One of the amendments would have altered the platform language in a way that accepted the viewsof pro-choice Republicans, some of whom argued that their position was not respected within the party, and that the "personal" issue of abortion should be depoliticized and removed from the party's foundation document.
The relationship between the political viewsof U.S. Hispanics and the way Spanish-language media outlets cover the issues is a classic chicken-and-egg problem.
The Wiki boss has often said that his free, not-for-profit online encyclopaedia - that now gets seven billion page views each month with in-excess of five million multiple-language entries - was either the "smartest thing, or the dumbest thing that I ever did".