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Mexican President Accused of Treason Over Energy Overhaul via @LAHT  http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1564608&CategoryId=14091&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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MEXICO CITY – Leftist stalwart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday launched a legal offensive against the recently approved overhaul of Mexico’s oil industry, formally accusing President Enrique Peña Nieto of treason.  “We will reverse all of these anti-people, submissive measures. That is the objective of our movement, of our struggle,” he said after filing a criminal complaint with the Attorney General’s Office.
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#Colombia’s President Santos Says Spying Was “Totally Legal” via @LAHT  http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1564213&CategoryId=10718#.UvLaTK4QSxQ.twitter
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Costa Rica has a way to go for women in politics, say election monitors via @TheTicoTimes  http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/02/05/costa-rica-has-a-way-to-go-for-women-in-politics-say-election-monitors
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Above: Several prominent elected leaders from left to right: current lawmaker Rita Chaves of the Accessibility without Exclusion Party; in-coming lawmaker Epsy Campbell of the Citizen Action Party; and President Laura Chinchilla of the National Liberation Party.  Alberto Font/The Tico Times
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Britain to provide Mexico with $6.5 mn to bolster scientific innovation @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2014/02/05/britain-to-provide-mexico-with-65-mn-to-bolster-scientific-innovation/#
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Community Leaders Work To Devise 'Blueprint' To Triple Latino Wealth In 10 Years @FoxNewsLatino  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/money/2014/02/05/latino-leaders-hope-this-blueprint-will-triple-latino-wealth-in-10-years/
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Here Comes Miami! The Scramble for #Cuba by Alan Farago » @NatCounterPunch   http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/04/the-scramble-for-cuba/
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Highest Deforestation Rates Affecting #Paraguay’s Uncontacted Natives via @IndianCountry
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/05/highest-deforestation-rates-affecting-paraguays-uncontacted-natives-153343
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 The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians live in the Chaco, a vast expanse of dense, scrubby forest stretching from Paraguay to Bolivia and Argentina. (Courtesy Survival International)
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2/5/2014  Murder in the Lacandón Jungle; background on Viejo Velasco Massacre
via Compañero Manuel
http://compamanuel.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/murder-in-the-lacandon-jungle-background-on-viejo-velasco-massacre/
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Above: Viejo Velasco Displaced Return to Look For Belongings
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2/5/2014  Remains Of 2,000-Year-Old Native American Village Found In Downtown Miami via @FoxNewsLatino
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2/4/2014  Three Plead Guilty To Smuggling Immigrants By Plane @fronterasdesk
http://fronterasdesk.org/content/9501/three-plead-guilty-smuggling-immigrants-plane
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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/02/04/mexican-american-25-runs-for-texas-legislature/
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South Carolina: Businesses call for #immigration reform @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/02/03/businesses-call-for-immigration-reform/
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2/3/2014  Self-defense groups and their critics @elenemigocomun
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Cuba's Return To Caribbean Baseball Series In 50 Years Met With Protests
via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2014/02/03/cuba-return-to-caribbean-baseball-series-in-50-years-met-with-protests/
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Venezuela's outfielder Lew Ford, right, slides safe onto home plate and scoring a run as Cuba's catcher Yulexis La Rosa tries to tagged out during a Caribbean Series baseball game in Porlamar, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Venezuela won the game 8-5.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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2/03/2014  The Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014 @HuffPostBiz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alejandro-werner/the-outlook-for-latin-ame_b_4717275.html
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Latin American Currencies Depreciate to Lowest Level Since 2003 via @BloombergNews  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-03/latin-american-currencies-depreciate-to-lowest-level-since-2003.html
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Carlos Lopez-Cantera To Be Sworn In Monday As Florida's First #Latino Lt. Governor @FoxNewsLatino  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/02/03/carlos-lopez-cantera-to-be-sworn-in-monday-as-florida-first-latino-lt-governor/
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott, left, congratulates Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera after naming him lieutenant governor and his running mate for 2014, during a news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Mexican Pop Singer Melissa Plancarte Tries To Distance Herself From Drug Lord Father @fronterasdesk  http://fronterasdesk.org/content/9500/mexican-pop-singer-tries-distance-herself-drug-lord-father
