Peru’s women unite in kitchen – and beyond - With food prices on the rise, ‘community kitchens’ provide half a million Lima residents with affordable daily meals.

U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will launch next week a self-deportation program to cut the country’s huge illegal immigrant population.

$20 million Latino outreach plan thrills superdelegate-for-sale - Sacramento’s Steve Ybarra

Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.

A Florida woman who has been married to both the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and the creator of a notorious white supremacist Web site is working as a spokeswoman for a school that aims to lift underprivileged black and Hispanic children out of poverty.

Hispanics profiling victims by Border Patrol in West Palm, group says

Not all was good news in the UNAIDS report; despite praising prevention plans in countries like Chile and Brazil, Latin America had more HIV infections (1.7 million) than any other region except southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

70% of Houstonians over the age of 60 are Anglo. 75% of Houstonians under the age of 30 are non-Anglo, mostly Hispanic. The conclusion is obvious. In a few years Houston will be a predominantly Hispanic city. Further, if Hispanics don’t prosper, Houston won’t prosper.

Justice Inspector General Report Finds Immigration Judges Were Illegally Hired

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The indie rock band Cordero announced the upcoming release of their second album, De Dónde Eres on Aug. 26. The album is the first to contain Spanish songs, written by Ani Cordero, who is of Puerto Rican descent, vocalist and guitarist for the group.

Fremont’s City Council voted to kill a proposal targeting illegal immigration at the end of a hearing that drew more than 1,000 people. - Nebraska

Call for peace echoes at vigil for slain Mexican in Shenandoah - Pennsylvania

Latino Health Access leader receives $125,000 prize - America Bracho is recognized for encouraging community involvement.

New or rarely done works by writers from Ecuador, Argentina, Spain and Mexico, including an English-language comedy about aspects of globalization, are featured in GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 33rd mainstage season, at the Tivoli (14th Street and Park Road NW). All plays have English or Spanish surtitles. - Washington DC

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Headache: Border wall construction disrupts the usual peace and quiet of Granjeno

Experts ask why cancer deaths are higher among Latinos in Santa Cruz County

Cuba’s extra efforts to try to stop some of its best athletes from defecting at international tournaments once again has hit a snag. Two prominent players from its IBAF world junior baseball championship roster are missing.

“The Obama campaign is blasting out messages from 30,000 feet,” Leslie Sanchez, a GOP strategist said. “It’s a good way to get media attention, but it’s a bad way to get the Latino vote.”

Mesa, Arizona has seen a big dip in enrollment the past two years at predominantly Hispanic schools such as Longfellow.

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$20 million Latino outreach plan thrills superdelegate-for-sale - Sacramento’s Steve Ybarra

The sale of iconic American beer giant Anheuser-Busch to a Belgian company that brews and distributes beer in Cuba is unexpectedly putting John McCain in the middle of thorny Cuba-U.S. relations: his wife Cindy owns the third largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the country.

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) insisted that whatever “inroads” McCain has made with the Hispanic community are “just spin.”

“The Obama campaign is blasting out messages from 30,000 feet,” Leslie Sanchez, a GOP strategist said. “It’s a good way to get media attention, but it’s a bad way to get the Latino vote.”

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign’s decision to use $20 million to reach out to Latino voters has drawn praise from members of Congress.

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The indie rock band Cordero announced the upcoming release of their second album, De Dónde Eres on Aug. 26. The album is the first to contain Spanish songs, written by Ani Cordero, who is of Puerto Rican descent, vocalist and guitarist for the group.

Leonardo Arámbula negó que su hermana Aracely haya firmado un contrato con el cantante mexicano Luis Miguel, en el que se compromete a darle tres hijos a cambio de una fuerte cantidad de dinero.

La actriz mexicana Edith González aparecerá a partir del próximo lunes en dos telenovelas que se transmitirán de manera simultánea en las mayores televisoras hispanas de Estados Unidos.

Los españoles Javier Bardem y Penélope Cruz podrían llegar al altar antes de finalizar este año, pues el actor le propuso matrimonio a la actriz y viajó a este país para acompañar a su amada.

Debutará Eugenio Derbez como director de cine con “Hombre de piedra”.

