"KUT, February 25, 2008 - By the mid-1960s, the boroughs and inner-city barrios of New York City were a hotbed of cultural change and musical expression. For decades, young Latino musicians had migrated to the city, bringing the music of their homelands, then fusing it with other cultures in the city. It gave rise to a brand-new sound called salsa."http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19340430
"The Nielsen Co. has formed a national Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council (HLAC), an independent advisory group comprised of community and business leaders, to help the company recruit, measure and accurately report on Hispanic television households in the U.S."http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/02/nielsen_seeks_advice_from_hisp.php
"Some pundits claim that the Democratic candidates, particularly Barack Obama, have not made a real connection with Latino voters, but the data suggest that Latino voters are supportive of both Hillary Clinton and Obama.http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/26/latinos.commentary/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Among all Latino voters, 76 percent have a favorable view of Clinton, and 66 percent have a favorable view of Obama, compared with 48 percent for McCain.
Further, President Bush is viewed favorably by just 34 percent of Latinos in his home state of Texas."
"Mencionó que Starmedia tiene un alcance en México de seis millones de usuarios únicos y prevé un crecimiento de 20 a 30 por ciento en 2008."http://www.economista.com.mx/articulos/2008-02-12-55495
"Today, Garcia, 55, is a Harris County commissioner in Houston, and Hernandez, 27, is a state House member whose district overlaps the area Garcia represents. Garcia supports Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign; Hernandez picked Barack Obama for "his ability to engage young people."http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-02-24-texas_N.htm
The women represent two sides of a generation gap clouding Clinton's hopes for a momentum-changing victory in Texas, the biggest prize of the four presidential contests March 4. "
"Hoy AOL tuvo reuniones de prensa para anunciar la llegada de su nuevo portal www.aol.com.mx (aún en beta) con una nueva gama de contenidos y servicios como email, AIM, Media Player, Búsqueda, Búsqueda de Video, diferentes canales de contenido como noticias, entretenimiento, fotografía y finanzas. También están anunciando alianzas de contenido y distribución con CNNExpansion (también del grupo Time Warner), HP y Alestra."http://www.cnnexpansion.com/blogs/b-interactive/archive/2008/02/20/un-aol-diferente--de-regreso-en-mxico
StarMedia registró 3 millones de visitantes31/01/2008 (Jan. 31, 2008)http://www.universia.edu.pe/noticias/principales/destacada.php?id=64948
El Portal starMedia (www.starmedia.com), filial de Orange, organización multi-plataforma de comunicaciones líder a nivel mundial, anunció que, durante el 2007, obtuvo un promedio de 3 millones de visitantes mensuales desde el Perú.
" Mr. Davila’s loyalty weakened, however, after Mrs. Clinton began losing primary after primary. Then, after watching the effect Senator Barack Obama had on his community last week, feelings of loyalty were overcome by a sense of pragmatism.
“The lines to get into the plaza went more than a mile,” said Mr. Davila, showing photographs his assistant had taken at the Obama rally held less than half a block from his pharmacy. “The crowd was one-third white, one-third black and one-third Latino. I had never seen anything like it in San Antonio. And I knew right then he was the best candidate to defeat the Republicans in November.” "
"Many Latino voters are only beginning to learn his personal story as an immigrant's son and his positions on issues.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-latinovote_25pol.ART0.State.Edition2.461c475.html
Latino voters matter like never before, especially in Texas. They make up a quarter of the Texas electorate and are about 3.6 million strong. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is thought to have a strong edge with the group leading up to the March 4 Democratic primary, though many Latinos, particularly younger voters, seem to be giving Mr. Obama a serious look."
