News (Noticias) for July 17th, 2008

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New Report from Migration Policy Institute - Hometown Associations: An untapped resource for immigrant integration?

Mexican drug traffickers built car bombs, police say

Web developer turned small blog into influential convention - Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the blog Daily Kos

Puerto Rican veterans shorted on benefits

Mambo Italiano: Old Country cooking by way of Latin America

Ex-Clinton aide checked before joining Obama team - Patti Solis Doyle

Five Minutes with Rick Sanchez - The CNN anchor talks about what it’s like to be a Latino in mainstream journalism.

Whites May Exaggerate Black-Hispanic Tensions - Most blacks and Hispanics say relations between the two groups are good

Obama and McCain Expand Courtship of Hispanics

24% of California high school students drop out - 30.3% of Hispanics!!!

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Do Americans Expect Their Business Leaders to Be White? Study Says Yes

Jets, Yes! Sharks, ¡Sí! in Bilingual ‘West Side Story’ Production Planned for Broadway

Mango fest draws thousands to Fairchild Garden - Florida

Metal Mining in Central America: Pain and Resistance

World Court tells U.S. to protect Mexicans’ rights

Pitcher’s toughest test not minor leagues, but Cuban defection - Jose Cordero

McDonald’s franchisee fined $1 million for hiring illegal immigrants - Nevada

Immigration agents arrest 31 in courthouse sweep - Rhode Island

Collin County Commissioner: Bilingual Employees Should Not Be Paid More - Spanish Speakers Get 3 Percent Higher Starting Salaries - Texas

Nearly 300 black and Latino New York homeowners are getting a total of about $1 million from a California mortgage company because they were charged more than white customers for loans. - GreenPoint Mortgage bought by Capital One in 2006

Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial drivers license speak English well enough to talk with police. Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations. Now the federal government is trying to tighten the English requirement, saying the change is needed for safety reasons.

Did You Know? The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated last year that more than 17% of the nation’s 3.4 million truck drivers were Hispanic, as were more than 11% of its 578,000 bus drivers

L.A.’s Wendy Carrillo selected by Sí TV to cover the national political conventions

Local Obama Warriors Strive for Black-Latino Unity - Riverside, California

Candidates Talk Immigration, Economy with Latino Voters

Ex-Clinton aide checked before joining Obama team - Patti Solis Doyle

Ventura County LULAC Members Meet Presidential Candidates - California

Battle for Latino Vote Continues at LaRaza : NPR

State Hispanics may play key role at polls - Oklahoma

Obama and McCain Expand Courtship of Hispanics

Marketwire Launches NoticiasDigitales, the Newswire Industry’s First Real-Time Latin America Digital News Network; Exclusive Deal Guarantees News Publication on More Than 100 Leading Spanish-Language Websites

The US Navy will be featured nationally at this year’s 5th Annual Premios Juventud

Media Moves: Veronica García, Jesús Sánchez & Jaime Cárdenas among Los Angeles Times Latino layoffs

Pressure Is on Mexican Brewers

McDonald’s franchisee fined $1 million for hiring illegal immigrants - Nevada

New Reno radio station targets 35- to 65-year-olds + bilinguals - KJIV

Collin County Commissioner: Bilingual Employees Should Not Be Paid More - Spanish Speakers Get 3 Percent Higher Starting Salaries - Texas

The Paradox of Latino Leaders - Stereotypes and certain cultural norms have worked against Latinos in Corporate America. Here’s advice on overcoming those preconceptions

Nearly 300 black and Latino New York homeowners are getting a total of about $1 million from a California mortgage company because they were charged more than white customers for loans. - GreenPoint Mortgage bought by Capital One in 2006

Do Americans Expect Their Business Leaders to Be White? Study Says Yes

Univision’s Primetime News Magazine Show ”Aqui Y Ahora” Honored with a News and Documentary Emmy(R) Award Nomination - Only Spanish-Language Network to Receive a Nomination from the Academy This Year

Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial drivers license speak English well enough to talk with police. Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations. Now the federal government is trying to tighten the English requirement, saying the change is needed for safety reasons.

