This week, President Obama signed a much anticipated executive order expanding upon the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 that congress passed last year. The executive order places sanctions on officials of the Venezuelan government accused of violating the human rights of the Venezuelan people who voiced their discontent with […]
Guest Blogger: Olga Torres “Fight climate change; boost the Virginia economy”
March 10, 2015 By
Ask Virginians to rank their highest priorities, and “jobs” will always be at or near the top of the list. As we near the warmer tourist season, jobs are at the top of the list for both employers and job seekers, especially here in the Hampton Roads market. That certainly was the case last weekend […]
Comentarios from Maria: The broken bond between Republicans and Latinos
March 9, 2015 By
They finally threw in the towel. Last week, House Republicans abandoned their dangerous game with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding and passed a budget without any provisions blocking President Obama’s immigration measures. For now, our community can breathe a sigh of relief knowing this latest Republican persecution has ended – but for how […]
Voto Latino celebrates 10 years of empowering millennials, Latino innovators
March 6, 2015 By
Voto Latino, the nonprofit organization whose work empowering young Latinos has promoted positive change and attracted a celebrity following, turned 10 years old. The organization additionally sponsored the “Voto Latino Innovators Challenge” where participants from around the country were tasked with finding a solution to a problem that uniquely affects the Latino community, with a grand […]
NCLR President Janet Murguía to GOP: our complaint is ‘personal’
March 4, 2015 By
The National Council of La Raza’s annual awards gala last night served a significant platform for expressing the organization’s ire toward the Republican Party. NCLR’s president, Janet Murguía, who once stamped President Obama as “deporter-in-chief,” redirected her outrage to the GOP, lambasting the party for a perceived “growing malignancy” toward immigration, their inaction toward true […]
Research group Media Matters launches campaign scrutinizing Latino news and ‘conservative misinformation’
March 3, 2015 By
Media Matters, the research group known for calling out “conservative misinformation” in the mass media, launched a Hispanic engagement initiative yesterday targeting rightwing organizations whose goal it is to politically influence Latinos through Spanish-language media. The program will highlight the lack of Latino voices in mass media and challenge stereotypes it perceives as damaging and […]
Comentarios From Maria: John Boehner’s lack of leadership and its disastrous consequences
March 2, 2015 By
We’ve seen this movie before, and we know that it does not end well. In 2013, Republicans in Congress demonstrated that they were willing to shut down the government and lead our country to the brink of disaster because the battle over the end of year budget did not sway in their favor. Now, Republicans […]
Rising population to a rising political force: Latino Victory Project works to elevate community voice
February 27, 2015 By
In the heart of downtown Washington, D.C. works a group of people seeking to mobilize, empower and elevate the 54 million-and-growing Latino community to turn out at the voting booths, put larger numbers of Latinos into political office with financial backing and, somewhere down the road, elect a Latino or Latina to the Oval Office. […]
In Miami town hall, Obama defends immigration policies, puts pressure on GOP
February 26, 2015 By
President Obama on Wednesday criticized Republicans for “trying to hold hostage” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding in a political fight to block his executive actions on immigration, and further challenged GOP lawmakers to pass a bill declaring said executive actions illegal, just so that he could veto it. With DHS funding set to […]
Obama heads to Miami to pressure GOP on immigration in exclusive Town Hall
February 25, 2015 By
In what has become a week of tough stances and staunch rhetoric, President Obama is following up his Monday proposal for stricter rules for financial brokers on Wall Street and his Tuesday veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline with an exclusive town hall meeting in Miami, sponsored by Telemundo, to enlist his strong Latino base […]
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