"Thirty percent of voters surveyed in exit polls from the Feb. 5 Democratic primary in California identified themselves as Latino. If that number is accurate, it's a milestone. The percentage of Latino voters in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary electorate was a mere 16%; in 2000, it was 17%. On the Republican side, the numbers appear to be climbing as well: Latinos made up 13% of the voters on Feb. 5, according to the exit polls, up from 8% in the last competitive Republican presidential contest, in 2000. Of course, these numbers should be viewed with caution. There is justifiable skepticism about exit polls in general and especially when they survey Latino voters. Sample sizes are often small, and the 2004 presidential election exit polls purporting to show that more than 40% of the Latino vote went to President Bush were largely discredited."http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-mathews24feb24,0,7258797.story
"WASHINGTON -- Until last week, Mark Malloy was one of many Latinos walking away from the Republican Party. The middle school teacher, son of an American father and a Nicaraguan mother, was part of a supposed swing of conservative Latino voters to the Democratic Party, motivated by the GOP's association with a hard-line immigration stance.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101496.html
Malloy had grown "so disgusted" with anti-illegal-immigration measures in his home state of Virginia that last year, he made his first-ever political contribution to a candidate, Democrat John Edwards. This month, he even voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Virginia primary. Now, with Sen. John McCain the expected Republican nominee, Malloy says that his decision to turn his back on the GOP could change.
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“The Latino vote is not a foregone conclusion,” said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, challenging assumptions that Hispanics vote Democrat.http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2008/02/21/latino_vote_is_key_but_up_for.html
"NEW YORK, Feb 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Univision Online, Inc., the interactive subsidiary of Univision Communications Inc., announced today that Univision.com surpassed a new milestone in January 2008 by reaching all-time high traffic levels. The website reached nearly 17 million unique browsers and 37 million visits last month, achieving year over year increases of +24% and +19%, respectively.(a) Univision.com continues to grow its traffic, while maintaining transparency and accuracy in traffic measurement through Media Rating Council (MRC) Accreditation. Univision.com is the longest-running MRC Accredited website in any language."
" FOR the past 36 years, since Barack Obama was ten, Hillary Clinton has been a regular visitor to Texas. And the local demographics are surely auspicious. Roughly 40% of Texas Democrats are Hispanic, and in the previous contests Mrs Clinton has accumulated twice as many Latino votes as Mr Obama.
Her ties to the state and its Hispanic community date to 1972, when she and her then boyfriend Bill Clinton spent the summer working on George McGovern's presidential campaign in San Antonio. Mrs Clinton registered and organised Latino voters, and they have not forgotten. “She stood for us then. We stand with her now!” said Leticia Van De Putte on February 13th, introducing Mrs Clinton at a rally in San Antonio. The crowd, split evenly between whites and Latinos, gave Mrs Clinton the kind of ecstatic reception normally reserved for Obama events.
But in Texas, Latinos may not be the firewall that the Clinton campaign needs. The Obama mystique transcends cultural barriers. “God bless you!” shouted Maria Pardo as Mr Obama wrapped up his own San Antonio rally a few days later. She explained in Spanish that Latinos need a president who does what he says. “He's got words that can reach to every corner of the world,” marvelled another Hispanic lady, “and the world is waiting for him.” "
" Having alienated African Americans, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton are proving to be equal opportunity offenders by irritating parts of the Latino community through divisiveness, condescension and scapegoating.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/20/EDTGV50TH.DTL
Then, to cover their tracks, they trot out prominent Latinos who assure the flock that the Clintons have always fought for them. Recently, Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, has been stumping for Hillary Clinton in the Southwest. "
"Spanish-language television is bombarding children with so many fast-food commercials that it may be fueling the rising obesity epidemic among Latino youth, according to research led by pediatricians from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Latino children, who make up one-fifth of the U.S. child population, also have the highest obesity and overweight rates of all ethnic groups."
... Simplistic “Si se puede” (“Yes we can”) platitudes aren’t going to cut it. Latino voters care about the same issues that resonate with other citizens: health care, education and the war rank high in polling. Immigration reform is important, but does not poll as the top priority.http://www.kansascity.com/276/story/495330.html
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Some studies have shown that Latino immigrants often hold negative views of blacks and want to be identified with the majority culture. That is an aspect of being relatively new in the country and relying on stereotypes, rather than experience, and not having a more stable economic foothold in a new land.
Still, the vast majority of Latino voters are native-born and assimilated to a high degree.