Did You Know? The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated last year that more than 17% of the nation’s 3.4 million truck drivers were Hispanic, as were more than 11% of its 578,000 bus drivers

Louis Caldera Has No Comment on Failed IndyMac’s Board

New Mexico State University names Waded Cruzado as interim president

More to Hispanic media than Univision

U.S. studies Ecuadorean’s asylum petition - Estefano Isaias, television station owner

Venezuelan businesses object to haggling

Merchants notice Hispanic trade - Albany in South Georgia

Cuba paid debts with forced labor, lawsuit says

Advierte Mariana Seoane que no aceptaría ser la nueva “Aventurera”

Eva Longoria sacrifica su figura

Lanzarán Los Yonics nuevo disco con canciones de Sanz

El gobernador de Nuevo México Bill Richardson declaró que cada 12 de julio se celebrará allí un día en honor al legendario cantante mexicano Vicente Fernández.

L.A.’s Wendy Carrillo selected by Sí TV to cover the national political conventions

Jerry De La Rosa All-Star tribute CD in final mixing stages

Listo David Bisbal para MTV Málaga Summer

Alejandra Guzmán’s daugther is hospitalized for alleged drug overdose

Urban grit and Latin song at New York International Latino Film Festival

México: 600 policías para Marc Anthony

PENELOPE CRUZ TAKES AIM AT ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ SPANISH MEDIA

TV producer, director Claudio Guzman dies

Narcocarridos sing of violence

Cypress Hill Comes to Chicago - Benefit concert to end latino homelessness

‘Up With Me’ — It happened in El Barrio

A Super Saturday with ‘the baby of salsa’ - interview with Jerry Rivera

Jets, Yes! Sharks, ¡Sí! in Bilingual ‘West Side Story’ Production Planned for Broadway

Anna Estrada - “Sonando Vuelos”

Yandel’s Got Big Brow - Blogamole

We Told You Julieta Was Genial! - Blogamole

Stuntman Manny Siverio makes sure everyone’s safe in ‘Ugly Betty’

Chana’s assault to pop stardom – for real

“Another L.A. Chicano Legend Moves On” - World lightweight champion Mando Ramos, 1948~2008

She’s taking sound steps in pursuit of her dream - Mirayah Rivera radio intern

Latina writer publishes collection of stories - ‘The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans’ By Carmen Tafolla

Home state groups jump-start active citizenship in immigrants - Dallas

Sober lessons from relations with Mexico

Loveland ICE raid nets 18 arrests - Colorado

Spanish adaptation of ‘Wizard of Oz’ comes to Lynwood High - Los Angeles

Mental Health Agency Honored for Work With Its Latino Clients

Viva Raleigh Festival set for Saturday in Moore Square

“Nuestro Campo” Latino youth baseball clinic featuring Braves players, coaches, and broadcasters set for Friday, July 18th at the Atlanta Braves Baseball Academy

Abuse among immigrants more difficult to confront; victims especially afraid to get help

Foundation Unveils Bilingual Scholarship Program for Social Work - Baylor University

Does Eating at Abuela’s Make Children Fat?

Spanish Voice of the Mets Pleased at Growing Number of Latino Players

Hola! Reaching out to Hispanics - Albany Technical College - South Georgia

The first Richmond Hispanic Youth Symposium is taking place from July 16-19, at the University of Richmond. - Virginia

Governor Carcieri convenes panel on illegal immigration - Rhode Island

Amnesty International: Venezuela neglecting battered women

Cornelius police at full force, hire Latino officer - Oregon

La Bloga: Adrian Castro: As the Spirit Moves Him

El Paso delegation goes to Latino Congreso

Hispanic Population Growth in South Georgia

Hispanic service agency faces bleak future - New London, Connecticut

The National Hispanic Medical Association and The New York Academy of Medicine Showcased Health Care Reform for Minority Communities at Policy Briefing July 15

La actriz Mariana Seoane dijo que no aceptaría ser la nueva “Aventurera” debido a sus compromisos como en la música, “todas las que hemos dicho que no, es porque somos cantantes, no porque el proyecto no sea padre”.
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La actriz engorda y se corta el pelo para reflejar el cambio vital de su personaje en ‘Mujeres Desesperadas’ “*

