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New Orleans: McCain sí, Obama no
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

While in New Orleans, I interviewed Diane Schnell, news and marketing director of the local Telemundo station, KGLA-TV 42, which has recently launched the city’s first-ever Spanish-language newscast.
One interesting topic we talked about is how Latinos born and raised in the city became “more Latino” after the post-Katrina arrival of large numbers of Latino migrant [...]
states, videos
Eastern North Carolina: The Issues for Latinos / Qué le preocupa a la gente
08.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Latinos started settling in big numbers in the South about two decades ago. They have changed the face of the region since then. Here, Juvencio Rocha Peralta, a longtime community activist in the rural Eastern part of the state, talks about the issues that concern them towards the 2008 presidential election. Read more about him [...]
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Siler City: another type of ghost town / otro tipo de pueblo fantasma
08.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

On Wednesday, we visited Siler City in rural Chatham County, North Carolina. The tiny town -trying to get to know it, we drove out of it twice- has been shaken since a couple months ago a Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plant closed, leaving hundreds out of a job.
We talked to Marcia Espínola, who works at the [...]
Latino communities, videos
Manassas: ghost town or paradise?
08.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

—Español aquí—
On our first day on the road, we arrived early afternoon in Manassas, Virginia, not far from Washington D.C. Our goal was to revisit the intense and controversial debate on immigration that has been taking place there in recent times.
The conflict resulted in what could be seen as a clear defeat for the pro-immigrant [...]
Latino communities, videos
Ecuador in Nueva York
08.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

—Español debajo—
To start revving up our engine, Sunday we went to the Ecuadorian Independence Day parade along Northern Boulevard in Queens, the most diverse county in the nation. New York’s Department of City Planning says Ecuador is third among the “largest sources of the foreign-born” in this borough, and it is second in The Bronx [...]
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“Live” from Queens / En “vivo” desde Queens
08.03.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments