Essential Hispanic y Latino News (Noticias)
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July 2, 2009
New Latin Music Crosses Borders At Will - California is America’s main immigrant magnet. As people move to and from — and within — the state and the U.S., the music produced by this shifting population is changing. The stories of musicians living and working in Oakland and Los Angeles give a sense of how the future of Latin music might sound.
July 1, 2009
Feds begin immigration crackdown at 625 companies
The Arizona House has defeated a bill that would have made it the only state in the nation to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants by expanding its trespassing law.
OAS: Honduras Must Restore President Manuel Zelaya In 3 Days Or Risk Suspension
June 30, 2009
Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed - Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to protest the coup d’etat in their country.
Striking a nerve on racism - The time has come to fight hate speech against Latinos as we have against blacks.
Bank of America is accused of exploiting Latino immigrant customers - Ex-employees, backed by SEIU, say working-class and immigrant clients are urged to sign up for multiple services that carry high interest rates and fees. BofA denies any wrongdoing.
June 29, 2009
Honduras coup is a blow to democracy
Obama Threaded the Moral Needle of Latino Evangelicals in ‘08
Latino Democrats in the House and Senate officially endorsed Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Friday saying the appellate court judge and former prosecutor should be confirmed to sit as the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court.
June 26, 2009
The number of Hispanics in Nevada who filed jobless claims from May 2006 to May 2009 jumped 662.3%, from 2,389 to 18,211 - Construction slowdown
Video: President Obama vowed on Thursday to immediately begin negotiations to craft comprehensive immigration reform , with the goal of passing legislation in Congress later this year or early next year.
June 25, 2009
Voto Latino interview with Robert Cantu (warning: mid video has violent footage) - Noosing victim in Ohio
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez not running for governor of California
Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud - Nativo V. Lopez
The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Today’s White House Meeting on Immigration Reform
Hispanics make up majorities at 7 Cleveland public schools, prompting call for special help
MetroPCS is First North American Carrier to Offer Unlimited International Calling for $5 per Month - including Mexico and South America
June 24, 2009
Latino Teens Happier, Healthier If Families Embrace Biculturalism: Report
Republicans drop niceties, go on attack on Sotomayor
SENATORS URGE SETTLEMENT IN USDA DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT BY HISPANIC FARMERS - Senators applaud settlement of similar suit by black farmers, say it is time to settle with Hispanic farmers
The U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission has announced that obesity and diabetes are its top priorities for 2009-2010. - Approximately 1.5 million adults in the border region are overweight or obese and another 1.2 million have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes
June 23, 2009
Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers
Top Obama Administration Officials to Engage Latino Leaders on Critical Policy Issues in Los Angeles This Week - NALEO Conference June 25-27
Mexico moves quietly to decriminalize minor drug use - President Calderon is set to sign the law, but some fear that letting off users caught with limited amounts of drugs will increase drug use and encourage ‘drug tourists’ from the U.S.
Sotomayor Nomination Close To A Done Deal, 70 Votes Predicted
June 22, 2009
More than 100 U.S.-born children sue the Obama administration over their parents’ deportations
A rising force in Hispanic Chicago UNO works within system, gets $98 million for charter schools
June 21, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s future, once bright, looks dimmer now
June 20, 2009
New U.S. border czar Alan Bersin tours domain in Arizona
June 19, 2009
Speak English well, or get a ticket by federal law - Truckers face hefty fine for breaking law that says they must be able to talk with police. - Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations
Iowa researchers found significant disparities in several aspects of children’s health-care between those who speak primarily Spanish and those who speak English.
Illegal Entry At A 36 Year Low, But Comprehensive Immigration Reform Still a Must
President Barack Obama says he is committed to a comprehensive immigration overhaul that includes a way that illegal immigrants can become U.S. citizens - at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference.
June 18, 2009
Nearly three years after the Justice Department found that the nation’s immigration courts were seriously overburdened and recommended hiring 40 new judges, only a few hirings have taken place and the case backlog is at its highest point in a decade
June 17, 2009
2 teens get jail time in Mexican’s beating death - received 7 to 23 months for their roles in the beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez
Watch :: NBC’s Kerry Sanders looks at the Hispanic influence on American pop culture as part of TODAY’s special “We the People” series
Hate crimes against Hispanics increased by almost 40 percent between 2003 and 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.
