Jose Marti

Florida, Pretends It Is The Year 2000 As Our "Elian Gonzalez Equivalents" Get Deported

DeeDee Garcia Blase | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Elian Gonzalez, Hispanic Latino 2012 Vote, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, DREAM Act, Romney Endorsed by Kris Kobach, Governor Rick Scott, Joaquin Luna, Immigration Is an Economic Issue Stupid, Jose Marti, Mario Diaz-Balart, John Tanton, Cuban-American Republicans Drive Wedge Against Mexican-Americans, Arizona Immigration Law, Latino Voices News
DeeDee Garcia Blase

Will the Hispanic Republicans in Florida continue to drive a wedge that goes against what most Latinos are in support of?

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"Here, Take Mine, I Have More at Home"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Jose Marti, Cuba, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The cost of the cheapest pair of shoes is equivalent to the average monthly wage of any worker. Thus, we must choose between living for thirty days or providing our children with a pair of sneakers, sandals or boots.

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Our America

Viviana Hurtado | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Simon Bolivar, South America, Hugo Chavez, Jose Marti, Latin America, Fidel Castro, Latinos, Immigrants, Hispanics, Cultura, Latino Politics, Chicano, Latino Voices News
Viviana Hurtado

Several terms refer to the same ethnic group and have produced what I call "happy talk," which contains economic and demographic truths but not proportional political or social clout.

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Jose Marti: Who Owns Cuba's National Hero?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

I was 19 and he had died a hundred years earlier. At school we were terrified when the grammar tests asked us to analyze his complex sentences. It wa...

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"I Don't Want to be Like Che, Because Che Is Dead and I Don't Want to be Dead"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jose Marti, Cuba, Cuba Young Pioneers, World News
Yoani Sanchez

In all the schools in the country, today is the ceremony for the first grade students to enroll in the Pioneer organization. Parents accompany their children while they shout the slogan, "Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che."

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Facing Che's Image, In The Shadow of Marti, a Concert is More Than a Concert

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arturo Sandoval, Havana, Albita Rodriguez, Willy Chirino, Plaza of the Revolution, Jose Marti, Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera, Che Guevara, Juanes, Music, Concert, Entertainment News
Yoani Sanchez

On the September 20th, the Colombian singer Juanes will try to put a human face on an architectural ensemble where no one is going to go and sit placidly.

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My Friend Went to Cuba and All She Brought Back Was... This Lousy Husband!

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casanova, Communism, Tourism, Prostitution, Jose Marti, Fidel, Cuba, Havana, Jinetera, Jinetero, World News
Yoani Sanchez

I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.

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