“I’m thrilled that the board of Esperanza Unida is allowing me to move forward with this initiative," said Robert Miranda, executive director. "Our partners have invested heavily in this project. We look forward to building a state-of-the-art medical center, complete with a pharmacy and other medical needs our community must have.”

Miranda states that the group is currently working out details regarding the architectural design of the facility and will be presenting to the community what the partnership is proposing as an additional option for medical treatment for the near south side.

“We have a great team of medical doctors supporting this effort with private funds, in addition, representatives of Esperanza Unida and the physicians’ group will be meeting with medical experts in Istanbul and Manisa Turkey, Sister City to Milwaukee. We have tentatively agreed to develop an educational exchange program with a medical school for Milwaukee students who can travel to Turkey to get medical training knowledge”, said Miranda.

The news will take some Hispanic leaders by surprise; some are already inquiring what Esperanza Unida is planning to do with the property.

Miranda said that after the MATC, Bucyrus debacle, he learned that the best way to move the agency forward without haters sabotaging things is to just stay silent and go it alone.

“When so-called Hispanic leaders vote against their own community to bring $90,000.000.00 contracts from a foreign multinational-corporation willing to buy machinery from Bucyrus, failing to understand that those contracts can be used to leverage getting Latinos trained to be welders for the jobs those contracts would have created, then the less these treacherous rascals know about what we are doing now, the better off our community will be”, declared Miranda.

In 2007, Pedro Colon and Peter Earle, both Hispanic representatives on the Board of Directors of MATC, voted against a $1 million dollar welding program from being placed at Esperanza Unida.

The agency sought the program so that people in the neighborhood would be trained to get a shot at some of the jobs Esperanza Unida was helping to create with the $90,000,000.00 in contracts it was negotiating in Turkey. The MATC board following the lead of Colon and Earle voted 5-4 to stop the project.

The contracts Esperanza Unida leveraged for Milwaukee if MATC had voted to place the welding program in the Latino community went to Italy.

 

4/9/2009

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