According to Florida International University's annual survey on United States relations with Cuba, a small majority of Cuban-Americans residents of Miami-Dade County opposes the embargo of the communist island.
Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott has released his first statewide television ad for his campaign, and it's in Spanish. The Spanish-language ad, which features him surrounded by loved ones, reaches out to Texas' Hispanic population, who make up 38.2 percent of the state.
Has the population scale of the United States reached the minority tipping point? The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau differ in their assessments, so the nation remains unsure whether the birth rate of minorities has finally surpassed the bith rate of whites in America.
Brooklyn has experienced a tremendous influx of well-off and well-educated white residents, who are not only driving up the cost of living in the area and introducing expensive businesses, but also effectively and rapidly "gentrifying" the borough's jury pool, morphing courtroom decisions, and altering verdicts, according to some local lawyers.
Coffee is one of Latin America's major exports, sustaining independent farmers in rural areas as well as corporate bankers in metropolitan areas. But changing climate patterns have exaggerated plagues and droughts in the region, and this has produced less than desirable conditions for coffee production.
The American Immigration Council obtained more than 800 complaints of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse lodged by detainees between January 2009 and January 2012 and found that 97 percent of complaints resulted in no punishment. More than 80 percent of child detainees claimed receiving inadequate food and water and half reported verbal abuse, while one-in-four reported physical abuse.
With over 5 million unemployed in Spain, the economic crisis has hit homeowners particularly hard -which is nearly everyone. Spain has the highest rate of home ownership in the European Union, as high as 85 percent, and that's greatly due to decades-long aggressive governmental promotion of home ownership and borrowing.
According a Pew Research Center survey, 72 percent of Brazilians are dissatisfied with the state of the nation, up from 55 percent when surveyed last year. Economic concerns top the list of major concerns in the country, as well as crime (83%), health care (83%), political corruption (78%) and poor quality schools (64%), and certainly not the World Cup.
5,000,000 underage Brazilian girls and boys are being forced to street corners by family members and pimps, in order to proposition the oncoming millions of foreign futbol fans with sex, earning a meager 10 Brazilian real, equivalent to $4.37, less than a carton of cigarettes.
"Poder y Vida (Power and Life) Latina Initiative," launched by Susan G. Komen of Oregon & Southwest Washington, Kaiser Permanente Northwest and numerous other community organizations, was created with the intention of improving access to breast cancer screening.
Lawmakers in Santa Ana, California, and Los Angeles have begun a process to make their cities safer and more pedestrian friendly as a result of the overwhelming death toll of pedestrians and bicyclists, most of which are Hispanics and blacks.
More than any others, children in immigrant households are the least likely to enroll their children in federal and state preschool programs, due mainly to language and literacy barriers.
Four years later and the interest for the latest FIFA World Cup soccer tournament increased. According to Google, professional soccer is "more popular than ever" in the United States (U.S.) due to the growing Hispanic population.
The Latino unemployment rate in the United States increased to 7.7 percent last month, despite an increasing number of Hispanics entering the job market. According to the National Council of La Raza, a heavy emphasis shouldn't be placed on the monthly unemployment numbers, since many factors shift each month.
Fresh out of college and new to New York City, young people arrive with the expectation of "Sex in the City" and "Glee"-style adventures, guided solely by the hot lights of the city and a sense of whimsy. Instead, they are confronted with the high cost of NYC's living and unshakable college student loan debt, which often forces them to pit financial obligations against one another.
Influxes of immigrant populations aren't new in American history. In fact, just a little over a century ago, the U.S. experienced a urge of immigrants from Germany. From 1890 to 1919, 18.2 million immigrants, hailing mainly from Europe, entered the U.S.
With more Latin Americans gaining access to online media, the region's population has become more engaged with digital healthcare. According to a January study by the think tank TrenDigital, approximately nine out of 10 Internet users in Chile have searched for healthcare information on the Internet at least once.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been criticized because of her countries handling and preparation of the World Cup. Lately, she has defended herself and spoke out on behalf of Brazil. Get direct quotes from the president and poll numbers from fans on the FIFA World Cup and here.
Miami-Dade County in Florida, which is 64.3 percent Latino, is experiencing tidal floods because of fossil fuel emissions and the effects of climate change and global warming. Henry Briceño, a geologist and professor at Florida International University's Southeast Environmental Research Center, is concerned about the rising sea level around Miami Beach, especially when, even on a sunny days, seawater flood through the gutters and storm drains.
A full 45 percent of Hispanics surveyed for a new report said they had experienced verbal harassment, and 33 percent indicated that they'd experienced physically aggressive harassment.
