LA Times: Cal. Governator nominates Latino Republican Abel Maldonado for Lt. Governator

"With tears occasionally welling in his eyes, (Abel) Maldonado (state Sen. of Santa Maria) recalled a childhood spent picking strawberries alongside his parents. And now, he marveled, he was accepting the nomination for lieutenant governor. "Only in America can that happen," Maldonado said."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-week29-2009nov29,0,839190.story

AsburyParkPress: anti-immigrant Dobbs vs pro-immigrant Menedez in Senate challenge?.

"Lou Dobbs, former CNN host and populist doyen of the anti-illegal immigration crowd, says he is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey by challenging Sen. Robert Menendez, one of the nation's most ardent supporters of immigrant rights — legal and illegal — when his term is up in three years."

http://www.app.com/article/20091127/OPINION01/911280305/Lou-Dobbs-in-campaign-mode

AzCentral: Arizona Latino group releases data on Hispanics

• Hispanics 18 to 34 average 1,200 cellphone minutes a month
  
• Forty percent have profiles on social media sites.
  
• Fifty percent of U.S Latinos online
  
• Bilingual Latinos are more likely to use the Internet than those who speak only Spanish.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2009/11/18/20091118biz-datos1118.html

HispanicBusiness: Sosa says he bleached his skin

""It's a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin some," he said. "When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o'clock games.""

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/11/13/sammy_sosa_breaks_the_silence_on.htm

Bloomberg: Televisa investing in cable internet speeds in DF

Grupo Televisa SA plans to spend $450 million to upgrade its Mexico City cable network, improving Web speeds to win more Internet clients, said Jean Paul Broc, chief executive officer of the division.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=axyxTsasHkw4

ABC: Republican says GOP needs to change its tune on immigration

"The demographic makeup of these border states is going to continue to shift. Texas, Arizona and New Mexico have historically elected Republicans, but they need to recognize that Latinos are going to be majorities in some cases." "

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-rift-latino-obama-supporters/story?id=9018326

Portada analysis of comScore data: Google, Microsoft tops in Mexico, Argentina

Google and Microsoft continue to be in the top position in most Latin American countries. Both media properties’ number of unique users grew by approximately 20%.

http://www.portada-online.com/printarticle.aspx?page=/html/website/paid/2009/101509panreg/Internet-user-latam-comsore-eng.aspx

Reuters: Televisa expects taxes to hurt profits

Mexican broadcaster Televisa expects planned tax increases in Mexico to hit profits, but still plans to bid in a long-awaited spectrum auction to develop a wireless phone network in the country.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIntegratedTelecommunicationsServices/idUSN2310492620091023

AdWeek: Hispanic market continues to grow

"Hispanic Americans continue to grow in number at a rate four times that of the general population, with the 2010 Census expected to show their total rising to nearly 50 million, from 38 million in 2000. And second-generation Hispanics are fast becoming the driver of the group's growth, with 88 percent of Hispanic children born in America, versus 61 percent of adults."

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i26911e62ce1ee0f7f41748d31d4e42a0?imw=Y

Christian Science Monitor: The heat rises on Dobbs

"The National Council of La Raza and the Southern Poverty Law Center have started a project called “Drop Dobbs” to put the heat on CNN advertisers."

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/31/lou-dobbs-takes-flak-from-many-directions-he-fires-back-too/