Para atrapar a un brillante ex-catedrático y terrorista como Ted Kaczynski hacía falta también una brillante y talentosa fiscal de estado como Janet Reno. Reno fue la primera mujer en ser fiscal general. Reno fue de origen humilde y ayudó a la familia a hacer manteca para sobrevivir. Siempre fue una excelente estudiante y estuvo entre las 16 mujeres que se inscribieron para estudiar leyes en Harvard
En vocabulario: churn,
outgrow, salutatorian
The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba; Elián's mother and stepfather had died in a dangerous trip by sea, and though his U.S. relatives had lost custody to his father in court, local officials did not enforce the ruling. Reno made the decision to remove Elián González from the house of a relative…
Reno
enrolled at Harvard Law School, one
of 16 women in a class of 500 students…
… you can do
anything you really want if it's the right thing to do and you put your mind to
it…
Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American
lawyer who served as the Attorney General
of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno
on February 11, 1993, and the Senate
confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General.
Reno en la Casa Blanca junto a Al Gore y Bill Clinton
Reno
was born in Miami, Florida. Reno's mother wrote a weekly home
improvement column for The Miami News.
Janet's father was an emigrant from Denmark
and a reporter for the Miami Herald
for 43 years. Janet Reno had three
younger siblings. In 1943, the Reno
family moved to a house in rural South Miami;
it came with enough land to keep farm animals, including cows, chicken, ducks,
goats, and turkeys. Reno helped her
parents churn butter, which
the family sold to make ends meet.
As the family
expanded, they outgrew the
house and couldn't afford a larger one. Jane
Reno (Janet´s mother) decided to
build a new home herself near the
Everglades, learning masonry, electrical work, and plumbing for the task. The Reno family moved to the house Jane built when Janet 8 was years old. The house would be Reno's lifelong home and a source of inspiration; she later said,
"the house is a symbol to me that you can do anything you really want if it's the right
thing to do and you put your mind to it." The Renos' lot for the house originally was 21 acres, some of which
they later sold to pay for the children's education.
Reno
attended public school in Miami-Dade
County, Florida. After she completed middle school in 1951, Reno's parents sent her to stay with her
uncle who served as a U.S. military
judge in Regensburg, Germany. There, Janet continued her education and
traveled around Europe during breaks
from school. After a year, Reno
returned to Florida where she was a
debating champion and salutatorian
at Coral Gables Senior High School.
In 1956 she enrolled at Cornell
University, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and
earned her room and board. After graduating from Cornell, Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of 16 women in a
class of 500 students. She graduated from Harvard in 1963.
Some of the events
that occurred during Reno's tenure:
The 51-day Waco siege standoff and resulting 76 deaths—the Branch Davidians—in Waco,
Texas.
The antitrust
division brought suit against the software
company Microsoft for violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Act.
Capture and
conviction of Ted
Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
Capture and
conviction of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the Oklahoma City bombing.
The armed
seizure of six-year-old Elián González
and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba.
Un agente federal retira a Elián González
Reno
never married and did not have children. She took Spanish lessons during her time as state attorney. She remained
active after her diagnosis of Parkinson's
disease in 1995; she learned in-line skating in 1996.
Reno
died from Parkinson's disease on November
7, 2016. She was surrounded by friends and family at the end of her life. Upon
her death, President Barack Obama
praised Reno for her "intellect,
integrity, and fierce commitment to justice" and President Clinton released a statement thanking Reno "for her service, counsel, and
friendship."
Janet Reno on Doing What’s Right
The first female
attorney general of the United States, Janet
Reno, discusses one of her most divisive political cases ever: the custody
of Cuban refugee Elìán González.
—We are talking
live with the attorney general and we are talking whether or not the action she
took to remove Elián from that home was indeed reasonable as most of you know
he´s now staying with his father, his stepmother and half-brother at the Wye
River Retreat in Maryland. Miguel Gonzalez must stay in the United States until
a federal appeals court rules on the Miami relatives bid for asylum.
I don´t think
anybody would want to be you at this time. It must be very tough sitting where
you sit.
—The American
people have been very, very wonderful. Some have criticized, others have
supported me but I think deep down everybody understands that we´re trying to
do what´s right. Harry Truman said doing what´s right is easy, trying to figure
it out is much more difficult. But it´s been an extraordinary opportunity in
these last seven and a half years to try to use the law the right way, to serve
the American people.
Janet Reno's career punctuated by highs, lows
… She put some
bad, bad dudes behind bars. Four of the highest crimes prosecuted by Reno's Justice Department imprisoned
some of the country's most notorious criminals: Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber;
Timothy McVeigh, orchestrator of the Oklahoma
City bombing; Ramzi Yousef,
mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing; and Mir Aimal Kasi, who
killed two CIA employees outside the
agency's Langley, Virginia,
headquarters in 1993.
Kaczynski received multiple life sentences and remains incarcerated at a Supermax prison in Colorado…
Vocabulario
Churn: shake (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter.
Outgrow: grow too big for.
"The cradle
which Patrick had outgrown"
Salutatorian: A salutatorian
is a graduate who finished with the second highest rank in his or her class. Only
the valedictorian did better.
Artículos
relacionados
La primera víctima fue Terry Marker, en 1978,
oficial de policía en Northwestern University… Al empezar a abrir el paquete la
bomba explotó. Marker sufrió heridas menores en su mano izquierda… Las
víctimas
… algunas teorías señalaron a Kaczynski como el
Asesino del Zodíaco. Entre las pistas estaba el hecho de que vivió en el área
de la bahía de San Francisco… El arresto
He took that
name in part due to memories of the priest he had befriended as a boy… Pat Morita
Esto es parte del archive: Unabomber
Fuentes
Janet Reno, Wikipedia
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