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“The sleeping Latino giant is wide-awake and it’s cranky,” said Eliseo Medina, international secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, regarding the 2012 Latino voter turnout. Making up 10% of the electorate in the United States, Latinos made enormous strides last Tuesday supporting President Barack Obama with a share of 71% of the total Latinos vote, according to exit polls. This is the highest share supporting the Democratic Party since 1996, when Bill Clinton…

I’ve never been one for Halloween celebrations. I don’t know if it’s because of twelve years of Catholic school or because my parents never got excited about it. In any case, I really want to try and get into it this year. All of my friends get so excited and put a lot of time and effort into their costumes. I was thinking about all sorts of things, but I remembered one character or historical figure that I tried to recreate a few months back. One of my friends studying theatre asked me if I…

Tomorrow’s the 1^st of November. As everyone in the Mexican community knows, tomorrow is the  celebration…

So, it’s that time again: election season. On November 6^th President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will face off in what seems to be one of the most highly politicized, over the top, vote-or-perish elections to date—or maybe I’m just paying more attention to social media.…