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Florida Man Who Claims He Was Shot By Aaron Hernandez Is Shot Again, Police Say
via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/02/03/florida-man-who-claims-was-shot-by-aaron-hernandez-is-shot-again-police-say/  #Strange shit
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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, file photo, Alexander Bradley, right, talks with his attorney Robert Pickering, left, during a court appearance at Hartford Superior Court on in Hartford, Conn. Bradley, who alleges he was shot by former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, has been shot again in Connecticut. Hartford police Lt. Brian Foley says Bradley was shot several times in the leg Sunday night, Feb. 2, 2014, at the Vevo Lounge Bar & Grill, and was taken to a hospital. His condition hasn't been released. (AP Photo/The Hartford Courant, Richard Messina, Pool, File)
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After A Hard Day's Work Doing Construction, Carlos Vargas Begins His Second Job Feeding The Homeless via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2014/02/03/after-hard-day-work-doing-construction-carlos-vargas-begins-his-second-job/
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Above: Volunteer Carlos Vargas during one of the runs donating food to the homeless in New York. (Provided)
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Jose Salvador Alvarenga:  Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift. He left Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 5,500 miles (8,800 kilometers) away. via @washingtonpost 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/man-says-he-ate-birds-turtles-in-13-months-adrift/2014/02/03/f8273f20-8cb9-11e3-9ed8-259977a48789_story.html  #Bizarre
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2/3/2014  #Mexico’s Vigilantes on the March ~By Enrique Krauze @NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/krauze-mexicos-vigilantes-on-the-march.html
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2/3/2013  #CostaRica Disappointment at the polls leaves Liberation voters wondering if their party is still evergreen  via @TheTicoTimes
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/02/03/disappointment-at-the-polls-leaves-national-liberation-voters-wondering-if-their-party-is-still-evergreen
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Above: National Liberation Party candidate Johnny Araya delivers an election night speech after placing second behind Citizen Action Party candidate Luis Guillermo Solís. The two will face each other in an April runoff.  Alberto Font/The Tico Times
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2/2/2014  Fight for Black, #Chicano Studies continues at CSULA @fightbacknews  http://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/2/2/fight-black-chicano-studies-continues-csula
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2/2/2014  Honduran Police Chief Suspended Over Alleged Ties To Drug Traffickers
via @FoxNewsLatino
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Amid California's Drought, Farm Workers Brace For Unemployment Rise
via @FoxNewsLatino 
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Above: In this Thursday Jan. 30, 2014 photo, Irene Fernandez, 66, attends a devotional at the Salvation Army on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Los Banos, Calif. For years, Fernandez picked walnuts, sorted tomatoes and pulled weeds from cotton fields surrounding Los Banos. She worries that the farms wont have enough rain this year to be productive and provide work for younger people. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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Above: In this Thursday Jan. 30, 2014 photo, Felicia Grant, a lieutenant at the Salvation Army listens to a devotional before handing out free food to needy residents in Los Banos, Calif. Grant fears that the states drought will be so severe this year that middle-class families in the Central Valley will need free food along with the farm workers. She hopes that theyre not afraid to ask for help when the time comes. It may start at the bottom, she said. But it reaches the top. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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Costa Rica doesn’t need communist experiments, says Liberation candidate Johnny Araya via @TheTicoTimes 
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Costa Rican presidential hopeful Johnny Araya, of the ruling National Liberation Party, votes in western San José on Feb. 2, 2014.  Ezequiel Becerra/AFP
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Sugar tycoon Alfonso Fanjul now open to investing in Cuba under ‘right circumstances’
via @washingtonpost
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sugar-tycoon-alfonso-fanjul-now-open-to-investing-in-cuba-under-right-circumstances/2014/02/02/4192b016-8708-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html
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2/2/2014 The former #guerrilla versus the gang crusader @BAHeraldcom  http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/151136/the-former-guerrilla-versus-the-gang-crusader
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Salvador Sánchez Cerén (left) and Norman Quijano (right), pictured at their closing campaign rallies this week.
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▶ #Mexico What if the Autodefensas decide to fight and implement social changes?:
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Published on Feb 1, 2014 ~ The Autodefensas are supported by rich farm owners but composed of thousands of poor workers; according to filmmaker Salvador Díaz Sanchéz the Mexican government is aware that in Chiapas the farm workers where at the core of the insurrection, that is why the Peña Nieto administration made a deal with the Militias to have a way to keep them under control.
