A FORUM FOR COMMUNITY ISSUES : Second Opinion / COMMENTARY FROM OTHER NEWSPAPERS : THE HISPANIC REPORTER : A Known Problem, A Question Mark

(President Bush has not) been notable for responding to the needs of minority communities, such as the Latino.

Although he widely urges the new open-border pact with Mexico as being quite beneficial to Latinos, it may prove quite the opposite.

Work now being done in Los Angeles by Latinos will be at a terrible economic disadvantage when trying to compete with labor in Mexico, with its much lower wages and lack of environmental and health regulations.

(Bill) Clinton is much more of an unknown quantity. He was a Rhodes Scholar, which speaks well for his intelligence, and seems to have been an excellent governor for many years. . . . But Latinos are a very small group in Arkansas. And Arkansas, whatever its progress under Clinton, still remains one of the poorer states.

As election time nears . . . the task facing us, as Latino voters, will be to judge the sincerity of the (candidates’) promises, and the capacity of the candidate to carry them out.