Abraham ZamoranoBBC Mundo1 marzo 2015
Por "salvajes", por "incivilizados" y por ser de "una raza extranjera", los nacidos en la Samoa Americana no son ciudadanos de Estados Unidos.
Esos son los términos en los que se basó la Corte Suprema a principios del siglo XX para no otorgar la ciudadanía estadounidense a las personas nacidas en estas islas ubicadas en el oceáno Pacífico y que desde 1929 son territorio no incorporado de EE. Read More...
One hundred and sixty years ago, after Union forces had wrested control of the American Southwest from Confederate troops, President Abraham Lincoln appointed a New York judge to write the legal code of the newly formed territory of Arizona.
The judge, William Thompson Howell, was tasked with ensuring that the new laws that would govern Arizona — which was previously part of New Mexico — would fully abolish slavery. But tucked into the 500-page document known as the Howell Code was another provision: a ban on all abortions except to save a woman’s life, under penalty of prison time for doctors who performed the procedure. Read More...