Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts

Monday, May 2, 2011

America celebrates the death of the enemy n ° 1

Jubilant crowds outside the White House Thousands of people at Ground Zero to mark the death of Osama Bin Laden. Almost 10 years from the attack against the Twin Towers, New York took to the streets: horn ring the city. Singing the national anthem and shouting 'Yes we can', New Yorkers celebrated the death of the author of the attack the deadliest on U.S.

soil. Some people get wrapped in the American flag, who cries, who remembers the victims of flowers and candles. Here's the BBC news with links from Ground Zero and One encompasses Washington, singing 'USA USA'. There are those who arrived in pajamas and left the restaurant to find themselves, spontaneously, in the place cell tragedy.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The contradictions in Washington DC / 2

For many years, crime in Washington DC was American as apple pie. In the same hours of the arrest of Mayor Vincent Gray, of which I spoke in the first of these two bets, your favorite blogger was under Capitol Hill for a brief visit, the third within two decades. The city is historically famous for its crime rate among the highest in America, a result of the race riots of 1968 and the crack epidemic of the eighties, which led to the end of last century, particularly the emptying of entire neighborhoods by white, with a loss of 200,000 people in 800,000.