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Healthcare in Immigration Nation – interesting connection for Healthcare and Immigration Reform :: from patchworknation.csmonitor.com
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez not running for governor of California :: from www.scpr.org
Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud – Nativo V. Lopez :: from latimesblogs.latimes.com
Immigrant Treatment in Phoenix Reminiscent of Slavery – By Rev. Al Sharpton :: from www.blackvoicenews.com
What is Next for MySpace Spanish Language Versions in the U.S. and Latin America? :: from www.portada-online.com
The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Today’s White House Meeting on Immigration Reform :: from feetin2worlds.wordpress.com
Hispanics make up majorities at 7 Cleveland public schools, prompting call for special help :: from blog.cleveland.com
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D.C. Metro Crashes Hate Into A Family :: from maneegee.blogspot.com
Latinos and Twitter :: from www.fhhispaniaplaza.com
It’s a win for Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The County Board of Supervisors has voted to give County Attorney Andrew Thomas $1.4 million to enforce employer sanctions laws — and part of that money will go to Sheriff Joe Arpaio to help combat illegal immigration. :: from www.myfoxphoenix.com
Museo Alameda’s exhibit explores influence of Latinos on American music :: from www.mysanantonio.com
Journalists reporting, and surviving, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico :: from latimesblogs.latimes.com
DHS needs to explain restrictions against public and media access to immigration courts :: from www.latinalista.net
100-year-old Luis Salinas celebrates birthday whirling on the dance floor in San Antonio :: from blogs.mysanantonio.com
Adelfa Callejo’s Obama remarks could scuttle Dallas school naming :: from www.pegasusnews.com
State Farm Invests in American Dream for Latino Families
Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress Thursday to pass a new hate crimes law which would allow the federal government to prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability. :: from www.google.com
National Council of La Raza Conference Comes to Chicago – Workshops on home ownership counseling and free health screening for the community :: from www.extranews.net
Consultant, speaker and…Twittero? Interview with Matt Reyes :: from www.cafemagazine.com
Hispanics could make up as much as 30 percent of the student body at Tulsa Community College this year, the result of an effort to increase the college’s outreach to underserved populations. :: from www.tulsaworld.com
Cuba’s Population to Fall Below 11 Million by 2032 :: from www.laht.com
Narcocorridos and Nightlife in Mexicali :: from voices.washingtonpost.com
Mexico fights resurgent dengue fever – on the rise in Mexico and elsewhere in the Americas. :: from www.miamiherald.com
Arrest of Gang Intervention Leader Alex Sanchez Raises Questions, Concerns in Community :: from ofamerica.wordpress.com
15 year old Texan Javier Fernández-Han Invents Algae-Powered Energy System :: from www.inhabitat.com
With Villarraigosa out of the CA Governor’s Race, will Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez jump in? :: from latinopoliticsblog.com
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Rodrigo y Gabriela Announce New Album And Tour Dates :: from www.examiner.com
Captan a Luis Miguel con una rubia en Miami :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Jennifer López descontinúa línea de ropa – La crisis económica obligó a que J.Lo abandone su colección Sweetface, que era una adición a J.Lo by Jennifer López :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Nacional’s Pastime – Tomas Cookman’s L.A. label pushes a wild mix of Latin sounds, from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Aterciopelados to Mexican Institute of Sound, Pinker Tones and Nortec Collective :: from www.laweekly.com
El ex Soda Stereo Gustavo Cerati ha terminado las mezclas de Fuerza natural, su quinto disco solista :: from www.efeeme.com
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Salma Hayek Denies Affair with Batman Producer Jon Peters :: from www.latina.com
Behind-The-Set of J.Lo’s New Flick “The Back-Up Plan” :: from blogamole.mtvtr3s.com
El padre Alberto designa a Osvaldo Ríos como su portavoz :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Ivy Queen tendrá su muñeca – La réplica en miniatura de la cantante se llamará Queenie, cantará reggaetón y tendrá las uñas tan largas como ella :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
El cantautor cubano Francisco Céspedes describió su nuevo álbum, “Te acuerdas”, como un homenaje a grandes compositores y a las canciones que le recuerdan momentos íntimos. :: from www.impre.com
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Latinos and Twitter :: from www.fhhispaniaplaza.com
Nacional’s Pastime – Tomas Cookman’s L.A. label pushes a wild mix of Latin sounds, from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Aterciopelados to Mexican Institute of Sound, Pinker Tones and Nortec Collective :: from www.laweekly.com
What is Next for MySpace Spanish Language Versions in the U.S. and Latin America? :: from www.portada-online.com
Telemundo said today it set a ratings record for the debut of its new telenovela, Los Victorinos, which premiered on Tuesday. :: from www.mediaweek.com
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Colombia is the least affected by the trade decline among the top U.S. partners in Latin America. :: from www.latinbusinesschronicle.com
First Ever 24/7 Spanish Language Talk Radio Show Comes to Charlotte!
