Arlington Schools Candidacy Captures Latino Imagination – Virginia From: washingtonpost.com
Tagged: Bolivia, latina, newspaper, VirginiaPosted on: June 17th, 2008
In Bolivia last month on business, Diego Arias of Arlington County picked up a newspaper and stopped at a familiar face. Prominently placed on the third page, in a section separating winners from losers, was a photograph of Emma Violand-Sanchez.
Somehow the landlocked South American nation that Violand-Sanchez left as a teenager more than four decades ago not only knew about her victory in a party caucus to endorse Arlington School Board candidates but also considered the development newsworthy.
“It’s amazing,” Laura Anduze said, looking at a copy of the newspaper her husband, Arias, brought home. “She must have a lot of people who believe in her.”"*
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