In 2012, the Obama campaign’s deputy Latino vote director Alida Garcia was frustrated that, while the campaign had Hispanic operatives training staff, it would not commit to the hiring of a full-time Latino vote director and a more robust program in Ohio. “You have to explain that their vote does matter and here’s why: ‘Your […]
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The woman tasked with selling Donald Trump to Latinos may have the toughest job in politics | LA Tim
It would be hard to find a more potent example of the Latino success story than Helen Aguirre Ferre. So it was more than a big leap, and nothing less than a shock to many who know her, when Aguirre Ferre cast aside her sharp criticism of Donald Trump to become his chief marketer to […]
When Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched their DREAMer voter initiative titled “Mi Sueño, Tu Voto” (“My Dream, Your Vote”), the lynchpin of the program was to mobilize undocumented youth who have often served as the face of the immigration movement, and use them to persuade neighbors and friends to vote because the DREAMers cannot. Now the […]
Daniel Garza, executive director of the conservative LIBRE Initiative, which has been highly critical of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, has been approached for a job within the Trump administration should he win, three sources told BuzzFeed News. Garza has privately told people that he believes Trump is going to win and that he […]
Four years before Donald Trump roiled the presidential race by announcing that Mexico was sending criminals and rapists — their worst — to the U.S., he appeared to suggest Fidel Castro had hatched a similar gambit. Speaking on Laura Ingraham’s radio show in 2011, Trump took a rhetorical tact that will be familiar to anyone […]
Former Reid aide Julio Laínez joins team as Communications and Operations Manager WASHINGTON, DC— ProsperoLatino recently hired Julio Laínez as the company’s new Communications and Operations Manager in charge of new business development and the international affairs portfolio. Laínez, a seasoned policy professional, worked 8 years in the office of U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry […]
Donald Trump wants to drain the swamp, but Washington isn’t preparing to be drained. Even with new upheaval in the election, the mood here remains the same: Republicans and Democrats expect Hillary Clinton will be the next president. “If it were Trump, people would be looking into Canada’s immigration laws,” joked Jose Parra, a former […]
This op-ed was originally posted in Spanish online and on the print edition of Metro Puerto Rico on November 3, 2016. My grandfather used to always say that “Puerto Ricans’ favorite sport was politics,” as he hung his party’s flag on the front porch every November 8 – a sign that he had rajado la […]
This op-ed was originally posted in Spanish on Sunday, November 7, 2016 on Univision.com. If Hispanics tip the scales in Nevada, North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania, Clinton would have the tools to implement real immigration change that would provide relief for millions of our friends, relatives, and neighbors.” Blanca Gámez is actively working to get […]
Aunque la visión de Trump para América Latina es aún una incógnita, Cuba se ha convertido en un tema central de la nueva administración. La muerte de Fidel Castro tendrá repercusiones que, sin duda, trascenderán la política exterior estadounidense e influenciará el escenario doméstico, considerando el compromiso político de la comunidad cubanoamericana en el sur […]