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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Hispanic-American community.
May 2009 - Posts
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Hispanic Americans are strongly committed to achieving the American dream of a college education, a new nationwide survey by OppenheimerFunds shows. But in a troubled economy, that goal is "under siege," as only a small percentage are able to save up Read More...
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Last week, we highlighted how anti-immigration voices were exploiting the nation's fear of the H1N1 flu to their own advantage. While still no joke (except in biting satire), the flu is an overhyped event used by Republicans to push an anti-immigration Read More...
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New America Media has released a historic poll on women immigrants to America that shows how the face of immigration is changing. A majority of immigrants are now women, mothers, and workers ― stewards of their households. This is the major finding of Read More...
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The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest photographed nuzzling a woman on a Florida beach, has left the Catholic Church to join the Episcopal Church and marry his girlfriend -- a move that attracted a strong rebuff from Roman Catholic leaders. While Read More...
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President Hugo Chávez, left, in 2004 with Gen. Raúl Isaías Baduel, who is now a critic of Mr. Chávez and a prisoner. Mr. Baduel is held with other former officers in Los Teques. Among his cellmates in the Ramo Verde military prison here are a former admiral, Read More...
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In what may be the largest civil judgment ever against the Cuban government, a Miami-Dade judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion to a Homestead man who blamed Fidel Castro and Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara for driving his father to suicide in 1959. ''What Read More...
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Previous estimates of levels of dementia in the developing world may have substantially underestimated the problem, according to research published today. The findings suggest that policymakers in low-income and middle-income countries may need to re-examine Read More...
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In the latest news in the Father Alberto Cutie saga, the Catholic priest who admitted to having an affair and breaking his celibacy vows is joining the Episcopal Church so that he can be with the woman he loves, CNN reported. Unlike the Catholic Church, Read More...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, began lobbying for her confirmation Wednesday, placing what one Senate aide described as "courtesy" calls to top Democratic and Republican leaders on Read More...
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There were unconfirmed reports that one person had died and several homes had collapsed, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. The earthquake hit 64km (39 miles) north-east of Roatan, one of Honduras' Isles de la Bahia in Read More...
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President Barack Obama today nominated Sonia Sotomayor to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, drawing praise from Hispanic lawmakers and advocacy groups, and rebukes from some Republican leaders. If confirmed, Sotomayor, who has served on the federal Read More...
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A unique program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping health care professionals understand and treat patients better by teaching them how to communicate with patients who do not speak English. The three-semester Medical Spanish Read More...
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Federal forces detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials Tuesday for allegedly protecting one of Mexico 's most violent drug cartels in an unprecedented anti-corruption sweep in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan . Soldiers and federal agents fanned Read More...
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wasn't born in Puerto Rico but she keeps in close touch with family back on the island, relatives said Tuesday. The 54-year-old federal appeals court judge — nominated by President Barack Obama to be the first Hispanic Read More...
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Ms Sotomayor, 54, who has now to be approved by a Senate vote, would be the first Hispanic to take the position. She would replace Justice David Souter, who announced his retirement from the top US court earlier this month. Mr Obama said he had chosen Read More...
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Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a Bronx public housing project. Her dad died when she was 9, leaving her mom to work six-day weeks to support the family. Still, Sotomayor went on to thrive in the Ivy League and on the federal bench. Now, she is set for an Read More...
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“The strongest impact we are seeing in the region is the fall in trade volumes. I believe that the “shock” of the contraction of global demand for our goods and services is our most relevant issue”, said Bárcena in an interview with the Cuban daily Granma. Read More...
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The two South American countries are known to have close ties with Iran, but this is the first allegation that they are involved in the development of Iran's nuclear program, considered a strategic threat by Israel. "There are reports that Venezuela supplies Read More...
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From the time of the nation's founding, immigration has been crucial to the United States' growth and also a periodic source of conflict. At the turn of the 21st century, the country has experienced another great wave of immigration, the largest since Read More...
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if (acm.rc) acm.rc.write(); The recently released data show that about 226,000 fewer people emigrated from Mexico to other countries during the year that ended in August 2008 than during the previous year, a decline of 25 percent. All but a very small Read More...
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One recent Sunday afternoon, music blared from a set of huge speakers and filled the streets of Mexico City's leafy Avenida Paseo de la Reforma. A dance instructor in a powder blue suit stood high on a stage before 30 or so people - mostly women dressed Read More...
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The growing strength and contributions of Hispanic-owned businesses to the national economy were in display at National Small Business Week as 12 companies whose owners are of Hispanic background were recognized during the annual event sponsored by the Read More...
