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Meet Fredy Hernando Varela

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Latinos Doing Their Thing Presents… His mom used to say he was a shy boy and a precocious child as he started Elementary at three and graduated from High School at 15 in Bogotá, Colombia. Born to a working-class, fabric merchant, leftist idealistic family, revolución, política + cultura has always run through his mestizo veins.… [Continue Reading]

You gotta be rich to be poor

According to a survey conducted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 43.3 percent of Hispanic households either do not have a checking or savings account or have bank accounts but still rely on non-bank money orders, check-cashing services, payday advance loan services, rent-to-own agreements, or pawn shops at least once or twice a year.… [Continue Reading]