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La Ruta del Voto Latino: New Orleans
08.30.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Diane Schnell - News Director at New Orleans' KGLA-TV 42, Telemundo affiliate [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

When we visited New Orleans, we noticed Hispanic Americans had been assimilated into the local mainstream culture before Hurricane Katrina. They were “invisible,” Diane Schnell said.
In this new episode of our podcast La Ruta del Voto Latino, I talk to Schnell, news and marketing director of the local Telemundo station, KGLA-TV 42, which has recently [...]
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Milton, Florida
08.30.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

La Ruta del Voto Latino: Milton, Florida [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Restaurant owner Gerónimo Barragán saw ten of his employees arrested and deported in February, some to his native Mexico, others to Guatemala. Santa Rosa County, Florida authorities also went to other businesses, looking for people using stolen Social Security numbers. Since the raid, the already small Hispanic community in the Florida Panhandle town of Milton [...]
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Eastern North Carolina / El Este de North Carolina
08.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Juvencio Rocha Peralta, Assoc. of Mexicans in North Carolina [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In a new episode of La Ruta del Voto Latino-The Road to the Latino Vote, I talk to Juvencio Rocha Peralta, president of the Association of Mexicans in North Carolina.
Latinos started settling in big numbers in the South in the 1970s. Since then they have changed the face of the region. Born in Mexico, Peralta [...]
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Radio interview in Spanish / Entrevista radial
08.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

For those who couldn’t listen to it live, here’s the interview on Duna radio from Chile from last Thursday.

Radio Duna (Chile) - Entrevista por Francisco Aravena: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Para aquellos que no la pudieron escuchar en vivo, aquí está la entrevista que me hicieron en Radio Duna de Chile el jueves.
Permanent link / enlace permanente: http://diegograglia.net/newyorktomexico/?p=46
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Rural Latinos / Latinos del campo
08.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

La Ruta del Voto Latino: Rural Latinos / Latinos del campo [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In a new episode of La Ruta del Voto Latino-The Road to the Latino Vote, Marcia Espínola, associate director of community organization El Vínculo Hispano / The Hispanic Liaison, describes the current situation in Siler City, a small town in Chatham County, North Carolina, where the closing of a poultry processing plant left over 800 [...]
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Crackdown on Immigrants / Leyes contra Inmigrantes
08.07.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Teresita Jacinto, of Mexicans Without Borders, in Manassas, VA., describes the effects of an immigration crackdown by local authorities. [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In our second podcast episode, Teresita Jacinto, spokeswoman for Mexicans Without Borders, describes the effects of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by Prince William County authorities in Northern Virginia.
As I explained in my article about the town, Manassas has seen a sudden decrease of its Latino population, with many abandoned houses, fewer customers for businesses [...]
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La Ruta del Voto Latino: Ecuador at the DNC / Ecuador en la convención demócrata
08.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Diego Graglia talks to Francisco Moya, first Ecuadorian-American delegate to a national convention [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

—Español debajo—
As I announced yesterday, I interviewed Francisco Moya, Democratic Party district leader for the borough of Queens and delegate to the Democratic National Convention. I met him at the Ecuadorian Independence Day Parade in Queens.
Ecuadorians are a fast-growing community but they don’t have the power of older immigrant groups like Puerto Ricans or Dominicans. [...]
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Dominicans in Manhattan
07.29.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Dominicans in Manhattan [6:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We will set out from New York, where Dominicans are one of the biggest Latino groups. This community has grown a lot since the first wave of migration took off in the mid-1960s. What many people don’t know is what triggered that migration: a big part of it was the Revolución de Abril in 1965, [...]