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The growth of the U.S. Hispanic population slowed considerably in 2008, with 36 states posting a smaller increase than the year before, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The biggest dips came in states hit hardest by the housing meltdown, Read More...
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At the council’s plenary session this week several draft resolutions lifting the ban imposed on Cuba in 1962 were to be approved for their presentation at the OAS General Assembly scheduled for June 1 and 2 in Honduras. Back in 1962, in the midst of the Read More...
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Further signaling its interest in engaging Cuba, the Obama administration is asking the Castro government to resume migration talks that President George W. Bush suspended in 2004. The move comes a month after President Barack Obama lifted travel and Read More...
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A strong earthquake swayed skyscrapers in Mexico City and rattled colonial buildings in neighboring Puebla state Friday, sending frightened people into the streets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said Read More...
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus met with Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, on May 20 to discuss the coupled future of Hispanics and green jobs. The CHC wants to Read More...
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Chrysler’s decision last week to terminate a quarter of all its dealerships did not hit minority-owned companies as hard as initially feared. But a minority dealership advocacy group is nonetheless upset with the way the company is handling the situation, Read More...
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Soldiers have arrested a suspected drug cartel member listed among Mexico 's 37 most-wanted traffickers, the Defense Department said Thursday. Raymundo Almanza Morales was captured Wednesday in the northern city of Monterrey along with three other suspects Read More...
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The latest name on the growing list of Hispanic contenders to replace a retiring Supreme Court justice is Christine M. Arguello, a U.S. District Judge in Colorado who never let high school jeering get in the way of her dreams. The daughter of a barber Read More...
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It started with a copy machine. Linda Armijo was working in the print shop at her job about 20 years ago when she decided to start a scholarship program for Hispanic students. A co-worker stopped by to photocopy her son’s certificate from Afro-Americans Read More...
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Racist Mexican gangs are indiscriminately targeting blacks who aren't even involved in gang culture, as part of an orchestrated ethnic cleansing program that is forcing black people to flee Los Angeles. The culprit of the carnage is the radical Neo-Nazi Read More...
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Hispanic Viewership for the Week of May 11-May 17: If you thought American Idol was dramatic on its night of the eliminating one of the final top three, you should have checked out the season finale of Grey's Anatomy . Two main characters ended the show Read More...
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Drug gangs have forced open a bloody new front in Mexico's drugs war, extending their battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet northwestern state and further stretching the army. A fight for control of the mountainous state of Durango has killed Read More...
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Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that the United States needed to do more to crack down on gun smuggling into Mexico, but that such assistance in Mexico’s war against drug cartels did not require restrictions on the gun rights of law-abiding Americans. Read More...
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“Latinamerica is not immune to the crisis, but its performance has been far better than would have been in a similar situation ten years ago”, said Sabastano on presenting an IMF report on economic prospects for Latinamerica and the Caribbean. Among the Read More...
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The Economic Climate Index, which is jointly elaborated with Germany’s Munich University Economics Research Institute, ICE, is still far from the 4.6 of July 2008, before the global crisis. “The economic climate in Latinamerica continues to be recessive Read More...
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As the ever-morphing list of contenders for the U.S. Supreme Court caroms around the Internet, two California judges have emerged as serious candidates for the Obama administration -- state Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno and 9th U.S. Circuit Court Read More...
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Actor Robert Redford is partnering the state of New Mexico to produce "Sundance in New Mexico," a hands-on filmmaking program that will work with and train aspiring Hispanic and Native American filmmakers. Officially beginning on Saturday May 16 in Santa Read More...
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President Barack Obama sought last Friday to reassure Hispanics that swine flu will not lead to an epidemic of discrimination in the United States just because Mexico has been the epicenter of the outbreak. At a meeting at the White House, Obama told Read More...
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A prolific writer, his novels and poems reflect the idiosyncrasies of Montevideo’s middle class. Called "Don Mario" by his friends, the moustachioed author penned more than 60 novels, poems, short stories and plays, winning honours including Bulgaria's Read More...
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Armed men dressed as Mexican federal police officers entered a heavily guarded prison in the northern state of Zacatecas early Saturday morning and freed more than 50 inmates, many of whom were believed to be drug traffickers allied with the powerful Read More...
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Thousands of Guatemalans protested on Sunday to demand that the president resign over accusations that he ordered a lawyer killed, a scandal threatening the administration of the country’s first leftist leader in more than 50 years. Supporters of President Read More...
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The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago—18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes' rise, according to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Read More...
