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our Latina entrepreneurs, with businesses that capture the flavor and fiesta of Latino heritage, joined forces to send gift baskets brimming with color and culture to three new Latina moms – Salma Hayek, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez.

The gifts are a “Welcome to el Mundo” for their little ones and a warm embrace for the new mothers, each of whom proudly represents what it means to be a successful Latina in America. And now, each represents Latina motherhood.

“As business women and Latin mothers we want to support and encourage them on their new adventure,’’ said Monica Olivera, who owns the on-line boutique Latin Baby and blogs on products, services and trends for Latina mothers at www.micielitolindo.blogspot.com. “And, of course, to help them celebrate and pass on ‘la cultura’ to their new babies.’’

In addition to Latin Baby, the gift-givers are: Frijolitos, Los Pollitos Dicen and Proud Tots.

The Gifts Were Sent for:
- Max and Emme: the twins born to Puerto Rican-American superstar Lopez and Puerto Rican salsa king Marc Anthony.
- Valentina Paloma, daughter of Mexican-born star Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault.
- Max Liron, son of Ecuadorian and Irish-American singer Aguilera and Jordan Bratman.

The Gifts:
Latin Baby, an on-line baby boutique for Latino families, sent gifts from their infant and toddler lines - such as hooded towels and jean jackets - which feature designs with Spanish phrases and terms of endearment like “Precioso,” “Chicanita” and “Latina in Training.” www.latinbabyusa.com

Frijolitos, specializing in Latino toy and educational products, sent the children a “Picadillo the Armadillo” book and their popular character plush toys and puppets. www.frijolitosinc.com.

Los Pollitos Dicen (The Little Chicks Say), gifted the celebrities with onesies, t-shirts and newborn hats from their independent designer collection of vibrantly colored baby wear decorated with popular Spanish colloquialisms and phrases such as “Gordito,” “Pachanga” and “Pio Pio Pio.” www.piopio.biz

Proud Tots, which specializes in extraordinary and heirloom quality baby items at affordable prices, sent the babies soft and silky blankets. www.proudtots.com

More About the Businesses:
Latin culture comes alive through Frijolitos line of colorful bilingual books and plush toys for young children based on the antics of Picadillo the Magical Armadillo, Albóndiga the Mariachi Dog, and the little turtle, Tuguita Tere. The collections continues to grow with three new mariachi dogs, Fifi la Francesa, Buñuelo the bulldog, and Pepe the terrier; and three new hard-cover bilingual books Albóndiga the Mariachi Dog/Albóndiga el Perro Mariachi, Tuguita Tere:A Home for My Books/Tuguita Tere: Un Hogar Para Mis Libros and Picadillo the Armadillo/Picadillo el Armadillo. Founded in 2002 Frijolitos has been featured in Despierta America daily show, the L.A. Times, and magazines such as Tu Ciudad, Hogar, Hispanic Business and Hispanic Magazine. www.frijolitosinc.com.

Latin Baby is the largest on-line boutique specializing in baby products celebrating the U.S. Hispanic culture and spirit. Latin Baby carries a wide variety of products for babies and toddlers, as well as gift items for mamás and abuelitas (grandmothers.) Their comprehensive web site is family friendly and includes a number of resources for Latina mothers. www.latinbabyusa.com.

Los Pollitos Dicen’s garments are made in the U.S.A. and packaged in a custom wooden keepsake box. Los Pollitos celebrates the sayings and sweet nothings of Latino culture on vibrantly colored garments. They are available on-line and in boutiques across the country. The firm, founded in 2005 by two Cuban-Americans, has been featured in national media, including Working Mother, Ser Padres, and the Miami Herald. www.piopio.biz.

Proud Tots supplies affordable high-end merchandise to baby boutique owners and retail customers, including unique baby blankets, comfortable shoes and luxurious silk baby bedding. Proud Tots was inspired by owner Maggie Vitale’s dream of “making every little star twinkle.” www.proudtots.com.”

