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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 20th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Obama answers top Cuban blogger – Yoani Sanchez

El español Alejandro Sanz, el cubano Jencarlos Canela y el puertorriqueño Victor Manuelle, en ese orden, debutan esta semana en los tres primeros lugares de la lista de Top Latin Albums de Billboard.

The Cuban band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro can legitimately claim to be inventors of salsa. But it last played in the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and there was no telling when it might be able to return — until the very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba quietly brought the band to New York early this month.

Who seriously wants the Cuban trade embargo?

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 18th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

PODER-ABC* Business Awards Celebrates Leadership Excellence in the Americas

Master M.C. Makes Sunset Urban Debut with “Mezclando Estilos”

The Cuban ties that bind, 50 years on – Visiting her father’s homeland under newly relaxed travel restrictions is both invigorating and saddening.

Poll: Cubans ‘frustrated’ over life in Cuba – A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 16th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 13th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuban blogger’s husband out to avenge her assault – Yoani Sanchez

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 11th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuban man executed Tuesday for Houston slaying

SEPTETO NACIONAL IGNACIO PIÑEIRO DIRECT FROM CUBA: 2 SHOWS – Thursday November 19th at 8pm & 10:30pm (2 Shows) – NYC

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 10th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Photographer’s work helped defuse Cuban Missile Crisis – RIP William B. Ecker

Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media

Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize

US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 9th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march

CNN’s Rick Sanchez Interviews Juanita Castro: “While you were still in Cuba and your brother was beginning a Marxist revolution, you were not only cooperating with the CIA, but you were protecting CIA agents who were inside Cuba at the time.”

OMARA PORTUONDO’S “GRACIAS” WINS THE LATIN GRAMMY FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY TROPICAL ALBUM

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 6th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Miami sports agent who aided in defections freed from jail – Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar, a Miami sports agent who served 13 years for trying to help Cuban baseball stars defect, will fly home Friday.

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuban Tomas Regalado was elected mayor of Miami with a pledge to control spending, limit property-tax increases and curtail development

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Legendary Omara Portuondo to become first Cuban national on stage at Latin Grammys

Statement by Sarah Stephens, Center for Democracy in the Americas, UN Vote on Cuba embargo – After UN Embargo Vote, Obama Should Push Further, Faster on Cuba Policy Reforms

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

The Case of the Cuban Five: American Justice as a Political Weapon

BS&F Partner and ABA President-Elect Stephen N. Zack Named to HISPANIC BUSINESS Magazine’s Top 100 Influentials 2009 List

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuba allows U.S. access to jailed dual citizens – While Cuba recently gave a State Department official permission to visit jailed U.S.-Cuban citizens, travel restrictions remain in place.

Sacerdote cubanoamericano es nuevo obispo en Colorado – Fernando Isern

Country of Origin Profiles: Browse detailed demographic and economic profiles of Hispanics in the United States by their countries of origin.

Miami-Beach Florida’s Mayor Matti Herrera Bower’s 19 Day Countdown to Mayoral Re-Election – city’s first female and Cuban-American Mayor

A steep drop in U.S. payments for telephone calls to Cuba may have been caused by Cuban Americans’ growing travel to the island, the U.S. economic crisis or increased Internet communications

MISS TEEN FLORIDA LATINA 2008, SAYDELIS RODRIGUEZ ES ESCOGIDA POR LA ORGANIZACION MISS FLORIDA LATINA COMO LA IMAGEN OFICIAL DE IT COSMETICS

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A small Miami-based company said the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and make the Internet more accessible to Cubans.

A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez

One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 12th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Cuban public health authorities reported the first three deaths from the AH1N1 flu virus on the island and said that to date 621 cases of the disease have been confirmed.

Cuban expatriate Dafnis Prieto shakes up the drum world – arguably the hottest percussionist in jazz and Latin music today

Yahoo! En Espanol Reveals the Most POPular Searches for September

Jose Luis Rodriguez, President and CEO of Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. Announces the preview and launching of a new television series ‘ENLACE CUBA’

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

According to Carmelo Mesa, a Cuban economist who’s a visiting professor at Tulane University in the United States, Venezuela bankrolled Cuba to the tune of $9.4 billion last year. This includes $2 billion to take account of the cost of subsidizing Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba. Venezuela sends oil to Cuba at a “preferential” price of just $27 a barrel.