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When Venezuelans tune to Globovisión, they see protests against faulty public services or a talk show guest saying Hugo Chávez could be executed by his opponents, just like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Now Chávez seems to be gearing up for a final Read More...
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Daring, painful escapes from Cuba to the United States are not unique: Camarioca in 1965, Freedom Flights through 1973, the 1980 Mariel boatlift and the 1994 balsero exodus boosted the Cuban exile population to about two million. But the most poignant Read More...
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As many immigrants across the country feel apprehensive about divulging personal information to government employees, Census Bureau officials assured ethnic media that the agency protects individual confidentiality. Every detail ― from names to addresses Read More...
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During a press conference in Buenos Aires where he arrived Friday to sign several agreements with her counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Chavez said “we’ve come to ratify the strong commitment of marching side by side with Argentina” towards Read More...
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The slayings of four young Americans in Tijuana sowed fear in Southern California on Friday as Mexican prosecutors tried to determine whether the youths were involved in the country's violent drug trade or innocent victims of a brutal crime. The victims, Read More...
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This was the third monthly contraction in a row after a fall of 1% in the last quarter of last year from the level in the third quarter which had shown negative growth of 0.3%. The National Statistics Institute, INE, which published the provisional data, Read More...
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Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work or stroll through the park. A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least Read More...
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The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their Southern California homes for a night at the Mexican clubs, U.S. officials said Thursday. The victims, ages Read More...
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The most detailed look yet at the genetics of Mexicans is showing significant diversity, a finding that could help point the way to customized drugs and identification of people prone to certain diseases. Researchers led by Dr. Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez Read More...
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A recent national survey found that nearly one in five people has avoided Mexican restaurants and stores in response to the swine flu outbreak. But a similar polling --- albeit unofficial --- of Hispanic merchants and leaders shows it's pretty much business Read More...
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1) Altamed Health Services Corp. Los Angeles, CA www.altamed.org Year established: 1969 2008 expenditures: $93,648,989 2008 revenues: $109,310,740 Expenditure change from 2007: 15.05% Mission: To provide coordinated, culturally appropriate, health and Read More...
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Deterred by immigration laws and the lackluster economy, the population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the U.S. has slowed unexpectedly, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade. Read More...
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A new report from the National Minority Quality Forum finds that appropriate medications for a variety of diseases often are under-prescribed, over-prescribed, or mis-prescribed for African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans. This comprehensive Read More...
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The former Cuban leader accused Mexico of covering up the outbreak in order to avoid missing out on a visit by US President Barack Obama. The minister, Jose Angel Cordova, said Mexico had been extremely forthcoming and proactive over the outbreak. It Read More...
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BBC.adverts.show("mpu"); The Chacaltaya glacier, 5,300m (17,400 ft) up in the Andes, used to be the world's highest ski run. But it has been reduced to just a few small pieces of ice. Many Bolivians on the highland plains, and in two cities, depend on Read More...
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The following events and economic reports may influence trading in Latin American local bonds and currencies today. Bond yields and exchange rates are from the previous day’s session. Mexico: Mexican bond yields will tumble to a record low as the central Read More...
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Blacks and Hispanics lag behind whites for higher-paying jobs at the largest rates in about a decade as employment opportunities dwindled during the nation’s economic woes and housing slump. Census data released last Monday show an increasingly educated Read More...
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The swine flu virus spread to more countries Tuesday as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone realized it was an epidemic. Fidel Castro , meanwhile, accused Mexico of hiding the epidemic until Read More...
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Today's Spanish-language town hall meeting hosted by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is the latest evidence of the White House's active courtship of Latinos -- the nation's largest minority group and a (still) sleeping giant in electoral politics. The town Read More...
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Why are former business executives and attorneys volunteering more time to help their communities? Why do the children of immigrants assume values very different from those of their parents? Why has the size of Japanese families declined substantially? Read More...
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Mexico's government on Sunday called China's treatment of its citizens unacceptable and said it would not participate in a Shanghai trade fair in a dispute over anti-swine flu measures adopted by the Asian giant. Already angered by China's quarantining Read More...
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Cristina Saralegui, a pioneer of Spanish-language talk-shows in the United States, has opened her own television production studio. Saralegui, a Cuban-American known widely by her first name, on Sunday inaugurated Blue Dolphin Studios, which includes Read More...
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About 60 supporters of the embattled priest whose career has been tarnished by a sex scandal held a rally Thursday in front of his Miami Beach church, according to the Miami Herald. Some there said priests should be allowed to marry. The Father Alberto Read More...
