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During the first weekend and Monday of last August, The Park at Malibu, a detached residence development along the Tijuana, Baja California coast opened sales and sold all 43 residences. The houses ranging in size from 1500 to 1900 square feet were priced from $190,000 to $230,000 but are ocean views not beach front property. According to the director of marketing, 80% of the buyers were from the Los Angeles, Orange and Inland Empire counties.
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Last Thursday, November 8, at the venerable Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, Hispanic Business Magazine hosted its annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. The theme - 'It begins with a dream' - was most appropriate. The honored recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award was Dionicio Morales, the octogenarian founder of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ("MAOF").
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Increasingly, we are noting news items that point to the critical need of structural reforms in México. The last administration spoke of this, but met with little success of doing anything real about it. First, we must realize that most of the institutions in México were devised to work well for a one party "perfect dictatorship" that characterized the "old México". Today, I am addressing a set of reforms ...
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By Robert Miranda The elections produced a resounding message to the world from the American people, which is that the ‘stay the course’ mantra emanating from the Bush administration can no longer be the policy that drives America’s involvement in Iraq and most domestic issues…. Indeed, the people have spoken. They have voted against the realities of the Bush dominion…. In Bush’s world, he believed it was his right to ignore international law when he invaded Iraq without cause by using the valid notion of fighting terrorism as his rallying cry. |
The state of Zacatecas, located in the north central portion of the Mexican Republic, is a land rich in cultural, religious, and historical significance. Zacatecas, with a total of 75,040 square kilometers and enormous mineral resources, has always been an essential component of Mexico's cultural and economic potential. In addition, Zacatecas was the focal point of political and cultural warfare for the better part of a century from the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence (1810-1823) to the bloody Mexican Civil War of 1910-1920… |
The 2006 elections are fading into history. The pundits are deep into their analysis on what went wrong, or what went right. The biggest losers in this election weren’t even on the ballot; President George W Bush; Rush Limbaugh; and the Latino community. Bush and Limbaugh losses are obvious, more subtle are the Latino community’s losses. |
Commentary by Ky Phong-Tran MEXICO CITY — Here, I walk down streets with names like
Insurgentes and Reforma. It is morning and the city wakes with me: the smell
of fresh bread drifts from a bakery, a deli owner chats in Spanish with his
wife, the early traffic putters and beeps and honks. |
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In Arizona, Minutemen lost more than House hopeful on Election Day |
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By Linda Chavez
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By Ernesto Portillo Jr. Randy Graf and the Republicans were not the only ones to get a thumping in Tuesday's election. The Minutemen were thumped, too…. Despite the Minutemen's all-out effort to get Republican Graf into the congressional seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim Kolbe, their man lost his bid - in a Republican-dominated district - to Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.
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By Kelly Arthur Garrett
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By Kenneth Emmond What are Mexicans to make of the results of last Tuesday´s U.S. mid-term election results? … What´s likely to happen to the outstanding issues between Mexico and the U.S., now that the Democrats have won both the House of Representatives and the Senate? Like U.S. voters commenting with their ballots on issues like the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the economy, Mexicans have been sorely disappointed with the execution of the policies articulated by U.S. President George W. Bush. |
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By Kathryn Jean Lopez
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Latinos Achieve New Political Milestones in congress and State Houses |
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Latinos in states with emerging communities are
writing the next chapter Latino candidates continue to reach new milestones in Congress and state houses across the nation, according to an analysis of Election 2006 conducted by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. |
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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UTEP to Offer Online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing |
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IMMIGRATION DAILY FROM ILW.COM The number one question on the minds of many in the immigration law community is "What are the chances of immigration benefits from the new Congress"? Specifically, whither legalization? whither SKIL? whither AgJOBS? whither DREAM? Here's our take on immigration benefits bills over the next several months. |
New program prepares bilingual writers for careers in publishing and more The Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso will offer an online bilingual Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program beginning in spring 2007. |
Given the green light by the Federal Reserve Board, a Mexican bank has finalized its majority-ownership purchase of the Texas-based Inter National Bank (INB). Luis Pena Kegel, director general of the Banorte Financial Group, said the INB will use its base from the city of McAllen on the Texas-Mexico border to expand into other regions of the United States. |
The East Room President's Remarks - November 8, 2006 Q Thank you, Mr. President. On immigration, many Democrats had more positive things to say about your comprehensive proposal than many Republicans did. Do you think a Democratic Congress gives you a better shot at comprehensive immigration reform? |
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com