Awesome is all I can say about Sonia. – Tomás
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August 6, 2009
Obama’s Vision of “Truly Civil” Immigrant Prison Reform: More Prisoners, More Prisons :: from ofamerica.wordpress.com
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up speaking Spanish in a public housing project, is headed for a seat on the Supreme Court after an overwhelming Senate vote Thursday to make her the first Hispanic member of the court. :: from www.usatoday.com
U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants – The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.” :: from www.nytimes.com
A UM study indicates that the incidence of cancer increases dramatically for Hispanics who have moved to Florida from Cuba, Puerto Rico or Mexico. :: from www.miamiherald.com
Analysis: Latinos could be factor in GOP slugfest for Texas Gov – U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry :: from www.hcnonline.com
Juárez Indios’ success provides respite from violence – an overachieving soccer team and its 22,300 fans that every other week pack the Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez to celebrate the Indios and their improbable success. :: from www.elpasotimes.com
Sonia Sotomayor poised to make history – Senate set to vote about 3 p.m. ET today :: from www.theglobeandmail.com
The Sonoran Hotdog Crosses The Border – NPR looks at border food :: from www.npr.org
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., blocked the release of a favorable State Department report on Mexico’s human rights record – delays the release of $100 million in U.S. aid meant to help Mexico combat drug traffickers :: from www.google.com
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Penelope Cruz is expecting her first child with longtime love Javier Bardem, sources confirm exclusively to JustJared.com. :: from justjared.buzznet.com
On Sunday, August 2 in celebration of Ecuador’s bicentennial, hundreds of people waved their yellow, blue and red flags along the stretch of Northern Boulevard in Queens :: from queenscourier.com
A legal advocacy group launched an education and awareness campaign Wednesday encouraging Latinos in 11 Midwest states to participate in the 2010 Census. – MALDEF :: from www.columbiamissourian.com
Nike Becomes Latest Brand to Sign With Mexico’s Hot Indie Shops – Anonimo Launches With the Iconic Marketer on Board :: from adage.com
Joe Eszterhas plots virgin of Guadalupe movie – ‘Showgirls,’ ‘Basic Instinct’ scribe writing original screenplay :: from www.hollywoodreporter.com
Recasting “True Blood”: HBO’s Fang-tastic Drama Gets a Latin Makeover! – Lee Hernandez imagines what it could be like :: from www.latina.com
Got questions for Twilight actress Christian Serratos (Angela Weber)! Latinitas will be interviewing her and is looking for questions. :: from www.mylatinitas.com
Wise Latinas 4ever – I am a wise Latina. Not just because I have a brand-new T-shirt that says so, but because, from day one, I understood perfectly what Judge Sonia Sotomayor meant. :: from www.nydailynews.com
Republican Sen. Kit Bond said he’ll support Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with the vast majority of the GOP. :: from www.columbiamissourian.com
Camilo Mejia, 1st GI to Publicly Resist Iraq War, Appeals Bad Conduct Discharge :: from www.democracynow.org
Hours Before Court-Martial, Army Resister Victor Agosto Speaks Out on Why He’s Refusing to Fight in Afghanistan :: from www.democracynow.org
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Penelope Cruz is expecting her first child with longtime love Javier Bardem, sources confirm exclusively to JustJared.com. :: from justjared.buzznet.com
Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez said the time has come for her and her husband, salsa star Marc Anthony, to chart their own paths professionally. :: from www.laht.com
Joe Eszterhas plots virgin of Guadalupe movie – ‘Showgirls,’ ‘Basic Instinct’ scribe writing original screenplay :: from www.hollywoodreporter.com
Recasting “True Blood”: HBO’s Fang-tastic Drama Gets a Latin Makeover! – Lee Hernandez imagines what it could be like :: from www.latina.com
Got questions for Twilight actress Christian Serratos (Angela Weber)! Latinitas will be interviewing her and is looking for questions. :: from www.mylatinitas.com
TOP Ten reasons you should watch George Lopez August 8 HBO
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Cameron Diaz Says No to “The Sound of Music” and Yes to “Charlie’s Angels 3″ :: from www.latina.com
“Ugly” Betty Gets a Makeover! :: from www.latina.com
