El Salvador will be especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the United States. (Miami Herald video) A series of stories in the Miami Herald has been following the effect the economic crisis is having on immigrants. Immigrants, especially those working in construction or service jobs, have been hard hit, and the impact is apparent [...]
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Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Danger of Losing His Seat, New Poll Shows
September 1, 2008 – 4:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmPBSkqrPBc Lincoln Diaz-Balart has reached out to Latino voters on behalf of John McCain. Polls show he has his own problems to worry about. A new poll commissioned by Roll Call shows Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla. 21) losing 46 to 48 percent against Democratic challenger Raul Martinez, in what’s shaping up to be an era-changing [...]
Changing the Political Game in Miami
August 21, 2008 – 10:53 am
When News21 producers Don Duncan and Elizabeth Mendez-Berry traveled to to Miami in order to investigate shifts in the Latino community, what they found was that Cuban voices are no longer the only Hispanic ones in Miami politics. As part of the upcoming elections there, local politicians are focused on campaigning in Colombian and Nicaraguan [...]
