Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – August 5th, 2008

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• Deadline passes and McCain campaign refuses to answer Latino bloggers’ questionnaire :: P :: en Español :: from www.latinalista.net
• Mexican sex workers want place at AIDS conference :: P :: en Español :: from www.reuters.com
• Mexican on Texas death row set to die amid controversy – Jose Ernesto Medellin :: P :: en Español :: from www.cnn.com
• Mexican police linked to rising kidnappings – Many are afraid to contact authorities about abductions, fearing officers could be involved. The problem is an awkward one for President Felipe Calderon’s drug war. :: P :: en Español :: from www.latimes.com
• US races to erect controversial steel fence on Mexican border :: P :: en Español :: from afp.google.com
• Bird dung means business on Peru island – It’s a dirty job, but people love to do it. Workers toiling 24 days a month loosen, scrape, sift, filter and bag bird dung to make some of the world’s finest organic fertilizer – known as guano. :: P :: en Español :: from www.kansascity.com
• Mexican Enough My Life Between the Borderlines By Stephanie Elizondo Griest :: P :: en Español :: from www.sfgate.com
• HIV/AIDS Stigma Remains an Obstacle to Treatment Counselors Say – Fears Are Common Among Recent Latino Immigrants :: P :: en Español :: from www.washingtonpost.com
• Mexican’s Death Bares a Town’s Ethnic Tension – Shenandoah, Pennsylvania :: P :: en Español :: from www.nytimes.com
• Nearly 23 percent of children in families where both parents were born in Spanish-speaking countries got no vigorous physical activity. Also, two-thirds of them didn’t participate in organized sports. Moreover, among Hispanics, U.S.-born children with foreign-born parents were less active than kids whose parents were both born in the United States. :: P :: en Español :: from ap.google.com

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• Why you should care about what happens to 51 Mexican nationals on death row :: P :: en Español :: from latimesblogs.latimes.com
• From Chihuahua to screwdriver – Ex-Fresnan now finds his voice in Disney’s ‘Handy Manny.’ – Carlos Alazraqui :: P :: en Español :: from www.fresnobee.com
• Latinos’ mass exodus from Manassas, Virginia puts city at forefront of immigrant shift :: P :: en Español :: from www.theglobeandmail.com
• La publicación de “La tumba de Buenaventura Roig”, la nueva antología bilingüe de Martín Espada, es un pequeño milagro para las letras puertorriqueñas tanto en la isla como en EE.UU. :: P :: in English :: from www.impre.com
• A team of journalists supported by the PulitzerCenter is currently reporting from the Petén region of Guatemala :: P :: en Español :: from pulitzercenter.org
• Only about 300 people attend Amercian Idol’s Puerto Rican tryouts :: P :: en Español :: from www.realitytvworld.com
• El consulado general de México en Chicago se convirtió en julio en la representación consular con mayor producción de documentos en el mundo, se informó hoy. :: P :: in English :: from espanol.news.yahoo.com
• Three Latino construction workers who helped build homes throughout the Puget Sound area claim in a lawsuit that they were routinely cheated out of overtime pay and were required to work off the clock and to make cash “rebates” from their wages back to their employer. :: P :: en Español :: from seattletimes.nwsource.com
• Four Spanish publications are now available for London’s booming Latin American community. – Canada :: P :: en Español :: from lfpress.ca
• School administrators brush up on their Spanish – Superintendent Phyllis Wilson said. “Nearly 50 percent of our student population is Hispanic. We have many parents who do not read or speak English.” – Joliet, Illinois :: P :: en Español :: from www.suburbanchicagonews.com
• Brazilian Supreme Court Warns Of Civil War In Part Of Amazon Region :: P :: en Español :: from www.huffingtonpost.com
• Two Florida legislators — Marco Rubio, speaker of the House of Representatives, and state Rep. David Rivera — on Monday accused the agencies that offer travel packages and send packages to Cuba of making false allegations during a trial in Miami federal court to determine the validity of a new state law that imposes high fees and tighter restrictions on that industry. :: P :: en Español :: from www.miamiherald.com
• President Calderon Lifts Regulation Requiring AIDS Drug Companies to Have Manufacturing Plants in Mexico in Order to Sell Generic Meds :: en Español
• Did You Know? The roughly 5% of US Hispanic ad spending that goes to the Web is even smaller than online’s portion of overall US ad spending, which reached 7.4% in 2007. :: P :: en Español :: from www.emarketer.com

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• Salma Hayek and her ex reunite – There’s no reconciliation in sight, but both have agreed to maintain a friendly relationship for the sake other their daughter :: P :: en Español :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
• RBD: “We’re not millionaires!” Maite Perroni y Christian Chávez confronted rumors posted on an internet site that claimed that all the band members were rich :: P :: en Español :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
• Celia Cruz’s administrator is charged with fraud :: P :: en Español :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
• Gael García Bernal to be a dad :: P :: en Español :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
• Belinda’s house burglarized – Several thieves broke into the singer’s home in Mexico City; she was not there at the time :: P :: en Español :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
• HBO Latino Launches Women’s Prison Drama ‘Capadocia’ with National Red Carpet Tour :: en Español
• Disney star Selena Gomez says all of this gossip chatter about a feud between she and Miley Cyrus is nothing more than pixie dust. :: P :: en Español :: from www.nydailynews.com
• PEOPLE en Espanol Names the Best and Worst Dressed Celebrities of the Year :: en Español
• Only about 300 people attend Amercian Idol’s Puerto Rican tryouts :: P :: en Español :: from www.realitytvworld.com
• From Chihuahua to screwdriver – Ex-Fresnan now finds his voice in Disney’s ‘Handy Manny.’ – Carlos Alazraqui :: P :: en Español :: from www.fresnobee.com

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• HITN, the Premiere Latino Public Television Network in U.S. Reveals New Look; Stays True to Its Mission :: en Español
• “If you take one thing home from this conference, remember that cultural credibility creates commercial viability,” Armando Martin, a prominent multicultural marketing expert told a group of approximately 380 retailer, supplier and other marketing executives who gathered here for the 4th Annual Hispanic Retail 360 Summit, July 28-30. :: P :: en Español :: from www.csnews.com
• Chicago electric utility company ComEd has launched a new Spanish-language advertising campaign to reiterate its reliability among its Hispanic customers. :: P :: en Español :: from hispanicad.com
• LatinoBud Relaunched with New Media Spots – Anheuser Busch signs filmmaker Shawna Baca to direct New Media spots for ad campaign to promote re-launch of website :: P :: en Español :: from latinola.com
• Hispanic Media Spending – Online far behind in the media mix :: P :: en Español :: from www.emarketer.com
• Telemundo’s novela “Victoria” wrapped up a 35-week run on Friday night (Aug. 1) with a series finale that grabbed on average nearly 800,000 viewers in the 18 to 40 demo, per the Nielsen Television Index. :: P :: en Español :: from www.marketingymedios.com
• U.S. economic woes hit Hispanics especially hard :: P :: en Español :: from www.nydailynews.com
• Just 5 months after Univision hired him away away from Hearst-Argyle Television, Terry Mackin is no longer president of the Univision Communications’ TV station group. :: P :: en Español :: from mediamoves.blogspot.com
• Sixth Branch Of Latino Credit Union Opens In Winston-Salem – Latino Community Credit Union :: P :: en Español :: from www.digtriad.com
• Tyler Media’s TV gamble pays off – The transformation was tough, but it has paid off, Stow said. T30 is a highly successful Hispanic station and is part of NBC Universal’s Telemundo network. – Oklahoma City :: P :: en Español :: from www.journalrecord.com

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