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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 shore up the slumping residential housing sector. This trend may even change the minds of those opposed to immigration and immigrants in general, More…

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 tribute to a generation of film artists, now aged 30 to 45 years old, who emigrated to the United States in search of opportunities, as over 400,000 Mexicans do every year.

“Babel”, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, has been nominated for seven awards, including best More…

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. Peace pá my town “, according to informed the foundation in an official notice. Www.ebay.com will be able to be bid up in the auction from the 16,00 GMT of Wednesday in the vestibule of Internet and until the 04,00 GMT of Saturday (the midnight of Friday in Puerto Rico).

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 broke both wrists, leaving her in a cast from her shoulders to her fingers.

• “They said the doctor gave me magical wrists, some magic in my hand,” Ochoa said.[indystar]

Ochoa grew up near a golf club, but the game was only one activity among several encouraged by her father, Javier, a real-estate developer, and her mother, Marcela, an artist.

Every time I win, I win not only for me, but for the sport in general and for people in my country.” [NYT]

They are the people you don’t see at a major golf tournament, but without them it wouldn’t be quite the same show. They maintain the golf course, tend to the flowers along the fairways, pick up the trash and fix the meals. And they are largely [Latino].

Lorena Ochoa is one millionaire who’s on their side

“They come and say hi to me,” she said. “I just said hi and thank you for your hard work, because the course is in great shape. I signed some autographs for a lot of them. Hopefully, I get a chance to spend even more time with them. But I know they’re pretty busy right now.” [scrippsnews] By JIM ALEXANDER

More info about Lorena Ochoa [lorenaochoa.com]

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- sized mun2 entertainment from the web to television to mobile and back starting Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 9PM.

“Holamun2.com: El Show offers never before seen bicultural wit and insights in a fresh program where everything that matters to the new Latino generation is on the radar and a target for comedy,” said Flavio Morales, mun2 VP of Programming. More…

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, New Hampshire or Washington State, for instance. And that failure has been credited in part with his relatively weak showing to date among Latino voters who Sen. Hillary Clinton has won with supermajorities. More…

U.S. Hispanics have flocked to the internet, but with few Hispanic online-advertising networks and little Spanish-language search advertising, they’re not as easy for advertisers to target as non-Hispanics.
Ads incorporate site: Ad shows the ‘after’ photo of this thinner user dancing to Batanga radio.

Hoping to change that, Hispanic music site Batanga just made the first deal to acquire “Latino ad network” HispanoClick. More…

“Latinos Con Obama,” a group of young Latinos & Latinas and dedicated supporters of senator Barack Obama, is heading down to the Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia area today, headed by the Dominican Haile Rivera.

“Our goal in the DC/MD/VA area this weekend is to focus on the Latino community and visit businesses, bodegas, restaurants, beauty parlors, and just talk to the Latinos about who Barack Obama is and why we should stand with him and vote for him on Tuesday, February 12th. It is no secret that the Latino community More…