Essentials + Pennsylvania Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

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

May 6, 2009

Hispanic group: Verdict is ‘outrage’ – Shenandoah is uneasy after 2 are acquitted of murdering Mexican.

September 9, 2008

Answers still lacking in Shenandoah – Pennsylvania

The death Friday of Officer Isabel Nazario was particularly painful among the Police Department’s Latinos and in the city’s Puerto Rican community, who remembered her as a doting mother and friend, as a tough professional, and as a pioneer. – Philadelphia

August 10, 2008

Video: MALDEF discusses the Shenandoah, Pennsylvania Murder (Hate Crime) on CNN

August 5, 2008

Mexican’s Death Bares a Town’s Ethnic Tension – Shenandoah, Pennsylvania

July 27, 2008

According to reports from WNEP-TV and the Associated Press three white Schuylkill County teens are charged with the beating death of a Hispanic man nearly two weeks ago. All are from well-known families in Shenandoah and some are on the high school football team. One of the teens charged is a Bloomsburg University student.

July 24, 2008

Luis Ramirez was beaten to death last week by a group of white teenagers yelling racial slurs in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Despite eyewitness testimony, no charges have been filed. Democracy Now speaks with Arielle Garcia, a friend of Ramirez who witnessed the attack.