Venezuela's President Maduro May Have Been Born In Colombia

Venezuela's President Maduro May Have Been Born In Colombia

Javier Manjarres
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August 28, 2015
Controversy continues to swirl around Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro's true birth place. Many Colombians believe that Maduro was born in Colombia, and not in Venezuela. A Univision news segment conducted in the Colombian city of Cucuta, interviews several resident who remember, and knew a very young Maduro as one of the inhabitants of a corner […]
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Hispanic Man's Selfie With Rattlesnake Fails, May Lose His Hand

Hispanic Man's Selfie With Rattlesnake Fails, May Lose His Hand

Javier Manjarres
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August 28, 2015
From the files of the really dumb and bizarre, we bring you this story of a Hispanic man who tried to take a selfie picture with a venomous rattlesnake in Lake Elsinore, California. We can't begin to tell you how idiotic this move was, so we will just let you read about it. His mother […]
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Donald Trump

Donald Trump "Deports" Spanish-Language TV Host From Event (Video)

Javier Manjarres
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August 26, 2015
Spanish-language TV Anchor, Jorge Ramos, felt the wrath of Donald Trump in Iowa this week, as Trump booted (deported) the face of Univision and Fusion TV from his press conference after he rudely interrupting "The Donald" during the Q & A  with reporters. Ramos showed up to the press conference with a clear agenda of […]
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Univision Tries To Paint Donald Trump As Latino-Hating Racist

Univision Tries To Paint Donald Trump As Latino-Hating Racist

Javier Manjarres
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August 26, 2015
Univision and Anchor Jorge Ramos did what they were expected to do after Donald Trump booted Ramos out of his press conference for being rude and obnoxious. When you go to the Univision website, no less than 6 separate stories documenting the incident are posted on the site, all of them being anti-Trump. The one […]
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Four Arrested In Hispanic Teen's Hacking Death In Florida

Four Arrested In Hispanic Teen's Hacking Death In Florida

Javier Manjarres
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August 24, 2015
Jose Amaya Guardado's mother said she brought her son to the United States nine years ago to escape the violence rampant in their native El Salvador. But now his family is mourning his death in what police describe as a brutal machete attack. "I brought my son from there because they were killing people," Lucia […]
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Top MMA Champion Suspended For Using Steroids

Top MMA Champion Suspended For Using Steroids

Javier Manjarres
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August 23, 2015
One of the all-time greatest MMA fighters has been suspended for 1-year and stripped of this title for testing positive for a known steroid, Drostanolone metabolites. The UFC stood by the Nevada Athletic Commission's decision, saying that  it would welcome Silva back to the Octagon once he completes the suspension, which will conclude on January […]
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Tensions High Over Closing Of Colombia-Venezuela Border

Tensions High Over Closing Of Colombia-Venezuela Border

Javier Manjarres
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August 23, 2015
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro says that he will not reopen the border between Venezuela and Colombia until the Colombian government stops "attacking" his country's economy, and until the drug smuggling and crime he alleges is crossing over from Colombia is stopped. Maduro closed down the border between the two countries to keep out paramilitary and […]
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GOP Presidential Candidates Oppose Repealing 14th Amendment

GOP Presidential Candidates Oppose Repealing 14th Amendment

Javier Manjarres
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August 23, 2015
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about  resolving the "birthright citizenship" problem, has once again thrust illegal immigration (as if it never left) problem into the political limelight. During an exclusive interview with HISPOLITICA, Trump said that he believes that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution has bee "read wrong," and that the amendment was […]
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Jeb Bush Is Right,

Jeb Bush Is Right, "Anchor Babies" Is Not Offensive

Javier Manjarres
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August 21, 2015
Jeb Bush is defending the use of the term "Anchor babies," as opponents, namely Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), anti-pro illegal immigration groups continue to call the term as offensive. Bush is right. The term "Anchor babies" has been used since the late 1980's  by both Republicans and Democrats alike, and later used in 1996. […]
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Colossal Baby Mix-Up in Colombia

Colossal Baby Mix-Up in Colombia

Javier Manjarres
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August 21, 2015
What would happen if you and your brother found out each of you had an identical twin, and they were also living as brothers? It’s a story that made headlines this summer. Two sets of identical twins – raised as fraternal twins – meeting after they had been separated at birth due to a hospital […]
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Donald Trump:

Donald Trump: "The 14th Amendment was being read wrong by everyone (Audio)

