hopes into the minds and spirits of the Yukpas.

Plan to exterminate the Sabino's family

The ranchers wont forgive Sabino and the resistance struggle he died for, because nowadays there are organizations that are fighting among the Yukpas rights, making sure the law is respected.

That Yukpa's resistance for their land is also a psychological struggle, because Yukpas who have been corrupted by the treasures of the city, given some power and some kind of social status, are also against those who fight for their land. It is true what some say, if you can beat them join them, and for 123 years, some Yukpas could not resist the temptations of a global culture and their treasure and joined the other side of the struggle, sometimes by being tricked, selling their land for some momentary necessities, or their lack of knowledge in terms of laws.

In addition to the rancher's psychological side, where it seem that their minds are filled with racism and classicism, where the police and military are used to do their dirty work, thinking their status of opulence, power, and impunity for 123 years has been compromised by the Yukpas resistance struggle, fear is what they have encounter, because they know that in their perijanero being, their richness comes from their stolen land and the abuses they have made to keep it that way.

They also knew this struggle would reach a point but didn't know how, when or where.

It was Sabino, his people and the organizations who in solidarity with the Yukpas struggle were growing to a point where now any social leader, or Human Rights agent, or any activist knows about the Yukpa lands and Yukpa rights. A legend that Sabino and his people were bringing back into reality, Guaicaipuro himself, the one who fought against the invasion of the colonist back in 1592.

Sabinos death and some speculations.

Sabino was found dead on the 3rd of March, his struggle made him a lot of enemies, one of them was the Yukpa chief of Tukuko Alfonso Isnopa, one that had contacts with the ranchers and the officials. Some speculations say that 600 thousand bolivares were paid to hit-men and the police in order to kill Sabino, a Yukpa leader who wanted union instead of the division Alfonso Isnopa is promoting.

This speculation has formed a controversy among the Irapa who don't want Alfonso Isnopa to represent them, dividing into other kinds of centers were they are protected by the government, who later can then be transformed into communes.

Then catch is that any tribe that is not in those centers wont get any credits, schools, roads and other aid. If Chiquitin, a Yukpa leader*, would have been able to win 64 Yukpa communities, this division would not happen, but for now, 6 fractions have been created and Isnopa got the Tukuko one, plus other two communities.

kidnapping and witness murder

Since one of the most wanted hit-man was captured by the special anti extortion and kidnapping force, a wave of violence as been released. A special witness was murdered, a cop named Ronald Petit and his son were murdered, and two kidnapping were committed, one that lasted 24 hours the other 21 days. The rumors said that they did not pay the hit-man who is in a criminal group called the Midgets of Aponte Aponte. But this kidnappings were planted in order to divert their attention to Sabino's sons.

All that time was sufficient to criminalize Sabino's tree sons but it was evident that its origins were made by the ranchers, the police and some public ministry attorneys. In the future, when the people around the cities start to care more about this kind of injustices, this would not be that common, but first it has to start by forming a strong Yukpa community and protecting the laws that were made to protect the Yukpa lands and rights.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Memorias falsas en el cerebro

Traducida del sitio:

Neurocientificos plantan memorias falsas en el cerebro.

El MIT estudia tambien la ubicacion de donde el cerebro guarda los rastros de la memoria, ambos falsos y autenticos.


by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office

Este fenomeno de la memoria falsa ha estado bien documentada: en muchos casos de la corte, donde los
defendidos has sido encontrados culpables basado por los testimonios de los testigos y de las victimas quienes han asegurado sus recolecciones, pero luego evidencia de ADN han anulado la condena.

En pasos para entender como estas memorias defectuasas surgen, los neurocientificos del MIT han presentado avances cientificos que pueden implantar falsas memorias dentro del cerebro del raton. Ademas de esto los neurocientificos han encontrado que muchas de estos trasos neurologicos creados por las memorias son identicas en naturaleza con las memorias autenticas.

"Siendo la memoria falsa o genuina, el mecanismo neurologico del cerebro que llama estas memorias es el mismo," dice Susumu  Tonegawa, el profesor de biologia y Neurociencia y principal autor de los ensayos que describen los resultados en la edicion de Ciencia del 25 de Julio.

El estudio tambien provee mas evidencia de que las memorias estan guardadas en una red de neuronas que forman trasos de memoria por cada experiencia que tengamos. - Un fenomeno demostrado por el laboratorio de Tonegawa el año pasado.

