Eye Openers + Florida Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 16, 2009
Honduras’ crisis brings South Florida election showdown – Divisions over Honduras’ political future are evident not only in the Central American country but also in South Florida as legal issues arise over elections.
October 26, 2009
RNC unveils Spanish ad questioning Obama, Biden trips to Florida
September 14, 2009
Cuban Exile’s Plan for a Ferry From Miami to Havana Is Awaiting U.S. Approval
August 17, 2009
Poor Catholic Latinos in Miami-Dade under siege with Diocese plan to close neighborhood churches
La banca del ex senador hispano republicano por Florida, Mel Martínez, podría ser ocupada por otro cubanoestadounidense, el representante de este estado Lincoln Díaz Balard, dijo este lunes
July 20, 2009
Thieves Continue to Target Migrant Farm Workers in Lowndes County – Florida
July 14, 2009
Long-time political mover and shaker Joe Garcia -a Democrat from Miami Beach, was nominated Tuesday to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact for the U.S. Department of Energy.
June 19, 2009
Cleveland Browns receiver Donte’ Stallworth pleaded guilty this month to a DUI manslaughter charge for striking Mario Reyes on March 14 in Miami. He began serving a 30-day jail sentence Tuesday and has reached a financial settlement with the family of the 59-year-old construction worker. After jail, he must serve two years of house arrest and spend eight years on probation.
June 5, 2009
Marco Rubio Is the “Cuban Newt Gingrich”?
May 31, 2009
Maria Carrillo – Tampa Hispanic activist killed in Miami crash; daughter injured – member of Mayor Iorios’s Hispanic Leadership Council
May 29, 2009
Justice Ochita Suprema? Spirit Airlines promo offends some
March 24, 2009
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Monday sued a Miami company, alleging the company targets Hispanics facing foreclosure and charges them upfront fees to modify their mortgages. – Lincoln Lending Services LLC
March 21, 2009
MIAMI — Cuban-American voters here remain dominated by an older generation with more extreme views on U.S.-Cuba foreign policy, including support for the U.S. embargo against their communist homeland, according to an exit poll taken during the 2008 election.
March 19, 2009
Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has quietly registered as a candidate for the Senate seat to be vacated by Mel Martinez in 2010.
March 15, 2009
Lowering bar on Florida’s teachers’ ESOL is a bad idea – A quarter-million Florida kids are learning English for the first time. In South Florida, it’s about one in seven children. Under state rules, they’re expected to master the language in two years and pass the FCAT.
March 13, 2009
NAACP: Blacks losing Orlando Magic arena jobs and contracts to Hispanics
December 28, 2008
ESOL advocates fighting loss of teacher training – Florida
December 18, 2008
Ken Salazar Wants to Drill, Baby, Drill Off Florida’s Shores
December 15, 2008
Number of Hispanics attacked near Tampa increases
December 12, 2008
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist eliminated the only Hispanic nominee (Judge Jorge Labarga) for an as-yet unfilled Florida Supreme Court vacancy Wednesday by appointing him, instead, to a secondary appellate court.
December 10, 2008
Robberies targeting Hispanics in Clearwater deserve community attention – Florida
December 5, 2008
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by the Hispanic Achievers alleging the state discriminated against the organization because the required sampling method for specialty license tags would prevent it from getting a Hispanic-themed plate. – Florida
December 3, 2008
Hispanic voters helped turn Florida blue for president-elect Barack Obama, but not all of them are cheering. Many Colombian, Cuban and Venezuelan immigrants who voted Republican are nervous about what comes next.
November 18, 2008
Tony Meléndez es un ejemplo de fe y perseverancia: sin manos, toca la guitarra con los pies y su melodiosa voz conmueve a la audiencia. – Orlando
November 11, 2008
Cost of burial turns Orlando-area Hispanics to cremation
November 6, 2008
Obama first Democrat to win Florida’s Hispanic vote
October 27, 2008
A fight broke out in the middle of a crowd of 40,000 people at the Calle Orange Festival Saturday night. It was supposed to be a family event to celebrate Hispanic heritage, but things got so out of hand that promoters decided to cancel the main performer. – Orlando, Florida
October 17, 2008
John McCain rides into Miami Friday on the hopes the city will offer the right change in scenery for a pro-immigration, anti-Castro Republican struggling in the polls.
October 16, 2008
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Raul Martinez rip each other over Cuba, taxes in District 21 debate – Florida
September 29, 2008
Florida vote may affect U.S.-Cuba policy
September 25, 2008
Cuban population in Miami-Dade up again – Since 2000, the number of Cubans in Miami-Dade has grown larger as a percentage of all Hispanics, reversing a three-decade demographic trend.
September 24, 2008
Florida Hispanics sticking with GOP – With polls showing John McCain leading among Hispanics in Florida, Barack Obama rolled out Spanish- language ads calling his rival out of touch.
September 5, 2008
El Nuevo Día Orlando publishes final edition
In what’s being hailed as an important victory for South Florida immigrants, Lake Worth has reached a settlement with seven Guatemalan families left homeless from a nighttime raid by city officials in 2006.