Christian Serratos on IMDB – Twilight starlet Angela Weber :: from www.imdb.com
Eduardo Yáñez habla sobre su primer beso con Aracely Arámbula :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Bebés de Ricky Martin cumplen 1 año :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
J.Lo sobre Marc Anthony: “Es el momento de que cada uno siga por su camino” :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Pee Wee no hablará más de su vida privada :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
Anahí firma exclusividad con EMI Music :: from www.peopleenespanol.com
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Why it is so difficult to do cultural advertising well? :: from felipekorzenny.blogspot.com
Nike Becomes Latest Brand to Sign With Mexico’s Hot Indie Shops – Anonimo Launches With the Iconic Marketer on Board :: from adage.com
Dissecting Ad Age’s 2009 Hispanic Fact Pack :: from www.hispaniconlinemarketing.com
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Honduran coup shows business elite still in charge :: from www.miamiherald.com
Boost Mobile is running a new integrated marketing campaign that reaches out to a Hispanic audience. The new campaign is an extension of the “Sin abusos” campaign, which launched back in February. :: from www.dmnews.com
For Panama Canal, a new era of trade is coming :: from www.usatoday.com
Bankruptcies Rise 300 Percent in Spain :: from www.laht.com
Because of anticipated federal budget cuts, Radio and TV Martí will eliminate 35 positions. Also, their programming is about to be changed. :: from www.miamiherald.com
Douglas Rodriguez OUT at Nuela, Chatting with Nieporent – Nuevo Latino pioneer chef in NYC :: from eater.com
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Latino political future a mixed bag :: from www.lavozcolorado.com
The GOP Proves They Need Latina Wisdom :: from www.huffingtonpost.com
Latino Groups Criticize Obama On Immigration Raids :: from www.npr.org
U.S. Decides Not to Impose Sanctions on Honduras :: from online.wsj.com
New Book – Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State (Hardcover) :: from www.amazon.com
If chef Ferran Adria of the famed elBulli is the grand poobah of savory avant-garde cuisine, then his Spanish countryman, Francisco Torreblanca, is king of the sweets. :: from www.chicagotribune.com
Paul Martínez Pompa: His Aim Is True :: from labloga.blogspot.com
Cocktail of the Week: Fica Frio :: from www.latina.com
Douglas Rodriguez OUT at Nuela, Chatting with Nieporent – Nuevo Latino pioneer chef in NYC :: from eater.com
Julio Castillo, Cubs Minor Leaguer, Found Guilty Of Injuring Fan With Pitch :: from www.huffingtonpost.com
International News :: English + Español –»
Chile Starts Early – President Bachelet leads the way in pushing the advantages of preschool. :: from www.newsweek.com
Honduran coup shows business elite still in charge :: from www.miamiherald.com
For Panama Canal, a new era of trade is coming :: from www.usatoday.com
Bankruptcies Rise 300 Percent in Spain :: from www.laht.com
Mexico Reports 1,000 New Swine-Flu Cases :: from www.laht.com
Juárez Indios’ success provides respite from violence – an overachieving soccer team and its 22,300 fans that every other week pack the Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez to celebrate the Indios and their improbable success. :: from www.elpasotimes.com
Nike Becomes Latest Brand to Sign With Mexico’s Hot Indie Shops – Anonimo Launches With the Iconic Marketer on Board :: from adage.com
South America’s Swine Flu Winter :: from americas.irc-online.org
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- November 24, 2009
- Francisco Rodriguez Dead: Boxer Dies After Collapsing At Fight
- Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Purchase Health Care – New Senate bill includes inhumane provision barring undocumented immigrants from purchasing health care with their own money
- LULAC has redesigned their website – (look much better imho – on a tech note there are a few RSS problems)
- As Senate preps for healthcare debate, petition gets underway to include undocumented immigrants
- LULAC is asking a judge to prevent Ohio state officials from canceling the registrations of more than 40,000 vehicles apparently driven by undocumented immigrants. – filed the lawsuit against state officials in Franklin County Common Pleas Court this morning.
- The mayor of a wealthy suburb (San Pedro Garza Garcia) of Monterrey said Monday that he has sent his family to the United States for their own safety as he pursues his campaign against extortion and kidnapping gangs.
