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HISPANICVOICENew York's Largest Spanish Weekly NewspaperOfficial Newspaper of the NYC Hispanic Chamber of CommerceNewtown: Our Final Wake-Up CallBy Bill de BlasioPublic AdvocateThe following is an excerpt from Public Advocate Billde Blasio’s remarks at the Evangelical Crusade Fishersof Men Church in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, where headdressed the Connecticut school shooting and thewidespread issue of gun violence.As New Yorkers, we are not strangers to too manyguns amongst us. We know what it means to have peoplewith guns who shouldn’t have them. We know what itmeans when there is no control of weapons -- both legaland illegal -- and how it affects our neighborhoods, ourfriends, our families.Now, more than ever before, children were lost to us.We can all understand what it would be like to get thatcall telling you that your child is no longer alive.Imagine the pain those parents felt.This and so many other needless killings could havebeen stopped long ago, but somehow business as usualcontinues. It is about dollars and cents. It is aboutmaking money off the gun industry, and it has to endnow. This is our final wake-up call.This begins with the gun manufacturers. They do notneed to sell military grade assault weapons in the UnitedStates domestic market. They must stop. It is up to them.That tragic, sad young man had to simply reach into acloset to get the same weapon used in Afghanistan andIraq. That is unacceptable. The National RifleAssociation, the single strongest lobbying organizationin this country, simply must be stopped. They can nolonger protect an industry that creates death for ourfamilies and our neighborhoods. They can't be tolerated.And the people who represent them must be stopped.We have elected officials from this city and from thisstate, people elected to our Congress, who won't vote foran Assault Weapons Ban, who won't vote to change thestatus quo. We need to address them directly. We need tosay they are putting our families in danger if they don'tchange their ways now.Let this be a moment where we finally protectourselves, our families, our nation once and for all."I want to believe this is notreally happening tome,"said the little girl'sgrandmother, Elba IrisMarquez, who wasdescribed by thenewspaper as drowned ingrief and disconsolate.Sandy Hook shooting tragedyhits Puerto Rico mayor's familyBy Sandra LilleyNBC LatinoThe Puerto Ricannewspaper El NuevoDia reports that one ofthe children killed inthe Newtown, Connecticutschool massacre is six-year-oldAna M. Marquez-Green, thegrandchild of the sister of theMayor of Maunabo, Puerto Rico,Jorge Marquez."I want to believe this is notreally happening to me,"said thelittle girl's grandmother, Elba IrisMarquez, who was described bythe newspaper as drowned ingrief and disconsolate."If my friends can't believeit, how can I?" lamented thegrandmother. "Es un dolor muygrande," said the grandmother,saying it was such profoundgrief.The grandmother, whoherself had been a teacher inConnecticut for many yearsbefore retiring, said to the PuertoRican newspaper her daughterand family had moved back toConnecticut a couple of yearsago after living in Canada, andshe herself had helped themchoose the quiet, nice town.The family in Puerto Ricodescribed an agonizing wait tofind out what had happened tothe grandchildren. Six-year-oldAna has an older brother, nineyear-oldIsaias, and they are veryclose. Elba Iris Marquez says thefamily found out that Isaias wasokay, but then they had to waitand wait to hear about Ana. Theyfinally heard about 4 pm Friday.The family worries aboutnine-year-old Isaias; accordingto the family, the siblings werevery close. Ana was very closeto her grandmother. The littlegirl also had a heart conditionand was scheduled to havesurgery soon.The family says with sadnessthat the deceased little girl, Ana,had lived without seeing muchviolence, even in movies, sinceher mother Nelba did not allowthem to see violent video gamesor movies, according to LuzMarina Leon, wife of MaunaboMayor Marquez.Last year little Ana visitedher relatives in the island at thistime of year. "We made a gingerbreadhouse," said the Mayor'sdaughter, Maraixa MarquezLeon. She added the childrendressed as traditional "jíbaros"and gave the adults a Christmasparranda.13LA VOZ HISPANA • N.Y. DEL 20 AL 26 DE DICIEMBRE DEL 2012 • http://www.lavozhispanany.comLA VOZ HISPANA NEWSPAPER IS LOOKING FOR ADVERTISING SALES PEOPLEPlease call for an appointment at 212-348-8270during working hours 9 to 5 pm -monday to fridayLA VOZHISPANASee our Webside at: http://www.lavozhispanany.com