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Obama Fails the Education Test... By Ignoring Latinos

Latina View: Obama Fails the Education Test... By Ignoring Latinos

By Galina Espinoza | 10/01/2010 - 10:04 | 2 Comments

All I kept thinking this week every time I heard the phrase “Education Nation” bandied about was: What nation are they talking about?

The nation I live in has 50 million Hispanics, compromising 17% of the U.S. population—second in size only to the number of white Americans.
 
And yet when President Barack Obama sat down with the Today show’s...

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Senator Menendez Hopeful about New Immigration Reform Bill
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Senator Menendez Hopeful about New Immigration Reform Bill

By Mariela Rosario | 10/01/2010 - 09:22 | 0 Comments

Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) introduced a new immigration reform bill that has many supporters hopeful to see a change within the system sooner rather than later. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 was filed just as Congress prepares to break until after the November 2 elections.

Introducing the bill yesterday at...

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When Having Curves Gets Complicated
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Latina View: When Having Curves Gets Complicated

By Galina Espinoza | 09/29/2010 - 18:36 | 4 Comments

Is there a problem with the way Latinas dress? That’s certainly the impression one gets after a slew of recent stories about men literally driven to distraction by the outfit choices of Hispanic women.

Just last week, longtime University of Florida...

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Technology Fills Gap in Reporting Mexican Drug Cartel Violence
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Technology Fills Gap in Reporting Mexican Drug Cartel Violence

By Mariela Rosario | 09/29/2010 - 09:30 | 0 Comments

Journalists have been murdered at an alarming rate in Mexico over the last few years, and the frightening trend has effectively paralyzed the local news industry. After the murder of a photojournalist at Ciudad Juarez's biggest paper, the Diario de Juárez, the staff responded with a front page editorial pleading with the cartels: "We need you to...

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Landslide in Oaxaca, Mexico Buries Hundreds of Homes
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Landslide in Oaxaca, Mexico Buries Hundreds

By Mariela Rosario | 09/28/2010 - 13:10 | 0 Comments

A landslide caused by the recent deluge of rain in the Mexican state of Oaxaca left three hundred homes buried this Tuesday morning. Hundreds of people are missing and thousands are now homeless.

The town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec was buried by the landslide. Mayor Palemon Vargas Hernandez told a...

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Ingrid Betancourt on Oprah

Ingrid Betancourt Responds to Critics: "I wasn't going to accept being treated like an object"

By Mariela Rosario | 09/23/2010 - 17:15 | 0 Comments

Oprah Winfrey hosted famous Colombian hostage and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt on her talk show this week and the interview was riveting. Betancourt speaks about how we she was able to survive for so long in the jungle and what happened when she tried to escape not one, not twice, but four times from the FARC's captivity...

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Do Latinas Dress More Provocatively than Other Women?

By Mariela Rosario | 09/22/2010 - 17:15 | 12 Comments

We've been noticing a startling trend lately and we don't like it one bit. It started back over the summer when Debrahlee Lorenzana was fired from her job at Citibank for being "too distracting" to her male coworkers. Lorenzana insisted that her...

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DREAM Act Activists React to Republican Filibuster
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DREAM Act Activists React to Republican Filibuster

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 09/22/2010 - 14:15 | 3 Comments

As soon as she heard that Republicans had filibustered a defense bill that would have brought the DREAM Act to a vote in the Senate, Lizbeth Mateo got on a plane and headed to Washington D.C., along with other DREAM Act student activists who are not giving up on getting the decade-old bill passed this year. “I’ve been here since then,...

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