Javier Manjarres
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August 20, 2015
Donald Trump took some time off the presidential campaign trail to talk to me about what else, Politics. In a phone interview with "The Donald," Trump said that he thinks Jeb Bush feels "entitled" to the Republican presidential nomination, and because he continues to best Bush in all of the national presidential polls, that is […]
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Mexican Police Arrest Suspect In Murder Of American Motorcyclist

Mexican Police Arrest Suspect In Murder Of American Motorcyclist

Javier Manjarres
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August 19, 2015
The murderer of an American, Harry Devert of Pelham, New York, heading to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, may have been arrested by Mexican authorities. Mexico's Federales have announced the arrest of Adrian Reyes Cadena, the suspected leader drug gang in along the Pacific Coast region of that country. Devert was a 33-year-old stock […]
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Marco Rubio Refutes Donald Trump's Birthright Citizenship Position

Marco Rubio Refutes Donald Trump's Birthright Citizenship Position

Javier Manjarres
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August 19, 2015
Donald Trump's recent immigration position of scrubbing the birthright citizenship amendment to the U.S. Constitution has pressed Senator Marco Rubio to respond to his fellow Republican presidential candidate. “I am open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th amendment but I’m not […]
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Payback? Cuban-American Senator (D) Opposes Obama's Iran Nuke Deal

Payback? Cuban-American Senator (D) Opposes Obama's Iran Nuke Deal

Javier Manjarres
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August 19, 2015
Cuban-American U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D) has joined his colleague Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) in opposing President Obama's new nuclear deal with state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. Melendez, who faces corruption charges, may be pushing back against the Obama administration for bring federal charges against him. "If Iran is to acquire a nuclear bomb, it […]
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Donald Trump's New Hawkish Immigration Plan Dings Rubio, Mexico

Donald Trump's New Hawkish Immigration Plan Dings Rubio, Mexico

Javier Manjarres
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August 17, 2015
  Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has just outlined his new Immigration policy, taking a hardline position on an existing U.S. immigration law, addressing how  he will make Mexico pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as taking a jab at fellow GOP presidential candidate, Marco Rubio. Trump's immigration position (below) starts […]
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Democrat Presidential Candidate Drives Racial Wedge

Democrat Presidential Candidate Drives Racial Wedge

Javier Manjarres
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August 17, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, addressed Iowa Democratic voters this past weekend, using the opportunity to reach out to black and Hispanic voters, saying that his campaign would be focused on "overcoming racial divisions." Sanders spoke of addressing  racial divisions, but then drove a deeper racial wedge by telling Iowans that he spoke for all […]
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Victoria Secret's New Colombian

Victoria Secret's New Colombian "It Girl"

Javier Manjarres
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August 12, 2015
Aye Caramba! Victoria’s Secret has added some Colombian spice to its lineup. The lingerie company has named 22-year-old Daniela Lopez as the new face of its Pink collection, which is typically aimed at young women. “Dreams do come true,” the model wrote on Instagram recently. Lopez, who currently lives in New York, splashed into the […]
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Argentinian Striker Messi Helps FC Barcelona Win UEFA 'Super Cup'

Argentinian Striker Messi Helps FC Barcelona Win UEFA 'Super Cup'

Javier Manjarres
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August 12, 2015
If you turned off the recent UEFA 'Super Cup' match between FC Barcelona and Sevilla because you thought Barcelona and Argentine striker Leonel Messi were going to rout their opponents, then you missed out on one the best games to be played in a very long time. Barcelona was up  4-2,and seemed to be coasting […]
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Escaped Mexican Drug Lord

Escaped Mexican Drug Lord "El Chapo" Guzman And The Ways He Smuggled

Javier Manjarres
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August 12, 2015
 Fugitive Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán used planes, submarines, trains, sailboats and tunnels to smuggle narcotics from Mexico into the United States, court filings show. The man who became public enemy No. 1 in the United States after the death of terrorist Osama Bin Laden escaped from a Mexican prison a month […]
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Obama Shuns Cuban Dissendents From Flag-Raising Ceremony In Cuba

Obama Shuns Cuban Dissendents From Flag-Raising Ceremony In Cuba

Javier Manjarres
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August 12, 2015
 I don't believe that anyone in the Cuban exile community who opposes President Obama's "normalization" of relations with communist Cuba, thought the administration would invite them to the historic U.S. flag-raising ceremony in Havana, Cuba later this week. And, let me just say, I highly doubt any of these Cuban exiles would even want to […]
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"Dreamers" Continue Recieving Driver's Licenses Across Country

