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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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DREAM Act Up for Vote Today
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UPDATE: Republicans Filibuster Defense Authorization Bill & DREAM Act

By Mariela Rosario | 09/21/2010 - 16:30 | 6 Comments

The DREAM act is scheduled to come up for a vote before the senate today at 2:30PM after Senate majority leader Harry Reid added the amendment to the defense authorization bill a few weeks ago. But unfortunately (and ironically), Sen. John McCain—once a staunch supporter of the DREAM act and the top Republican on the Armed...

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Sonia Sotomayor Opens Exhibit on History of Latinos in New York City
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Sonia Sotomayor Opens Exhibit on History of Latinos in New York City

By Javier Morgado | 09/17/2010 - 11:19 | 0 Comments

Hundreds gathered last night at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem for a preview of the highly anticipated exhibit “Nueva York (1613-1945).”  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the keynote remarks and was as much a draw as the expansive exhibit.  “This exhibit tells a story unknown to most people,” Sotomayor said. “...

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CHCI Gala
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Obama Promises Support for the DREAM Act

By Mariela Rosario | 09/16/2010 - 15:30 | 3 Comments

Last night at the Congressional Hispanic Institute Awards gala, President Barack Obama addressed the gathered crowd of Latino community leaders, celebrities and politicians and pledged to support the DREAM act:

"The Senate is going to have a chance to do the right thing over the next few weeks when Senator Reid...

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Edward James Olmos on Hispanic Heritage Month
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Edward James Olmos: "I wish we didn’t need a Hispanic Heritage Month"

By Mariela Rosario | 09/16/2010 - 12:00 | 1 Comment

To usher in Hispanic Heritage month, we chatted with iconic actor Edward James Olmos. Olmos is currently working with Warner Bros Digital Distribution on a month-long ON DEMAND presentation of films made by and starring Latinos including Selena (Edward James Olmos, Jennifer Lopez), El Cantante...

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