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Monday August 20, 2012 Latino Voters Could Swing Election [INFOGRAPHIC] (IVN News): Latino voters could swing election results this November, and the data revealing this are pretty dramatic. The Center for […]
Rafael Correa: The Minor-League Caudillo
By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi CHICAGO — You’ll have to forgive me for taking on an obscure topic today, but it’s not often that my father’s stunningly beautiful homeland is […]
Anti-“Gay Conversion” Activist Now Health Minister In Ecuador
Carina Vance Mafla, is set to take the reins as Ecuador’s new health minister this week, this is particularly salient because she is also a lesbian and has advocated for […]
Clinics In Ecuador Use Torture To “Cure Homosexuality”
While some places in Latin America have made great strides in terms of promoting gay rights, such as legalizing same-sex marriage in Mexico City and Argentina, others remain far behind […]
31.7 Million Mexicans, Millions More Latinos In The U.S.
The Pew Hispanic Center released an interesting report last year, finding based on 2009 and 2010 Census data that there are 31. 7 million Latinos of Mexican origin in the […]
Ecuadorian Abuelita Takes Down Chevron
Oil giant Chevron was ordered by an Ecuadorian judge to pay $9.5 billion in fines and damages after decades of polluting parts of that country where María Aguinda and her […]
Ecuadorian Dwarfs Immune To Cancer, Diabetes
People in parts of Ecuador with a genetic mutation preventing them from growing more than four feet tall are immune to cancer and diabetes — thanks to their genes, according […]