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The final five contestants included four from Latin America.

Miss Universe 2008. Dayana Mendoza de Venezuela

2. Miss Colombia.Taliana Vargas 3. Miss Dominican Republic.Marianne Cruz

5. Miss Mexico. Elisa Nájera

via Miss Universe.Com

Damn My Fellow Latina’s Are So Beautiful CANNOT FRONT.

Hispanic leaders are calling for an immediate end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigrants’ patrols, claiming they are dividing the community and could lead to violence.

“As a community, we see him going out setting up his troops and stopping people at random — racial profiling,” said Hector Yturralde, president of We Are America. “After they find out they can’t speak English or they have no identification, then they stop them for immigration.”

Yturralde added, “He is causing a division within this community that is not good. And that is not his job.””*

Rednecks who are loyalists to Fox News is never a good outcome…

*From: http://ktar.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

 Golden Gloves boxer Nisa Rodriguez, 17

Her head down, eyes glaring, nostrils flared, the statuesque 17-year-old girl threw vicious three-punch and four-punch combinations in the boxing ring at St. Mary’s Rec Center as her manager, taking the hits on his padded hands, urged her on.

“Fight like it’s the last day of your life,” the manager yelled. “Left! Right! Left!”

Nisa Rodriguez hissed and danced around the canvas, grunting as she punched. She paused for a swig of red Powerade, and her father held a tissue so she could blow her nose. She smiled and tossed her long, wavy ponytail over her shoulder, adjusted her gloves and resumed pummeling. Again, her face was as cold as stone.

Nisa will fulfill one of her goals in two weeks when she fights at Madison Square Garden in the Golden Gloves finals. She’s sure she’s going to win, and then it’s on to her next goal:

“I want to be the first Latino female from the South Bronx to represent my country in the Olympics,” she said.

The International Olympic Committee’s executive board will decide in 2009 whether women’s boxing should be part of the 2012 games in London.

Jay Kortright, a short, tough-talking man who reminds one of Rocky Balboa’s beloved manager, played by Burgess Meredith, has brought her along for two years.

“I saw she had a special skill; she had a great desire and she improvised a lot,” Kortright said.

“She could be a role model, a mentor. Just the way she works out, carries herself. There’s no telling how far she could go.”

He spoke earlier as he waited impatiently for Nisa to get to the rec center. He kept calling her cell phone and her home phone, rolling his eyes when he got the answering machine.

“Nisa, get to the gym right now!” he ordered.

“She’s in the gym a minimum of three hours a day,” he said. “She can be hostile, like a 17-year-old girl can be.”

Nisa’s father, Eduardo Rodriguez, arrived soon after to watch her work out. “She’s still at school,” he told Kortright. “She’ll be right over.”

The father, who has been separated and divorced from Nisa’s mother, Sandra, for about seven years, said his daughter started fighting because she wanted to protect herself in the neighborhood.

Pretty soon she arrived, said “Hi, Papi,” and kissed her father. She is not muscle-y and bulked up. She is slim, shapely, and very pretty. She has a sweet smile - when she’s not socking somebody.

A cameraman for a documentary-maker has been following her around for two months. He attached a microphone to her shirt and she sat for an interview, although she couldn’t keep still; she kept illustrating her words with little jabs and other gestures.

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Isaac R. Baichu, 46, an adjudicator for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, was arrested after he met with a green card applicant at the Flagship Restaurant, a diner in Queens. He is charged with coercing oral sex from her.

‘No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December. After he stapled one of their wedding photos to her application for legal permanent residency, he had just one more question: What was her cellphone number?

The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before her marriage. He summoned her to a private meeting. And at noon on Dec. 21, in a parked car on Queens Boulevard, he named his price — not realizing that she was recording everything on the cellphone in her purse.

“I want sex,” he said on the recording. “One or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.”

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This is the exact issue I talked about in my earlier post on the parallels between the exploitation within the porn industry with the current issue of immigration and Hispanics.  The alarming issue of “Entertainment” and Reality is VERY REAL. Anything that encourages any idea whether you label entertainment or reality is bound to be real as you and I are.

This is a craigslist ad I came across today which I find funny, but at the same time a little scary. Why you ask? The reason why is that it’s no surprise that a majority of Latino people make up alot of the low income class , not cause of lack of hard work and perseverance, but we often find ourselves amongst a unfair system in so many spectrum’s whether straight forward of indirectly subliminal. So what happens when a large group of people in this case people of color or people of a certain class struggle so much to make ends meet in the best nation in the world. If you take the lack of appropriate education amongst our inner city schools and urban areas coincidently in areas where poverty triumphs and you take the lack of job opportunities that will pay you an appropriate annual income to live descent. Then you see an opportunity to make a large sum of money in a short period of time, but the only requirement is for you to pose naked or even perhaps do a sex scene that after all pays 10,000 Dollars or even more. What’s the big deal for an individual who is amongt a class of people who struggle so much to live descent, who struggle so much to get an appropriate education due to the lack of effort put into their local public schools, who struggle so much to gain the appropriate knowledge to learn why they are struggling so much and be able to fight for themselves and not depend on others. What better way to take advantage of the females who lack knowledge are constantly reminded of how attractive they are, fuel their insecurities, lure them in by using the word model when we really mean slut, cum guzzler and so on. What better way to exploit the women of a class who lives in our unequal system that still practices anti semetic approaches in alot of ways and make them totally submissive to us? You exploit the females or queens of a class or race and you conquer the exploitation of an entire race and class. The exploitation of these females who are bound to be future mothers and want the better for their children. What the price a female pays for being a victim to the fact of being ignorant to a certain degree because of lack of encouragement to do well, lack of appropriate education. The price payed is that a female who fall victim to the issues raised earlier in this case can be easily influenced by money. The ad above not only encourages the female to look extremely young to resemble a minor, which if an individual were to practice sex with a minor would be considered statuary rape , but also exploits the fact that a lot of Latinas live currently in a life they don’t want to live in being victims of poverty of course. The say all this by saying, ” If you’re hot young and outgoing and WANT A BETTER LIFE then get in touch.” Which Latina being victim to poverty and injustice doesn’t want a better life? What human being would want to be victim to such horrible circumstances ? NO ONE OBVIOUSLY. The next line is obviously catering to the fact that a lot of low income Latinas are known to have babies at young ages, “Start saving for your future girls.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The porn industry especially within the past decade has really gone to some extreme grotesque ways to lure in easy influenced females especially ones being victim to an unfair and unequal system that currently exists in America today.

“There are more than three million American-born kids of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The kids are Americans citizens, but their parents are not. The Emmy award-winning series Nick News with Linda Ellerbee delves into the lives of Mexican-American kids trapped in a political situation they didn’t cause and can’t fix - in I’m American! They’re Not!, premiering Sunday, Mar. 16, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon.”

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