" Sentencing in Miami is off until March for a wealthy Venezuelan convicted of being an illegal foreign agent in a political cash suitcase scandal. The lawyer for 41-year-old Franklin Duran on Monday raised objections about Duran's role in the case. The outcome of the...
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" The Department of Justice's criminal civil rights division has opened a formal investigation into hate crimes against Latinos in Suffolk County. The move comes in response to a public outcry following the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero. The Ecuadorean immigrant was...
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" Jennifer Lopez has been accused of "worming" her way into celebrations for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. The singer and her husband Marc Anthony infuriated Democratic Party supporters after the pair agreed to appear at the Latino Inaugural Ball despite failing...
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"According to local boosters in both countries, the equivalent of the new world relationship between the U.S. and Mexico would emulate the bilateral ties between Washington and London yielding yet another special relationship. But what came almost naturally between the two...
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Mexico is lucky to have a President that sees the importance of making sure that his citizens are treated well outside of Mexico since he has no way of making life better for anyone in Mexico. I am sure if he can keep the focus on the U.S. side of the problem nobody will ever...
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" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he’s investigating whether representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas met with leaders of the political opposition, and said he may expel them from the country. Chavez said he knows a group of opposition leaders recently...
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" Analysts predict Venezuela's economy is headed for a worse year than the government admits, as falling oil prices stall growth and inflation soars in the import-dependent country. Venezuela saw growth of 4.8 percent in 2008 - down nearly half from 8.4 percent in 2007 - as...
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" Leonidas Vargas, a once powerful Colombian drug trafficker, has been shot dead in his hospital bed in the Spanish capital, Madrid. Police said that a gunman entered his room and fired four shots at Vargas, who was being treated for lung disease. Vargas, 59, was the head...
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"Before Ecuadoran immigrant Marcelo Lucero was murdered last November in what has been classified a hate crime, other Spanish-speaking immigrants in and around Patchouge, Long Island had been racially taunted and sometimes beaten up by white people, but nobody took it too...
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" Protesters condemning Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip sprayed graffiti and hurled shoes at the country's embassy in Venezuela on Thursday, backing President Hugo Chavez's decision to expel the Israeli ambassador. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted "Gaza,...
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" La democracia en México está frente a la ''amenaza potencial'' del terrorismo y narcotráfico, dijo ayer un alto funcionario de la Casa Blanca, y sugirió al presidente Felipe Calderón que vea en la experiencia de Colombia que es posible triunfar contra la violencia....
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" Nearly one in 10 Latino homeowners fell behind in mortgage payments last year. That's the finding of a Pew Hispanic Center survey. The Hispanic research group also reports about 3% say they had received a foreclosure notice. The survey found that nearly half of respondents,...
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" The United States has released another $99 million as part of an aid package to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza says the funds will help Mexico's military buy aircraft and other equipment to help...
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" Israel is considering expelling Venezuelan diplomats from Israel in response to the expulsion of Israel's envoys from Venezuela, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The Israelis were ordered out of their Caracas embassy in protest over Israel's military offensive in...
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" "Chavez decided that it was a mistake," said Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He said Citgo officials probably recommended the cost-saving measure to Chavez in the first place, but the impact may not have sunk in until the...
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Sentence delayed in Venezuelan suitcase scandal