Neurocientificos han buscado por largo tiempo la localizacion de los trazos de estas memorias, tambien llamadas engrams. En el par de estudios elaborados por Tonegawa y sus colegas del instituto de Picopower Aprendizaje y Memoria del MIT, los hallazgos enseñan que pueden identificar las celulas que hacen parte de un engram por cualquier memoria especifica y reactivarla usando una tecnologia llamada optogenetics.

Los autores del ensayo son el graduado Steve Ramirez y el cientifico investigador  Xu Liu. Otros autores importantes como el asistente tecnico Pei-Ann Lin, investigador cientifico Junghyup Suh, y post-doctorados Michele Pignatelli, Roger Redondo y Tomas Ryan.

Buscando el engram


Memorias episodicas - Memorias de la experiencia - estan hechas por la asociacion de varios elementos, incluyendo los recuerdos de objetos, espacio y tiempo. Estas asociaciones estan codificadas por un quimico y cambios fisicos en las neuronas, como tambien por las modificaciones entre las conecciones y las neuronas.

En donde estan estos engrams en el cerebro ha sido una pregunta de hace tiempo en la neurociencia. "EstA la informacion esparcida en varias partes del cerebro, o hay una parte particular en el area del cerebro que se basa en guardar este tipo de memoria? Esta pregunta ha sido fundamental, "Segun Tonegawa.

En los años de 1940, El Canadiense neurocirujano Wilder Penfield sugirio que las memorias episodias estan localizadas en el lobulo temporal del cerebro. Cuando Penfield estimulo electricamente las celulas del lobo temporal de los  pacientes que iban a tener cirugia para tratar los ataques de epilepcia, los pacientes reportaban que memorias especificas salian de sus mentes. Luego los estudios de amnesia conocidos como "H.M" confirmaron que el lobo temporal, incluyendo algunas areas conocidas del Hipocampo , son criticas para la formacion de estas memorias episodicas.

Aun asi, estos estudios no probaron que los engrams estan actualmente guardados en el hipocampo, segun Tonegawa. Para hacer este caso, los cientificos necesitan ver como activar grupos especificos de las celulas del hippocampal para producir y retomar las memorias.

Para lograr esto, el laboratorio de Tonegawa recurrio a la optogenetica, una nueva tecnologia que permite a las celulas selectivamente prenderse o apagarse usando la luz.

Por este par de estudios, los investigadores ingeniaron celulas del hipocampal de ratones para expresar el gen de channelrhodopsin, una proteina que activa las neuronas cuando las estimula la luz. Tambien modificaron el gen para que la channelrhodopsin, cuando prendida la luz, produsca los genes c-fos, necesarios para la formacion de la memoria.

El estudio del año pasado, los investigadores acondicionaron al  mismo raton para que le tema a una camara que le proporcionaba un impacto electrico. Mientras esta memoria se formaba, los genes c-fos permanecian apagados, al igual que el gen channelrhodopsin modificado. De esta forma, las celulas codificadas de la memoria trasadas eran "marcadas" con una proteina sensible a la luz.

Al siguiente dia, cuando el raton lo ponian en diferentes camaras que nunca habian visto, estos se comportaban normalmente. Sin embargo, cuando los investigadores le proporsionaban un pulso de luz al hipocampus, estimulando las celulas de la memoria marcadas con el channelrhodopsin, el raton se congelaba del miedo cuando las memorias del dia anterior eran reactivadas.

"Comparadas con gran parte de los estudios que tratan el cerebro como una caja negra intentando acceder desde afuera hacia adentro, nosotros tratamos de acceder desde adentro hacia afuera," decia Liu. "La tecnologia que desarrollamos para este estudio nos ha dado la oportunidad del diseccionar y de incluso jugar con el proceso de la memoria, controlando directamente las celulas del cerebro."

Intruduciendo falsas memorias


Eso es lo que exactamente hicieron los investigadores en este nuevo estudio - exploraron si se pueden reactivar los engrams para plantar falsas memorias al cerebro del raton.

Primero, los investigadores pusieron al raton en otra camara, A, pero esta no le daba ningun choque electrico. Cuando el raton exploraba la camara, las celulas de la memoria eran marcadas con channelrhodopsin. Al dia sigiente, el raton era puesto en una segunda camara, distinta a la primera, B. Luego de un tiempo el rato recibia una carga electrica. En ese instante los investigadores usaron la luz para activar las celulas codificadas cuando el raton estaba en la camara A.

