Cena de Aniversario - CAMACOL - Anniversary Dinner

 

Our Honorees For 2013

Entrepreneur of the Year / Empresaria del Año

Dr. Martha Lima – Continuous Home Care Services

 

Distributor Company of the Year / Compañia Distribuidora del Año

Gold Coast Beverages Distributors

 Producer of the Year / Productor del Año

Mr. Jose Luis Martinez - Independent Producer

 Executive of the Year / Ejecutiva del Año

Ms. Carolina Rendeiro - Right Space Management, Inc.

Professional of the Year – Profesional del Año

Mr. Jose Gregorio Tovar Del Corral - Arias Tovar & Associates, P.A.

 Industry of the Year / Industria del Año
 

Pepperidge Farm

 

 

 Cost per person: $100.00     Tables for 10 guests: $1,000.00 

We will have open bar, live music and dancing.

Attached please find the invitation with all the details.

Attire:  Business Suit / Cocktail Dress.

Exportaciones polacas a USA crecieron el 33% en el primer semestre del2013

Poland’s exports to U.S. increased 33.06 percent through the first six months of 2013

Thursday, August 01, 2013

Poland’s exports to U.S. increased 33.06 percent through the first six months of 2013

 

Poland’s trade with the United States rose to $4,403,446,015 through the first six months of 2013, according to a World City analysis of latest U.S. Census Bureau data.   That’s 13.89 percent above its total trade during the same time period last year. Poland’s exports increased 33.06 percent ($2,319,468,376) while imports rose 0.83 percent ($2,083,977,639).   The U.S. deficit with Poland was $235,490,737.   

 

Taking a closer look at the leading U.S. regions for U.S. trade with Poland:

South Region represented about 37.55% of total export to U.S.($870,890,741), while Northeast Region 32.27% ($748,394,708).  Above mentioned two regions, are responsible for about 69.82% of total export from Poland to U.S.

Through June, Poland’s top U.S. Customs districts for total imports and exports were No. 1 New York City, No. 2 Chicago and No. 3 Seattle.

 

The top five U.S. exports to Poland by value through June were aircraft; soybean oilcake, other solid residue, not ground; aircraft parts; landline, cellular phone equipment; and coal, briquettes, respectively.

The value of the top five U.S. imports from Poland -- aircraft engines, parts; Landline, cellular phone equipment; furniture, parts; Gasoline, other fuels; and motor vehicle parts -- accounted for $808,711,307 that’s 38.8 percent of all inbound shipments.

In the latest 2012 annual figures available, total U.S. exports to Poland were $3,361,408,968 and imports from Poland were $4,626,301,350. The U.S. deficit with Poland was $-1,264,892,382.

Celebración en CAMACOL del Día del Bodeguero

El Día del Bodeguero en CAMACOL

From Bloomberg BusinessWeek:The Bradley Manning Verdict and the Wisdom of Judicial Statesmanship

Politics & Policy

By Paul M. Barrett

July 30, 2013

 

The military judge who found U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning guilty of violating the Espionage Act—but not guilty of even more serious charges—exercised a form of legal statesmanship that provides a potential model for the equally explosive National Security Agency leak case.

The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, concluded that Manning violated the Espionage Act when he disclosed hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, while acquitting the self-styled whistleblower of “aiding the enemy,” which would have made him eligible for a life sentence. Before the announcement of Lind’s verdict today, Manning had already pleaded guilty to a lesser version of the charges he was facing, and he still could end up spending decades behind bars when he is sentenced. Despite Manning’s guilty plea, the government tried him on the Espionage Act and aiding-the-enemy counts.

Lind’s verdict essentially split the difference, avoiding what might have been a constitutional collision between the government’s authority to keep secrets and the media’s First Amendment right to disseminate information about powerful institutions and individuals.

 The aiding-the-enemy charge, “unprecedented in a leak case,” according to the New York Times, raised the prospect of implicating any leaker of national security secrets—along with any media outlet that published, broadcast, or digitally posted the leaker’s classified disclosures—in a plot to assist the nation’s military foes. The government’s aggressive theory was that since Manning had to have known that terrorist enemies of the U.S. would be able to learn of his disclosures to WikiLeaks, he committed essentially the same crime as a military turncoat who hands secrets directly to a hostile country.

The Manning verdict bears the strong imprint of common sense. Lind rejected the government’s contention that, by dint of his training in intelligence, Manning knew his disclosures of documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would likely come to the attention of al-Qaeda. On the other hand, Lind found that Manning should have known that his actions could harm the U.S., even if that was not his goal.

Some analysts and activists nevertheless decried the verdict. “Despite the lack of any evidence that he intended any harm to the United States, Manning faces decades in prison. That’s a scary precedent,” Elizabeth Goiten, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, said via e-mail. The verdict, of course, was meant to be “scary.” The judge intended to deter future Bradley Mannings from breaking the law and taking it upon themselves to decide which military secrets deserve exposure. At the same time, Lind made an implicit distinction between a leaker and a direct instrument of the nation’s enemies. In so doing, she ensured that Manning’s admitted misconduct will be punished, without making him into more of the martyr his supporters see him as.

Edward Snowden, the fugitive former NSA contractor behind a separate series of leaks, may one day find himself in a position similar to Manning’s. Snowden would be prosecuted in the civilian justice system, rather than by the military, so he will automatically enjoy protections not available to soldiers accused of crimes. Assuming they ever get their hands on Snowden, the U.S. Department of Justice and the federal judiciary ought to emulate Colonel Lind’s prudence in dealing with him. Attorney General Eric Holder took a promising step in that direction when he told the Russian government that Snowden will not face the death penalty if he’s returned to the U.S. The threat of capital punishment would only heighten emotions and distract from the substance of the case against Snowden.

What’s needed, instead, is a tough, prudent response that clarifies the consequences of clearly illegal defiance.

Barrett, an assistant managing editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is working on a book about the Chevron oil pollution case in Ecuador, which is scheduled for publication by Crown in 2014. His most recent book is GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun.

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