June 16, 2009
Cautious Optimism Despite Another Delay in White House Immigration Reform Talks
Mexico report: 9,758 migrants mainly Central American were abducted in just 6 months
June 15, 2009
So The Time Isn’t Now Then? : Obama Postpones Immigration Reform Meeting…..Again
Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated - No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month
Jason Bush, Shawna Forde, and Albert Gaxiola of the Minutemen American Defense group have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges. The three are said to have murdered Raul Junior Flores, his 9 year old daughter, Brisenia, and injured her mother during a home invasion attack on May 30th in the Arizona border town of Arivaca.
President Barack Obama has selected far more Hispanics for his administration than any previous U.S. president, a stark reminder of the increasing clout of the nation’s fast-growing and largest minority group.
Hispanic foods moving out of the ethnic aisle - Grocers expand offerings, chains typically in Latino communities expand
The president of Texas A&M has resigned — the day before a meeting of school regents to discuss her job. Elsa Murano, the school’s first female and first Hispanic president, announced her resignation in a statement Sunday
June 11, 2009
30 Years of Hispanic Business Media: From Newsletter to Multimedia - HispanicBusiness Magazine hits 30 years
Latino-Black Rivalry Helped Fuel G.O.P.’s Takeover of New York State Senate - re: Pedro Espada Jr. new president of the Senate and Hiram Monserrate
June 9, 2009
17,000+ kids left their homes by themselves in Mexico in 2009 to look for work in the US according to this article from El Universal and Mexico’s Foreign Ministry :: 17 mil niños migraron solos a EU en 2008 Miles de menores de edad arriesgan su vida al cruzar de manera ilegal a EU cada año, no por la necesidad de ir al reencuentro con sus padres, sino por trabajar, menciona un informe de Relaciones Exteriores
June 8, 2009
Puerto Rico en la Marcha : Over 100,000 March Against Layoffs, Form New Coalition
June 7, 2009
Grieving parents buried their children Sunday after a devastating daycare fire killed 38 infants and toddlers in a tragedy that stunned Mexico and prompted its president to promise a thorough investigation. - Hermosillo
June 6, 2009
A recent legal review revealed a Mexican identification card issued to more than 231,000 people in the Valley fails to meet Arizona traffic law, leaving some immigrant motorists subject to arrest during routine stops. While the Mexican government billed the matricula consular card as a secure document for U.S. transplants, police agencies said the card is invalid
June 5, 2009
A federal appeals panel has upheld a suburban St. Louis town’s ordinance prohibiting the hiring of illegal immigrants, a case that could have national implications. - Valley Park
New & first Hispanic president of Texas A&M University Elsa Murano not getting good grades/reviews
Carlos Pascual nominated as U.S. ambassador to Mexico - The Cuban-born diplomat, an expert in ‘failed states,’ would take over one of the largest American embassies and confront a host of complex bilateral issues.
June 4, 2009
Nevada Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid wants immigration bill this year
Cuba Readmitted To OAS “Without Conditions”
Hispanic children are getting most nutrients, but eating too much fat
June 3, 2009
Mexican emigration drops 13 percent in 1st quarter
Americans have a more favorable first impression of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor than they did for any of President George W. Bush’s choices for the high court, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Sotomayor makes more rounds on Capitol Hill
‘Father Oprah’ is big news in Hispanic community - Alberto Cutie
June 2, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa dating another newscaster former San Antonio broadcaster Lu Parker now with KTLA Channel 5
Sotomayor hits Capitol Hill as confirmation process begins
Nearly 1 million Californians seek medical care in Mexico annually - Health services sought equally by Mexican, non-Mexican residents
Census uses foreign language to get numbers, ease fears - Jencarlos Canela, from left, Gaby Espino and Miguel Varoni star in a new Spanish-language novela that will weave a Census worker into the plotline, aimed at reducing the reluctance among some Latinos to participate in the 2010 Census.
Arrests on Southern Border Drop 27% - Decline Marks Fewest Seizures by Agents Since 1976
June 1, 2009
Mexico remittances plunge in worst fall on record - plunged in April by more than 18 percent compared to the same period last year
May 31, 2009
Lifting Cuban embargo a trade-off for South Florida business - Miami businesses could benefit — and be hurt — if the trade embargo against Cuba is lifted, a new report says.
Two sides to Sonia Sotomayor - The passion for minority rights that she showed from Princeton onward is scarcely reflected in a review of her judicial decisions. So which way would she lean on the Supreme Court?
Hoping to remain productive, Mexico searches for solutions
War Without Borders In Heartland Death, Traces of Heroin’s Spread - This NYT’s series examines the impact of Mexican drug cartels on both sides of the border.
