Author: Diego Graglia
Bio: Diego Graglia is a bilingual multimedia journalist who has worked at major media outlets in the U.S. and Latin America. He is currently the editor-in-chief at Expansion, Meixco’s leading business magazine.
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Posted on: 10 Oct 2008
“Nothing Hispanic. Debate ignores the border, relations with Latin America and immigration.” That was the text on the cover of Hoy newspaper in New York after the second presidential debate this week. No references to immigration, no mentions of Latin America. “At the end of the presidential debate … the concern of Hispanic analysts was […]
Posted on: 07 Oct 2008
While immigration is barely discussed in the mainstream presidential campaign, a Spanish-language war of accusations continues to play on TV screens in “Hispanic battleground” states. A few days ago, John McCain’s campaign launched an ad which again accused Barack Obama of sinking immigration reform in the Senate and also charged the Democrats with running “fraudulent” […]
Posted on: 06 Oct 2008
– Back From The Other Side. Upon his return to Mexico after seven years in the U.S., sixteen-year-old Edgar Gutiérrez “found relatives he couldn’t remember. Kids thought he was stuck up because he had lived in the U.S. Teachers scolded him when he pronounced his name with an American accent.” He is among “a rapidly […]
Posted on: 06 Oct 2008
Northern Virginia is one of the places where the immigration debate has been the most heated. In August, we reported on the effect of authorizing local law enforcement to inquire about the immigration status of people who are arrested. Due to stepped up enforcement the Latino population in the city of Manassas and Prince William […]
Posted on: 03 Oct 2008
It seems in this campaign there’s no end to the lanzamiento de barro (mud slinging in Spanish.) The McCain campaign has launched a new Spanish-language ad which, according to the Washington Post, is running in the “Hispanic battleground” states of Colorado and New Mexico. In it the Republican campaign levels the same charge against Barack […]
Posted on: 02 Oct 2008
– Adiós Michigan? Just as we recently reported on George Lopez’s Latino outreach efforts in Michigan, Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports John McCain’s campaign is pulling out of the state, “a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.” See: McCain […]
Posted on: 02 Oct 2008
Despite all the talk about immigration over the past several years, it’s clear that many people are still mystified about how the U.S. immigration system works. But if you explain it with pictures maybe people will get it. That’s the approach taken by two magazines –Reason and GOOD– who just published new graphics describing the process of immigrating […]
Posted on: 01 Oct 2008
The first debate between Barack Obama and John McCain left a “big frustration” among Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans watching across the hemisphere. Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor, wrote “Latin America was completely ignored.” “Neither Obama nor (John) McCain nor moderator Jim Lehrer dedicated even a few seconds to it. Nothing. Like President […]
Posted on: 29 Sep 2008
Latinos are considered especially important as a voting population this year because it’s expected they’ll help decide whether four key battleground states go red or blue – Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, for a total of 46 electoral college votes. Of those four, Florida is by far the most important, the mother of all […]
Posted on: 27 Sep 2008
With the presidential candidates focused mainly on the threat of an economic collapse and Friday’s foreign policy debate, other campaign issues are not getting a lot of attention. Still, last Monday Sen. John McCain made a campaign appearance in front of a largely Irish-American audience in Scranton, Pa., “often described as the country’s most heavily […]