La cantante y actriz mexicana Thalía dijo que planea lanzar para el próximo Día de las Madres su nuevo libro, “Thalía embarazo”, el cual incluye consejos para madres primerizas.

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El grupo mexicano Belanova, quien lanza a la venta una edición especial de su tercer álbum “Fantasía pop”, informó que en octubre próximo estrenará un DVD en vivo del concierto que ofreció en abril pasado en Guadalajara, Jalisco

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El músico Charly García fue internado el martes en un sanatorio de esta capital tras sufrir un ataque de nervios luego que la justicia ordenara su regreso a una clínica neuropsiquiátrica por su adicción a las drogas, informó una fuente médica.

Las actrices América Ferrera y Salma Hayek, así como el ciclista y sobreviviente del cáncer Lance Armstrong, participarán con otras celebridades en un teletón a fin de ayudar a reunir fondos contra la mortal enfermedad, se anunció el martes.

Tras el silencio, el panameño Rubén Blades, autor de “Pedro Navaja” y “Ligia Elena”, volvió a cantar e hizo bailar a centenas de madrileños que se dieron cita en el foro cultural Conde Duque, la noche de este martes.

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La cantante Alessandra Rosaldo buscará un lugar dentro del género pop con su tercer álbum como solista y nueva compañía discográfica, pues reconoció que con sus dos discos anteriores no contó con el apoyo necesario.

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Grupo Gigante SAB, the Mexico City retailer that sold its grocery chain in December, said it offered to pay $430 million for Office Depot Inc.’s 50 percent stake in their joint Mexican office-supply venture.

Spanish retail sales suffered a record plunge year-on-year in June as a severe economic slowdown began to slam both multinational and domestic retailers.

Current and former workers of the Bashas’ food chain may be able to pursue their claims of pay discrimination together, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. - paid Hispanic workers less than white counterparts - Arizona

EarthSky Communications announced today that its Spanish-language science podcast series – Cielo y Tierra – has exceeded all expectations for its first year.

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Senator Ken Salazar, Representative Michael Honda, and other congressional leaders joined high-ranking corporate representatives to speak on the importance of achieving greater integration of Hispanics within the United States. Speakers echoed themes emphasized in the new AS/COA white paper on Hispanic integration and the role of the private sector. Integration is both a challenge and an opportunity. Above all, it is a pressing issue for the U.S. economy, society and politics.

Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.

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The president of a Kansas City roofing company pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to conspiring to hire illegal immigrants. Tony Evans, 49, of Stilwell in Johnson County, was president of Mid-Continent Specialists and later Metro Roofing Services. His co-defendant, Luis Hernandez-Bautista, pleaded guilty last week.

Rent-A-Center Outfits Toledo Latino Resource Center - Ohio

The sale of iconic American beer giant Anheuser-Busch to a Belgian company that brews and distributes beer in Cuba is unexpectedly putting John McCain in the middle of thorny Cuba-U.S. relations: his wife Cindy owns the third largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the country.

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Jesus Cervantes, director of economic measurement for Mexico’s central bank, said remittances are expected to decline 1.5 percent to 2 percent for 2008 as a whole over the previous year.

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La minorista mexicana Gigante dijo el miércoles que presentó a su socia estadounidense Office Depot Inc una oferta para comprarle un 50 por ciento de su unidad en México por 430 millones de dólares.

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Red Bull New York signed Mexican defender Diego Jimenez to a developmental contract Tuesday.

Dynamo beats Pachuca to advance to SuperLiga final

4 years later, Nueva Vision charter school looking for final approval from Sacramento County

The Mexican Consulate will make another visit to Green Bay next week after turning away hundreds who waited hours to get passports and consular identification cards last month.

Give a thought to culantro – that’s cilantro with an exclamation point

Guatemala’s attorney general stepped down on Tuesday after complaints he did little to stamp out violence in a country with one of the highest crime rates in Latin America.

Mexican Nostalgia Takes Over Los Angeles With ‘100 Years of Mexican Music’

Jews find common ground with Latino Pentecostals

The Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia promised to address the problems that a local farmworkers’ support group had presented to them in dozens of written complaints during a meeting Tuesday in Glassboro.

Activists and several Chicago aldermen are investigating dozens of claims that city and county authorities violated immigrant rights, including federal immigration laws affecting jail inmates.

