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Canto, baile, declamación, manejo de instrumentos, fitness, entre otros, fueron algunos de los talentos que derrocharon las participantes del Certamen Belleza México Internacional BMI 2013.

Finalmente, con un pequeño margen en las calificaciones de un selecto jurado, experto en la materia, y ya que realmente demostraron sus muchos talentos las bellas participantes, la estatuilla y título de “Talento BMI 2013” quedó repartida en las diferentes categorías entre los Estados de Sonora, Tamaulipas y Baja California Sur.

By Peter Schurmann and Josue Rojas New America Media Editor’s Note: In August, University of California President Mark Yudof will step down after a five-year tenure that coincided with one of the worst economic downturns in recent memory and a historic demographic shift that continues to play out across the social and political landscape, as well [...]

Por Citlalli Rodríguez Con motivo del aniversario número 50 de la fundación “Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest” se celebró una cena en donde más de mil quinientas personas se reunieron para conmemorar la existencia de esta importante organización para la comunidad en la ciudad de San Diego. Su presidenta a nivel nacional Cecile Richards [...]

By Jose Aristimuno Fox News Latino Immigration reform is back on the front page, and legislators and community leaders are working on what they hope is the passage of a bill before the end of the year. Back in 2007 we saw an attempt by the Bush Administration that failed due to a lack of [...]

Por Sandy Close New America Media Nota del editor: Ahmed Rachidi, originario de Marruecos que ha sido un residente británico desde 1985, estuvo en detención extrajudicial en la prisión en Guan-tánamo desde marzo de 2002 hasta mayo de 2007, cuando fue liberado sin cargos. Ahora, de 47 años, es autor de un libro de memorias [...]

By Pablo J. Sáinz Many films tell the stories of immigrants when they arrive in the United States, but only a handful tell about what happens when those same immigrants return to their country of origin. This is exactly what you witness when you watch “Aqui y alla,” which screens from May 10 through the [...]

Por Pablo J. Sáinz Muchas películas cuentan las historias de los inmigrantes cuando llegan a Estados Unidos, pero sólo un puñado relata lo que sucede cuando esos mismos inmigrantes regresan a su país de origen. Eso es lo que hace la cinta “Aquí y allá”, que se presenta del 10 al 16 de mayo en [...]

Suemy Gonzalez of Trio Ellas is the first Latina to graduate from USC Popular Music Performance Program For Latin GRAMMY nominated musician Suemy Gonzalez, a University of Southern California (USC) senior, this has been a year of firsts. As one of six Hispanics currently enrolled in the groundbreaking Popular Music Performance Program at USC’s Thornton [...]

Por Juliana Rico Cada año la Fiesta de Barrio se hacia más y más grande; en los años noventa las familias mexicanas cerraban una de las calles más importantes del barrio de Carlsbad y celebraban al ritmo de orquestas musicales su día, la famosa Fiesta de Barrio. Los vecinos y amigos se juntaban para hacer [...]

By Valeria Fernández New America Media Two immigrant mothers stood outside the downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office holding a sign that read, “They have a Dream.” The women stood in silence — they shouted no slogans and sang no chants. They didn’t need to. The lyrics to a song being performed live right [...]

By Andy Porras Americans are in dire need of a Cinco de Mayo for Dummies.. An embarrasing number of Americans, including many of its Spanish-surnamed citizens still confuse May 5 with Sept. 16, which celebrates Mexican Independence Day. And very few know of the incredible Cinco de Mayo connection between the Battle of Puebla, fought [...]

By Mark Skok At perhaps the largest immigration forum ever in North County, some 800 area residents repeatedly shouted “Sí, se puede!” – Yes, we can! – when asked if they could drive reform through Congress. The April 22 program was sponsored by the ACLU’s Nuestro Voto Nuestro Futuro, Justice Overcoming Boundaries, San Diego Day [...]

Bonita Vista High School’s Sound Unlimited women’s show choir won the Southern California championship, defeating three of the nation’s top troupes in an invitational event hosted by Chula Vista High School in the Jack Tygett Performing Arts Center. Sound Unlimited competes April 27-28 in the FAME National Show Choir Championships in Chicago. “This is a [...]

By Carmen Miranda Due to State budget cuts in education, Escondido Union School District has created Escondido Education Foundation. Founder, Dr. Michael Caston developed the foundation where parents, business community, and community members can come together to support our elementary and middle schools creating a new source of funds each year to support our students. [...]

By David Avalos  Special for La Prensa San Diego This week the bipartisan group of Senators known as the “Gang of Eight” put their plan for “comprehensive immigration reform” before the USAmerican public, and once again served the Chicana/o community a Mexican Combo Platter steaming with piles of beefed-up border security smothered in drones, refried [...]

By Augie Bareño I have known Ramon”Chunky “Sanchez and his brother Ricardo for more than forty years. I met them in 1970, when Charlie Vasquez, who at the time was president of Southwestern College MEChA, got a call from Joe Gomez, City College MEChA, that they needed people to march on the park under the [...]

By Maria Curry Two weeks ago, Mari Jones, a fourth grade teacher at Explorer Elementary Charter School in Point Loma, asked me to conduct a tour of Chicano Park and to get in touch with a muralist who could speak to her class. Mario Torero, an internationally recognized artist of several Chicano Park murals, generously [...]