In the run-up to Sen. John McCain’s recent visit to Latin America, a chorus of doubters questioned the value of such a trip just four months before Election Day.  Media coverage suggested it was foolish for him to leave the domestic campaign trail at a time when gas prices and a weak economy are the most pressing issues on voters’ minds .

Such thinking ignores the fact that in recent years, President Bush has been widely criticized for neglecting Latin America, which critics argue has facilitated an Hugo Chavez-led expansion of leftist governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, in addition to razor-thin close calls in Mexico and Peru.

Marketwire, a full-service newswire and communications workflow solutions provider, today announces the debut of NoticiasDigitales, the newswire industry’s first real-time business-to-consumer digital news service to publish Spanish-language news on Latin American websites. An enhancement to its Spanish-language press release distribution circuits, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales displays press releases on more than 100 leading newspaper, financial and economic news, and media websites and portals that bring corporate news to millions of influential Spanish-speaking viewers across North America, Central America and South America.

“With the rapid growth of social media and ‘citizen journalism,’ the future of the newswire industry depends on leveraging new technologies to offer effective business-to-consumer news delivery solutions,” commented Marketwire Vice President of Emerging Markets Hector Botero. “Ethnic, emerging and international markets represent enormous, untapped opportunities for an online digital news distribution service, and we are extremely excited to launch an industry first to our clients who target Spanish-speaking audiences.”

Participants in the large web network at the core of Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales include major news media, business, finance and technology websites published in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Examples of participating websites are Caracol Radio, Clarín.com, Dinero.com, El Universal.com and Nacion.com.

A 30-day testing period revealed that between June 11 and July 11, 2008, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales received more than 4 million total impressions from visitors in 21 countries. Thirty percent, or 1.2 million of those impressions came from visitors in Colombia, an economy growing at 6.8 percent a year (two full points faster than the Latin American average); 29 percent, or 1.18 million of the impressions were from the United States; 13 percent, or 520,000 impressions, came from visitors in Argentina, a country that has experienced four consecutive years of more than 8 percent growth in GDP; and 11 percent, or 431,000 impressions, came from Mexico, a country counting the United States as its largest trading partner.

Now, by adding more than 100 websites and 3 million-plus monthly views to its comprehensive Latin America distribution circuits that, combined, reach more than 80,000 media points in Latin America, Marketwire reinforces its position as the leading Latin American market press release distributor. NoticiasDigitales is included in all of Marketwire’s Spanish-language press release distribution circuits: five Latin America/South America distribution packages; newslines to 17 Latin American countries; and its industry-leading North America Hispanic newsline that reaches more than 5,000 journalists and editors through Marketwire’s NoticiasFinancieras news syndicate generating news for print publications with combined circulation exceeding 3 million daily, and readership, including web properties, exceeding 10 million.

About Marketwire

The only fully integrated North America-based global newswire, Marketwire, Inc. is a full-service partner to IR, PR and MarCom professionals seeking top-tier news distribution, media management, multimedia and monitoring solutions. Marketwire’s customer-centric corporate philosophy focuses on being the best by infusing every aspect of its business with the following core attributes: precision, adaptability, innovation and simplicity.

Marketwire delivers its clients’ news to the world’s media and financial communities, fulfilling disclosure requirements in North America in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and serving as Primary Information Provider (PIP) with the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). With a reputation for technology leadership, Marketwire offers innovative products and services — including Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Dashboard Mobile Financial, News Dashboard coverage reports, exclusive access to networks such as the Canadian Press Wire Network, Easy IR and Easy PR workflow solutions, and more — that help communication professionals maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices.

Having merged companies (Market Wire and CCNMatthews) in April 2006, and enjoying a combined history of 25 years of service, Marketwire is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds. Marketwire distributes the majority of press releases issued by publicly traded companies in Canada and serves more than 8,000 clients worldwide through 19 offices on four continents. For more information, visit us at www.marketwire.com. “*

An Ecuadorean television station owner is seeking asylum in the United States following the confiscation of his business, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

The State Department is reviewing the asylum request of Estefano Isaias after Ecuadorean banking officials last week seized TC Television and nearly 200 other businesses owned by or allegedly linked to the Isaias family, said Linda Jewell, U.S. ambassador to Ecuador.”*

Children whose lives are threatened by cancer have asked to meet Rockets star Tracy McGrady, travel to Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands and join the Texas Longhorns cheerleading squad.