American Bar Association Diversity Commission Names 2010 Spirit of Excellence Awardees including Francisco Angones

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 5th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Voting Begins for the MillerCoors 2009 Lider of the Year

Eduardo Matías López Ferrer, abogado cubano residente en México, lleva dos décadas asesorando legalmente y ofreciendo albergue y apoyo a los indocumentados cubanos que llegan al país por diferentes vías

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 2nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations.

U.S. Businesses Court Increasingly Affluent Hispanic Consumers – Companies aim products and services at growing Hispanic population

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 29th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

The New Face of Cuban Soul Rock from the North: Alex Cuba’s Agua del Pozo Breaks the Language Barrier

Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.

LEGENDARY CUBAN SINGER AND LATIN GRAMMY NOMINEE OMARA PORTUONDO RECEIVES VISA TO PROMOTE CONCERTS IN USA

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 28th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

More than Cuban: Miami author Jennine Capó Crucet gives second-generation American characters their own voice – “How to Leave Hialeah”

Brazilian Funk and Cuban Soul Heat Up the Northern Climes – A killer samba beat and an irresistible Cuban Sway: Brazil’s futuristic Otto and Cuban expat Alex Cuba deliver soulful sounds

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 24th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Salvadoran immigrants and Americans of Salvadoran descent have grown to number 1.6 million — essentially tying them with Cubans as the nation’s third largest Latino group

Cubans tell of capture and torture on Mexican journey

A Miami radio station broadcast Tuesday a recording of a heated discussion Colombian rocker Juanes had with Cuban authorities a few hours before his concert “Peace Without Borders” in Havana. – In the recording, Juanes complained about the constant surveillance he had been under since his arrival Friday.

Torturan a ilegales cubanos en México

Last week marked the beginning of a sea change in U.S. and Cuba cooperation on the environment. Our Oceans team invited and secured visas for a delegation of Cuban scientists to come to the U.S. for meetings with EDF and other partners.

CANDIDO CAMERO, BETH CARVALHO, CHARLY GARCIA, TANIA LIBERTAD, MARCO ANTONIO MUÑIZ, AND JUAN ROMERO TO RECEIVE THE 2009 LATIN RECORDING ACADEMY – LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – JOSE ANTONIO ABREU & ROBERTO CANTORAL TO BE HONORED WITH THE 2009 TRUSTEES AWARD

HispanicTips » » Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 22nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Outspoken Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas to address Indiana University community for Hispanic Heritage Month

Reportlinker Adds Latino Foods: The Next Wave Culinary Trend Mapping Report Report

Juanes afirma que el concierto fue ‘un mensaje para la comunidad cubana y la región’

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 21st, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

The National Hispana Leadership Institute Honored Latinas in Public Service at Its Annual Latina Leaders Breakfast

Exiliados cubanos se mostraron divididos el domingo respecto al concierto del cantante colombiano Juanes en la Plaza de la Revolución, en La Habana, que hasta último momento encendió pasiones y enfrentamientos en Miami.

Juanes Sings in Havana For “One Cuban Family” – Yoani Sánchez at HuffPo

Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila visits US

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Data and Resources: Country of Origin Profiles – Pew Hispanic Center

A Havana singer who will take part in the Juanes concert Sunday has said that exiled Cuban artists should be allowed to perform on the island and criticized the notorious jailing of a Havana man for his drunken complaint of widespread hunger as “an awful error.” – Amaury Pérez

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 15th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Latinos en cifras – Hispanic Heritage Month Supplemental Information en Español

Una amalgama de culturas – Hispanic Heritage Month Supplemental Information en Español

Hispanos en Estados Unidos – Hispanic Heritage Month Supplemental Information en Español

Cuban Exile’s Plan for a Ferry From Miami to Havana Is Awaiting U.S. Approval

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 10th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

“Concierto Paz Sin Fronteras” (Peace Without Borders Concert) – NEWS RELEASE On Behalf of JUANES and The Cuban Music Institute

Remezcla: This week’s FREE music downloads include Guadalajara-via-NY duo Sweet Electra, first single from Brownout’s upcoming album, exclusive track from Cuban performerEl Chino Dreadlion, and LA’s own buzz band Palenke Soultribe.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

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