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Get Ready California : Latinos to Be Majority

15:32 H — Maegan la Mala

The news that Latinos will become California's majority ethnic group isn't new news.The state's last set of projections, in 2004, predicted it would happen by 2038, but the Finance Department adjusted its predictions to account for longer life expectancies that... Read more »

Topics: California

Argentina's Ms. Bathroom Money Bags

13:08 H — Maegan la Mala

Argentina's economy minister Felisa Miceli thought that stashing a bag of 64,000 U.S. and Argentine dollars in her office bathroom cabinet was a smart idea. After all she was going to take that money, which she claims was given to... Read more »

Topics: Argentina - Politics

Media Watch : MSNBC's First Gut Check Makes My Gut Wretch

11:11 H — Maegan la Mala

MSNBC is doing a series of reports based on what "American readers" say they are interested in:In our first Gut Check America vote, thousands of readers around the country rated illegal immigration as the issue of most concern for them.... Read more »

Topics: Controversia - Immigration - Internet

Skeletons of '68 massacre victims found

09:43 H — Jennifer

Nearly four decades after the fact, the people of Mexico still feel the weight of the events of October 2, 1968 in their souls. In the years after the Massacre of Tlatelolco -- crowning event in Mexico's own obscure "dirty... Read more »

Topics: Activism - Controversia - Mexico - Politics

15 is a Magic Number

08:42 H — Maegan la Mala

I never had a quinceañera or a sweet 16 for that matter but the book Fifteen Candles by Adriana Lopez contains fifteen stories that any Latina in her late 20's to late 30's can relate to. Subtitled 15 Tales of... Read more »

Topics: Literature

Buenos Aires sees snow for the first time in 90 years

08:15 H — Jennifer

The capital of Argentina, the lovely Buenos Aires, is experiencing an historic winter this year. A wave of extreme cold has hit Argentina, leaving several dead in other parts of the country, but in Buenos Aires, the city received a... Read more »

Topics: Argentina - Weather