Houston teenager Abigail Castillo has her own unique wish.”*

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa angrily declined Saturday to follow the example of his ally on the South American left, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, in mending tattered relations with Colombia.

”Our sovereignty has been trampled on, and we have been disrespected,” Correa said during his Saturday radio show in Ecuador’s capital, Quito. He had no interest in restoring normal ties with Colombia, led by conservative President Alvaro Uribe, until there was a government, he said, “worthy of talking to.””*

An Ecuadorean college student who alleges her relatives were targeted for deportation because of her immigration activism said Friday they are again being punished by being placed into an expanded house arrest program.

Gabriela Pacheco’s father and sister were ordered to wear ankle bracelets to monitor their movements.“*

President Michelle Bachelet pushed to permanently ban whaling along Chile’s sprawling coast at the opening Monday of the weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting.

Bachelet endorsed making Chile’s coastal waters - more than 3,100 miles long and up to 200 miles from shore - a whale sanctuary. The proposal still must be approved by Congress.

Chile, which shares economic rights to the waters with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, has not hunted whales since the 1970s. It was not clear if approval will be needed from other countries.”*

LANVACATIONS, the vacation division of LAN Airlines, is offering the opportunity to experience Lima in luxury. In collaboration with LAN Peru, this offer allows passengers to indulge in LAN’s super-comfortable and newly redesigned Premium Business Class at a fraction of the regular price.
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LAN’s Premium Business is the only business class with 180-degree reclining, full-flat seats on flights between the US and South America. The cabin offers an on-demand entertainment system that only a select number of airlines offer, including 32 movies, 55 TV programs and series, 450 music CDs and 14 games available to play individually or with other passengers.

“This package is perfect for a lavish weekend getaway or can serve as a base for planning your custom-designed dream vacation,” stated Martin Froggatt, President of LANVACATIONS. “In addition, through our strong partnership with PromPeru, Peru’s tourism marketing organization, LANVACATIONS ensures that passengers receive the highest quality vacation and the assurance of traveling with a trusted partner.”

The Lima Premium Business Supersaver package is priced from $1399 and includes roundtrip premium business class flights to Lima, roundtrip airport transfers, 3 night hotel accommodations, breakfast daily, hotel taxes and service charges, and 24 hour emergency telephone numbers. Package price excludes airport taxes and fees. This package departs on certain days and a Saturday night stay is required. Contact one of LANVACATIONS’ South America experts to assist in building an itinerary that best fits your schedule.

For more information about the Lima Premium Business package, travel to South America, and reservations, please visit www.lanvacations.com or call a reservations expert at 1-800-435-3593 (6:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. PT Monday - Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT Saturday and Sunday).

About LANVACATIONS:
LANVACATIONS offers complete travel experiences to the countries of South America (Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay) and caters to a full range of ages, interests and budgets. From unique tour packages to group itineraries and independent travel programs, LANVACATIONS, the experts in travel to South America, has the perfect South America vacation package for you.

LANVACATIONS was developed due to the dramatic growth of the LAN Airline Alliance network to and throughout the South American region, as well as the tremendous increase in demand for travel to South America. LAN Airlines appointed Europe Express, Inc. to represent the new LANVACATIONS as it continues to surpass travelers’ expectations by providing complete travel experiences to a variety of unique destinations and yet untouched regions throughout the southern hemisphere”*

He repeated the word several times over a lunch that lasted nearly three hours when describing his 50-year Hall of Fame career as the Spanish voice of the Dodgers.

