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Texas Right of Way Associates Announces: We Are a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)

Hispanics have found a higher profile with the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce in the past year, with more outreach efforts planned, chamber officials said Monday.

Mega TV Now Available Throughout The Entire Island of Puerto Rico

Watch the sketcher en español at KUNS-TV Noticiero Noroeste – Seattle

América TeVe and CaribeVisión Merge – Miami

Ricardo Salinas Breaks Ground for What Will Be the Most Modern Television Studio in Latin America – Mexico City

Brazil replaces Mexico as China’s top market in Latin America and boosts its surplus as well.

Mega TV available island wide in Puerto Rico

Reviewed: Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories, edited by Lavaca, 320 pages, Haymarket Books, 2007.

MejorAmor.com, the Internet’s Leading Hispanic Buscar Pareja Service, Challenges All Latino and Hispanic Singles in the United States as Well as Other Countries Around the World to Find Their Mejor Amor for This Holiday Season

Texas Secretary of State Esperanza “Hope” Andrade was the keynote speaker at The National Society of Hispanic MBAs’ 11th Annual Gala on Nov. 5.

LOPEZ NEGRETE COMMUNCIATIONS GARNERS TOP HONORS AT THE 54TH ANNUAL ART DIRECTORS CLUB OF HOUSTON AWARDS SHOW

NAHJ Journalism Awards Honor the Best of 2008

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

Outstanding Hispanic: Carmen Baez – President of the Latin America Diversified Agency (DAS)

Quepasa Finally Poised to Profit? Growing Latin Social Networking Site Says ‘Si’

Job Creation and Recovery for All: African-Americans, Latinos and The Stimulus Part II

Spanish-Language Service Now Available To Distributor’s Subs In Boston, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia – RCN to carry V-me

ESPN Deportes Winter Baseball Push Takes Flight

Raúl Martinez, founder and chief creative officer of ad agency AR New York, has been brought on as creative consultant to Vogue after the departure of the magazine’s design director.

Interview with Rose Contreras, founder of Onda Books

Pan American Bank Backs Complete Count Effort and Latino Census Summit

Mexican farmers reeling from worst drought in decades

Women and Minorities Getting Left Out of Green Job Market, New Study Finds

Americans Running South: Why We are Flocking to Mexico for Work

San Antonio’s Museo Alameda in financial straits

Hispanic Entrepreneur profile: Entrepreneurship began early for Gándara family – El Paso

ICE audit plan for employers includes El Paso, draws criticism from rights group

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

Miami’s most popular NASCAR driver not who you think – Spanish market growing thanks to Montoya’s success

Health Care Reform: Communicating Policy With Hispanic Media

Univision Communications Inc. Honors Ray Rodriguez by Dedicating Network Building

Fannie Mae Launches New HomePath.com in Spanish Aimed at Helping More Hispanics Buy Homes

La Voz and Al Dia, two of Kentucky’s Spanish-language newspapers, have reached an agreement to share advertising and distribution resources and some news content.

Anabel Hernández Joins Hughes Watters Askanase L.L.P. – Houston

La ‘éne•bé•a’ (NBA) campaign targeting Latinos is making big ‘esplashes’

Lourdes Duarte has been promoted to 5 pm weekday anchor at WGN-TV, the Tribune-owned CW affiliate in Chicago.

Johanna Guerra, Sr VP of Network News at Telemundo has left the company – Ramón Escobar, who last held the title of Sr VP of Network Entertainment at Telemundo, is back… as a full time consultant

Gloria Margarita, anchor at KMIR-6, the NBC affiliate in Palm Springs, leaves her job to become the executive director of the Reynaldo J. Carreon foundation.

Interview with Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of La Casa Azul Bookstore – NYC

Mapping Out Mexico – Navigating your way through Mexico can be tricky business sometimes – MexicoMaps.com

Outreach program targets Latino farmers in northern Michigan

Patricia Gracia: Crossing the Border Line of Tijuana, Mexico to the US American Dream

Job Board Industry Veteran Launches New Job Search Engine – LatPro, Inc

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.

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.

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) Effectively Reaches Latinos On The Go – few marketers truly utilized digital media when reaching out to the Hispanic community.

ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announces 1,000 new workplace audits to hold employers accountable for their hiring practices

Hispanic Households and Consumer Durables 1998 – 2005

Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects

Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit

Economic Blame Game: U.S. Unemployment is Not Caused by Immigration

Univision/YouTube Partnership Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think

Coca-Cola’s top stateside marketing executive delivered some auspicious words for Univision and BET this week, saying that targeting “multicultural” Americans will be paramount for the company over the next decade. – no longer cooks up media plans targeting Hispanics around major events, but hopes to reach them all year.

C&R Research recently polled its LatinoEyes panel to assess behaviors by the “majority minority” during the recession, and found that “the recession has forced Hispanics to rethink what’s luxury and what’s necessity”

Papatel launches Free Phone Service nationwide for US Hispanics

The leader of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Latin American division, Vicente Trius, is leaving the company after having served less than five months in the position.

Telefonica and Vivo gain on the Latin Wireless Index, while America Movil and NII lose.

Beginning with the 2009-2010 season, Terra will stream select games live throughout Latin America, in both Spanish and Portuguese

Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Report Finds Immigrants Hit Harder During Economic Downturn than Native-Born Workers

Western Union Foundation Donates $10,000 to Help Victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador

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.

Why do Hispanics Lack Life Insurance?

The Tulare-Kings Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will name standouts in the community Saturday while raising money to help local businesses. – CA

Local Latinos were honored for their achievements in business and politics Wednesday. – The Massachusetts Latino Chamber of Commerce hosted an event at the Essence Restaurant in Springfield Wednesday night to recognize these individuals for their success.

Recession Reverses Jobs Trend: Immigrants Hit Harder By Downturn Than Native-Born Americans

New Media Pioneers Talk Innovation

This year’s HispanicBusiness magazine focuses its annual media report on Hispanic-owned ad agencies. – Ad Agencies Turn to New Media

MoneyGram International Temporarily Reduces Money Transfer Fees from the United States and Canada to El Salvador – MoneyGram International Reduce Temporalmente Sus Tarifas De Envíos de Dinero Desde Estados Unidos y Canadá A El Salvador

How will Hispanics impact the business recovery in Arizona?

Yanked off the air in July after co-host Don Pryor repeatedly uttered an ethnic slur, “The Todd and Don Show” will return to KLBJ-AM on Dec. 7, according to a statement released jointly by the station’s management and local Hispanic leaders who met earlier today. – Austin

Erwin Martinez, chief information officer for Rabobank, N.A. in Roseville was recently added to the list of the top 100 Hispanics in Information Technology.

T-Mobile Complete(R) Offers Hispanic Consumers Flexibility and Value with New Pay-in-Advance Packages

Mega TV’s Mega News ‘Edicion Nocturna’ is the ‘First and Only Interactive News in Hispanic

PODER-ABC* Business Awards Celebrates Leadership Excellence in the Americas