La Prensa San Diego

By Mariana Martínez
Immigrant Rights activist are currently participating in the fifth annual immigrant march, in the hopes of educating the public about the constant death of immigrants along the border and the urgent need for immigration reform.
“It has been a year since Obama was elected to office—partly thanks to us—” said Border Angels president Enrique [...]

By Diego Graglia
Feet in Two Worlds
 The main Congressional supporter of progressive immigration reform apparently is fed up with President Barack Obama’s lack of action on the issue.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D.-Ill.), who last year introduced an immigration reform bill in the House, is even calling for Latinos to punish Democrats and Republicans alike at the polls [...]

Por Mariana Martínez
No había en mayores índices de violencia,  ni aumento en la adicción a las drogas en México, como tampoco el tráfico de armas es exclusivamente desde los Estados Unidos,  ni ha crecido la  infiltración exacerbada en las instituciones del gobierno.
De hecho, la llamada guerra contra el narcotráfico del presidente Felipe Calderón, fue declarada [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
Durante el 2010 los mexicanos en el Condado de San Diego celebrarán en grande el Bicentenario de la Independencia y el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana.
Encabezados por el esfuerzo del Consulado General de México en San Diego, los festejos patrios en el condado incluirán cine, arte, música y demás muestras de la [...]

Frontera NorteSur
Not too long ago, Dyviam Romay and David Luna were busy selling fine furnishings to second-home buying foreigners who were snatching up properties in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.
An internationally-known interior designer, Luna’s gift of creating culturally blended home environments kept local store manager Romay with plenty of things to do during the work-day. Then the [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Sharp debate over the direction of Mexico’s narco war has broken out in the wake of twin massacres in northern Mexico last weekend. As the death toll from the narco violence punctures past records, some political leaders propose drastic responses that could curb civil liberties.
In the northern Mexican city of Torreon, Coahuila, Mayor Eduardo [...]

¡No Se Deje!
Por Lic. Jess J. Araujo
Ernestina Valdez Mondragón llevaba a su hija a la escuela cuando fue detenida por un policía de Dallas, Texas. Le dio una infracción de tránsito por hacer un giro en U prohibido, por no portar su licencia de conducir y POR NO PODER HABLAR INGLES. La Sra. Mondragón estaba [...]

   Family Health Centers of San Diego announced that its preventive health program for Latinas, Proyecto Salud y Esperanza (Project Health and Hope) has won Modern Healthcare Magazine’s 2009 Spirit of Excellence Community Spirit Award.  The award is given annually to a creative and innovative program involving community education, support and outreach. It comes with [...]

Editorial:
We haven’t really heard much complaining coming out of National City over the recent announcement by City Manager Chris Zapata who selected and has appointed City Councilman Frank Parra as the next –soon to be determined title— Director of the Fire Department. Technically, Parra can’t be called Fire Chief of National City because he is [...]

Comentario:
Por Rafael Prieto Zartha
America’s Voice
Al revisar mis archivos electrónicos me encontré con un artículo que escribí en los últimos estertores de 2004 y que publicó el diario The Charlotte Observer el 1 de enero de 2005 sobre la tradición que observa la gente de los Andes sudamericanos de quemar los años viejos para dejar atrás [...]

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Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.
Finalmente se ve una lumbre que brilla al final del túnel que conduce a los gays hacia el Pentágono. La tolerancia empieza a ganar terreno en la institución militar.
Durante su pronunciamiento en el Congreso, el presidente Barack Obama propuso, ante la mirada atónita de los comandantes de las Fuerzas Armadas, que los [...]

Commentary:
By Frank Sharry
   For months, pundits in Washington have been dying to write the obituary for comprehensive immigration reform. Predictably, they’re using (last) Tuesday night’s special election in Massachusetts as a chance to do just that. But what they overlook is that immigration may well be one of the few issues where a bipartisan breakthrough [...]

Commentary:
By Ted Lempert
New America Media
   Children Now’s recently released 2010 California Report Card: Setting the Agenda for Children assigned the state a “D” for K-12 education. As we all know—whether as parents, students, teachers or employers—a D is unacceptable and should be met with a clear plan for intervention and improvement.
   In tackling the numerous [...]