He talked about how he came to the United States from Ecuador with $40 in his pocket on June 24, 1955, the anniversary of which will be celebrated this evening at Dodger Stadium before the Dodgers’ game against the Chicago White Sox. He talked about how he used to translate Vin Scully’s English-language broadcasts over the air from a studio in Pasadena. He talked about times he had to call games seated next to stadium loudspeakers or in places where his view of the field was obstructed.”*

The Los Angeles Dodgers will honor Hall of Fame Dodger Broadcaster Jaime Jarrín for his 50th season as “the Spanish Voice of the Dodgers” tomorrow, June 24 before the Dodgers take on the Chicago White Sox at 7:10 p.m. The pregame ceremony to include a ceremonial first pitch and special presentations will begin at approximately 6:50 p.m. Jarrín has called more than 7,500 regular season games, approximately 25 MLB All-Star games, and 20 World Series during his half century with the Dodgers.

“Jaime Jarrin is a treasure,” said Dodgers President Jamie McCourt. “His blend of eloquence and elegance, together with a personal dignity that exudes from his manner, has made him welcome in millions of homes. He is a vital part of the Dodgers Family-and the Dodgers Families. This franchise has been blessed to have such a kind and competent gentlemen tell our stories to generations of Dodgers-loving fans.”

In honor of tomorrow’s anniversary, Jarrín will be visible throughout local media outlets including the morning show on Telemundo, the Dodgers’ pregame radio show on KABC 790 and the club’s pregame television broadcast on FSN Prime Ticket. He was featured last week on a special two-page spread of La Opinion. Jarrín was also honored in Hoy and will receive a special award from Hoy’s publisher and general manager Roaldo Morán during the pregame ceremony.

Jarrín left his native Ecuador and arrived in the U.S. on June 24, 1955, the same year that Dodger great Sandy Koufax made his Major League debut. Jarrín had never seen a baseball game until he moved to Los Angeles and was captivated by the Dodgers while watching his first televised broadcast in 1955, the World Series in which the Dodger franchise won its first World championship by defeating the New York Yankees.

Jarrín then began regularly attending minor league games in Los Angeles, visiting both Gilmore Field and Wrigley Field for three years from 1955 until the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Jarrín was given one year to prepare to become a baseball broadcaster by William Beaton, the station manager at KWKW. During his first six years with the Dodgers, he didn’t travel. Instead, Jarrín and his partner would recreate the games in the studio while listening to fellow Hall of Famer Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett on the radio. Scully remains the only other broadcaster in Major League history with 50 or more consecutive years of service to the same team.

Soon after, Jarrín took the Dodgers’ Spanish-language radio broadcast on the road, making every stop with the Dodgers, and in 1973, Jarrín became the club’s top Spanish-language broadcaster, 14 years after he first joined the team. From 1962 to 1984, Jarrín consecutively called close to 4,000 games spanning 22 seasons and never missed a contest. The streak was broken only when Jarrín took charge of all the Spanish-language radio coverage and production for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Jarrín was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, 1998 in Cooperstown, NY as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, becoming only the second Spanish-language announcer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining Buck Canel. Jarrín has received numerous other awards in recognition of his professional contributions and is known as a pioneer in Spanish-language sports broadcasting. His honors include the first Southern California Sports Broadcaster Association’s President’s Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the highest award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, induction into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame, and its foreign-language broadcaster of the year award. Earlier this year, Jarrín received the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jarrín’s 50 years with the Dodgers are filled with many special games and moments. He counts Sandy Koufax’s 1965 perfect game, Don Drysdale’s 1968 scoreless-inning streak, and Orel Hershiser’s record 59 consecutive scoreless innings pitched in 1988 as favorites. Jarrín’s top memory was Opening Day of 1981 when rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela took the mound marking the start of “Fernandomania” which swept the country that season. Jarrín served as Valenzuela’s interpreter for several years and their friendship has come full circle, as Valenzuela now serves as an analyst alongside Jarrín for more than 100 games every season.