National GOP star Sen. Martinez shines less bright in Florida
The proposed Hispanic Achievers license plates were not approved by the state and now the group pushing the plates has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida.
August 28, 2008
Three Hispanic judges trail in their Broward County races – Florida
August 18, 2008
Big Trouble in Little Havana – For the first time in 20 years, Democrats are mounting serious challenges to at least two of Miami’s three Republican lawmakers, who often run unopposed.
August 14, 2008
Roberto Clemente Park is the pride of Miami’s Puerto Rican population. But the park in the Wynwood neighborhood has languished despite a voter-approved initiative to improve city parks.
Recession drives educated Puerto Ricans to South Florida – thousands of middle-class professionals who have fled Puerto Rico in the past two years, becoming what some people are calling “FloRicans.”
Five years after arriving in Central Florida, El Nuevo Día Orlando, the region’s only daily Spanish-language newspaper, is closing.
Orange County Democratic party chief Bill Robinson fired back at his Republican counterpart late Tuesday, saying that the local GOP’s slate of Hispanic candidates partly reflects an attempt to buy Latino names to put on the ballot – Florida
August 11, 2008
Diplomats from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador pleaded with local immigration enforcers Friday not to indiscriminately target their citizens on the heels of a Lee County focused operation that rounded up 62 immigrants last week. – Florida
August 9, 2008
New Florida task force focused on Latin music as industry slumps
August 8, 2008
Spy catcher claims four are agents for Cuba – A U.S. intelligence expert has named four people as Cuban agents in the United States, including two in the Miami area.
August 5, 2008
Two Florida legislators — Marco Rubio, speaker of the House of Representatives, and state Rep. David Rivera — on Monday accused the agencies that offer travel packages and send packages to Cuba of making false allegations during a trial in Miami federal court to determine the validity of a new state law that imposes high fees and tighter restrictions on that industry.
August 4, 2008
Leaving Sorrento: Why are Hispanics moving away? – Lake County, Florida
July 30, 2008
Hispanics profiling victims by Border Patrol in West Palm, group says
July 24, 2008
Hunger is S. Florida’s dirty little secret
July 14, 2008
Will Little Havana Go Blue?
June 26, 2008
Miami’s El Nuevo Herald states McCain is the favored candidate by Hispanic voters. Huh? (Latina Lista)
June 21, 2008
Asthma sufferers higher among Florida’s Hispanic population
June 12, 2008
Hospital complains about illegal immigrants – Florida (on video)
June 4, 2008
In South Florida, Eviction Spares Few – (almost everyone in this article from the New York Times is Latino)
June 2, 2008
Longwood woman angry that spouse can’t re-enter U.S. from Mexico – (I wonder how many families are split up because of immigration – this story is not unique)
May 29, 2008
Corrections Officer Says He Was Fired For Being Hispanic – Osceola County, Florida
May 20, 2008
Some Say Sheriff Using Racism To Fuel Re-Election Campaign – Lake County, Florida
May 12, 2008
Migrants to learn organic growing – Florida
May 7, 2008
Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a ‘coming-out’ in Miami
May 5, 2008
Hispanics may put Florida in play for Dems – For the first time, the number of Hispanic Democrats in the state is expected to exceed the number of Hispanic Republicans.
Trend of Hispanic Families Targeted for Robberies – Tallahassee, Florida
April 24, 2008
Immigrant Soldier Killed In Iraq Is Laid To Rest In Clearwater – Spc. Arturo Huerta-Cruz (not a U.S. citizen, but a permanent resident alien) – Florida
April 16, 2008
Copper theft knocks Entravision radio station off air in Central Florida
April 12, 2008
Florida’s 1st Hispanic Justice to Step Down from the Florida Supreme Court
April 8, 2008
An Ecuadorean couple facing deportation are appealing an immigration judge’s refusal to hear their claim that they were unfairly targeted because their daughter is an immigration activist. – Miami
April 7, 2008
New media trends turn to Spanish language
Sorrento Hispanics fear retaliation after deputy beaten – Lake County, Florida
March 31, 2008
Anti-illegal immigration groups grow in Florida
March 18, 2008
Cuban Players Fled Their Team for an Uncertain Future – seven players and an assistant coach defect
March 5, 2008
Mural on Hispanic culture draws concerns – Homestead, Florida
February 25, 2008
Florida’s Three Cuban Representatives Face Challenges
January 31, 2008
John McCain Slaps Rush Limbaugh’s Face With Florida Win
January 29, 2008
Miami robo-calls scaring Cuban American voters on Romney’s Cuba stance
January 22, 2008
Creditors seek millions from companies owned by Salvadoran elite – 01/20/2008 – MiamiHerald.com
January 11, 2008
U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez earned $25,000 for 10 months of work as RNC chief
November 30, 2007
Florida faces costs due to immigration, study finds – (from the ‘anti-immigration’ Center for Immigration Studies)
October 28, 2007
Ex Contra activist represents U.S. children of illegal immigrants – Nora Sandigo
October 21, 2007
The “monolingual folks” weren’t feeling the love – (car salesman run Spanish commercials with English subtitles and hears about it)
