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November 20, 2009
A Life Remembered: Ramiro Gonzalez, Hispanic education champion – Saginaw, Michigan
Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
November 19, 2009
Farewell to an icon: Artist who tore at racism is buried at 99 – R.I.P. José Cisneros
November 18, 2009
Ray Gomez, news director for Pro 8 News (NBC affiliate), the CW and Telemundo in Laredo, passed away last night.
November 16, 2009
Death toll in El Salvador storms rises to 192
José Cisneros 1910-2009 – Iconic El Paso artist dies at age 99
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
November 13, 2009
Longtime Rutgers Professor, Community Activist, Gay-Rights Pioneer Hilda Hidalgo Loses Cancer Fight
November 12, 2009
Frank M. Pesqueira, who owned the Grande Tortilla Factory for more than 60 years, died Nov. 9 a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 99. – Tucson
Love for a Lost Brother – The Chicano music world mourns the loss of another one of it’s own…Pete Perez
November 10, 2009
Photographer’s work helped defuse Cuban Missile Crisis – RIP William B. Ecker
November 9, 2009
Bernardo Garza Sada, founder and former chairman of Mexico’s Grupo Alfa, died in Monterrey,
Argentine Photographer Humberto Rivas Dies in Barcelona
November 6, 2009
Francisco Ayala, 103 – Acclaimed Spanish writer was a resolute opponent of Franco
November 5, 2009
Francisco Ayala, honored Spanish author, dies at 103
November 4, 2009
Guatemalan Writer Jaime Barrios Peña Dies
A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango – El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna
Actor Jorge Vargas died at a Mexico City hospital after a long battle with cancer, the artist’s family said Tuesday. He was 68.
November 2, 2009
Long-time civic leader Joe E. Gonzales dies at 88 – in the late 1940s worked for U.S. Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, died in Tucson last month from heart complications.
More than 200 bodies recovered at Arizona/Sonora border
The leader of a Mexican farmworkers’ organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora
Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.
October 30, 2009
Detained immigrant’s death leaves far-reaching questions – the case of Dominican Pedro Tavarez in Massachusetts
October 28, 2009
Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gustavo de la Viña, who changed the patrol’s philosophy from interdiction to deterrence of immigration, died Monday of natural causes.
October 27, 2009
Judge Who Ordered Texas to Educate Undocumented Students Dies – U.S. Senior District Judge William Wayne Justice
October 12, 2009
Argentine-Born Singer Luis Aguile Dies in Spain
October 11, 2009
José Víctor Villareal Esparza, brother of norteno singer Alicia Villarreal was kiiled in an early morning car accident in Monterrey, Mexico.
October 7, 2009
NASA astronaut Fernando “Frank” Caldeiro died Saturday morning after a two and a half year battle with brain cancer. – first person of Argentinean descent to train for a space flight
October 5, 2009
Angel investor Luis Villalobos dead at 72 – Founder of Tech Coast Angels worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs
October 4, 2009
Se apaga la voz de América Latina – Fallece a los 74 años Mercedes Sosa, la cantante argentina que popularizó el folclore hispanoamericano – Detenida durante la dictadura, se exilió en España
Fallece la legendaria cantante Mercedes Sosa – Una de las voces latinas más emblemáticas deja una enorme herencia
Award-Winning Singer Mercedes Sosa Dies at 74
September 29, 2009
Fallece hija de Lidia Ávila
Angela de Hoyos, grande dame of Chicano poetry, dies in San Antonio
Marcelo Cornicello, local Hispanic leader, dies at 46 – Richmond, VA
September 28, 2009
RIP: The Man Behind Sazón Goya, José Antonio Ortega Bonet
Beloved Hispanic community leader to be honored – This summer, Tampa Bay’s Hispanic community was rocked by the death of Maria Esther Carrillo.
September 24, 2009
The Life and Death of a Mexican Environmental Prophet – Felipe Arreaga Sanchez, leading environmentalist from
the Sierra Madre in Guerrero
September 21, 2009
Por causas naturales, ayer falleció en Juárez la gloria del deporte mexicano, Bertha Chiu Núñez, de 76 años y cuyos restos será sepultados hoy viernes, en el cementerio Jardines Eternos. – La prensa mexicana la calificó como la “Deportista del Milenio” y dos veces fue electa “Deportista Femenina del Año”
September 14, 2009
Edgardo Buitrago Buitrago, historian, university professor, intellectual and author of works on poet Ruben Dario, died of a heart attack in Leon, a city in western Nicaragua, his family said Sunday. He was 85.
September 2, 2009
John Sotelo, first Latino Riverside city councilman, dies at 84
August 27, 2009
El polifacético artista cubano Manolo Torrente falleció en Miami el pasado jueves 20 víctima de varios problemas de salud. Tenía 83 años.
August 26, 2009
Leader, Visionary and Friend: Today We Remember Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Latino Community Loses a Champion with Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Passing
August 11, 2009
Sad sendoff for Latino civic leader – For almost 20 years, Mario Magaña has been a fixture to Latinos in the Yakima Valley.
August 5, 2009
Julian Lago, Icon of Journalism in Democratic Spain, Dies
August 3, 2009
Retired state District Court Judge Enrique H. Peña, 73, has died, according to an obituary in the El Paso Times.
