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	<description>Latin American voices observe and comment from New Orleans</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feds: Alabama immigration law caused spike in Hispanic student absences</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/05/feds-alabama-immigration-law-caused-spike-in-hispanic-student-absences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(CNN) &#8212; A top U.S. Justice Department official warned Alabama&#8217;s education  department that the state&#8217;s controversial immigration law has had  &#8220;lasting&#8221; and possibly illegal consequences for Hispanic school  children, according to a letter released Thursday.
&#8220;(The law has) diminished  access to and quality of education for many of Alabama&#8217;s Hispanic  children, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Facts About Latino Women and Pay Inequity</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/04/10-facts-about-latino-women-and-pay-inequity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Equal Pay Day tomorrow highlights the fact that women, particularly  Latinas, still earn significantly less than men despite working just as  hard and often harder. Additionally, Latinas’ earnings continue to lag  behind those of their white, African American, and Asian counterparts.  Latinas overall earn less, on average, than men and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lung Cancer Survival Better for Hispanics</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/04/lung-cancer-survival-better-for-hispanics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hispanics living in the U.S. who are diagnosed with non-small cell  lung cancer (NSCLC) have a lower risk for overall mortality than other  ethnic groups, despite having poorer access to care, a retrospective  analysis found.
Among patients with NSCLC, survival was significantly greater among  Hispanic whites (HR 0.85, 95% CI 0.83 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafael Videla Admits His Government Killed and Disappeared Thousands</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/04/rafael-videla-admits-his-government-killed-and-disappeared-thousands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla admitted for the  first time to ordering the killing and disappearing of thousands of  government opponents during the country’s Dirty War, according to local  press reports.
“Let’s say there were about 7,000 or 8,000 people who had to die in  order to win the war against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Action: Doctor Empowers Latino Community to Take Charge of Health</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/03/take-action-doctor-empowers-latino-community-to-take-charge-of-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Latino Health Access, launched 19 years ago under the leadership of  Venezuelan doctor America Bracho, has inspired residents of one Southern  California community to be responsible and proactive concerning their  own wellbeing.
&#8220;I arrived in Santa Ana in 1992, I came from Michigan where I got my master&#8217;s in public health,&#8221; Bracho told [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/03/2594/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
NOT so long ago, Julieta Castellanos could walk to the corner market, order a stack of corn tortillas and two liters of Coca-Cola, then make her way home without a stray glance or an impromptu comment from anyone.
But getting around, she has found, is not so easy anymore. Dr. Castellanos, the leader of Honduras’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugary Drink Makers Target Latino Youth</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/03/sugary-drink-makers-target-latino-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study conducted by Yale University suggests that soft drink and other sugary beverage manufacturers target their marketing campaigns to Latino and African-American children and teenagers.
Beverage makers primarily target young African-American children, who in 2010 tended to view 80 to 90 percent more TV ads for these drinks compared with their white peers. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOJ Objects To Texas Voter ID Law; Says It Would Have Unfair Impact On Hispanics</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/03/doj-objects-to-texas-voter-id-law-says-it-would-have-unfair-impact-on-hispanics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government will not preclear a photo voter identification law signed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) because it would have a greater impact on Hispanic voters, a Justice Department official said in a letter to state authorities on Monday.
Hispanic registered voters in Texas were either 46.5 percent or 120 percent more likely than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quinn announces 7 members of Dream Fund Commission to raise immigration scholarship money</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/02/quinn-announces-7-members-of-dream-fund-commission-to-raise-immigration-scholarship-money/</link>
		<comments>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/02/quinn-announces-7-members-of-dream-fund-commission-to-raise-immigration-scholarship-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn on Saturday named a diverse group of educators and community leaders to serve on a state commission that will raise scholarship money for college-bound students from immigrant families.
Quinn announced the seven members of the Illinois DREAM Fund Commission at a rally hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut police charged with abuse of authority toward Latinos</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/01/connecticut-police-charged-with-abuse-of-authority-toward-latinos/</link>
		<comments>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/01/connecticut-police-charged-with-abuse-of-authority-toward-latinos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four police officers from a Connecticut suburb have been accused of abusing their legal authority to harass, intimidate and deprive Latinos of their rights, the latest in a series of charges brought by the federal government against local police departments.
The charges against four East Haven police officers follow a Justice Department report last month that [...]]]></description>
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