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After Years Of Endangerment, Mexican Gray Wolf Population Bouncing Back
via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2014/02/01/after-years-endangerment-mexican-gray-wolf-population-bouncing-back/
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File-This undated file image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Mexican gray wolf leaving cover at the Seviellta National Wildlife Refuge, north of Soccorro, N. M. There are more Mexican gray wolves in the wild in the New Mexico and Arizona than last year. The results of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's annual survey were released Friday Jan. 31, 2014. There are at least 83 of the endangered predators in the two states, marking the fourth year in a row the population has increased. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jim Clark, File)
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Two Years after Riots Against Cops, Anaheim Gets its First #Latino Police Chief  @FOX40
http://fox40.com/2014/02/01/two-years-after-riots-against-cops-anaheim-gets-its-first-latino-police-chief/
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Anaheim, California, Police Chief Raul Quezada, the first Latino chief in the city’s 157-history. (Credit: Anaheim Police Department) 
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US gun policy no longer domestic as weapons are smuggled to #Mexico via @NCRonline
http://ncronline.org/news/global/us-gun-policy-no-longer-domestic-weapons-are-smuggled-mexico
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Above: Mexican President Felipe Calderón inaugurates a billboard near the border of the United States with the message "No more weapons" on Feb. 16, 2012. (Newscom/Getty Images/AFP/Jesus Alcazar)
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Soldiers stand next a stack of firearms seized from drug traffickers and other criminals. The army destroyed the weapons in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in February 2012. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)
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To fight the cartel, Mexican emigrants return to their hometowns @latimes  http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-michoacan-la-20140126,0,1003705,full.story#
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Above: The Birrieria Apatzingan restaurant in Pacoima is named after the city in Michoacan, Mexico, where many of its workers and customers are from. The Knights Templar drug cartel has made that city its stronghold, but civilians are fighting back. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times / January 24, 2014)
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1/29/2014  Tijuana’s Need For Internet Speed via @fronterasdesk
http://fronterasdesk.org/content/9486/tijuana%E2%80%99s-need-internet-speed
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Watsonville, California: A Small Town Where Hispanic Majority Is The Norm
via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/slideshow/2013/12/28/watsonville-california-small-town-where-hispanic-majority-is-norm/
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Above: This July 19, 2013 photo shows women and children walking along Main St. in Watsonville, Calif. In the bricked plaza, strolling musicians wearing glitzy cowboy outfits blast a mariachi song, while Spanish-speaking shoppers bustle between farm stands choosing tasty cactus leaves and fresh chiles. Welcome to an increasingly typical town in California, a state where Hispanics become the largest ethnic group this summer. As the Golden State becomes less and less white, communities are becoming more segregated, not less. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this Friday, July 19, 2013 photo, Maria Lopez, right, reads in the city library alongside daughters Emily, 9, at left, and Esmeralda, 7, in Watsonville, Calif. In the bricked plaza, strolling musicians wearing glitzy cowboy outfits blast a mariachi song, while Spanish-speaking shoppers bustle between farm stands choosing tasty cactus leaves and fresh chiles. Welcome to an increasingly typical town in California, a state where Hispanics become the largest ethnic group this summer. As the Golden State becomes less and less white, communities are becoming more segregated, not less. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Above: This July 19, 2013 photo shows Martha Rivera sewing clothes at a shop in Watsonville, Calif. In the bricked plaza, strolling musicians wearing glitzy cowboy outfits blast a mariachi song, while Spanish-speaking shoppers bustle between farm stands choosing tasty cactus leaves and fresh chiles. Welcome to an increasingly typical town in California, a state where Hispanics become the largest ethnic group this summer. As the Golden State becomes less and less white, communities are becoming more segregated, not less. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Above: This July 19, 2013 photo shows realtor Tony Campos, Watsonville's first Latino elected official, pointing to a wall with photographs of the towns past Mayors in Watsonville, Calif. In the bricked plaza, strolling musicians wearing glitzy cowboy outfits blast a mariachi song, while Spanish-speaking shoppers bustle between farm stands choosing tasty cactus leaves and fresh chiles. Welcome to an increasingly typical town in California, a state where Hispanics become the largest ethnic group this summer. As the Golden State becomes less and less white, communities are becoming more segregated, not less. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Above: This July 19, 2013 photo shows a woman walking next to a mural depicting scenes from the city's history in Watsoville, Calif. In the bricked plaza, strolling musicians wearing glitzy cowboy outfits blast a mariachi song, while Spanish-speaking shoppers bustle between farm stands choosing tasty cactus leaves and fresh chiles. Welcome to an increasingly typical town in California, a state where Hispanics become the largest ethnic group this summer. As the Golden State becomes less and less white, communities are becoming more segregated, not less. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Graffiti Artist Battles Violence in #Honduras via @FoxNewsLatino  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/slideshow/2012/08/01/graffiti-artist-battles-violence-in-honduras/
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In this July 29, 2012 photo, a masked artist who calls himself the Urban Maeztro and prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, walks away after pasting one of his "interventions" on a street wall showing Rene Magritte's "Son of Man," substituting the apple covering the face of the suited subject in bowler hat with a pink grenade, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The 26-year-old graphic artist left his day job at an advertising agency to work on pieces like this one, to encourage Hondurans think about how violent their country has become. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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10/10/2012 Remembering the Black Berets and the Struggle for La Raza in New Mexico
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#FreeOscarLopez: Obama's eulogy for Nelson Mandela and the case of Oscar López Rivera via @PeppeMatt
http://royalrooter2013.blogspot.com/2014/02/obamas-eulogy-for-nelson-mandela-and.html
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Two Years after Riots Against Cops, Anaheim Gets its First #Latino Police Chief via @FOX40  http://fox40.com/2014/02/01/two-years-after-riots-against-cops-anaheim-gets-its-first-latino-police-chief/  ~Yeah, after 157 years!!
