"The economic downturn – along with more aggressive enforcement – is reducing the flow of illegal immigrants to the United States.
Not only are fewer people – mostly Hispanics – slipping into the United States, they're getting fewer jobs. New data shows that Latino participation in the labor force – normally among the highest – has dropped along with a decline in new arrivals."
The calls have come not because of any change in Rodriguez's status as a council member, he says, but because it was on that day when it became clear that he would be the sole Hispanic on the 14-member council.
As it prepares to turn 100, the Boy Scouts of America is honing its survival skills for what might be its biggest test yet: drawing Hispanics into its declining — and mostly white — ranks.
"For Hispanics, Christmas remains a predominantly religious holiday. Christmas traditionally lasts from the beginning known as Advent through the Baptism of Jesus. As with most Hispanic cultural traditions, celebration of the Christmas season is primarily molded around family, either immediate or extended."
"I'm relying less and less on compilations, because when people want a greatest hits, they download them and make their own," Venevision VP of music Jorge Pino says.
As a result, Latino families across the economic spectrum are scaling back their plans for traveling or sending elaborate gift packages to their home countries.
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At travel agencies that specialize in Latin American destinations, several agents said they had sold about one-third fewer tickets than last year.
Entre los más generosos destacan el Consejo Presidencial del Sida (Copresida) de República Dominicana, un organismo que mantiene una estrecha colaboración con la Fundación Clinton desde hace años y que donó entre 10 y 25 millones de dólares; la Fundación Azteca América; el empresario venezolano Gustavo Cisneros, propietario de Venevisión, y el magnate de origen cubano de la industria azucarera, Alfonso Fanjul.
Of marketers that target minority groups, 95% tailor messages to Latin Americans ...
But for 12 years, the show, adapted from “Too Many Tamales” by Gary Soto (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), a children’s book that regularly lands on reading lists in schools across the region and beyond, has routinely sold out its weekend runs of 19 shows, which alternate between English and Spanish.
Moody’s Investors Service says the weak advertising market is putting pressure on revenues and cash flow for Univision. The company’s ratings have been downgraded and Moody’s says the outlook for Univision is negative. The credit downgrade applies to approximately $10.6 billion of debt for the Spanish-language radio and TV giant.
"Univision is struggling to make payments on its nearly $10 billion of debt, for which the payments rose by $845 million this year, because cash flow is falling precipitously and cash on hand is declining."
Not every Hispanic and Latino actor in Hollywood has been given a part here - it only seems that way.
"Despite recent improvements, Latino and black students continue to lag behind whites and Asians in becoming academically eligible to enter California's two public university systems, according to a state report released Tuesday."
" Tribune was only one of three $10 billion-plus leveraged buyouts in media, alongside the $12.3 billion buyout of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision earlier last year and the $18 billion buyout of radio broadcaster Clear Channel in July."
-- More than 6 in 10 Latino voters backed Proposition 4, the measure requiring parental notification before a minor can have an abortion.
-- Nearly 8 in 10 Latinos voted for Obama.
"Some 20 percent of the present population of the Iberian peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry, and 11 percent bear Moorish DNA signatures, a team of geneticists reports."
"In the weeks following the recent election, though, there has been a very different feeling in the air in these neighborhoods, a feeling of relief, of recognition, of pride. There is going to be a man in the White House (Barack Obama) whose mother was white and whose father was black. He was a mixed-race child; he is a black man. His family is multicultural, as mine is. What a relief to see this represented in the realities of power and politics! In the media!"
Univision and producers Endemol and Amistad Productions are developing an online telenovela with some big-name talent for 2009. The network said that the program is designed to incorporate product placements and other integrations, although a representative said no deals have been struck yet. The "Webnovela" is entitled Vidas Cruzadas (Crossed Lives) and will star well-known Hispanic actors Kate del Castillo and Guy Ecker. Carlos Sotomayor is the producer. The 15-episode
"In signs of a slowing market, Univision Communications' financial results are slipping each quarter, Time Inc. is closing one of its two Spanish-language titles, and the best holiday party in the Hispanic market, thrown every December by Vidal Partnership, is drastically downsizing this year from 600 guests to only the agency's staff in keeping with the more-somber times."
