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Thousands of protesters in Brazil are overtaking the streets of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro lashing out at the Brazilian government as frustrations rise over poor transportation, health services, education, and security despite recent tax hikes. All this as billions in public money are being spent in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Read More
Lots of mixed reactions this year to Coors Light, a longtime sponsor of the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, for putting the Puerto Rican flag on their beer can in local Tristate areas as part of their affiliation to the parade. At the start, Huffington Post did a writeup on the start Read More
Genocide. Millions of people around the world felt a whir in their hearts when they learned of the millions of Jews, union leaders, community organizers, gypsies, and good Samaritans who were victims of genocide by the Nazis during War II. Blessed are the justice workers and lawyers who tirelessly work to unveil more crimes of Read More
Something historic happened in Central America on Friday, May 10th. For the first time ever, a former head of state was tried and found guilty for crimes against humanity in his home country. For millions of victims of state-sanctioned human rights abuses across Latin America, the light of hope burned a bit brighter and our Read More
The Puerto Ricans just voted on the island’s political status, but Pres. Obama is calling for a redo: “Puerto Rico may be getting another status vote. The White House budget submitted to Congress Wednesday includes a $2.5 million appropriation for Puerto Rico to hold another plebiscite on its relationship to the United States. Calling for another vote Read More
Being Latino readers probably already know that Latin America is an interesting mixtureof both progressive and oppressive laws concerning same-sex relationships. We’ve covered before how several countries allow sax-same marriages in at least parts of the individual countries. But now news coming from Uruguay has tipped the scale a little further towards the progressive side. Read More
God said, “Let there be light on this ‘first Latino pope’ issue,” and God divided the “Latino” from the “Latin American.” From the AP via HuffPo: “He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the ‘first Latino pope,’ a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for Read More
Last week BL ran two consecutive articles giving the atheist point of view (here and here), and this Christian gets it! It was a hard week for atheists. You had the appointment of a new Pope, and the Catholic Church was everywhere, so I get the reaction. Of the two articles my FB friend Hector Read More
Proving most predictions moot, the Vatican’s College of Cardinals elected (with the Holy Spirit’s counsel, of course) Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, as the new head of the Catholic Church. Widely considered by colleagues and his porteño parishoners as a humble man, upon assuming his new role as the spiritual leader for Read More
On Feb. 26, just days before radical new educational reforms were scheduled to take effect, Elba Esther Gordillo, head of Mexico’s powerful teacher’s union for almost a quarter century, was arrested and charged with embezzling 2 billion pesos (approximately $160 million) from her union during her tenure. The question that is foremost on everyone’s mind: Read More