Jarrín has been broadcasting for his 50th season alongside his colleagues Valenzuela and Pepe Yñiguez on KHJ/La Ranchera 930 AM, the Spanish-language broadcasting home of the Dodgers. Valenzuela will catch the ceremonial first pitch from Jarrín during tomorrow night’s ceremony, which will also include a video tribute to the legendary announcer. “*

Pan-American Life Insurance Company has excelled for the third straight year ranking first among Hispanic companies in the state of Louisiana according to Hispanic Business 500, the magazine’s annual business directory.

In the June issue, the magazine ranked Pan-American Life as 23rd among all Hispanic businesses in the nation and second among the top 10 companies in the finance sector.

“Pan-American Life’s growth mirrors our distinctive competitive advantages; a multicultural management team, strong brand recognition in Latin America and an understanding of the complex multicultural nature of the U.S. Hispanic population,” said Chairman of the Board and CEO Jose Suquet. “In terms of insurance, we are the bridge between Hispanics working here in the U.S. and their extended families back home.”

Since January 2008, Suquet has enlisted four new senior managers to reposition the company in the Americas. Today, 50 percent of the company’s senior management, more than 39 percent of its home office employees, 76 percent of the overall company employees and 60 percent of its policyholders are Hispanics.

Pan-American Life had a 4.9 percent increase in revenues, growing from $262.43 million in 2006 to $275.21 million in 2007, while total assets reached $2.1 billion and total capital of $331 million, an all-time high.

For more than two decades, the Hispanic Business 500 has served as a barometer of the U.S. Hispanic economy.

About Pan-American Life

Founded in 1911, New Orleans-based Pan-American Life Insurance Company is a leading international insurance company, employing more than 700 worldwide, providing top-rated life and health insurance, worksite benefits and financial services in 46 states, the District of Columbia (DC) and Puerto Rico. Its international operations, offering individual and group life and health insurance throughout Latin America, includes affiliates in Panama, Guatemala and Colombia, and branch offices in Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras. For more information, visit the Pan-American Life Web site at www.panamericanlife.com.

Pan-American Life Insurance Company is a member of Pan-American Life Insurance Group. The Group is comprised of a number of insurance and reinsurance companies serving nearly half a million customers throughout the Americas. “*

In Latin America, in the absence of a social revolution at the moment of national independence there were plenty of rebellions and political revolts. Less frequently these were popular rebellions and almost never were they ideological revolutions that shook the traditional structures, as was the case with the North American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Cuban Revolution. Instead, internal struggles abounded, before and after the birth of the new Republics.

A half century later, in 1866, the Ecuadorian Juan Montalvo would make a dramatic diagnosis: “freedom and fatherland in Latin America are the sheep’s clothing with which the wolf disguises himself.” When the republics were not at war they enjoyed the peace of the oppressors. Even though slavery had been abolished in the new republics, it existed de facto and was almost as brutal as in the giant to the north. Class violence was also racial violence: the indigenous continued to be marginalized and exploited. “This has been the peace of the jail cell,” conclued Montalvo. The indian, deformed by this physical and moral violence, would receive the most brutal physical punishments but “when they give him the whip, trembling on the ground, he gets up thanking his tormenter: May God reward you, sir.” Meanwhile, the Puerto Rican Eligenio M. Hostos in 1870 would already lament that “there is still no South American Confederation.” On the contrary, he only saw disunion and new empires oppressing and threatening: “An empire [Germany] can still move deliberately against Mexico! Another empire [Great Britain/Brazil] can still wreck Paraguay with impunity!” “*

The consul generals of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay plan to announce the initiative Tuesday in New York City. “*

Hispanics play an important role in the world missions strategy of Southern Baptists in South America, Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, told more than 100 pastors and leaders at a June 9 luncheon prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis.

“I feel very much at home with people who speak Spanish,” said Rankin, who recently returned from a two-week trip into the Amazon basin of Peru and Ecuador.

Noting his concern about the “remaining lostness of our world and the urgency of reaching [the lost] with the Gospel,” Rankin urged the audience not to shy away from the Great Commission.”*

Octagon has named Matt Neidl to the position of Group Director of its multicultural marketing division. Neidl, who brings more than a decade of experience helping industry leading brands engage their multicultural audiences, will report to David Parkes, Senior Vice President of Octagon’s Marketing Solutions Group.