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Above: Anaheim, California, Police Chief Raul Quezada, the first Latino chief in the city’s 157-history. (Credit: Anaheim Police Department) 
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Troops Clash With Cartel Gunslingers In Northern Mexico via @FoxNewsLatino 
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/01/31/troops-clash-with-cartel-gunslingers-in-northern-mexico/
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Dead Puerto Rican Boxer Posed Standing In Ring For Wake @FoxNewsLatino  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2014/02/01/dead-puerto-rican-boxer-posed-standing-in-ring-for-wake/
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Above: Lidianette Carmona, right, the wife of the late boxer Christopher Rivera who was shot to death on Sunday, left, hugs the boxer's mother Celines Amaro, as they stand next to his body propped up in a fake boxing ring during his wake at the community recreation center within the public housing project where he lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014.

Elsie Rodriguez, vice president of the Marin funeral home, explained that Rivera had asked his family that if he died, he wanted his funeral to make reference to his boxing career. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (AP2014)
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Obama Offers Flexibility On #Immigration Ahead Of Mid-Term Elections
via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/02/01/obama-offers-flexibility-on-immigration-ahead-mid-term-elections/
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Struggling to generate second-term momentum, Obama will confront a politically divided Congress with a demand to expand economic opportunity in America, asserting in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he will take action on his own if lawmakers fail to help shrink the income gap between the rich and the poor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool, File)
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Returns To Yale To Give Lecture @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/02/01/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-returns-to-yale-to-give-lecture/
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Above: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivers the keynote address at the Hostos Community College 39th commencement ceremony June 4, 2010 in New York City. (2010 Getty Images)
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The Greatest #Latino Baseball Players Of All Time http://huff.to/1gBpkaL via @LatinoVoices
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Best Of The Border (01/27-02/01) via @fronterasdesk
http://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/9492/best-border-0127-0201
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Photos of Kids Shooting at Migrant Targets Part of 2013 San Diego Fallen Agents Memorial Run via @latinorebels http://www.latinorebels.com/2014/02/01/photos-of-kids-shooting-at-migrant-targets-part-of-2013-san-diego-fallen-agents-memorial-run/ 
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1/31/2014  Activists Outraged Over Photo Of Child Shooting At Border Demo @LatinoVoices
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1/31/2014  Drought Worsens Across The Southwest aka Aztlán @fronterasdesk http://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/9497/drought-worsens-across-southwest
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US foreign policy in Latin America leaves an open door for China via @guardian   http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/31/latin-america-china-us-foreign-policy-reserve
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Above: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raises his fist next to vice-president Jorge Arreaza, during a rally. Photograph: Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images
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2/01/2014 [Audio] Reprisal follows #Mexico drug gang arrests - Americas @AJEnglish  http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2014/02/reprisal-follows-mexico-drug-gang-arrests-20142115614763897.html
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The Mexican government is stepping up its fight against drugs, and is going after the gang leaders. Security forces have arrested one of the leaders of the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel and other members. But their arrest has touched off reprisal attacks and could result in more violence.