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Authorities say a former official with a Cuban-American group that was once the foremost voice representing the exile cause in Washington was shot dead in a Puerto Rican suburb. - Emiliano Infante Segrera

Louisiana latest state to reject REAL ID

Pennsylvania’s Governors Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs Commends Secretary of State

América Latina presenta una epidemia de VIH relativamente estable con 1,7 millones de personas que viven con el virus, la mayoría de las cuales se encuentran en Brasil y México, informó el martes el programa de Naciones Unidas sobre Sida.

Inmigrantes, activistas y funcionarios electos participarán en una audiencia pública con el objetivo de asegurar que empleados municipales y la Policía de Chicago respeten las ordenanzas municipales que prohíben denunciar a inmigrantes indocumentados antes las autoridades de Inmigración.

A Juárez police officer is accused of leading a gang of kidnappers and killers that was captured after a vehicle chase by federal police in Juárez, officials said.

10th Annual Hispanic Wellness Fair in Fort Worth offers free medical services for all Aug. 2

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In his message to the nation from the Congress of the Republic, Peru’s President Alan García Perez announced there would be one million more Peruvians that are literate by November this year.

The new Mexican champ: Tijuana’s Antonio Margarito

Chile: Pinochet daughter to run for office - Lucia Pinochet Hiriart

El cráter de Chicxulub cambió la mentalidad científica del mundo

Convocan a Primer Congreso Nacional por la Vida Hispano en Dallas

El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía abrirá al público sus terrazas a partir del viernes para que puedan disfrutar de las vistas de Madrid.

Review: Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda by Sonia Rivera-Valdés

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the U.S. Border Patrol was not negligent in the 2003 fatal shooting of 19-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant Juan Patricio Peraza near Downtown El Paso.

Cochinita Pibil at home…well almost - Cochinita Pibil is a citrusy, melt in your mouth pork dish that hails from the Yucatan region of Mexico. This is my obituary to my attempt at making that dish at home.

Mexican voters oppose Calderon’s plan for oil industry In the capital, more than 80% issue a resounding ‘no’ to the proposal to allow private firms a greater role. In the nine states that also voted, more than 90% give the plan a thumbs down.

Prosecutors say excavations at a former military base in southern Mexico have concluded without finding any trace of leftist activists who disappeared in the 1970s.

A small, colonial-era church in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has collapsed after its abode walls were soaked by rain from the remnants of Hurricane Dolly.

Sarah Steelman’s late ad push stresses immigration - Missouri senate race

Unlicensed drivers who can’t prove they are citizens shouldn’t have their cars automatically impounded if they’re stopped for a traffic offense, says the Denver City Council.

Zulmarie Bosques ‘11 is one 32 students from across the country chosen to participate in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s highly competitive Congressional Internship Program.

Hispanics to combat perceptions of illegal immigrants - Beaufort County, South Carolina

‘Baldo’ Readers Are Being Surveyed by the Comic’s Creators - Carlos Castellanos and Hector Cantu

Bilingual singer Patricia Vonne will perform a benefit concert on behalf of Latinitas Magazine. The digital magazine is attempting to launch its first print issue, and proceeds from the show will go toward the publication. The magazine originated six years ago from two University of Texas students. - Austin

U.S. Conference of Mayors President Miami Mayor Manny Diaz to Address the National Press Club

Nantucket’s cultural clash With more blacks, Latinos, island comes to grips with change

New director brings vision to Centro de Ayuda - Irene Zoppi in Annapolis, Maryland

Growth in use straining Centro Las Americas - opened 31 years ago - Worchester, Massachusetts

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Latino Commission on AIDS Welcomes Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza as its Newest ‘Madrina’ in the Fight Against AIDS

El alto costo de morir en un territorio ajeno - Trasladar un cuerpo a un país de Latinoamérica resulta muy oneroso

For East River North Renewal president Albert Medina, lifting Spanish Harlem a labor of love

A podcast interview with Mark Potok, director, Intelligence Report, Southern Poverty Law Center is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses anti Latino hate groups with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

A noted brain surgeon reflects on his life as an undocumented farm worker - Dr. Quinoñes-Hinojosa

Guanajuato’s mix of mines, mummies, music - Life is contagious in this historic colonial city. Don’t miss the nightly cavalcade.

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