“Matt’s broad-based experience in the strategic development and activation of both traditional and non-traditional marketing and promotional campaigns complements and enhances the insights into the multicultural marketplace and expertise currently available from Octagon,” said Parkes. “The programs he’s created and managed across a number of industry segments give him a high degree of familiarity with our clients’ businesses in addition to developing opportunities for Octagon to help brands in categories where we’re currently not represented,” he said.

A member of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Octagon works with Allstate, The Home Depot and Sprint on multicultural marketing initiatives.

Neidl joins Octagon from Latinsphere Experiential in California where he was Director of Experiential Marketing. Clients included Disney, XM Radio and ESPN Deportes. For these clients and others, he developed experiential, retail and promotional programs and CRM campaigns entailing lead-generation, on-line marketing and direct mail.

Prior to Latinsphere, he held various account positions with The Bravo Group and Mendoza Dillon y Asociados, both part of the Y&R Brands communications agency network. Clients included Kraft Foods, United States Postal Service, Mazda, and Miller Brewing. He also worked in the retail, broadcast, telecommunications and financial services categories.

“As we are all aware, we live in a marketplace that’s controlled by the consumer. As such, brands need to establish and create a one-to-one relationship with the marketplace,” said Neidl. “On that note, I look forward to developing and activating integrated strategic brand solutions for our clients. Octagon is focused on helping our clients achieve profitable growth through the creation of marketing solutions that enable them to generate experiences for and establish conversations with their consumers,” said Neidl.

Neidl earned his bachelor’s degree in business management and marketing communications from Universidad San Francisco in his native Quito, Ecuador. He was managing partner and event marketing director of a marketing promotional consulting firm in Quito where he serviced clients in the pharmaceutical, petroleum and beverage segments.

Octagon, named “Sports Agency of the Year” by Sports Business Journal, is the world’s leader in sports and entertainment marketing with global expertise in consulting, athletes & personalities, event management, property representation, marketing solutions, licensing and merchandising and talent procurement. As part of The Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world’s leading organizations comprised of advertising and marketing services agencies, Octagon employs marketing specialists based in major markets on six continents. For further information please visit:

Continuing to prove its leadership role within the Hispanic sports television space, Fox Sports en Español announced today its highest ratings of the year with the Copa Santander Libertadores semi-finals. The network made ratings history in Spanish-language television with Tuesday’s semi-final match between LDU Quito of Ecuador, and América of Mexico, which captured almost one million total viewers. Nearly 700,000 adult viewers 18-49 tuned-in (943,000 total audience), delivering a 3.1 national rating in this category. Consistent with the network’s appeal to the male Latino sports fan, the match out-delivered Telemundo and Telefutura, bolstering a 4.1 national average for males 18-49.”*

Jorge Villamizar nació en Colombia en 1970. Sus padres se mudaron a Ecuador cuando él tenía diez años, regresó a Colombia a los 18 y se enroló en la Escuela Naval en Cartagena. Luego partió hacia Londres, donde permaneció dos años estudiando Ciencias Políticas, regresando a Miami en 1992, donde radica actualmente.

La formación musical de Jorge proviene de su madre, quien le enseñó a tocar la guitarra y desde muy joven lo expuso a la música de los Beatles y al folklore de los Andes. A los catorce años le abrió un show a la legendaria banda de rock argentino Soda Stereo con su banda del colegio en Quito. “*

The organization’s recent poll in 18 regional countries found that seven out of ten Latin Americans reject the presence of immigrants in their country. Ecuador and Costa Rica are the most intolerant countries towards newcomers, whereas Uruguay and Nicaragua appear to be highly tolerant towards immigrants.

The study shows that only 35% of Chileans think foreigners should be able to have the same rights as they do. The concept of foreigners living in Chile is supported by 13% of the population, while only 9% of Chileans think that poor people from a different race should be able to come to their country. Additionally, only 28% of all Chileans back the idea of open regional migration in order to promote integration.”*