Obama wins 75% of Latino Vote; Historic Latino Influence
Obama wins 75% of Latino Vote; Historic Latino Influence
By Latino Decisions Latino support for President Obama was huge, with a record-breaking 75% of Latino voters nationwide (see below) casting their ballot for the President- the previous high for […]
Election 2012: What’s at Stake for Latino Voters
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi On Election Day, there are two distinct paths that are at stake for Latino voters: One being the president’s policies as he heads into the second term […]
Weekly Latin America Green News
By Amanda Maxwell, NRDC Switchboard Chile The Senate’s Mining and Energy Commission vowed to continue pushing for proposed “20/20 bill,” which would require 20 percent of Chile’s energy to come from […]
Why Pollsters Missed the Latino Vote – 2012 edition
By Matt A. Barreto, Latino Decisions In 1998 Harry Pachon and Rudy de la Garza wrote a report for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute titled “Why Pollsters Missed the Latino Vote […]
Latin America Ignored At Third U.S. Presidential Debate
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices If Monday night’s presidential debate is any indicator, Latin America is not a priority for these candidates. Moderator Bob Schieffer mentioned the Cuban Missile […]
Violence Spurs Central American Children to Migrate to U.S.
By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas Observer In January 2012, the number of unaccompanied Central American children crossing into the United States suddenly doubled. As months passed, the number of children apprehended […]
Will Raul Castro’s Travel Reforms End My Own “Island Imprisonment”?
By Yoani Sanchez, Huffington Post Latino Voices My suitcase has worn out its wheels in five years of rolling around the house, from one corner to the other. The underwear […]
How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship
By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica In May 1985, a Guatemalan Army lieutenant named Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes deserted, flew to San Francisco and requested political asylum, asserting that leftist guerrillas in his war-torn […]
Will Cuba’s Absurd Travel and Immigration Restrictions End?
By Yoani Sanchez, Huffington Post Latino Voices I have accumulated 20 negatives in just five years to my requests to travel. Twenty times I have tried to leave my country […]
See Latin America’s Nominations for 85th Academy Awards’ Foreign Film Category
By Hispanically Speaking News On Monday, the films from a record 71 countries vying for the 85th Academy Awards’ Foreign Language Film award were announced. The 2012 official submissions from Latin […]
