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Obama: Spike in Children at Border ‘Urgent Humanitarian Situation’
*Since the beginning of the year, an average of 333 unaccompanied children from Central America arrive each day at the U.S. border. President Obama has has put FEMA in charge […]
Cinco De Mayo: Whose Holiday Is It, Anyway?
*Two things come to mind: Cinco de Mayo is celebrated more in the U.S. than in Mexico, and the celebration here is more about beer and marketing. It can be […]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 87
By Chris Kraul and Anne-Marie O’Connor, Los Angeles Times Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” enchanted millions of readers around the world and […]
‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census
*Ever since the U.S. Census added an “origin” option to the “Hispanic” check-off box the question of Latino identity has become a matter of official government concern. It turns out […]