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by Greg Cruey on June 30, 2009
If you've been following the confirmation process of Judge Sonia Sotomayor you're probably aware of the ruling today in which the Court overturned a ruling in which Sotomayor was involved. The...
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by Greg Cruey on January 24, 2009
Politico took a look a couple of days ago at the shape of Latino political power in the U.S. as the dust settles after the Obama inauguration.
Politico concludes that there's still a gap between...
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by Greg Cruey on December 8, 2008
Inside Higher Ed has an article online about a report by Excelencia in Education. The report, Accelerating Latino Student Success at texas Border Institutions: Possibilities and Challenges, looks at t...
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by Greg Cruey on November 6, 2008
NBC News Havana Bureau Chief Mary Murray tried to capture the atmosphere in Cuba on the night after the U.S. Election with this blog post at MSNBC. The simple message: the average Cuban hopes that lif...
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by Laura Tamayo on August 1, 2008
I was reading in the paper this morning that one in four people of Latin American heritage make early withdrawals from their retirement accounts.
Experts say it's due to the poor economic situa...
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by Laura Tamayo on July 23, 2008
Every year the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons puts out a report on human trafficking in order to raise awareness on this modern form of slavery.
Part of...
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by Laura Tamayo on July 22, 2008
I hate passing by a group of men and getting harassed. A girlfriend and I have have been talking about it online lately, mostly because of all the headlines of protesters in Cairo demanding men on ...
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by Laura Tamayo on June 15, 2008
There has been a lot of talk lately about traces of drugs being found in our water: antibiotics, anti-depressants, birth control pills, seizure medication, cancer treatments, pain killers, tranquil...
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by Laura Tamayo on June 11, 2008
INTERPOL is awesome.
I mean the International Police, not the New York Post-punk rock band-although they're pretty cool, too.
The organization runs a global police communications system (I-2...
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by Laura Tamayo on June 8, 2008
Well, it looks like Obama is the Democratic candidate who will be running against mccain.
It should be interesting. According to the L.A. Times, Obama is the favorite with the international commu...
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by Laura Tamayo on April 21, 2008
In an earlier blog posting, an interesting comment was posted that brought up the question of the definition of culture. What is culture? Is it language, religion, people, habits, food... or all of...
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by Laura Tamayo on February 20, 2008
Hoy leí un ensayo de Hiber Conteris en el que trata los temas de exilio, desexilio y desterritorialización en la narrativa de Mario Benedetti y me vino a la mente algo muy sonado aquí en Estados Unido...
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by Eliane on November 26, 2007
Terrible news from Bolivia:Clashes between Bolivia's police and opponents of a new constitution that's backed by President Evo Morales left three dead and about 130 wounded, Efe newswire said....
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by Eliane on November 18, 2007
Argentinian elected president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is already showing she's not dumb. Cristina is indicating she will focus on Argentina's commercial relations with Brazil, more th...
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by Eliane on November 15, 2007
Can you believe this? In Cienfuegos, a beach town near La Habana (Cuba), the people is very happy because they can eat Meat. They have received 227 grams of bovine meat from the Government, for the fi...
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by Eliane on November 10, 2007
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to shut the f*ck up, during a discussion between Chávez and the Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, at the closure of t...
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by Eliane on November 5, 2007
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva classified as "pure foolishness" and "lack of politic sensitivity" the conversations about a proposal for a third consecutive presiden...
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by Eliane on October 29, 2007
According to official exit polling numbers, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will succeed Nestor Kirchner, her husband, in the Argentinian presidential chair. Fernández is the first female president ele...
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by Eliane on October 25, 2007
On October 7, a 21-year-old Spaniard, identified as Sergi Xavier Martinez Martinez, was caught on camera, on a commuter train near Barcelona, Spain.A video of the attack, placed on several Spanish new...
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by Eliane on October 25, 2007
The "Dream Act", the bill to grant legal status to Illegal immigrants who are high school graduates was defeated yesterday in a test vote in the Senate:By a vote of 52 to 44, the bill failed...
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by Eliane on October 23, 2007
This fence BS is just getting better and better.Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws yesterday to continue building a border fence through a national co...
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by Eliane on October 22, 2007
HispanicAd asks: Man vs. Naturaleza: How 'green' are Hispanics?
They say "being green to Hispanics is less of a lifestyle statement and more about a pragmatic application to real life&qu...
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by Eliane on October 19, 2007
As you know, hillary clinton is trying very hard to attract Latino voters. She has promised a lot, but as you probably also know, some things will never be more than promises. On Thursday, Hillary sai...
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by Eliane on October 18, 2007
Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Salisbury University's president, is being accused of racism, due to two photos she uploaded to her profile on Facebook. One of the photos showed her brandishing a stick befo...
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by Eliane on October 16, 2007
Very interesting article, reproduced on Hispanic Trending (originally published on The Louisiana Weekly) about what the word "Hispanic" really means: Just What Is a Hispanic?
Although I don...
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by Eliane on October 16, 2007
Today, the Uruguayan Senate is discussing the "Sexual and Reproductive Health Law Project". In fact, the Senators are discussing it right now, as I'm writing this. Among other issues, th...
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by Eliane on October 15, 2007
I don't know if Fidel Castro is dead, but his spirit is definitely very alive in Cuba. René Gómez Manzano has been honored with the "Ludovic Trarieux" International Human Rights Prize 20...
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by Eliane on October 9, 2007
Venezuelan government (A.K.A. Hugo Chávez) has suspended Alejandro Sanz's concert in Caracas, scheduled to November 1st, arguing structural problems of the "Poliedro de Caracas", where t...
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by Eliane on October 2, 2007
...Hispanic is a term that's widely misused and misunderstood in the U.S. As I've told you many times, there's a difference between Hispanic and Latino. In case you haven't been around...
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by Eliane on September 30, 2007
CNN has launched a site about Latin heritage, issues and culture, which "will be reporting on issues related to the Latino community from September 29th through October 3rd", according to Hi...