Al tercer dia, el raton era puesto nuevamente en la camara A, donde ahora este se congelaba del miedo, incluso al nunca haber recibido ningun choque electrico ahi. Una memoria falsa fue introducida:  el raton ahora le teme a la camara A porque cuando el choque electrico en la camara B era producido, el raton revivia la memoria del haber estado en la camara A.

Ademas, los investigadores encontraron que esta memoria falsa parecia competir con la memoria genuina de la camara B. Estos ratones tambien se congelaban cuando eran puestos en la camara B, pero no como el raton que recibia el choque electrico en la B sin que la memoria de la camara A fuese activada.

Los investigadores luego vieron que inmediatamente luego de hacer recordado la memoria falsa, los niveles de la actividad neural estaban tambien elevados en la amigdala, un centro de miedo en el cerebro que recibe la informacion de la memoria en el hipocampo, igual como si fuese creado por una memoria genuina.

Estod dos ensayos representan un gran paso adelante en la investigacion de la memoria, segun Howard Eichenbaum, un profesor de psycologia y director del centro de la Memoria y el cerebro de la universidad de Boston.

"Ellos identificaron una red neural asociada con la experiencia en el ambiente, pegando una asociacion de miedo con esto, para luego reactivar la red y desmostrar que la memoria apoya la expresion. Eso, para mi, muestra por primera vez un engram funcional," dice Eichenbaum, quien no fue parte del equipo de investigacion.

El equipo del MIT esta ahora planeando seguir los estudios del como la memoria puede ser distorcionada en el cerebro.

"Ahora que podemos reactivar y cambiar los contenidos de las memorias en el cerebro, podemos comenzar a preguntarnos como si estuviesemos en el reino de la filosofia," dice Ramirez. "Habran condiciones multiples que nos dirijan a la formacion de las memorias falsas? Podran las memorias falsas crearse para el placer y crear eventos artificiales?  Que tal memorias falsas por algo mas que solo contexto - memorias falsas para objetos, comida, u otros ratones? estas ahora nos acercan un poco mas a las preguntas de ciencia ficcion."

La investigacion fue fundada por el instituto de ciencias cerebrales de RIKEN.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Welcome Snowden (opinion article from a Venezuelan)

Article taken from TalCual:
http://www.talcualdigital.com/Nota/visor.aspx?id=88757&tipo=AVA

Welcome Mr. Snowden

by ELIZABETH ARAUJO

I must tell you, because you  eventually are going to be informed about it:  here in Venezuela, espionage is a common practice but not against other countries, but to our own citizens. I have told that in a so called floor number 6 of the CANTV building, there is a Cuban organization that wiretaps the phones of the leaders of the opposition, the government personnel and even their own Psuv party, those who are suspect of changing camps.

I have just been informed about your decision of coming to Venezuela. I heard the news when i was being detoured by the traffic of the expressway because some motorcycle man were surrounding, i don't know why, a girl who seem to be really scared and powerless, because she could not leave her car that was being hit by those antisocial.

Two wimpy "guards of the people" were just giving us orders to take the other route, but none did anything to stop the lynch, frequently the opposite happens when one looks bad at them, then they abuse their power upon you.

Welcome then, Mr Snowden to this country, where the one who won the elections won it in the most dubious way, such a way that the CNE denied to recount the votes as the opposition leader suggested, one that had the signatures and the names of all who voted, differently than relying on the machine, meaning that the one won possible won it by fraud.

But, when to know it, if Mrs. Tibisay Lucena is about to leave, the president of the CNE, and the judges of the TSJ have waited so long that they no longer remember about the case?

In all this, I congratulate you for having a place to go where you can be "calm", free from the government harassment, the one that hired you to wiretap the e-mails and phone calls of some European prime ministers and European citizens, and from an act of courage and honesty you denied to continue doing what was against your principles.

I applaud the government here, because it found the perfect justification to fight against the empire and divert the problems that the Venezuelans suffer: like insecurity, lack of food, the bad electric service, the incredible inflation, the lack of houses, the sad medical care and the bad shape of their roads, for just naming the seven plagues that were given by the "supreme commander".

You come to a nation that its main production is oil and is rich in it, which stands now at a rate of 100 dollars per barrel, something that doesn't mean that we are a rich country. You gonna see it when travelling around the Metro or when visiting one of the predominant barrios, if the presidential guard would let you go out from the agenda they have for you of course.