José Manuel Zamacona y Los Yonics se encuentran en pláticas con el cantautor español Alejandro Sanz, para integrar un disco con el que esperan regresar a los primeros lugares de popularidad.”*

Marketwire, a full-service newswire and communications workflow solutions provider, today announces the debut of NoticiasDigitales, the newswire industry’s first real-time business-to-consumer digital news service to publish Spanish-language news on Latin American websites. An enhancement to its Spanish-language press release distribution circuits, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales displays press releases on more than 100 leading newspaper, financial and economic news, and media websites and portals that bring corporate news to millions of influential Spanish-speaking viewers across North America, Central America and South America.

“With the rapid growth of social media and ‘citizen journalism,’ the future of the newswire industry depends on leveraging new technologies to offer effective business-to-consumer news delivery solutions,” commented Marketwire Vice President of Emerging Markets Hector Botero. “Ethnic, emerging and international markets represent enormous, untapped opportunities for an online digital news distribution service, and we are extremely excited to launch an industry first to our clients who target Spanish-speaking audiences.”

Participants in the large web network at the core of Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales include major news media, business, finance and technology websites published in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Examples of participating websites are Caracol Radio, Clarín.com, Dinero.com, El Universal.com and Nacion.com.

A 30-day testing period revealed that between June 11 and July 11, 2008, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales received more than 4 million total impressions from visitors in 21 countries. Thirty percent, or 1.2 million of those impressions came from visitors in Colombia, an economy growing at 6.8 percent a year (two full points faster than the Latin American average); 29 percent, or 1.18 million of the impressions were from the United States; 13 percent, or 520,000 impressions, came from visitors in Argentina, a country that has experienced four consecutive years of more than 8 percent growth in GDP; and 11 percent, or 431,000 impressions, came from Mexico, a country counting the United States as its largest trading partner.

Now, by adding more than 100 websites and 3 million-plus monthly views to its comprehensive Latin America distribution circuits that, combined, reach more than 80,000 media points in Latin America, Marketwire reinforces its position as the leading Latin American market press release distributor. NoticiasDigitales is included in all of Marketwire’s Spanish-language press release distribution circuits: five Latin America/South America distribution packages; newslines to 17 Latin American countries; and its industry-leading North America Hispanic newsline that reaches more than 5,000 journalists and editors through Marketwire’s NoticiasFinancieras news syndicate generating news for print publications with combined circulation exceeding 3 million daily, and readership, including web properties, exceeding 10 million.

About Marketwire

The only fully integrated North America-based global newswire, Marketwire, Inc. is a full-service partner to IR, PR and MarCom professionals seeking top-tier news distribution, media management, multimedia and monitoring solutions. Marketwire’s customer-centric corporate philosophy focuses on being the best by infusing every aspect of its business with the following core attributes: precision, adaptability, innovation and simplicity.

Marketwire delivers its clients’ news to the world’s media and financial communities, fulfilling disclosure requirements in North America in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and serving as Primary Information Provider (PIP) with the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). With a reputation for technology leadership, Marketwire offers innovative products and services — including Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Dashboard Mobile Financial, News Dashboard coverage reports, exclusive access to networks such as the Canadian Press Wire Network, Easy IR and Easy PR workflow solutions, and more — that help communication professionals maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices.

Having merged companies (Market Wire and CCNMatthews) in April 2006, and enjoying a combined history of 25 years of service, Marketwire is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds. Marketwire distributes the majority of press releases issued by publicly traded companies in Canada and serves more than 8,000 clients worldwide through 19 offices on four continents. For more information, visit us at www.marketwire.com. “*

Sí TV, the first media company combining community and content to inspire, empower, and entertain English-speaking Latinos, and Voto Latino, a leading, nonpartisan voter registration engagement organization, announced the results of “Crash the Parties,” a nationwide search for two young Latinos to cover the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as embedded reporters for Sí TV. “Crash the Parties” is the nation’s first multiplatform initiative encouraging American Latinos to take part in the election process through voting, voicing their opinions, and active convention participation. “*

