http://www.hispanictips.com Essential Hispanic & Latino News :: Relevant, Trusted, Comprehensive and Useful Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/so-do-you-think-lou-dobbs-will-get-the-hispanic-vote-in-2012/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/so-do-you-think-lou-dobbs-will-get-the-hispanic-vote-in-2012/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:12:44 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68474 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68474 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/zoot-suit-wearing-pancho-claus-has-been-discharged-from-a-houston-hospital-after-treatment-for-an-apparent-heart-attack-actor-richard-reyes/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/zoot-suit-wearing-pancho-claus-has-been-discharged-from-a-houston-hospital-after-treatment-for-an-apparent-heart-attack-actor-richard-reyes/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:11:29 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68473 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68473 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/atino-coast-guard-officer-honored-by-national-hispanic-engineer-award-lieutenant-commander-cesar-acosta/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/atino-coast-guard-officer-honored-by-national-hispanic-engineer-award-lieutenant-commander-cesar-acosta/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:07:05 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68475 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68475 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/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/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/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/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:58:55 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/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/ HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68465 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/the-republican-national-committee-has-hired-alex-castellanos-a-long-time-political-strategist-and-gop-consultant-as-an-adviser/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/the-republican-national-committee-has-hired-alex-castellanos-a-long-time-political-strategist-and-gop-consultant-as-an-adviser/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:53:41 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68457 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68457 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/francisco-rodriguez-dead-boxer-dies-after-collapsing-at-fight/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/francisco-rodriguez-dead-boxer-dies-after-collapsing-at-fight/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:53:22 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68455 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68455 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/nclr-the-faces-behind-the-fbi-hate-crime-statistics/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/24/nclr-the-faces-behind-the-fbi-hate-crime-statistics/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:48:07 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68441 NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, urged law enforcement officials to guard against the “pattern and practice of hate” in local jurisdictions in light of today’s release of the FBI-compiled report, Hate Crime Statistics, 2008. While the statistics show that the number of hate crimes committed against Latinos remains virtually unchanged from 2007, 64% of the hate crimes based on perceived ethnicity or national origin targeted Latinos, compared to 61% in 2007. The rise in race-based hate crimes mirrors an increase in the number of hate groups targeting Latinos, as tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“The most frightening thing about these numbers is what goes unrecorded,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO, noting that incidents targeting undocumented immigrants are rarely reported to authorities. “We look at these numbers as the tip of the iceberg, and even then, the trend over the past five years is unmistakable.”

Murguía blamed the violence in part on the growing climate of hate surrounding the immigration debate. “Words have consequences,” she said. “For too long, hate groups and hate speech have dominated the national debate on immigration and demonized Latinos as a threat to our communities. Hate crimes are the consequence of this extremist rhetoric.”

Murguía pointed specifically to the case of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadoran immigrant who was waiting for a train in Patchogue, New York when he was assaulted and killed by seven teenagers out to “beat up Mexicans.” The case sparked an outcry from local and national Hispanic groups that pointed to similar cases in and around the Suffolk County area, which led to a Department of Justice investigation of the practice and pattern of hate in the community.

“The death of Marcelo Lucero should be a wake-up call for America,” said Murguía, who was particularly concerned over the age of the alleged attackers. “It should be very disturbing to us that hate has trickled down to a new generation. I urge all local law enforcement jurisdictions to treat such attacks aggressively and guard against the climate of fear they create.”

Murguía also pointed to the murders of Jose Sucuzhanay and Luis Ramirez, two men who were beaten to death in separate incidents last year by attackers shouting ethnic slurs. Sucuzhanay, a Brooklyn real estate agent, was walking home with his brother late one night and attacked by bat-wielding men shouting antigay and anti-Hispanic slurs. Ramirez, an immigrant from Mexico, was killed by a group of White football players in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.

“These crimes are happening everywhere, in small towns, suburbs, and rural communities all across America. Wherever you find hate, you will find hate crime. Unfortunately, we’re finding it all too often,” concluded Murguía.

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Among the eight awards given, the honor in the TV Investigative category went to a probe into a cover up by authorities to hide the number of suicides by veterans, led by CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian and producer Pia Malbran. A revealing look at the dangerous and often horrendous trek by Central Americans crossing through Mexico to get to the U.S. by La Opinión writer Gardenia Mendoza Aguilar won this year's Guillermo Martinez Marquez Award for Latin American Reporting.

"Despite less participation than in previous years, the quality of the work was just outstanding, both in its range of topics and in the depth of talent these colleagues demonstrated by what they put on the page or on the air," said NAHJ Executive Director Iván Román.

Luis Fábregas and Andrew Contin of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review were honored in the Print Investigative category for their probe into how a liver transplant system driven by profit was actually killing people and spurred reforms which have saved lives. In the Television Documentary category, judges cited excellent editing, imagery and treatment of the topic to award TVE Espana's Jose Jimenez Pons and Llucía Oliva de la Esperanza for their work on how growing poverty in the U.S. under the Bush administration is affecting people, including many Latinos.

The Detroit News' editorial writer Amber Arellano's crusading pieces using investigative journalism to reveal the true magnitude of the black and Latino male high-school dropout problem received the award for Print Commentary. Winning in the Print Feature category, the St. Paul Pioneer Press' Frederick Melo and Brandi Jade Thomas gave readers a well-written immigrant-dreams-gone-bad tale from the hometown Guatemalan village of an undocumented immigrant accused of striking a school bus with her minivan in Minnesota and killing four children.

Julio Rivera Saniel of WKAQ 580 Univision Radio in Puerto Rico, won the Radio Reporting award for his look into the life and resistance in San Juan's poor community of La Perla. A CBS News team led by correspondent Byron Pitts detailing the suffering of a family of a deceased Marine sergeant whose skin cancer was misdiagnosed while serving in Iraq won in the Television Feature Large Market category.

For more information and the judge's comments on the winners and to see the work being honored, click here, http://www.nahj.org/awards/2009/09awardwinners.shtml

Several categories were declared vacant by the judges due to a lack of participation in an exceptionally difficult economic and professional year for journalists and the news media industry. NAHJ also decided not to give its most prestigious ñ awards in 2009, usually presented at the Annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala, which was cancelled this year. The ñ Awards include the Leadership Award, the Emerging Journalist Award and others.

Honors in all the categories and the ñ awards are expected to be given in 2010 as NAHJ holds the often inspiring gala next fall.

Founded in 1984, NAHJ's mission is to increase the percentage of Latinos working in our nation's newsrooms and to improve news coverage of the Latino community. NAHJ is the nation's largest professional organization for Latino journalists with more than 1,400 members working in English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online media. For more information, visit www.nahj.org.
Media Contact:
Iván Román
(202) 662-7178

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