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12 things to watch in 2012

12 things to watch in 2012
2012 The Year Ahead 1. The Latino voter – How will Latino voters influence the 2012 presidential election? Latinos are key voters in many states. Obama got 67 percent of the Latino vote in 2008 but those numbers could slip as many Latinos are upset over his immigration policies that have resulted in more than... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
January 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm
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Herman Cain thinks Cuban is a language?!?

Herman Cain thinks Cuban is a language?!?
Here’s a quick lesson for Herman Cain. 1) They speak Spanish in Cuba, not Cuban. 2) Cuba is an island. 3) If Cubans make it to U.S. soil, they become eligible for legal status. Why does Cain need these basic facts? On a visit to Miami this week he munched on a Cuban croqueta and... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
November 18, 2011 at 7:51 am
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Oscar Hijuelos explores identity and language in his first memoir "Thoughts Without Cigarettes"

Oscar Hijuelos Writer Oscar Hijuelos read from his new memoir “Thoughts Without Cigarettes” at the Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago Saturday. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” in 1990, and he was the first Latino author to win that prize for fiction. Hijuelos spoke... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
June 5, 2011 at 11:11 am
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Elian Gonzalez 10 years later

Remember Elian Gonzalez? He was the little 6-year-old boy who became the focus on an international drama between the United States in Cuba in 2000. His mother died when she fled Cuba with Elian on a boat. Little Elian survived the journey. Then he was taken in by relatives in Miami who wanted to raise... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
April 7, 2010 at 10:28 am
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A concert, a coup and Brazil's bid for the Olympics

Juanes, the Colombian rocker, held a concert for peace in Cuba. The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is now holed up in the Brazilian embassy basically a hostage in his own country after he was ousted in a coup. And the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said his country needs the... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
September 23, 2009 at 11:43 am
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