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By BILLY HOUSE | The Tampa Tribune
Estela Roberts and her family have always hoped they would be compensated one day for their property in Cuba seized after that country’s 1959 revolution.
Roberts, 62, whose family eventually relocated to Miami and then to Tampa, still remembers her family’s beautiful home in Havana, down to the “marble staircase with some ironwork.”
Along with a summer home in Tarara, a small sugar plantation, a bank and a tobacco store, the total value of the family’s confiscated property has been estimated to exceed $3 million.
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This is a summary of a larger study being prepared by Jose Azel, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS), University of Miami. A longer version will be published in Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, in its January issue. Dr. Azel has a comprehensive general management background integrating broad functional experience in corporate governance, organizational development and finance with interdisciplinary, scholarly research in international business studies.
Since the announcement by the Cuban government that octogenarian Fidel Castro had transferred power to his brother Raul, there has…
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By IAN JAMES | Associated Press Writer
President Hugo Chavez announced plans Monday to nationalize Venezuela’s electrical and telecommunications companies, pledging to create a socialist state in a bold move with echoes of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution.
“We’re moving toward a socialist republic of Venezuela, and that requires a deep reform of our national constitution,” Chavez said in a televised address after swearing in his new Cabinet. “We are in an existential moment of Venezuelan life. We’re heading toward socialism, and nothing and no one can prevent it.”
Chavez, who will be sworn in…
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At least 10 Florida-based journalists were paid by the US government to contribute to anti-Cuba propaganda broadcasts, the Miami Herald says.
Three writers have been sacked by the Miami Herald newspaper group for an alleged conflict of interest.
One was paid $175,000 (�98,000) for hosting shows on the US-funded channels TV and Radio Marti, the paper says.
The channels are broadcast to Cuba but their programmes cannot be transmitted in the US under anti-propaganda laws.
Pablo Alfonso, who writes an opinion column for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister…
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1. Be PROUD to be an American!
2. Lose the entitlement attitude, be grateful for the opportunities this wonderful country has given and continues to give to Hispanics.
3. Stop calling white people “gringos” when you do this your ignorance shows, you would not like it if a white person called you a “spic”. Extend the same courtesy and respect you expect.
4. Remember that America isnt under obligation to anyone, yet America still extends opportunity to all who come here legally. No single group is entitled to control or dominate this nation, and…
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Hispanic enterprise is leading the race among US businesses, growing three times faster than the national average, according to US Census Bureau figures.
In 2002, Hispanic-owned businesses numbered 1.6 million, up nearly 31 percent from 1997. The national average provides a good contrast with the total number of US businesses having increased by 10 percent over the same period. And that isn’t all. The amount of business Hispanic companies did rose even faster – with turnovers growing 54 percent from $4.8 billion in 1997 to $7.4 billion in 2002.
Hispanic-owned firms are…
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The Hispanic market has been riding the headlines for the past couple of years as one of the fastest growing sectors of marketing. According to the third annual AOL/Roper U.S. Hispanic Cyberstudy, Hispanics are entering cyberspace at rapid pace with over 14 million US Hispanics online. Yet the companies successfully targeting them online in the direct response arena are few and far between. Why is it that something which seems like such low hanging fruit is so difficult to make successful?
There are too many misconceptions about targeting Hispanics to mention, such as…
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BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heartland communities with jobs to offer are becoming magnets for Hispanics, who account for half the nation’s population growth.
Hispanics in the United States—both recent immigrants and people born here—are moving beyond traditional ports of entry in large numbers, boosting the populations of states such as North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Indiana, a study by the Brookings Institution shows.
And they not only are heading to big cities; many are moving to historically white, non-Hispanic suburbs, said William Frey, a University of Michigan professor and author of the…
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Victor Manuel Ramos | Sun Sentinel
The hundreds of thousands of Hispanics who have settled in Central Florida are contributing more to the area than just raw population growth.
The Hispanic population—growing by four people every hour for the past five years to zoom past the half-million mark in 2005—now pumps more than $16 billion into the region.
And Hispanics’ economic contribution, by supplying labor, creating businesses and spending money in the communities where they live, is expected to jump beyond $20 billion during the next two years.
That picture emerged from…
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By Karen Rutzick | Govexec.com
Hispanics continue to be substantially underrepresented in the federal workplace, according to 2005 data published by the Office of Personnel Management Wednesday.
Hispanics account for 7.4 percent of federal employees, but 12.6 percent of the general workforce, the figures show.
These numbers are new, but they tell an old story: For years, the percentage of Hispanics in the federal government has been much lower than that in the broader civilian labor force. Even as the percentage in the federal workforce climbs, so does the Hispanic population and its representation…
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