Hillary Clinton is looking to solidify her dominance of the Latino vote in the presidential election with the launching of her campaign’s “Latinos with Hillary” initiative and is enlisting the help of high-profile Latino celebrities like Salma Hayek and Marc Anthony that can give her the added reach she needs as other democratic candidates like […]
Rising Bernie Sanders Reaches for Latino Votes
October 8, 2015 By
Bernie Sanders’ insurgent presidential campaign has now started to take on the look of a more traditional presidential operation focused not only on generating crowds and raising the senator’s profile, but also charting a course to victory and the democratic nomination and strategically building state-by-state ground operations outside of the first in the nation Iowa […]
Trump Cancels Q&A with U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
October 6, 2015 By
In what has become a cartoonish campaign rife with inflammatory and derogatory rhetoric, particularly targeting Latinos, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reversed his decision to participate in a question-and-answer session with the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) slated for October 8, snubbing the Chamber after vowing more than once to engage in the […]
Comentarios from Maria: Pope Francis Made Us Proud to be Immigrants
October 5, 2015 By
By now, we have had a week to absorb and contemplate on the historic visit of Pope Francis to our country and beautiful capital city. It was a spiritual moment for all Latinos, especially believers, whereupon we realized that he is one of us. And he let us know from the very first moment he […]
Comentarios from Maria: Just One “Like” Could Take a Life
October 2, 2015 By
We’ve all seen it. Killing time at a stoplight, someone decides to check a work email. Driving home, they’re checking out photos from a BBQ last weekend. They’re texting a friend to let them know about plans for the evening. They’re tweeting about the upcoming election at a slow intersection. As our already fast-paced world […]
Castro Presses Obama to Begin Easing Cuban Embargo
September 30, 2015 By
Following their meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Cuban President Raul Castro asked that President Obama use his executive power to dismantle the trade embargo that has stifled the flow of goods to and from the island nation for the past half-century. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez related his leader’s message […]
Latino Activists Rally To Jose Diaz-Balart’s Side
September 29, 2015 By
Latino activists showed their dissatisfaction with MSNBC, delivering 7,000 signatures to the network’s offices in New York, after reports surface that the network may be exploring possible options to remove anchor Jose Diaz-Balart from his daily program in favor of extended airtime of its dominant program, Morning Joe. The petition delivered to MSNBC notes that […]
In America, Francis Delivers Powerful Message of Social Justice to Washington
September 25, 2015 By
This week, Pope Francis I, the 266th successor of Saint Peter and head of the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic Church made his first visit to the United States, and became the third sitting pontiff to visit the United States as he was welcomed by U.S. President Barack Obama on the South Lawn of The White House […]
USHCC, AT&T Host Houston Day of Service
September 22, 2015 By
Keeping with tradition, Houston-area AT&T employees joined the Greater East End Management District and Keep Houston Beautiful to kick off the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) 2015 National Convention with their volunteer day of service. Friday morning in Houston was spent helping to beautify and landscape a popular trail, punctuated by remarks from the […]
Pope Views and GOP Rhetoric Make Courting Latinos a Difficult Task
September 18, 2015 By
With Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump employing anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail, many elected Republicans at both the state and federal level who, in large part, owe their seats to Latino voters in Hispanic-heavy states, see next week’s visit by the most progressive Pope in a generation as a threat to the GOP’s […]
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