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» Maya Kaqchikel Leader Killed in Guatemala @FirstPeoples  http://firstpeoples.org/wp/kaqchikel-leader-killed-in-guatemala/
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▶ Mexico's Vigilante Groups Are a Force To Reckon With for Drug Cartels and Army: http://youtu.be/Wmeh1umVMO4  ~Pub Jan 31, 2014 via @therealnews
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Judge opens inquiry into California #prison death of Joseph Duran via @latimes
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-judge-opens-inquiry-into-prison-death-20140130,0,7014370.story#axzz2rzvuFauW
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Above: A federal judge has opened an inquiry into the death of Joseph Duran, a Mule Creek State Prison inmate on suicide watch whom guards pepper sprayed for refusing to remove his hands from a food port in his door. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) 
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Suffolk cop, arrested after stealing money from Latino motorists, DA says via @Newsday http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/da-suffolk-officer-targeted-latinos-and-stole-from-them-1.6918488
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Shakira And Rihanna Send Temps Soaring In Sexy Music Video via @FoxNewsLatino 
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/01/31/shakira-and-rihanna-send-temps-soaring-in-sexy-music-video/
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▶ Shakira - Can't Remember to Forget You featuring Rihanna:
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1/30/2014  Narco Traffickers Slash Protected Rainforests @fronterasdesk:  http://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/9491/narco-traffickers-slash-protected-rainforests
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2014 Super Bowl Will Be First To Be Televised In Spanish @LatinoVoices  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/super-bowl-spanish_n_4694962.html
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The Bello column: Choosing a name to stand for 580m Latin Americans
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Hispanics gaining economic foothold ~By @estherjcepeda via @mySA - San Antonio Express-News http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Hispanics-gaining-economic-foothold-5186828.php
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1/29/2014  Increased International Pressure Needed To Legalize Community Radio in #Guatemala | Cultural Survival via @CSORG
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/increased-international-pressure-needed-legalize-community-radio-guatemala
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1/23/2014  Kaqchikel Leader Killed in Guatemala via @CSORG
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/kaqchikel-leader-killed-guatemala
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Above Image: Demonstrators rally for immigrant worker rights on May Day, May 1, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
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Above Image: Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights member Adelina Nicholls, of Mexico, joins members of a cross country group of undocumented immigrants participating in a "No Papers No Fear" event at Fiesta Mall, a gathering spot for the city's growing Hispanic community, Saturday Aug. 25, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis)
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Hispanic Populations In The U.S. http://huff.to/1gBrYNu via @LatinoVoices
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Above: Mexico The nation's highest Latino population comprises 31,798,000 immigrants. The Los Angeles-Long Beach area has the nation's highest number of Mexican immigrants, with 4,569,000, although other large concentrations are found in the Chicago metro area and throughout Texas.
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Above: Puerto Rico ~ The second-largest Hispanic group in the country, Puerto Ricans make up a population of 4,624,000. The nation's largest concentration (1,192,000 people) is situated in the New York-northeastern New Jersey area.
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Above: Cuba ~ The U.S. is home to approximately 1,786,000 Cuban immigrants. Many are concentrated in Miami (784,000, to be exact) as well as the Fort Lauderdale (84,000) and Tampa-St. Petersburg areas (81,000), although the New York/New Jersey area's population (130,000) is considerable, too.
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Above: El Salvador ~ Pockets of the nation's considerable Salvadorian population (1,649,000) exist on both coasts. Los Angeles and Long Beach are home to 414,000 Salvadorians; 240,000 live in Washington, D.C., and 187,000 call the New York metro area home.
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▶ 1/29/2014 #Aztlan-Network-News ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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COMMENT: I hope these blogposts are useful. Perhaps they can be of some historical use for a future researcher. It is not comprehensive, just stuff I pick up and save here while I am on the Internet. Many of us of La Raza Cosmica are invisible to the masses of peoples in Nazi Amerika, but we number in the millions, more than can even be counted.

Many of us are of the quiet laboring working classes either in the domestic indurty, in your agricultural fields, in your city streets or even in your own backyards. We are of a beautiful diverse people with different skin colors, different languages and definitely different cultures. We are of the original indigenous native peoples of these lands. We are called Chicanos more in the U.S. southwest if anywhere. We are called Latinos as a general category, though there is no one Latino Nation. We are of the Western Hemisphere indigenous to the Americas: North, Central and South America, including the Antilles.

Many of us identify with our nation of origin, although the truth is there are no sovereign independent nations under the reign of the Amerikan Empire. Those places or areas we tend to think of as nations from long historical usage are actually internal or external colonies of the Evil Empire. Thus, any claim to nationhood is a fantasy, not an actual reality.

In fact, the U.S.A. is not even an independent democratic nation, despite all the lies of fascist mass propaganda. The U.S.A. is itself an internal colony of the Evil Empire. There is no true authentic democracy in terms of majority rule by the people inside the United States. A true demoracy requires more than a paper document.

Democracy requires the mass direct participation of the people in governing themselves with the land and all the viable institutions upon the land under their direct control. More will be revealed if your minds are open to the truth of revelations.

Libertad or Muerte! Liberty or Death
Peter S. López aka @Peta_de_Aztlan
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