the Latino daily – Your Wednesday morning brief

Voters in Maricopa County, Arizona, waited for up to 5 hours to vote yesterday.

WEDNESDAY, March 23, 2016

Good morning Taquista!

So much to report this morning! Three states had primaries, Obama’s in Argentina, Bush endorsed Cruz, and Central America wants to launch a satellite. Let’s get to the news.

►Wednesday’s numbers

9 – The number of states where Latino voters, together, could determine the winner of the presidential election: Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio.

15 to 20 – The percentage range of all Latino voters concentrated in those nine states combined.

15 to 16 million – The range of registered Latino voters who will be eligible to vote in 2016.

12 to 13 million – The range of Latino voters expected to go to the polls in November of 1216.

12 to 15 million – The range of eligible but unregistered Latino voters.

13 – The percentage of Latinos who depend on their smartphones exclusively for information.

3 – The number of organizations (Voto Latino, NCLR, Feet in 2 Worlds) who have launched or plan to launch voter information and registration apps.

Source: CNN Politics, Al Día News
►Obama departs Cuba, lands in Argentina

President Barack Obama spent his last day in Cuba meeting dissidents, bloggers, and LGBT rights advocates. He made a speech directed at the Cuban people and watched the first half of a baseball game.

Obama left the game between the MLB Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National Team after the fourth inning to board Airforce One and travel to Argentina for the second leg of his tour.

EFE reports that “The worldwide rejection of the terrorist attacks in Brussels also figured at the game, where a minute of silence was observed in memory of the 34 people killed in the attacks in the European city.”

Also, the president has been criticized in the U.S. for sticking to his agenda and attending a baseball game instead of flying home in the wake of the attacks in Belgium.

►On the presidential campaign front . . .

. . . there are many things to report.

Huffington Post reports that Hillary Clinton won all 85 delegates in the Latino-heavy state of Arizona. But there are a few things to consider. First, only Democratic voters were allowed to vote in the Arizona primary, meaning that independent voters . . .  READ MORE