12/10/2013 Aztlán-Network-News ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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Kennedy Center Honors Two Latinos With Nation's Highest Award In The Arts
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Above: Kennedy Center Honorees Carlos Santana, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Joel on December 8, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Above: Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine, Carlos Santana, Martina Arroyo and Herbie Hancock attend the formal Artist's Dinner honoring the recipients of the 2013 Kennedy Center on December 7, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
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12/9/2013 Boosting Latino Representation Where It Counts via
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Above: Miguel Martinez, center, education and science commissioner at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., gestures as he talks with Carol Lark, assistant superintendent of Clark County School District, and Roger Gonzalez, director of licensed personnel of Clark County School District of Las Vegas, outside the Royal Alcazar where they are attending a bilingual teaching Seminar in Seville, Spain, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. School administrators brainstormed Tuesday with their Spanish counterparts on how | @AP
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12/9/2013 Cuba Reopens Consular Services... For Now via
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Above: The Cuban Interest Section, located in the Swiss Embassy in Washington Tuesday, May 13, 2003. The U.S. has ordered the expulsions of 14 Cuban diplomats --seven at the United Nations and seven in Washington --for engaging in intelligence activities outside their official duties, U.S. officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lisa Nipp)
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The GOP Couldn't Kill Obamacare, But Hispanics Could via
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An attendee, right, fills out an health care application with a volunteer during the WeConnect Health Enrollment Information & Wellness Event in Oakland, California, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. The battle over Obamacare is taking on political importance as Democrats hope a successful roll-out among Hispanics will further bind those voters to the Democratic Party and undermine Republican efforts to build more support before the 2016 presidential election. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bl | Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Selena Gomez Curses, Storms Off Stage At Jingle Ball 2013
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Grand Ronde Enrollment Flap: Family of 1855 Treaty-signer Getting Booted http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/12/09/grand-ronde-enrollment-flap-family-1855-treaty-signer-getting-booted-152625
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Above: Leah Gibson Marilyn Portwood, a family matriarch, center, and her family are among those facing disenrollment from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.
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America's Future Doctors: Immigrants and the Medical Profession
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12/9/2013 Algonquins Erect Land Protection Camp within La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve http://intercontinentalcry.org/algonquins-erect-land-protection-camp-within-la-verendrye-wildlife-reserve via
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12/8/2013 How to Defend Obama on Deportations ~By
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12/8/2013 Female politicians taking over Latin America's land of machismo
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Above: Chilean presidential candidate for the New Majority coalition, Michelle Bachelet, left, and presidential candidate right-wing Evelin Matthei, right, greet each other before the presidential debate organized by ARCHI (Association of Radio of Chile) in Santiago, on Dec. 6, 2013.
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Above: Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation party (LIBRE) and her husband, Honduras' former president Manuel Zelaya, participate in a protest against the results of the presidential election in Tegucigalpa on Dec. 1, 2013.
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Cuba's Economic Reforms Begin To Reshape Attitudes
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Above: People sell handicrafts in Havana on December 29, 2010. Many sectors of the Cuban economy saw major changes in 2010, after government regulations shifted to allow private entrepreneurship in certain areas of the market. President Raul Castro announced that 2011 will be a tough, yet decisive year for Cuba, in their efforts to reform the exhausted socialist economic model. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE
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12/6/2013 Latin America's Left and Right Need to Open Their Eyes to End the War on Drugs
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Honduran Elections: No Cause for Celebration
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Above: Oct. 26, 2012: Spanish language election campaign signs promoting President Barack Obama hang on the windows at Lechonera El Barrio Restaurant in Orlando, Fla. Hispanics supported President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney by almost 3-to-1 and put Republicans on notice they must take real steps to win over the nations largest minority group if they want to win the presidency again. (AP)
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11/26/2013 Obama’s call to close Vatican embassy is 'slap in the face' to Roman Catholics: http://wtim.es/18iQ7EP via
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Comment: I will do these Aztlán-Network-News Blogposts from time to time. It can be a kind of brief record of News related to La Raza. At least to me in my on-going research. I will not get burned out on it. I have other fish to fry and dragons to slay. I am not really any kind of reporter. I am a typer.
I do believe in sharing News and Information. In many ways those of us who consider ourselves as being of La Raza Cosmica are invisible to most of Nazi Amerika. We all need to speak up and speak out with courage and conviction. We have barely comprehended our great potential as a beautiful multi-faceted people.
Feel free to copy, reproduce or share this stuff with others. In these tragic times I consider the species of humanity a doomed race of people in what many call the End Times. We may not be in the End Times but we are certainly in Times of GreatTransition. We have hated too much. We fought each other too long. We have failed on so many levels to find our own common humanity as humane beings.
Our own character defects and shortcomings may result in our extinction as a species. We need to continue to exhaust all peaceful methods of protest and resistance, including electoral politics and engagement with progressive political parties, but it may be too late. There is mass fear and confusion in the land. In a way, even the Internet is a Tower of Babel.
Mother Earth herself faces great environmental dangers that we may not be able to overcome because of the activities of predatory man and his insatiable greed. Indeed, in a real way, we truly are an endangered species ever hovering on the ragged edge of extinction.
As C.G. Jung remarked ~
"The world hangs by a thin thread and that is the psyche of man....."
Namaste! +Peter S. López aka +@Peta_de_Aztlan
Sacramento, California, Aztlán
Gmail: peta.aztlan@gmail.com
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(From left to right) Cristian Avila, Dae Joong Yoon and Eliseo Medina announced during a press conference on the National Mall on Tuesday that they are ending their 22-day fast. They passed the baton to other advocates who will take over in the fast aimed at building pressure on Speaker John Boehner and other House leaders to act on immigration reform. 