I must tell you, because you  eventually are going to be informed about it:  here in Venezuela, espionage is a common practice but not against other countries, but to our own citizens. I have told that in a so called floor number 6 of the CANTV building, there is a Cuban organization that wiretaps the phones of the leaders of the opposition, the government personnel and even their own Psuv party, those who are suspect of changing camps.

What are you gonna do about it, Mr. Snowden, because those Cuban agents do the same thing you just rejected with repugnance and had given you this mishap?

Even worst, Mr Snowden: after spying on their citizens, those recorded conversation, the same minister of information, in the most insolent way, praised it, which falls from the same immoral act you denounced.

So far, take this hug Mr. Snowden. You are coming to the Bolivar nation. From the beautiful girls, the great baseball players but also know about the red figures from this week alone. so then Mr. Snowden. Welcome.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Lost dignity, if it existed

Lost dignity, if it existed

Translated from:

Periodico semanario EL LIBERTARIO

by José Ángel Quintero Weir


One thing is dignity, another one, very far is pragmatism.

generally the left and the right define their borders with the ability to move within them, the limits of dignity does not add anything to the formula to make politics, or it becomes an element with a price, and object which value, they say, depends of politics alone, from there life as we know it loses all value, meaning, all dignity.

I was never a close friend of Sabino Romero, I am sure his closest friends and family talked bad about me, It was for linguistic and cultural reasons that we had differences, I mean, Sabino was a YUKPA-KARIBE and all my family was ARAWAKA. Even thou, we all, came to understand that Sabino was the leader of the fight in favor of their stolen land, their aboriginal territories in the actual context in Venezuela. But for them, for those who resist, those conservationist it was not about their land more than their existence, and for that, it is possible that we are now in the presentation of a mutual disrespectful event, in which the mobster boss of the mining companies in the state of Zulia(Arias Cardenas) who wants to dominate all aboriginal lands and whose minion, a cultural tool of his mob(Luisbi Portillo) whom we must recognize that got some deep connections with the aboriginal communities of the mining area of the Maracaibo Lake, connection that, in a greater part, we were responsible.

why does this happens? whats the motive?

As we can easily answer it, the process in which it was taken it kind of complex, cause in this case, the one involve in it, Luisbi Portillo, never understood his roots nor his culture, meaning, that he never learn anything from them, in fact, he never learn from Sabino, who, about two months ago before his vil death rejected any kind of corruption from the government, offered by the ministries of the aboriginals or from aboriginal personalities like Fruto Viva, whom, had the decency of quitting his purpose before the magnitude of Sabino death.

As it is, Luis Portillo is not Sabino, he never understood Sabino, he thought he was the one directing Sabino and his family, and never though otherwise. In fact, after 25 years in the range he never wanted to learn the aboriginal language, cause, by his account, he wanted everyone around to learn from him, not the contrary. Today, we see with pain how he is capable of subdue his back so the mobster boss of the Zulia's mines gives him a medal named after Sabino, as a symbolic representation of what Sabino could have been.

It is painful, sadness, but Sabino lives, and the fight for the Independence of the aboriginal lands continues.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Marina Kue massacre

Paraguay: Anarchist memory of pain and struggle for a year of the Marina Kue massacre

Affinity group Caracolito, Paraguay

In the lively memory of those who fight for the land and freedom, they wont be forgoten: Luis Paredes, Luciano Ortega, Fermin Paredes, Adolfo Castro, Delfin Duarte, Francisco Ayala, Avelino Espinola, Ricardo Frutos Jara, Andres Riveros, Arnaldo Ruiz Diaz, De Los Santos Aguero, names that are gonna be repeated until they become part of our daily fight for dignity and peasant strength opposing the domination of the police and judicial repression.

Names that have become the seeds of the resistance crops. Luis Paredes, Luciano Ortega, Fermin Paredes, Adolfo Castro, Delfin Duarte, Francisco Ayala, Avelino, Ricardo Frutos Jara, Andres Riveros, Arnaldo Ruiz Diaz, De Los Santos Aguero were killed in Marina Kue by the repressive tool for the patronal service and the state, the police, with the same old objective: move them because they were illegally settled, shut them up because they aren't valuable enough, punish them because they were just peasants. And it may made an example, an act of terrorism for those who fight the resistance fight, but they wont intimidate those who are ready to scarify their life for a better life, knowing that death is just around the corner, waiting and spyinging on you all times, and with those acts of terrorism the resistance camp strengthens in solidarity, mutual aid and autosuggestion.