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There is no day of greater significance for the Hispanic culture than Mother’s Day, celebrated this year on Sunday, May 11. It represents the day that children thank the woman who not only nurtures and cares for them, but also the heart of their family Read More...
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was so eager to see President Obama nominate the first Hispanic to the US Supreme Court, its top leaders sent a letter urging him to do so two days before Justice David Souter announced his retirement. A spokesman for Read More...
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Mexico announced steps Tuesday to jump start an economy punished by the swine flu epidemic. Cinco de Mayo celebrations, however, will have to wait until next year. Events surrounding the holiday remained canceled even though no deaths have been reported Read More...
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Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant. Many don't see doctors at all, heading Read More...
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Graciela Barrios, an undocumented immigrant with few resources, has long relied on her county health clinic for the advice, the medication and the tests that kept her diabetes under control. But next month, Barrios and thousands like her will be on their Read More...
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The Rev. Alberto Cutié's future with the Catholic Church remained in doubt on Thursday, but there was no question that photos of the popular priest embracing a woman on a Florida beach have fueled the debate over the celibacy requirement for Catholic Read More...
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims some Hispanic employees at a Fresno Sam's Club were subjected to a hostile work environment. The suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court against parent company Wal-Mart Stores Inc. alleges that Read More...
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Obama will ask Congress to help curb the flow of arms to Mexico before seeking any immigration reform. President Obama will ask Congress for $27 billion for border and transportation security in the next budget year, fulfilling a promise to the Mexican Read More...
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As if marshaling for war, Mexico's government mobilized thousands of education officials and parents across the country to swiftly disinfect schools and monitor millions of returning students for signs of swine flu. High schools and universities open Read More...
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Despite frequent Latin American summits pledging regional solidarity and ambitious integration plans, the swine flu crisis has opened up a serious rift in Latin American relations. Angry Mexican officials have issued unusually harsh protests against the Read More...
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The vibrant colors, dynamic flavors, lively sounds, and spirited community that are part of United States Hispanic culture are celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15. This year marks the 40th anniversary of what began as National Hispanic Read More...
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A day after photos caught popular Miami priest and media personality Alberto Cutie in a celibacy-busting affair and cost him his job, the public and clergy appear divided over whether the punishment fits the crime, the Miami Herald reports. Unlike the Read More...
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The career of a 39-year-old priest and media personality in Miami came crashing down today, after photos published in a Spanish-language magazine allegedly captured him having a romantic interlude with a woman on the beach. Cuban-American Father Alberto Read More...
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“The author (of the report) is an international criminal” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. “We do not recognize any political or moral authorities from the government of the United States to create any list, on any subject, nor to certify Read More...
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Low-income Hispanic immigrants in the South are routinely the targets of wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven by an anti-immigrant climate that harms all Hispanics regardless of their immigration status, according to a report released Read More...
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Mexico’s Congress opened a three-day debate Monday on the merits of legalizing marijuana for personal use, a policy backed by three former Latin American presidents who warned that a crackdown on drug cartels is not working. Although President Felipe Read More...
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A government-chartered jet has landed in Mexico carrying dozens of citizens who were quarantined in China despite having no symptoms of swine flu. First lady Margarita Zavala and officials from the Foreign Relations Department waited to greet the passengers Read More...
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The Supreme Court made it easier last Wednesday for immigrants seeking to avoid deportation to get another chance at a court hearing. The decision came in the case of Jean Marc Nken, who came to the United States in 2001 and did not leave when his visa Read More...
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Mexico has approved a Cuban-American with expertise in conflict management as the new U.S. ambassador, the Foreign Relations Department said Monday. Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa told reporters Mexico approved the new U.S. ambassador several days Read More...
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On Sunday, Mexico's health ministry said that the worst of the outbreak had passed, partially because of the shutdowns , and that the virus might turn out to be no worse than a typical seasonal flu outbreak. "The virus has entered into a stabilization Read More...
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Introduction The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May , commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla Read More...
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President Barack Obama pledged Friday to name a Supreme Court justice who combines "empathy and understanding" with an impeccable legal background to succeed liberal David Souter, whose abrupt retirement announcement set off speculation the next justice Read More...
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Mexico chartered a plane on Monday to China to bring home 70 of its citizens who were seized at the airport and quarantined, declaring that the swine flu epidemic was no reason for "repressive and discriminatory measures." Mexican officials also declared Read More...
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Local Hispanic groups gathered Wednesday to support legislation that would grant citizenship to some children of illegal immigrants. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as DREAM and co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Read More...
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