Blogante Essentials for Monday - July 21st, 2008

Special Mention –»

• Campaign Ads Look To Reach Hispanic Voters : NPR # Permalink w/ Excerpt - Featuring me, yep I finally crossed the internet/traditional media border with NPR - I can’t believe that I follow none other than Jorge Ramos in this story.

Blogante Essentials –»

• Los Angeles Immigration Court caseload soars - And wait times are growing because the number of judges has not kept pace. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Book reveals extent of Mafia’s Cuban empire - “Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution” # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• The deportation of illegal workers is dividing Long Island, one of America’s wealthiest regions # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Obama’s Latin policies in play - A tug of war is in progress within the Barack Obama campaign to influence the direction of his Hispanic and Latin American agenda. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Illegal immigrants spurn benefits - Fear of immigration agents means available resources go unclaimed # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• For North Carolina’s Hispanic leaders, the biggest hazards of the job were once long hours. Now, they include death threats. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Jobs For Day Laborers Are Dwindling - Florida # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Hispanic groups unite to register 2 million voters # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Why Won’t Juan Hernandez Come to the Phone? - McCain’s Hispanic outreach chief is both loved and loathed. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Sheriff Arpaio Sued Over Racial Profiling Of Latinos In Maricopa County

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Best of the Rest –»

• A visit with artist Cesar Martinez # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Racial harmony on display at Watts basketball tournament - Los Angeles # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Michigan State attracts Immokalee students to migrant program - Michigan State University College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Shaken and Stirred - Macondo, a New Restaurant, Introduces Itself, and an Avocado Cocktail - NYC # Permalink w/ Excerpt - sounds interesting would love to try one
• Sounding off: The importance of being bilingual # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Oppenheimer: It’s time for Americans to master a second language # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• NY Int’l Latino Film Festival offers reel look at Hispanic issues # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Oil prices threaten Latin America’s economic gains # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Mexico faces new drug challenge: mini-submarines # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Pair run down and killed by driver in Hollywood had 3 children - killed by a drunk, former Marine, Hispanic # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Immigrant arrests sever parents, children # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• A Silent Crisis: The Underrepresentation of Latinos in STEM Careers # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Out of Public Limelight, U.S.War on Immigrants Intensifies # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Immigration frustration stokes fury in Fremont - Nebraska - (exacerbated by the influx of workers with different customs, language and skin tone!) # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• States balk at checking farm workers’ documents # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Though my family enjoyed the movie “WALL-E,” my daughter wondered why they were no Latinos among the people who escaped from Earth. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Broker convicted of immigrant loan fraud - targeted Hispanics - Denver # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Lawsuit: Long Island diner harassed for hosting Hispanics # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• ‘Flood’ of drugs from Mexico linked to area abductions - Georgia # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Magazine cover may help Obama with Latino voters # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Mexican files $75K claim against Gilbert police - Arizona # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Mexican immigrant’s beating at hands of youths exposes racial tensions in Pennsylvania town - Shenandoah # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Did You Know? Latino children have the highest risk for dental problems. Among Latinos, 72% have experienced decay and 26% had cavities on seven or more teeth. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Did You Know? There are enough Hispanics in Rochester, NY for them to have a Latino Night for their Minor League team, with a postgame concert featuring N’Klabe and Milly Quezada # Permalink w/ Excerpt

Entertainment –»

• Ganadores/Winners of the 2008 Premios Juventud # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Salma Hayek is not depressed about her breakup # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Preparan Los Temerarios gira por EU con su nuevo disco “Si tú te vas” # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Lucybell presenta su nuevo disco en Ciudad de México - Primitivo # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Sospechan hospitalización de Alejandra Guzmán # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Juan Luis Guerra makes Latin beats tropical and topical # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Cristian Castro: “My career’s in the toilet” - Pleads Poverty In Divorce Battle # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Though my family enjoyed the movie “WALL-E,” my daughter wondered why they were no Latinos among the people who escaped from Earth. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• NY Int’l Latino Film Festival offers reel look at Hispanic issues # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• What you didn’t see at the Premios Juventud awards # Permalink w/ Excerpt

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Business –»

• In Immigration Cases, Employers Feel the Pressure - But Critics Fault Laws as Ineffective # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Oil prices threaten Latin America’s economic gains # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Lopez Negrete Taps Joseph ‘Pepe’ Machin, José López-Varela as Executive Group Account Directors # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• States balk at checking farm workers’ documents # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Hispanic Nets Gear Up for Fall - Lineups Draw On Old, New Formats # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• ‘The Voice’ of radio: Pair of Memphis stations compete for Hispanic audience - WGSF-1030 AM y WAVN-1240 AM # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• “Premios Juventud 2008″ racked up a Nielsen Media Research preliminary 2.2 rating among 18-49 adults–the second-best-rated show of the night. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Challenges for Spanish television in Mid-South have no barrier - Memphis area # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Generation ñ is regenerating itself; the former magazine for hip young Hispanics is coming back as a website. # Permalink w/ Excerpt
• Latinos not ready for digital switch # Permalink w/ Excerpt

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