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Latino communities, people
Latinos: The Issues
08.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

–Español aquí–

Piñatas at Mario Calderón’s store in Siler City, North Carolina.
So, what issues do Latinos care about towards this momentous presidential election?
There’s the obvious response: immigration.
But there are also many Hispanics who are concerned about other issues just as much as about an immigration reform. After all, the current economic downturn or the continuing war [...]
Latino communities, people
New Orleans: the rebuilders / los reconstructores
08.16.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

–Español debajo–
[Saturday 9 am: As we drive towards Laredo, Texas, on country highway 72 West, for the first time in the trip I get no signal at all on my wireless internet device. At any rate, we're approaching the border and in a few hours will have no Internet at all.]
Much has been said about [...]
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Deep in the Heart of Texas / En lo profundo de Texas
08.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

–Español debajo–
Thursday we drove from La Grange to Austin in Texas. We had spent the night at a motel whose sign said -no kidding-, “Phone - Color TV.”
On our way to the state capitol we drove into Smithville, which looked like what a journalist may call “the quintessential American small town”.
We stopped at Mexico Lindo [...]
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Juan Carlos Alonso
08.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Juan Carlos, 32, is a barman in one of the few Mexican restaurants we could find in Savannah, Georgia. The Latino community there is growing, but there’s still no Latino neighborhood to speak of.
This Mexican born in Puebla is one of few people who will tell a journalist what I’ve heard many Latinos say in [...]
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Mario Córdoba
08.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Mario Córdoba, Kinston, North Carolina.
Mario is 16 and lives with his family in a mobile home painted with the colors of the Mexican flag in Kinston, NC. They arrived in Eastern North Carolina to work in the fields.
All of them are American citizens, but Mario isn’t sure that his parents are going to actually go [...]
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A story in six acts / Una historia en seis escenas
08.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

We were driving along route 70 West outside Kinston, NC, when we saw this scene in a field to the side of the road: workers picking up tobacco leaves and loading a truck with them. We stopped to take pictures and try to talk to them. // Íbamos por la ruta 70 al oeste, cerca [...]
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Pepe, from El Salvador
08.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Pepe Godínez, 63, is a Salvadoran who left his country 27 years ago because of the Civil War. He lives in California but:
- …is in the D.C. area right now working in construction.
- …was recently in Washington State, where he got off a fishing boat that had taken him to Alaska. He rode buses for [...]