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The KONY 2012 campaign, created by the San Diego-based non-profit organization, Invisible Children, took the social media sphere by storm this week. The campaign is a documentary named after Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a guerilla group originally based in Uganda, Africa that is said to have abducted at least Read More
With the primary results of Super Tuesday propelling former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney into a comfortable lead in the race for the Republican nomination, it is becoming increasingly clear that he will carry the torch in the race against the Democratic incumbent, President Barack Obama. However, Romney still has problems convincing enough social conservatives to Read More
The Democratic president who insisted, “Si, Se Puede” hasn’t kept his promise to make immigration reform a top priority. He has also deported more Latinos than anybody in history, despite the fact that there are fewer undocumented people to arrest. So getting the Hispanic vote should be easy for the GOP, which continues to insist Read More
Life is a balancing act, and sometimes emotional responses to external stimuli requires some research; especially when those emotional responses are ridiculed and debunked by others. This is what’s happening with the Kony 2012 campaign and the video that started the storm. So who is Joseph Kony? He is the youngest of six children born into an Read More
Super Tuesday brought no upheaval with the expected voting patterns of the participating states. The candidates have largely fallen into their respective corners, hunkering down with the segments of the voting population that one would expect, given these GOP candidates and their stated goals and values. The distribution of the voters’ support could have been Read More
On March 10, potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and their supporters will march through America’s major cities in honor of National Coming Out of the Shadows Day, when the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. are urged to make their presence known. First organized in Chicago in 2010 by the Immigrant Read More
A poll conducted jointly by Fox News Latino and Latin Insights found that Pres. Obama is pulling ahead of all Republican contenders among Latino voters. The polling results, released March 5, show that 73 percent of likely Latino voters approve of the president’s performance, with a strong majority approving of his leadership in health care Read More
A week ago, I was in Nairobi, Kenya at a reception celebrating the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Established in 1972, UNEP is the environmental body within the UN. While many associate environmental issues with tree-huggers and save-the-whale extremists, a number of South American and Central American countries have been dealing Read More
The cover of TIME magazine’s March 5 issue strikingly proclaims the arrival of the Latino vote with two, simple Spanish words: “Yo Decido.” In the cover article, brazenly titled “Why Latinos will decide the next President,” White House correspondent for TIME Michael Scherer argues that an explosion of Latino populations across the country will endow Read More
Two weeks ago, Time magazine devoted their cover to proclaiming that Latinos would decide the next President of the United States. With the growth of our population and our presence in key swing states such as Florida and our massive presence in huge electoral states such as California, this should come as no surprise. As Read More