Resistance, not to leave those who gave the order and made it, be free from the social massacre and the selective deaths, that time to time, the oppressive force of the so called evolution of the species wants the ones with just their existence stand indignados against the brutal force of power and the economic golden coins to stop the capacity of a well organized resistance of the ones who work the land for the ones who provide them the material tools, not the spiritual, the engine of the world.

The justice for all those who are massacred in the name of progress will reside in the actions of those who are still resisting the chaos progress creates, and it is in those who still resist that the memories of the fallen ones are still alive and well in the actions of resistance and the hideous death it waits as the repressive force are well fed by greed and the money the few ones throw to them, as hungry dogs who will do everything to also feed their families, the perfect cycle we were born into. Justice for the indignados who fought for their worked land will be to give back the land that they fought for and die for. Justice is the entire movement of solidarity, mutual aid and direct actions that mobilize for the freedom of the peasants that were falsely accused, and the political prisoners of the district attorney. Justice is the struggle made for those who committed the massacre be held responsible for their actions: the pack of patrons, corrupted politicians, crocked police officer, mobsters that oppress the peasants everyday, every time the benefits of the few ones give the order.

Justice and freedom for everybody will be to stop the ecocide that each republic makes in the name of progress with the help of their strong repressive arm, the ones who in the same name of progress destroys the land, moving their people, killing them, buying them with some copper coins. Same as what happened in the conquista and in Africa. the dame struggle different oppressors who will bend over in the name of progress, the system made by the golden one.

The homage of the fallen ones is to resist. Resistance that could teach us how to live in pain and the suffering of those who are tortured and die and those who are still with us, those who know the pain and suffering of those who were killed and tortured for defending their work, dignity and the idea of freedom and the very persuasive democracy needed.

For the land that is the land of those who worked for it, not those who pay for it, better to work and organize, than organize and pay for those who worked. the dilemma, and those who benefit from the stupidity of those who manipulate the message.

Affinity group Caracolito, Asuncion June 15th of 2013

To a year of resistance and the massacre of Marina Kue

http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2013/06/paraguay-memoria-anarquista-de-dolor-y.html

paginas de interes sobre la masacre de Marina Kue:

-Informe de derechos humanos sobre el caso Marina kue

-Declaración de la Articulación Curuguaty a un año de la Masacre de Marina kue

-Para Franco, lo de Curuguaty fue una “negligencia criminal”

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Accion Directa de Alex Schaefer


-El colorear las calles con tiza en los EEUU es ilegal, o selectamente ilegal, y Alex Schaefer lo que hace es expresar su idea, escribiendo en frente a los bancos de Chase palabras como "Fraude", "robo", "mentira" para luego ser interrogado por una supervisora del banco y reportado a la policia, quienes luego le aplican la ley, arrestandolo por "vandalismo" y colocandole una fianza de 1000 dolores.




Sunday, May 19, 2013

Masoterapia en la legislatura de Florida


Pagina del articulo original:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-massage-legislation-human-trafficking-20130519,0,7582455.story

En demanda para combatir la prostitucion, el trafico humano, los legisladores votaron por limitar las horas de masajeadores

By Brett Clarkson, Sun Sentinel
May 19, 2013

Los terapistas de masajes legitimos estan cansado de estos y los oficiales de la ley los ven como potencial para lugares donde se trafican humanos.

Ahora, la legislatura de Florida esta tambien ejerciendo su musculo para combatir el crecimiento de los sitios orientados al masaje del placer adulto, lugares donde el mercado y la señalizacion desvian la mirada para entreternerse mas que para la terapia saludable del bienestar.

En el sur de la Florida, estan conocidos por tener las ventanas tapadas, por los anuncios fluorecentes, por estar abiertos a tardes horas, y por el mensaje sugestivamente sexual puesto en los clasificados de la internet. Muchos esta inscritos como sitios para hombres que buscan masajes eroticos.

Observadores se preocupan que en muchos de esos establecimientos, las victimas son forzadas a ejercer actos sexuales en contra de su voluntad.