My sports heroes in the 1960’s were shortstop Aurelio Rodriguez of the then-California Angels, Bobo Brazil and Mil Mascaras of TV wrestling, Honey Sanchez and Ralphie Baladeras of the L.A. Thunderbirds roller derby fame, boxers like Ernie “Indian Red” Lopez, “Battling Torres”, Stevie “The Vulture” Cesena, and the most chinnon of the time … MANDO RAMOS.”*

After almost a year of arduous work, Oxfam America will be presenting in Guatemala the photo-publication titled Metal Mining in Central America: Pain and Resistance. The booklet features my photography and the format is based on the same formula used to produce the photo-essays published in MiMundo.org.

The negative impact produced by metal mining at industrial levels in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as well as the many types of local resistance which have sprouted in the region, are documented visually and supported by investigative text throughout the publications’ 72 full-color pages. “*

Only a month to go before the first-year anniversary of singer/keyboardist Jerry De La Rosa’s passing, recording officials are on the final mixing stages of the all-star tribute project.

De La Rosa, a native of Laredo, was an influential keyboardist/arranger whose tenure included stints with Jay Perez, Fandango USA and Los Big Chihuahuas. He passed away at 42 in San Antonio on Aug. 27, 2007 after a lengthy illness.”*

El cantante David Bisbal se dará un espacio en la grabación de su nuevo álbum para presentarse el 15 de agosto próximo en Málaga, España, en un magno concierto organizado por una cadena de televisión.”*

Alejandra Guzmán was shocked to learn that her daugher Frida Sofía, was admitted into the emergency room in Mexico City for allegedly overdosing on pills and alcohol. “*

Tough real-life tales and musical features stand out at the six-day ninth annual New York International Latino Film Festival.

Here is a selection of the features and documentaries. “*

Al menos 600 elementos de seguridad, 300 dentro de la sede del evento y 300 más en exteriores, serán desplegados este sábado durante el concierto que Marc Anthony ofrecerá en el estadio Luis “Pirata” de la Fuente de este puerto del Golfo de México.”*

The United States must take all necessary measures to prevent the executions of Cesar Fierro Reyna and four other Mexican citizens sentenced to death in Texas, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. “*

Mirayah Rivera has big plans, but today she’s thinking small. Listening carefully on her earbuds while watching the sound waves make a bright graph on her computer console, the Jamaica Plain teen is alert for obscenities or “swears,” as she puts it. In her second week of a summer internship with the Greater Media Boston radio group, Rivera, who turns 16 on Saturday, is focusing on the details as she edits songs for FCC compliance, the kind of production skill that will one day, she hopes, land her a job in media.”*

Carmen Tafolla stands on the shoulders of several centuries of storytellers.

About 15 years ago, the San Antonio poet, essayist, children’s author and fiction writer was down in the Rio Grande Valley, searching for inspiration. “*

Download: Migration Policy Institute’s report (PDF) “*

Ordering a cerveza in Mexico has for decades meant buying a beer from one of two Mexican beer companies that control 98% of the market: Grupo Modelo SAB and Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB.

That may be about to change. The purchase of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. by the Brazilian-Belgian company InBev NV for about $52 billion makes it much more likely that both Mexican brewers will eventually get sold as part of the global consolidation in the beer industry.”*

Mexican drug traffickers have built makeshift car bombs to attack police officers, troops and rival smugglers as the country’s drug war turns increasingly violent, the police said.”*

Mr. Chavarría’s group, made up of people from the central Mexican state of Michoacán, worked on getting high school diplomas for its members via Internet classes in Mexico. His next move is to shift those immigrants into high school equivalency tests in Texas.

“I feel more American than many Americans,” says Mr. Chavarría, a 48-year-old legal permanent resident. “I don’t think being an American is a piece of paper. It is the way you do things and think. I like freedom and free enterprise and what this country stands for.” “*

Actress PENELOPE CRUZ fears for her life every time she steps out in her native Spain because aggressive cameramen follow her every move.

The Vanilla Sky star believes dating a fellow Spanish star, Javier Bardem, and the increase of “cheap” celebrity news shows have turned her into a media target.”*