VivirLatino

I, like many people last night, tuned in to listen to President Bush announce the deployment of at least 20,000 more troops into Iraq. Also watching were many people of color, including Latinos, who are being agressively targeted for recruitment into to U.S. military. Just this morning I witnessed two young men of color inside a local recruiting station being chatted up to sign on that dotted line. While my personal opinion is that more troops will only serve to make a bad situation worse and cost people’s lives unjustly, according to an article in today’s El Diario/ La Prensa, Latino opinion in NYC is mixed.

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