- Adolph Carranza remembers an unusual holiday donation from the Salvation Army. – New StoryCorps Historia
- Jose Fernandez tells his wife, Teresita, about the first Thanksgiving he spent in the United States. – New StoryCorps Historia
- Hispanic Thanksgivings produce family-filled feasts
- Jose Garces Named Food Network’s Next Iron Chef
- Interview with Bebel Gilberto- she just released a new album titled All In One
- November 23, 2009
- No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. Citizen Says He Was Detained Without Probable Cause by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and Then Jailed for Traffic Violations
- New breast cancer screening guide will disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women
- Women and Minorities Getting Left Out of Green Job Market, New Study Finds
- Americans Running South: Why We are Flocking to Mexico for Work
- On the mayor’s agenda: ‘Civilize’ Mexico City – Marcelo Ebrard
- Wild Horse Activists Fly Banner Over Denver Calling Salazar “Slaughter Czar”
- In Argentina, One Person Dies Every 28 Hours from Police Repression
- Lou Dobbs Calls Himself Latinos’ ‘Greatest Friend,’ Denies Tying Leprosy To Undocumented Immigrants – Interviewed by Maria Celeste on Telemundo’s Al Rojo Vivo
- November 21, 2009
- A federal judge dismissed dozens of immigration charges Thursday against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse, at the request of prosecutors who had already won a conviction on multiple counts of financial fraud. – Postville news
- Meg Whitman’s Latino Outreach & the Pete Wilson Connection – CA politics
- Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos – “Spic Up/Speak Out” — at El Museo del Barrio
- Marco Rubio, A Crossover Success – (good read)
- A fire destroyed 106 houses in the Ecuadorian Pacific coast city of Guayaquil and left more than 500 people homeless, as well as 14 children with symptoms of smoke inhalation.
- LatAm Immigrants Are Changing Spain, Sociologist Says
- Mexico’s top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
- Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger – Yoani Sánchez
- Miguel H. Díaz is first Hispanic to represent U.S. at Vatican
- Efrain’s Corner: A Response to….”Puerto Ricans in New York Struggling…Still” Comment
- Puerto Ricans in New York Struggling…Still – Puerto Ricans are some of the most prominent figures in New York politics and culture, so some people are surprised when they hear that, overall, Puerto Ricans are among the poorest and least educated New Yorkers. Almost a third in New York are living in poverty.
- Lalo Alcaraz on Lou Dobbs (departure from CNN)
- 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
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- November 25, 2009
- TOP Ten signs you are at a Cholo themed Thanksgiving dinner
- November 24, 2009
- So do you think Lou Dobbs will get the Hispanic vote in 2012?
- Raul Humberto Yzaguirre, 70, a veteran activist in the civil rights struggle of Hispanics in the United States, has been accepted by the Dominican Government as new American ambassador in the country.
- The Republican National Committee has hired Alex Castellanos, a long-time political strategist and GOP consultant, as an adviser.
- Telemundo’s disastrous Dobbs interview – “Interestingly enough, Dobbs was no bully and with his calm tone actually made his interviewer,” María Celeste,” look like a fool”
- Sarah Palin uninformed on Latino issues – A top adviser on Hispanic issues to John McCain’s presidential campaign said Sunday that a joint interview with McCain and Sarah Palin planned for Univision last fall had to be canceled because Palin was unprepared to discuss Latin America policy.
- Hispanic Caucus Finally Wake Up: It’s About Time
- The New General Market – Current trends suggest expanding Latino influence will blur the lines and Hispanic and general markets will collide, with the resulting merger revealing a new, evolved American general market
- November 23, 2009
- New Study: U.S. Hate Crimes Fall Slightly In ‘08; But Data Is Limited
- San Antonio’s Museo Alameda in financial straits
- It is Better to “Spic”? When Were Ricans Ever the Model Minority?
- Al Carlos sits down with Nancy De Los Santos, writer. Period.
- Guapa, it’s your genetic ancestry I love – study of DNA found that within Mexican populations, people tended to pick partners with similar proportions of Native American and European ancestry, while in Puerto Rican populations couples had paired up based on their shared balance of European and African ancestry.
- November 21, 2009
- Hispanic Caucus: ‘You Lie!’ Outburst to Blame for Senate Health Bill Provision on Illegal Immigrants
- Central American nations will demand $105 billion from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region’s representatives said on Friday.
- “They” Are “Us”: The Devastating Effects of Broken Immigration Policy on Children in Immigrant Families
- 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