A funeral is being held Monday for former New York state Sen. Olga Mendez. She was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to a state legislature in the mainland United States.
July 29, 2009
Olga A. Méndez, First Puerto Rican Woman Elected To U.S. State Legislature, Dead At 83
July 23, 2009
Carlos Ortega, the son of migrant farmworkers who as city manager of Palm Desert became one of the Coachella Valley’s most successful and respected civic leaders, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.
July 20, 2009
In Memoriam: Mario F. Vazquez -vNovember 25, 1946-July 10, 2009
July 15, 2009
Juan Manuel Montesinos, destacado actor de teatro, cine, radio y televisión en Venezuela, falleció el martes víctima de una insuficiencia hepática. Tenía 59 años.
July 14, 2009
Tyrone Guzman, Latino leader and visionary in the Twin Cities – The Little Canada resident and St. Paul native was an enthusiastic community advocate, who turned Centro Cultural Chicano into a vibrant social service agency.
July 9, 2009
Ricardo Mario Aguirre of Renton, a Chicano/Latino social activist, star Husky football player and coach and successful business owner in the insurance industry died last Friday.
June 24, 2009
Manuel Saval, el galán de telenovelas en los años 80 El actor, que falleció anoche a causa de un cáncer de laringe, se distinguió por su trato amable dentro y fuera de los foros de televisión
June 22, 2009
Remembering my friend Tim Chavez
June 20, 2009
Latino blogger/journalist Tim Chavez has passed away
June 9, 2009
Maria “Tess” Martinez, a former Tucson Weekly intern, died Monday, June 1, in a single-car accident in New Mexico. She was 25 years old. Founding member of NAHJ’s student chapter at the University of Arizona
June 1, 2009
On the anniversary of Esequiel Hernández death
May 31, 2009
Hispanic leader devoted his life to others, education – Family recalls how man fought for civil rights in Victoria – Raul Loa
Maria Carrillo – Tampa Hispanic activist killed in Miami crash; daughter injured – member of Mayor Iorios’s Hispanic Leadership Council
May 28, 2009
Jose Castillo, 81, of Center City, a physician and plastic surgeon who was active in the Latino community, died of liver disease Monday at his home. – Philadelphia
March 24, 2009
Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño decreed Tuesday three days of mourning for actress Awilda Carbia, who died over the weekend of respiratory complications. She was 71.
March 17, 2009
Already a respected small businessman in the city of Hondo, Pete Pedroza first got involved in local politics because of flooding on the west side of town. Pedroza, the first Hispanic mayor of Hondo, died Friday of complications from diabetes. He was 91.
March 16, 2009
Alberto Rodriguez partner and Creative Director of New York-based Revolucion died on Sunday March 15, 2009.
March 11, 2009
Fallece la doctora Maritza Beato, psicóloga y periodista
Ralph Mercado, a Brooklyn native whose promotional skills helped spread the popularity of salsa music worldwide, died Tuesday at Hackensack University Medical Center. He was 57 and had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago.
February 16, 2009
Tomato King dies of stomach cancer – Andrés Bermúdez
Salsa band leader Joe Cuba, dubbed the “Father of Latin Boogaloo” for weaving a fluid, bilingual mix of musical influences, died Sunday in New York City, a member of his group said. He was 78
Joe Cuba: The Father of New York Boogaloo has passed
February 1, 2009
Helio Gracie, one of the main creators of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that gained worldwide popularity, has died. He was 95.
Muere Helio Gracie, creador de Jiu-Jitsu brasileño
Eloy O. Aguilar, an award-winning Associated Press bureau chief who mentored a generation of journalists in Mexico and Central America as he covered civil wars, disasters and political upheaval, collapsed and died Friday. He was 72.
Eloy O. Aguilar, quien durante sus 41 años de laureada trayectoria con The Associated Press cubrió terremotos, guerras civiles, entrenó a varias generaciones de periodistas y disfrutó el periodismo a plenitud, colapsó y falleció el viernes. Tenía 72 años.
January 28, 2009
Antonio Pagán, advocate for gays & Latinos, dies
January 26, 2009
Max E. Borges, the creator and icon of Cuba’s most famous mid-20th century nightclub, the Tropicana, died at his home in Falls Church, Va. He was 90.
January 25, 2009
Brazilian model who lost hands and feet dies – 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi
January 21, 2009
The career of Father Vicente Peña spanned time and distance from the Spanish Civil War to St. Ann’s Catholic Church in San Antonio. – Peña, in his 73rd year of the priesthood, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 96.
Inspiring University of Texas at San Antonio employee Rose Mendez dies at age 80
Oscar I. Romo, a pioneer in ethnic evangelism and church planting for the Home Mission Board (now the North American Mission Board), died Friday, Jan. 16, of pneumonia related to Parkinson’s disease.
Former light-heavyweight world champion, Olympic silver medalist and author Jose Torres died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Puerto Rico at the age of 72, his wife, Ramonita, said.
January 15, 2009
Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV’s Fantasy Island, died Wednesday morning at his home
December 2, 2008
Anti-poverty baron Ramon Velez, 75 – NYC