Esa racionalidad, basada en numerosos casos de explotacion sexual ocurrido en broteles o burdeles, señalados como masajadoras por todos los Estados Unidos, es ahora oficial en Tallahassee. En la reciente secion, los legisladores unanimemente pasaron una espeficificacion de masajes lejislativa vista por los depositarios como un paso importante. incluso si algunas legislaciones no vayan tan lejos.

Dentro de las nuevas leyes propuestas: ningun lugar de masajadores estara permitido funcionar luego de la media noche hasta las 5am, aunque existen algunas exepciones como los spas dentro de hoteles y los terapistas en los aeropuertos, quienes permiten a los pilotos descansar luego de largos vuelos.

Tambien seria ilegal que alguien viva dentro de los establecimientos d masajes. Esto refleja la preocupacion dentro de la ley que, en algunos lugares, los traficantes encarcelen a los trabajadores en cuartos escondidos.

El diario de Sun Sentinel, vieron los que podia ser un cuarto, lleno de ropa, entre otras cosas de uso personal, en un establecimiento de masajes del condado Broward en los finales del 2012. La trabajadora dijo que nadie vivia en ese lugar, que era un lugar de descanso.

Como cualquier otro lugar de almacenamiento en los estblecimientos de la Florida, todos los negocios estan licenciados por el departamento del estado de salud. En el caso de la mayoria de aquellos que abren a mas de la media noche.- porque es ilegal anunciar los servicion en el estado sin mostrar el numero de la licencia.

pero casos recientes el sistema de licencias ha esado bajo cuestionamiento.

En el 2012, el regulador del estado de salud suspendio las licencias de 161 terapistas de masajes luego de que fuesen acusados de comprar credenciales falsas a un antiguo empleado del Colegio del Bienestar Natural de la Florida, para luego usarlas como credenciales para convertise en licenciados. Desde entonces, el comite que gobierna a los terapistas de masajes en el estado ha revocado o aceptado la confiscacion de docenas de personas- muchos de estos de mujeres Asiaticas.

La nueva legislacion todavia no ha sido llevada a la oficina del gobernado, asi que todavia tiene que ser firmada por el Gobernador Rick Scott. El secretario de Scott, Jackie Schutz, dijo en un email que cuando la tenga. "la vamos a revisar".

"Estoy confiado de que la va a firmar," dijo el representante Dave Kerner, Democrata de Lake Worth, patrocinador de la casa de leyes.

Kerner, quien dijo que no veia indicacion de las intenciones del gobernador ponga el asunto en el mismo contexto que puso la recientemente prohibida ley de maquinitas de internet.

"Tengo que decirles que desde mas de estos cinco años he notado el incremento de las masajadoras y de los cafes de internet en mi districto," comento Kerner.

La especialista de la comunidad Adriane P. Reesey, con el alguacil de Broward y el moderador del condado por asuntos de Trafico de Humanos, llamaron a esta legislacion un "buen comienzo."

"El hecho de que la legislacion haya llegado tan lejos indica que algun trabajo se ha hecho en la calle por gente que ha trabajado fuertemente en desmantelar y dar a la luz los problemas de estos sitios" Reesey comento.

Otros depositarios han tenido la mente abierta, incluso no estando estos tan entusiastas por la limitacion de horas o la escases de mas chequeos estrictos.

Alex Spassoff, moderador legislativo de la asociacion Masajadores de Terapia del estado de la Florida, comento que le da la bienvenida al trabajo de la legislacion. Pero dice que la asociacion le hubiese gustado haber incurrido mas en el chequeo del antecedente de los aplicantes a la licencia - Un costo que les hubiese costado al aplicante unos $80, comentaba. Esta nueva ley seguro sera fallara, comenta, que la legislacion de la Florida parece  reclutante por imponer a los nuevos negocios otro tipo de costos e impuestos.

"La mejor forma de eliminar esto seria el impedirle a esta gente que entren a la puerta," comenta Spassoff, quien vive en Tampa.

Aunque se han visto algunos arrestos, incluyendo ocho mujeres en los establecimientos de Tamarac y Hallandale en los ultimos mesas, el potencial del trafico de humanos en la industria de masajadores ilegal es una preocupacion a lo largo del pais, dicen los oficiales de la ley.

"Creo que el gran cambio, segun nuestro entendimiento, es que es posible que algunas mujeres esten trabajando de esta manera en contra de su voluntad," comento David Rogers, especial agente supervisor del FBI en contra el trafico de humanos del programa de Washington.

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