Jennifer López descontinúa línea de ropa – La crisis económica obligó a que J.Lo abandone su colección Sweetface, que era una adición a J.Lo by Jennifer López :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
AOL Video Search Site Truveo Relaunches In 17 Nations; Lands Deal With Univision :: from www.reuters.com
SABEResPODER selected Casanova Pendrill as its first branding agency after a two-month agency search :: from hispanicad.com
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin is assuming control of ¡Aquí! Milwaukee, a monthly magazine that had been published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Specialty Media Division targeting second- and third-generation Hispanics in southeast Wisconsin. :: from www.bizjournals.com
Chilean Specialty Food Products Take Center Stage at Premiere Culinary Events in New York City
The Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was the recipient of the 2009 Fresno County Board of Supervisors Partnership Award. :: from www.thebusinessjournal.com
Qwest’s Bilingual Call Center Celebrates 25 Years of Service to the Community
State Farm Invests in American Dream for Latino Families
Norsan Multimedia plans to flip Regional Mexican WGSP-AM (La Tremenda)/Charlotte to Spanish News/Talk as “Radio Formula 1310 AM.” :: from news.radio-online.com
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services changed its ratings outlook on Univision Communications Inc. to stable from negative, saying it expects the Spanish-language television and radio broadcaster to remain in compliance with its financial covenants in the intermediate term. :: from online.wsj.com
Consultant, speaker and…Twittero? Interview with Matt Reyes :: from www.cafemagazine.com
Fitch Rates Univision’s Note Offering ‘B+/RR3′; Outlook Stable
Spanish-language publishing company TSJ News Inc. is expanding its presence in the Columbus market by taking over management of a radio station WVKO-FM 103.1 there. :: from cincinnati.bizjournals.com
Mexico’s anti-monopoly agency, the CFC, said Wednesday that it imposed fines totaling 419 million pesos ($31 million) on railways owned by magnate Carlos Slim and mining giant Grupo Mexico. :: from www.laht.com
US Says Trade Liberalization to Reduce Poverty in Latin America :: from www.laht.com
More US Hispanic News –»
New Alliance Hosts Free Home Rescue Fair to Combat Rising Foreclosures in California
Latino Cultural Center Showcases Dallas Artists with 6th Annual Hecho en Dallas Exhibit July 2nd – August 22nd, 2009 :: from www.examiner.com
Financial constraints have forced Centro LatinoAmericano in Eugene to lay off its full-time executive director, Jorge Navarro :: from www.registerguard.com
Annual Fundraiser for Palomita Education Fund Shines in Tough Economy
Another National Association of Hispanic Journalists website #NAHJ09 :: from nahj09.ning.com
BOOK REVIEW: America Libre by Raul Ramos y Sanchez :: from ireadandliked.blogspot.com
Statement of Dr. Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
A new alliance between the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Chile, aims to accelerate progress against cancer in Hispanic populations in the United States and Latin America. :: from www.dotmed.com
LatinoFest stirs some ‘moolah’ into Baltimore’s ’salsa’ :: from www.examiner.com
New Jersey’s first Latina county prosecutor takes the high road – Camelia M. Valdes :: from www.examiner.com
Sotomayor Ruling Exposes Racial Split in Firehouses :: from www.bloomberg.com
Latino Baseball Players And The Hall Of Fame | NPR :: from www.npr.org
Viva South Toledo Community Development Corp’s Annual Mexican American Fiesta June 26-June 27 :: from www.portclintonnewsherald.com
The YMCA of Greater Cincinnati is expanding its Black Achievers Program to include young Latinos as well. :: from www.bizjournals.com
Nine 2009 Latino high school graduates were honored by State Farm Insurance along with the Latin-Anglo Alliance Foundation at State Farm’s annual banquet Wednesday night. – Grand Junction, Colorado :: from www.gjsentinel.com
