© Mr.mt 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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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by Eliane on November 05, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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...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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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...
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