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.

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“He stated that while top Latino leaders such as New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Clinton Transportation Secretary Federico Peña and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., have direct access to Obama, “that is very different than BEING in the inner circle of the Obama campaign.”

”My experience with how the Obama campaign handled the delegate vote on June 1 in Puerto Rico was disastrous,” Ferre wrote. “The principal decision makers, operatives and advertisements were all made in or through Chicago. The result is that [Sen. Hillary] Clinton got almost 70 percent of the vote in Puerto Rico.””*

*From: http://www.miamiherald.com
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