News (Noticias) Tagged ‘El Salvadoran’

“El Salvadoran President Elias Antonio Saca has addressed the United Nations, discussing issues such as gang activity, economic development and global warming.

Mr. Saca told the U.N. General Assembly about efforts El Salvador is taking to deal with increased gang activity in the country, which he said could threaten the country’s stability.

During his speech, the president said prices of raw materials and increased oil prices are having a negative impact on the country’s development.”

“Take a drive to the east of College Park on Kenilworth Avenue, and its difficult to go even a few blocks without seeing an ethnic eatery, a foreign food market or a business offering money transfer services to Latin America.

Cross over to University Boulevard, on the west side of College Park, and roll down the windows, and visitors are likely to be greeted with the smells of cooking pupusas an El Salvadoran staple food, or the latest bachata tune to grace FM Spanish-language radio. Turn onto Riggs Road, and drivers can find more than 15 mobile kitchens offering everything from Jamaican patties to plantain snacks”

“For six years, Gaithersburg businessman Kevin Bohrer has sought to improve the quality of life for a little town in Central America, and now he close to seeing it happen.

More than half of the employees at his landscaping company, Goshen Enterprises Inc., hail from the impoverished El Salvadoran town of El Almendro. Over the years, crew members have returned to El Almendro to visit their families, coming back with stories about a down-trodden quality of life. The more Bohrer learned, the more he was driven to help.”

“Juan Perez said he escaped from a gang of Mexican kidnappers Sunday, but his wife was not as lucky.

The El Salvadoran couple wanted to come to the United States to work but ran into trouble at the Las Norias checkpoint, 74 miles south of Matamoros.

Perez said he, his wife and other Central Americans were forced to exit a Transpaí­s bus by Mexican immigration offi-cials.

The 34-year-old man said they were sold several times between criminals and police until they ended up in the hands of a criminal organization in Matamoros.”

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“If the Dems continue to desert Ferrer, it will help Rove achieve another key strategic goal: winning Latinos to the GOP, a minority-outreach effort that he actually takes seriously. A victory for Ferrer, New York?s first Hispanic nominee — coming right after Antonio Villaraigosa?s election as the mayor of Los Angeles — would mean that Latinos had won city halls in major cities on both coasts. That would be deeply meaningful for Hispanics nationwide, reaffirming Democrats as the party truly interested in elevating them and making it tougher for them to bolt. National Dems seem blind to the potent symbolism that such a bicoastal victory would carry. But you can bet Rove isn?t blind to it. ”

That’s a creative defense of the dreary Ferrer: He’s no Villaraigosa, but together he and Villaraigosa average out to an inspiring bicoastal pair.

But I’m interested in another question, and I wonder if anyone reading this is enough of an expert on Latino politics to offer an informed answer — is this true? Is it the case that Mexican-Americans in Texas would be inspired by the election of Hispanic mayors in New York and LA? Or El Salvadorans in Northern Virginia, or Latinos in Chicago? Or old-line Hispanic families in New Mexico?

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