Hispanic News

Leni Juca to travel to San Francisco for Wells Fargo shareholder meeting in representation of Small Business United, Make the Road NY, confront bank for investing bailout money in private prisons instead of small businesses. Queens, NY – Next week, small business owner Leni Juca, owner of Oxium Copy and…

Washington, D.C. — In media interviews Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued to tout his proposed alternative to the DREAM Act, which would help address the undocumented youth whom the DREAM Act was designed to assist. The following is a statement by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration…

Nearly 150K petitions delivered served as USDA extends comment period. WASHINGTON – Consumer watchdogs, concerned citizens and federal food inspectors represented by the American Federation of Government Employees today delivered nearly 150,000 petitions to the U.S. Department of Agriculture opposing proposed changes to the poultry inspections process that will impact…

This analysis was prepared by Frederick B. Mills, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Council on Hemispheric Affairs,Professor of Philosophy, Department of History and Government at Bowie State University. Introduction The 2014 presidential elections in El Salvador will decide whether the country continues down the path of social investment and economic reform…

"Latino voters will be our voice in the polls in 2012!" This Thursday, DREAMers from Arizona New York, Florida and Maryland, advocates and lawmakers gathered in the shade of the Capitol Building to celebrate the launching of DRM and iDREAM’s newest campaign, Su Voz Mi Voto. This campaign will motivate…

“Dawn at Tepeyac” by Dexter Allen —a book that took seven years to write— fuses literary concepts with historical facts and intellectually acceptable understandings of apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe. (PR NewsChannel) / April 19, 2012 / ENSENADA, Mexico/ In “Dawn at Tepeyac” (ISBN 146801580X), Dexter Allen retells the…

  By Elizabeth Dickinson By the time the Summit of the Americas wrapped up in Cartagena, Colombia this weekend, one couldn't help notice: Washington is looking a bit behind the times. The United States and Canada are the only countries still advocating to keep Cuba out of the event. President…

The Drug Enforcement Administration i(DEA) announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Ezio Benjamin Figueroa Vasquez and his son, Hassein Eduardo Figueroa Gomez, as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for their significant role…

Countering popular assumptions that Hispanics are more anti-gay than other segments of society, a new report co-released by NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS) finds that Latinos are, in fact, as open and tolerant, if not more tolerant, than the general population in the…

Campaign to register thousands of Central Florida Latinos to vote   MIAMI—NCLR (National Council of La Raza) will officially launch its Central Florida Mobilize to Vote (M2V) campaign in Orlando thisTuesday, April 17th, at 12:30pm.  The campaign, which began field operations two weeks ago, has already begun registering local Latinos to…