Obama focuses on Texas Latinoshttp://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/immigration/entries/2008/02/18/obama_focuses_on_texas_latinos.html
Sen. Barack Obama’s strategy in Texas: woo Hispanic voters.
"There's a dilemma brewing among Latino voters: If they support Sen. John McCain, long seen as a moderate Republican on immigration reform, they also must deal with his party's tough approach toward the hot button issue."http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/15/latinos.gop/
"A third to a half of the voters casting ballots in Texas's Democratic primary are expected to be Latino. And Hillary Clinton, Obama's chief rival for the nomination, has outpolled Obama two-to-one among Hispanic voters nationwide. Obama saw an uptick in his appeal to Latinos in Tuesday's voting in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, but he's got much ground to cover before March 4 if he hopes to best Clinton for the Latino vote and the lion's share of Texas's 228-delegate prize.
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Josh Earnest, Obama's Texas spokesman, says the Clintons' deep roots in Texas will be a factor in the upcoming race. But the more people get to know Obama, he argues, the more they like him. "His chances in Texas depend on our ability to introduce Senator Obama and his background to black, white and Hispanic voters. Texans are not used to having such a big say in the presidential race. This year they clearly will." The Hispanic vote in Texas is very important, he says, and "we intend to spend a lot of time and resources competing for it."
Rene Martinez, a 61-year-old Dallas school administrator sporting a cream-colored cowboy hat, was one of the few Hispanic supporters at the Obama gathering in Dallas. His son Alexis, 26, originally turned him on to Obama, and his wife Beatrice pronounced that she was fed up with Bill and Hillary's "polarizing" campaign tactics. "We should be the old-guard Chicanos who go with Clinton, and we're not. The young people have really energized me, and they are mobilizing for Obama," Rene says."
"The number of Hispanics in the United States will triple by 2050 and represent nearly 30 percent of the population if current trends continue, according to a report released yesterday."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021101294.html?hpid=sec-nation
Half of Hispanics
Working with 800 Spanish-language publishers, HispanoClick reaches 5.6 million U.S. internet users per month, according to ComScore. Combined with Batanga's existing users, the audience will total more than 8 million, about half the number of U.S. Hispanics online.
"Expect to see Barack and Hillary traverse the state for at least a couple of weeks before Texans go to the polls, especially in the days before the election that are the traditional early voting days. Expect them to be deferential to the Latino community as well."
"Barack had a pathetic campaign in the Latino community," said Juan Andrade Jr., president of the Chicago-based U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute. "He deserved to get his butt kicked."
.... "The person that we came to know that is on the cover of Newsweek and national magazines many times does not get to the household table where people are dealing with how you pay the mortgage," he (early Obama support U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez) said.
"At least 4 out of 10 Latinos do not get their opinion of public officials from English-speaking media."
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Gutierrez also noted that when Washington ran in the general election, white voters moved to vote for Republican Bernie Epton, blacks rallied for Washington, and Latinos stayed with the Democratic Party, boosting Washington's Latino tally from 10 percent to 60 percent.
"They rejected the bigotry," Gutierrez said. "Those leaders who inspire hope allow us to overcome our innate bigotry and prejudices."
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Latino vote on Super Tuesday by a two-to-one margin in key states such as New York, California and New Jersey. That gave her a decisive win with the fastest-growing demographic in the country, possibly setting the stage for the general election when Latinos could make a huge difference in swing states.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18718803
"Like most monolithic organizations, the NFL often moves slowly, and league officials admit they were late in marketing the sport to Hispanics. The NFL's big push, they said, started two years ago when the Cardinals played the 49ers in Mexico City.http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0131sb-ethnicfootball0201.html
It was the first regular-season game outside the United States, and its chief purpose was to get Mexicans, as well as Hispanics living in the U.S., excited about the game."
"Last week’s primary in Florida, the first state with a big Hispanic population to vote, gave a demonstration of their potential clout. Hispanic voters, who were 12 percent of those voting — a strong turnout for a primary — handed the decisive edge in the Republican contest to Senator John McCain of Arizona over Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, according to exit polls by Edison/Mitofsky.
