This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. Hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), located in all regions of the country, have successfully forged locally-based strategies that provide affordable housing, foster business development, and provide much needed community facilities, including innumerable charter schools, in highly distressed communities in inner city neighborhoods, rural communities, and also in American Indian areas. In many areas of the US, CDFIs represent a viable alternative to the mainstream banking industry. This volume documents the positive impact the CDFI industry has had in distressed urban and rural areas in the US.

In Central America in My Heart/Centro Am?rica en el coraz?n, Gonzales expresses nostalgia for the beauty of his native Honduras, sharing his passion and sense of loss. Vacillating between rage and undying love, Gonzales's poems express his deep cultural appreciation for the people of his homeland while he reveals their struggles and berates a corrupt and unjust political and economic system. Inspired by Pablo Neruda, Roberto Sosa, and Jorge Luis Borges, Gonzales hopes to lessen the antipathy within Honduras and awaken a social consciousness through his poems, which are presented in both Spanish and English. Gonzales was awarded Yale University's coveted Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 1991 for his anthology of poems Donde el plomo flota (Where Lead Floats). He was the first undergraduate to receive the award.

Al dejar las guerras en Europa, Peter y su madre llegan a Sudamérica, su madre es hospitalizada y él es llevado a un internado, donde al tocar un muro descubre un mundo mágico. En su llegada a los cinco reinos, la maldición de una sequía eterna espesó a romperse y un mago oscuro intentará llegar a él, pero los amigos de Peter y un rey lo impedirán. Una batalla decidirá el futuro del mundo mágico de los cinco reinos. “Las crónicas de Peter”, un lugar lleno de magia, emoción y fantasía.

Como respuesta a la presentacion de un brote de colera en el Distrito IV de yacuiba un equipo de SNS, CCH, OPS, CDC viajaron a Yacuiba el 20 de enero para apoyar el control de la epidemia y realizar recomendaciones para la prevencion de casos en el futuro(AU).