Thanks to the immigrants setting up there roots and buying homes in California and other Major city’s the Real-Estate bubble has not burst.California’s residential [Real Estate] markets, battered in recent months after a spectacular run-up in prices in the early years of this decade, may be very thankful for Hispanic immigrants whose purchases may help [...]

Oscar Nominations – for Mexicans or Mexican Filmmaking? MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 (IPS) – Millions will be glued to their television sets in [Mexico] this Sunday to watch the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in the United States, where Mexican artists and filmmakers have been nominated in 16 categories. This unprecedented number of nominations is a [...]

By Peter Wallsten As a Cuban who fled Fidel Castro’s communist rule for a new life in the U.S., Julio Izquierdo would seem a natural Republican voter — a sure bet to adopt the same political lineage that has long guided most of his countrymen who resettled in South Florida. But moments after taking his [...]

By N.C. Aizenman The number of Hispanics in the United States will triple by 2050 and represent nearly 30 percent of the population if current trends continue, according to a report released yesterday. The study by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Pew Research Center also found that nearly one in five Americans will be foreign-born in 2050, [...]

Yes “The Ricky Martin Foundation” will auction this week in Internet a computer signed by the star boricua to gather bottoms that will be dedicated to the protection of the rights of the children. In portable computer VAIO TX Series, donated by Sony Puerto Rico, Martin it wrote with its company/signature: “Thank you very much. [...]

Mexico’s “Lorena Ochoa”, 24, learned at an early age to aim high and not be afraid to fail. She was 12 when she trained six months to climb to the snow-covered top of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s tallest mountain at 18,405 feet. When she was 5, Ochoa fell some 15 feet from a tree and [...]

Jackie Guerrido was raised and educated in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Feb 12, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — mun2, the preeminent voice for Latino youth, is launching the highly-anticipated Holamun2.com: El Show, a new half-hour magazine series set to innovate bicultural entertainment, offering the best of mun2′s quirky and Webby-award winning online content with deeply integrated interactive features. Holamun2.com: El Show circulates byte- [...]

by Frank James It looks like one of the interesting subplots to watch will be how Sen. Barack Obama goes after the Latino vote in Texas before March 4 when that state holds its primary. Obama has been criticized for not taking his campaign to Latinos the way he took it to whites in Iowa, [...]