The two candidates were essentially even among white voters, with 33 percent for Mr. McCain and 34 percent for Mr. Romney. But Latino voters, including Cuban-Americans and others, favored Mr. McCain by 54 percent to 14 percent for Mr. Romney. (Mr. McCain is known among Latinos for backing an immigration bill offering legal status to illegal immigrants that was defeated last year by conservatives from his party.)"
"Inland home builders started studying the Latino market during economic and housing downturns in the early- to mid-1990s, said Steve Johnson, the Riverside-based director of MetroStudy, a national housing market research firm.
It wasn't until about 2000, when the economy and housing market started to rebound, that home builders implemented changes to appeal to Latinos, Johnson said. These included adding more backyard gathering areas with pools and barbecue areas, and eliminating the more formal living room in favor of a larger family room."
"The next afternoon, Benjamin appeared on a Spanish-language talk/comedy show, Arrebatados, on América TeVe (Channel 41). That's where, she recalls, another guest, Enrique Encinosa, clued her in that Codepink might receive, well, a Miami welcome. "He said he was a good friend of (80-year-old Cuban exile Luis) Posada Carriles," she recalls. "And I shouldn't be surprised if someone 'cracked my head like a coconut.'"http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-01-24/news/codepink-stink/
After the show, she issued a press release. Soon her phone began ringing. In both Spanish and English, callers had choice words. "There were veiled threats. They called me 'Communist c-nt' and threatened to get me. After that show, we started getting nervous."
"Okay, so why didn't you stop then?" I ask her.
"This is a mafia town," Benjamin says. "Everyone is mucked up with each other in a conspiracy to support the violent, right-wing Cubans."
"I'm proud to have fought for and defended freedom for the people of Cuba, consistently calling for continuing the embargo until there are free elections, human right organizations and a free and independent media," he (John McCain) said. "Then and only then will the United States of America extend the aid and assistance because we don't want American tax dollars to go to a corrupt government headed either by Fidel or Raul Castro or anyone else who has denied freedom from the Cuban people."http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/communist_fighter_mccain_i_und.html
Miami Herald reviews business of brothers Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes. Carlos is vice president of the Cuban American National Foundation. "As far back as the mid-1980s, says C. Richard ''Rick'' Allen, now deputy director of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency and then an agent, the brothers were under investigation concerning charges of defrauding drug manufacturers by obtaining supplies at low prices under false pretenses. The investigation died when the feds abruptly stopped a national investigation called Pharmoney.http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/404331.html
In the 1990s, AmerisourceBergen Drug alleged in a civil lawsuit that Pharmed committed fraud. The case was settled out of court. In 2006, Johnson & Johnson accused Pharmed of fraudulently taking $22 million in rebates. That case went to arbitration; the results have not been made public."
"..., Hispanic Magazine listed Pharmed as the eighth-largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States."
CBS: The Emerging Influence Of Hispanic Voters: More Than Nine Million Latinos Are Expected To Vote In The Presidential Election This November"And heard in bigger numbers than ever before - there's been a steady increase in Latino voters since 1980 when just under two and a half million voted for president. That number had more than doubled by the 2000 election, but this year, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute expects at least 9.3 million Latinos to vote in November."http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/03/eveningnews/main3784090.shtml
"And Obama's campaign is backing up his inclusive words with actions. Realizing they were heading into not just California but Super Tuesday primaries in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, which all have large Latino populations, the Obama campaign has made Latino outreach one if its top priorities. The front desk of its Los Angeles headquarters on the ninth floor of an anonymous office building in Korean town has a sign-up sheet titled: "We really need your help reaching out to Spanish speakers." The list is full. The campaign's extensive Latino outreach program includes 6,000 precinct captains and 223 teams of 1,500 trained volunteers. They were the first up with Spanish language TV and radio ads, and have placed tens of thousands of phone calls reaching out to Latino households."http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1709033,00.html
"Clinton supporters point to her longstanding ties with the Latino community and say they expect her to do very well among Hispanic voters here Tuesday. Obama got a comparatively late start in building those connections and is more of an unknown."
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