Latino Leadership will host a community expo Saturday (June 28th, 2009) at Orlando Fashion Square mall with an eye toward helping Central Floridians weather the recession. :: from www.orlandosentinel.com
Cristina Acosta: Luminous Work, Lasting Art – Exhibit: Reshaping the Divine – Contemporary Hispanic Retablos Exploring the Divine Feminine – El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico :: from labloga.blogspot.com
Mexican soccer must have U.S. appeal :: from southchicagoan.blogspot.com
Crooks preying on Hispanic residents, Memphis police say :: from www.commercialappeal.com
Puerto Rico Governor Presses for Referendum on Political Status :: from www.laht.com
Writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 1994 Cervantes Prize winner, said Tuesday that when he was starting out he “never” thought he would find an editor for his works and thought he would have to pay to have them published “like all the other Peruvian writers” of his time. :: from www.laht.com
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International News –»
Colombia is the least affected by the trade decline among the top U.S. partners in Latin America. :: from www.latinbusinesschronicle.com
Journalists reporting, and surviving, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico :: from latimesblogs.latimes.com
Thousands of Hondurans marched Tuesday in San Pedro Sula, the country’s second-largest city, to protest President Manuel Zelaya’s plan to convene a Constitutional Assembly to reform the current charter. :: from www.laht.com
Honduran Military Chiefs Quit In Growing Controversy Over Referendum On Constitutional Reforms :: from www.cbsnews.com
Cuba’s Population to Fall Below 11 Million by 2032 :: from www.laht.com
Mexico President Felipe Calderon says drug war threatens democracy :: from www.elpasotimes.com
Narcocorridos and Nightlife in Mexicali :: from voices.washingtonpost.com
Crisis in Honduras :: from www.bloggingsbyboz.com
Mexico fights resurgent dengue fever – on the rise in Mexico and elsewhere in the Americas. :: from www.miamiherald.com
Venezuela Confirms Pending Normalization of Ties with US :: from www.laht.com
Mexico’s anti-monopoly agency, the CFC, said Wednesday that it imposed fines totaling 419 million pesos ($31 million) on railways owned by magnate Carlos Slim and mining giant Grupo Mexico. :: from www.laht.com
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- November 20, 2009
- Police in Peru say gang members killed people to drain their fat for cosmetics
- Mexican authorities predict fewer Mexican immigrants will be back home for Christmas
- Interview with Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of La Casa Azul Bookstore – NYC
- We need an honest definition of who is a “real American”
- Immigration Reform: The Phone Call Heard Around the Country – On the call were Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.; and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz. Immigrant rights advocates from various parts of the country also spoke.
- Digital out-of-home (DOOH) Effectively Reaches Latinos On The Go – few marketers truly utilized digital media when reaching out to the Hispanic community.
- A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate.
- ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announces 1,000 new workplace audits to hold employers accountable for their hiring practices
- In Virtual Town Hall with Immigration Reform Activists, Gutierrez Promises Bill By December
- Economic Blame Game: U.S. Unemployment is Not Caused by Immigration
- November 19, 2009
- Shakira Refuses To Do Interviews In Spanish
- BMI Foundation Announces Opening of 7th Annual peermusic Latin Scholarship Competition
- Video: Sofia Vergara’s “Modern Family” Costar Trashes her on “Chelsea Lately”
- The Cuban band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro can legitimately claim to be inventors of salsa. But it last played in the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and there was no telling when it might be able to return — until the very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba quietly brought the band to New York early this month.
- Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism
- The wave of crime besetting Puerto Rico seems to be out of control with 800 murders being committed here so far this year, but the island’s top police official says the problem does not fall exclusively within his department.
- The University of Panama indefinitely suspended classes on Wednesday after confrontations between students and police during a protest against alleged U.S. involvement in plans to build new military installations.
- There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States
- Over the last 3 years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor, black and Hispanic students, despite an evaluation system that was meant to equalize differences among student bodies, according to an analysis by The New York Times of school grades released this week.
- Who seriously wants the Cuban trade embargo?
- A legislator from El Paso has criticized proposed history and social studies standards for public schools as being unfair to Hispanics. – Rep. Norma Chavez raised the issue Wednesday in Austin before the State Board of Education.
- Farewell to an icon: Artist who tore at racism is buried at 99 – R.I.P. José Cisneros
- November 18, 2009
- Hispanics are 9% of the Virginia’s schoolchildren, but 5% of gifted students.
- A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day
- Analysis reveals driving out undocumented immigrants doesn’t bode well for congressional representation
- After accidental deportation, critics say immigration officials making mistakes – After a Salvadoran man was mistakenly deported, immigration rights activists have complained about toughened enforcement by authorities.
- Governor Deval Patrick urged Massachusetts residents today to avoid getting mired in “the usual debate” over illegal immigration as he gave his cabinet 90 days to craft a plan for better integrating all foreign-born residents into the state’s daily fabric.
- More Americans are playing tennis – The biggest increases were among Hispanics, with 32% more playing the game.
- Mexico’s Juarez on path to anarchy
- Experts warned on Tuesday that the rise in health problems due to obesity among Mexican children, which is considered to be an epidemic, threatens “for the first time” to reduce life expectancy rates in the country.
- The estimated damage caused by the Nov. 7-8 floods and mudslides to El Salvador’s infrastructure has climbed to $880 million, the country’s public works minister said Tuesday.
- Trend Toward Smaller Families in Latin America – The number of people per household in Latin America will fall by 18 percent by 2020, according to a study released in this capital Tuesday by consulting firm Euromonitor International.
- A Woman’s Nation Spurred by LatinaTION
- Sosa Skin Lightening Fires Debate About Afro-Latino Heritage
- Congressman Raúl Grijalva talks to his daughter Marisa about his mother’s influence on his education. – new Historias from StoryCorp
- After two days of deliberations, on Oct. 14 the Mexican Supreme Court made public its decision that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (governor of the state of Oaxaca) is culpable for the human rights violations that occurred in Oaxaca as a result of teacher protests and political and social unrest in May 2006-January 2007 and July of 2008.
- Organizations alarmed by the increased violence against women and others in Mexico are traveling by caravan to demand justice for the victims. – The national caravan, which began in Mexico City, is part of the international Mujeres de Negro (Women in Black) campaign to protest violence against women, children and other vulnerable groups.
- Colombia elige a su nueva reina y ya llueven las críticas – Natalia Navarro se convirtió en Miss Colombia y, aunque era favorita, a muchos no les gusta su lenguaje; en la coronación aseguró que es “cabezona” y “berraca”
- CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave
- The Cuban ties that bind, 50 years on – Visiting her father’s homeland under newly relaxed travel restrictions is both invigorating and saddening.
Latest Essentials
- November 20, 2009
- Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers.
- Some U.S. Democrats see momentum building for an overhaul of immigration laws that would legalize millions of undocumented workers, but analysts say a crowded agenda and struggling economy may once again sink hopes for reform next year.
- The current global crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a report presented on Thursday.
- Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
- Mexican migrants are spending more money on taxes in the United States than on the remittances they send home to relatives, according to a new study by Mexico’s largest bank, BBVA Bancomer.
- Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
- Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez
- November 19, 2009
- TOP Ten reasons you should watch Lopez tonight not Conan
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Report Finds Immigrants Hit Harder During Economic Downturn than Native-Born Workers
- After a 3 year trial of producing regionalized news for several top 10 Hispanic market stations via the Telemundo Production Center in Dallas, the network is reverting to producing local news. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Jose will once again have locally produced news.
- Nacional Records Sampler 2009 | The New Sounds Of Latin Music – 21 FREE mp3s over at Amazon – (cool!)
- Ironically, Latinos should be greatful to former CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs – commentary by Albor Ruiz
- When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues – It was chaos this week in the LA Weekly’s virtual mailroom, which received a deluge of reactionary attitude in regard to Christine Pelisek’s cover story “Chaos in the Casitas: Lawless, south of the border–style speakeasies get a grip on L.A.”
- More Than 60,000 Americans in 45 States Organize for Immigration Reform
- New Report Shines Light on Detainee Rights Violations in Minnesota
- CIS Report Attempts to Erase 100 Years of Data on Immigrants and Crime
- Video: Senator Menendez Speaks on Behalf of Hispanic Farmers’ Discrimination Lawsuit + update
- November 18, 2009
- New Report: More Than 2 Million Hispanic Households With Children Face Hunger – Hispanic households with children experiencing very low food security up almost 50%
- On November 18 at 8:00 PM Eastern time/5:00 PM Pacific, all across the country people are hosting house parties with their families, friends, neighbors, churches, classmates and anyone else who supports comprehensive immigration reform for America.
- Video report of Latina forced to give birth while in chains in Maricopa County, AZ courtesy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio (en Español)
- California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told a group of supporters Tuesday that she is making an unprecedented effort to attract Latinos to the Republican party – in South El Monte
- Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries. – The practice goes back to at least 1991 and includes the release of murder, kidnapping and child rape suspects.
- Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies – Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico’s last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals. – Now new Gov. Luis Fortuno has revoked the reserve as part of a drive to bring jobs and investment for the U.S. territory’s struggling economy. And activists see a broader pattern of looser protection for the island’s environment.
- Deporting undocumented students affects the chances for legal return if Congress doesn’t address it in immigration reform bill
- Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. – Stephanie Rose
- From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take. – This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available.
- Report from America’s Voice: The New Constituents… How Latinos Will Shape Congressional Apportionmention After the 2010 Census
- November 16, 2009
- 15th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio – more than 1,000 professional & student musicians participating – 8-day festival of mariachi competitions, workshops, presentations, serenades & concerts attracts more than 15,000 visitors annually.
- Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – reverse remittances from Mexico
- Scarlet “A” will dominate immigration reform rhetoric – Greg Tejeda on immigration reform & Janet Napolitano’s speech
- The first Texas Hispanic legislators didn’t want to go public when they organized some 40 years ago out of fear they might be considered “un-American.” – Today, the Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) is growing in influence — and raising record amounts of money — as Texas’ population turns increasingly Hispanic.
- Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years
- Oregon universities try to recruit more Latino students – In 2007, Latinos made up nearly 12% of the 12th-grade class and less than 6% of freshmen in the university system. About 20% of first-graders that year were Latino.
- The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
- Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
- Sonia Sotomayor unwittingly adds celebrity touch to Supreme Court
- One of the Republican Party’s most respected and relied-upon consultants has serious reservations about two the party’s biggest names. – Alex Castellanos, a conservative media strategist and regular presence on CNN, raised questions of Sarah Palin’s viability for office and took major swipes at Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist
- November 13, 2009
- ASU, ALRE release major study on Arizona’s Latino population – (direct link to report & powerpoint)
- 10 Latino MLB ‘09 Season Highlights – (some cool stuff here)
- The ‘flea’ CNN’s Lou Dobbs couldn’t shake off – Interview with Roberto Lovato