May 30, 2009
A title bout between two Eastsides in Los Angeles - The protest is no mere issue of semantics. It’s a threat to their community’s identity, the Eastsiders said. They argue that the term Eastside is synonymous, in California and beyond, with the Chicano movement; home to working-class immigrants and the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century
Gustavo Villoldo, Man Who Tracked Che For The CIA, Awarded $1 Billion In Lawsuit
May 29, 2009
LABOR SECRETARY HILDA SOLIS REVERSES BUSH’S ATTACK ON FARMWORKER LABOR LAWS - Groups applaud the suspension of a policy that slashes wages, worker protections
More than 7,000 public employees will lose their government jobs at the beginning of July, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Maria Sanchez Bras, the director of Puerto Rico’s Office of Management and Budget.
A new report about Latina teen pregnancy doesn’t just examine the issue but, for the first time, breaks down the differences found among Latino families and how they contribute to Latina teens having the highest rates of teen pregnancies and births.
May 28, 2009
Hispanics now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the United States–up from 9% in 1980–and as their numbers have grown, their demographic profile has changed. A majority (52%) of the nation’s 16 million Hispanic children are now “second generation,” meaning they are the U.S.-born sons or daughters of at least one foreign-born parent, typically someone who came to this country in the immigration wave from Mexico, Central America and South America that began around 1980. Some 11% of Latino children are “first generation”–meaning they themselves are foreign-born. And 37% are “third generation or higher”–meaning they are the U.S.-born children of U.S.-born parents.
A Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign will be nominated to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, the White House announced Wednesday. Miguel H. Diaz
May 27, 2009
Latino differences muted in Sonya Sotomayor celebration
May 26, 2009
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court - could be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court
May 18, 2009
The United States Abandons the “War on Drugs” Model at Home, Exports It to Mexico - US House and Senate Pass New Military Aid to Mexico
May 14, 2009
Inside Barack Obama’s Hispanic strategy
Nearly one in six residents, or 46.9 million people, are Hispanic - The most Latino county in the nation was Los Angeles, with 4.7 million people
Hispanics See Stars Aligned on High Court - For President, Diversity Is One Of Many Factors
Growth of Hispanic, Asian Population Slows Unexpectedly, Census Reports
May 11, 2009
Naturalized citizens are poised to reshape California’s political landscape - The increase in naturalized Asian and Latino citizens — 300,000 people took the oath of allegiance in 2008 — could alter the state’s policy priorities for years to come
May 7, 2009
The number of Cuban Americans visiting Cuba is up 20 percent so far this year and will likely keep rising as Washington eases travel restrictions, the Cuban tour operator for U.S. traffic said on Wednesday.
May 6, 2009
Appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court might soothe frayed Hispanic nerves, writes New America Media contributor Gebe Martinez, but legal conservatives do not believe that President Obama should give importance to a diverse life experience in making his choice.
April 30, 2009
Unless it is contained shortly, the Mexican swine flu outbreak that is sounding alarm bells across the world is likely to have long-term economic, law enforcement and political consequences on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
April 28, 2009
Conservative media personalities have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, despite the fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico.
April 27, 2009
A federal judge has awarded about $235,000 to more than 600 Latino farm workers who accused a farm labor contractor and two Yakima Valley growers of violating federal labor laws.
Forced to slash their budgets, some California counties are eliminating nonemergency health services for illegal immigrants — a move that officials acknowledge could backfire by shifting the financial burden to emergency rooms.
President Rafael Correa Triumphs in Ecuador, and Thereby Becomes One of Latin America’s Most Successful Political Figures
SWINE FLU: Mexico Faces Criticism Over Response
New Southern Poverty Law Center Report Finds Low-Income Latinos in South Targeted for Abuse, Discrimination
Mexican Tourism, Already Hurt by Violence, Bears Blow of a Health Scare of Swine Flu
April 25, 2009
Latino producers meet, pitch projects and lament - At the National Assn. of Latino Independent Producers’ conference, participants say more Latino faces are needed in film and TV.
April 22, 2009
Latino scams go unchecked - When it comes to outlandish product claims, the nefarious world of late-night Spanish TV infomercials is the electronic equivalent of a tour through a Wild West carnival side-show. With no - apparently - watchdog government agency looking, anything and everything goes.
April 15, 2009
Nearly 75% of illegal immigrants’ children were born in the USA and are citizens, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. - (nice interactive map)
