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400 Minors Were Rescued From Mexican Farms, Where They Were Subjected to Slave-Like Conditions

Four hundred children and young adults were liberated from slave-like conditions, after being subjected to exhaustive work at Mexican farms for a year, according to Alfonso Navarrete, Secretary of Labor in Mexico and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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PALABRAS: Award-Winning Author Rudy Ruiz Finds Inspiration By Offering Slices and Snapshots of the Latino Experience

Mexican-American social entrepreneur and the award-winning author of "Seven for the Revolution" Rudy Ruiz depicts yearning and suffering on the page with purpose and intrigue, converting backstory and conversations into thunderous, nuanced stories. And employs his social interests to create a more conscious, original story.
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Televisa & Mark Burnett Team Up for Family-Friendly Quiz Show 'Generation Gap'

Executive Producer and TV guru Mark Burnett who has soared to the top with his record-breaking reality and faith-based TV shows, is bridging the gap with Mexico's Televisa to create "a new multigenerational, family-friendly quiz show" called "Generation Gap."
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BEHIND THE SCENES: Ballet Hispanico's Eduardo Vilaro Previews 2015 Season

Ballet Hispanico's 2015 New York season got underway on Tuesday, April 14 with a program featuring new works by such choreographers as Miguel Mancillas, Rosie Herrera and Gustavo Ramirez Sansano. Ahead of the big night, Latin Post had an opportunity to speak with the company's artistic director Eduardo Vilaro, who has been in charge since August 2009. Vilaro spoke about his championing of young Latin American artists as well as his viewpoint on what arts organizations need to do to strengthen their relationships with audiences and communities.
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Chilean University Students Create First-Ever Solar Village, Open to the Public in April

Chilean university students created the first-ever solar village in Latin America, as a part of the Build Solar 2015 (Construye Solar) competition.
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Chilean President's Son Questioned in Bank Scandal

Sebastian Davalos, the 36-year old son of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, was questioned for four hours as a potential defendant in a multimillion-dollar real estate case involving his wife Natalia Compagno.
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Rio 2016 Olympics: Fish Die on Future Site for Rowing Competitions

Dead fish have been washing onto the banks of a Rio de Janeiro Rodrigo de Freitas lake that will be used for rowing competitions in the 2016 Summer Olympic games.
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Bravo TV's 'Million Dollar Listing New York' Star Luis Ortiz Nabs Yankees' Carlos Beltrán, Talks Possibility of Reality TV Show in his Native Puerto Rico (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

Real estate broker and Bravo TV's "Million Dollar Listing New York" star Luis D. Ortiz has had quite a run and it's only getting juicier with Bravo TV's "Million Dollar Listing New York" kicking off its Season Four premiere on April 15 at 10/9c.
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Colombian Attorney General Investigates 22 Generals 'False Positives' Scandal

Eduardo Montealegre,The Attorney General of Colombia, has announced that he is investigating 22 generals for their possible ties in the murder of civilians in a notorious scandal involving "false positives."

Standardized Testing & Public Education Support is More Important to Latinos: Poll

Standardized testing is valued far more by Latino voters than non-Latino voters. Also, Latino voters are more optimistic when it comes to investing in public education.
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Pew: Young Latinos Love Anonymous Sharing Apps Like Whisper and Yik Yak and Also... Google Plus?

This week, the Pew Research Center released its recurring report on social media use among teens in the U.S. Among the survey's findings are some interesting insights on how young Latinos express themselves online.
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Obama and Castro: A Historic Meeting, 50 Years in the Making

This weekend, Cuba's leader met face-to-face with the President of the U.S. for the first time in decades.
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Hispanic Scholarship Fund Names Long Beach Native its Top Male Scholar

Chris Soriano, a 21-year old native of Long Beach, has just been named The Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s “Male Scholar of the Year” for 2015.
Missing 43 Mexico Students Update: Mexico City’s Police Chief Resigns

Mexican Police Arrest Another Suspect in the Case of the 43 Missing Students

A man named Miguel Angel Landa Bahena has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students student teachers that took place last year in southern Mexico.
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'Not an Enemy': Venezuelan President Maduro on Obama After Meeting at Summit of the Americas

President Barack Obama has met with the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
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Pope Francis News: Busy Pontiff to Visit Three South American Nations Soon

Officials of the catholic church has announced that the pontiff’s upcoming trip to the nations of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay is set for July 6-12.
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Raul Castro Calls Obama an Honest Man.

Speaking for the first time at the Summit of the Americas, an event which was first initiated in 1994, the Cuban leader Raul Castro described U.S. President Obama as an “honest man.”
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U.S. Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba Will Have a New Commander in July

Rear Adm. Fernandez Ponds has been selected to run Guantanamo Bay.

What Could Go Wrong? Canadian Mining Company Says it Has 'Good Relationship' with Mexico Drug Cartels

The president and chairman of Canada-based mining company, revealed in a television interview on Thursday that his company has a "good relationship" with drug traffickers in the area.
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UN Chief Praises US, Cuba for Coming Together

On Friday the U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon praised U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro for striving to restore diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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