Saturday, March 7, 2015

Juliet Garcia Settles for "Americas Institute" and Free Rent at El Cueto

Photo by Jim Barton, amateurishly
"cutting off" sign
The sign pictured at the left reads "Americas Institute," not the more grandiose "Institute of the Americas" proclaimed in a Brownsville Herald tribute to former UTB President Juliet Garcia, written by Staff Writer Victoria Brito, published August 29, 2014.(Someone at UT may have Googled the original title, finding such an institution already existed in Mexico City.)

 The 2014 article also gushed: 

 "Garcia was the first Hispanic women(sic) to lead a college in the United States. She has been named one of the top 10 university presidents by Time Magazine and has earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Council on Education. Fortune Magazine has named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders."
Juliet Garcia
The woman, embraced nationally as a Hispanic heroine, is lightly regarded locally, considered an egomaniac, who tried to stifle, stymie and squelch the local junior college, or, as Francisco Rendon prefers, community college.

 Notice the absence of a possessive apostrophe in "Americas," as the institute is not owned by a single country, but reaches out to influence an entire hemisphere.
Without fanfare, Garcia's new institute has been quietly located a El Cueto Building, a city-owned property leased for three years to the University of Texas for $270,000.  In a "wink wink" deal, Tony Martinez and the City Commission forgave the ultra-rich UT the promised lease money in lieu of "paving" the parking lot.  The unbelievably shitty job the city settled for is pictured at left.  It would not surprise me if it is city gravel you see scattered on the unprepared surface.  The taxpayers will just have to cough up another $270,000 to cover for the City Commission's infatuation with Juliet and her employer.

 We stopped by the institute at 2 PM Friday to ask Garcia when the paving job would be completed, but the door was locked and no one answered the bell.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 3:53 PM

    The reason the "Institute of the Americas" was quashed is because, as you suggest, they did not even bother to do a Google search. The real "Institute of the Americas" (please see link below) is a world class research institute housed on the pretigious UC-San Diego Campus. Comparing their facilities to the "Cueto Building" is like comparing Brownsville's primary retail business, ropa usada, to Neiman Marcus. This has to be the most pitiful joke ever played on La Raza. However, one thing for sure, the Director of the Americas Institute (sic) receives a big, fat, world class paycheck complements of the Texas taxpayers. UT should hang their head in shame.

    By the way, Jim, was there a sign in the window indicating when the "Director" would be returning to her office.

    https://www.iamericas.org/en/

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  2. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    "Garcia was the first Hispanic women(sic) to lead a college in the United States. She has been named one of the top 10 university presidents by Time Magazine and has earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Council on Education. Fortune Magazine has named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders."

    If you ever needed great proof that the mass media is a lie, I don't know what it would be.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 6:12 PM

    The mass media can be bought.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 6:33 PM

    This is called "The UT Institute of the Americas" and we are yet to know its interests or programs. Julieta continues to reach out to Tony Martinez for "gifts".....rent, property etc, for her new endeavor. Tony is a muse for Julieta.....yet we doubt he knows it. Julieta sits beside the Kardenas Klan and their corruptive management style and we can bet that Julieta's goal in her new job will be to promote herself.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 6:34 PM

    The Brownsville Herald has failed to report anything on this new organization of how the city has supported it by giving away property and tax dollars. When will the Herald give up and stop publication?

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  6. AnonymousMarch 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM

    Another scam perpetuated by Julieta and Tony. When will it stop? It seems as though Tony works harder for UT than he does for the city of brownsville.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 8, 2015 at 5:37 PM

    All the awards Julieta has received was paid for by the tax payers in Cameron County. She is an arrogant autocrat who sought a "kingdom" not a job. All her awards come amidst the lies that she gave to the community....from number of graduates to quality of education. All these awards for Juliet and our kids received a poor education as she forced faculty to pass everyone to keep the numbers and statistics up for UT System. She promised us a quality university and she failed in that job. Therefore her awards are meaningless. As they say in Texas "She is all hat and no cattle".

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