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You have to be mindful of when and where you play your favorite song when you’re in Havana: “At 10 o’clock on a Saturday night, the Mariana Grajales park in downtown Havana pulses with a thumping beat. Young men in drooping trousers and women in miniskirts dance, raise their hands in the air and grind Read More
BBC News provides an excellent overview of what’s at stake in Tuesday’s two-part referendum concerning Puerto Rico’s future political status: “The first asks voters whether they want to keep the island’s current status. The second asks whether they would prefer independence, US statehood, or an option known as ‘sovereign free association’ with the US that Read More
Delayed one day due to Tropic Storm Isaac, the GOP National Convention kicks off Tuesday night in Tampa. But storm or no, one Republican contender already held his own convention on Sunday. From Fox News Latino: “Less than 12 miles away from the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Texas Rep. Ron Paul gave an impassioned Read More
A recent USA Today/Gallup study showed that a majority of Latinos – 56 percent – favor government intervention in solving the nations socioeconomic and political issues. This is well above the 37 percent of overall Americans who favor government involvement in reaching solutions. Latinos, despite what many conservatives may think, are not born into the Read More
You have seen them: signs stating “Dios bendiga este hogar.” Their popularity is a testament to the overwhelming adherence to religious faith that characterizes the Latino experience in the U.S. The last published report by the Pew Hispanic Center on the subject found that only 8 percent of Latinos identify as atheist or agnostic. In Read More