Javier Manjarres
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August 10, 2015
  President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order is bearing the fruits of the program's push to aid illegal immigrant children brought to the U.S. at not fault of their own. Nebraska was the last state to allow these "Dreamers" the opportunity to apply for a state driver's license, and since lifting […]
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5 Adults, 3 Children Found Dead In Texas Home

5 Adults, 3 Children Found Dead In Texas Home

Javier Manjarres
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August 10, 2015
Eight people — including five children and three adults — were found slain inside a Houston-area home and a man who exchanged gunfire with police has been charged with three counts of capital murder, according to Texas authorities and court records. Court records show that one capital murder count against David Conley covers multiple deaths. […]
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Univision TV Network Not Happy With Republican Presidential Debate

Univision TV Network Not Happy With Republican Presidential Debate

Javier Manjarres
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August 10, 2015
Spanish-language TV Network Univision seems bothered about the first Republican presidential debate because according to them, comprehensive immigration reform was not addressed by the 17 candidates that participated in the two debates on Fox News. In reality, all of the candidates that were asked about immigration, answered the questions by stating what they would do […]
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Mexican Activist Murdered By Organized Crime

Mexican Activist Murdered By Organized Crime

Javier Manjarres
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August 10, 2015
Officials in the Mexican city of Acapulco, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, have confirmed that Miguel Angel Jimenez  Blanco, the leader of the Xaltianguis community policing group, was shot to death by organized crime, or a drug cartel, and left in the taxi cab he owned. Jimenez was focused on bring awareness […]
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Hollywood Celebrity Says All Latinos Clean Toilets

Hollywood Celebrity Says All Latinos Clean Toilets

Javier Manjarres
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August 5, 2015
"If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?"-Kelly Osbourne After making this comment on The View, will Osbourne be submitted to the same scrutiny any character assassination that Donald Trump has endured after he made those controversial, but true statements about illegal immigration […]
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Cristiano Ronald Pranks Madrid By Playing Soccer As Homeless Man

Cristiano Ronald Pranks Madrid By Playing Soccer As Homeless Man

Javier Manjarres
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August 5, 2015
Superstar soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo took some of his skills outside the field to play one of the biggest pranks on unsuspecting people in Madrid. The Real Madrid star shared a full video of the prank on Monday — and it's epic. Ronaldo dressed up as a homeless man and hit the streets of the […]
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Desperate Salvadoran Woman Hides In Church To Escape Deportation

Desperate Salvadoran Woman Hides In Church To Escape Deportation

Javier Manjarres
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August 5, 2015
A Salvadoran woman who was part of the surge of Central Americans who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border last year without proper documents is trying to avoid deportation by hiding in a Catholic mission in Atlanta. Claudia Mariela Jurado decided to elude immigration authorities after a judge denied her request for political asylum last week […]
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Colombian Military Plane Crashes

Colombian Military Plane Crashes

Javier Manjarres
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August 3, 2015
A Colombian military plane carrying 11 members of the Colombian armed forces crashed, killing all on board. Foul play is not suspected, as the Colombian Air Force said that the plane had reported engine failure and crashed near Las Palomas, which is located about 780 kilometers from the capitol Bogota.
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Mexican Drug War Claims Another Journalist

Mexican Drug War Claims Another Journalist

Javier Manjarres
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August 3, 2015
  Mexico's ongoing drug war continues to rage on, not just along the U.S. border, but in every corner of the country, including its capitol, Mexico City. Another photographer and four women were found dead in a middle-class neighborhood of Mexico City, and are suspected of being the victims of the crime wave narco-traffickers and […]
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Hispanic Man Kills Two Along Road Because He Was Bored

Hispanic Man Kills Two Along Road Because He Was Bored

Javier Manjarres
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August 3, 2015
 Bullets whizzed past a woman's head as she fled from an 18-year-old gunman who had posed as a stranded motorist to convince her family to help him on the roadside of a Montana Indian reservation, the woman recounted to relatives. The man claimed he had run out of gas, then pulled a gun, demanded money […]
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Soccer Player Greek Island Wedding Gift

Soccer Player Greek Island Wedding Gift

Javier Manjarres
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August 3, 2015
Jorge Mendes, a Portugues sports agent, who represents non other than Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, married Sandra Barosa in his native Portugal. Ronaldo, who was Mendes' best man, gifted his friend and agent an entire Greek Island worth anywhere between three and fifty million euros. The wedding was attended some Soccer world elites- Florentino […]
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Hillary Clinton Threatens Executive Action On Travel To Cuba

Hillary Clinton Threatens Executive Action On Travel To Cuba

Javier Manjarres
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August 1, 2015
Miami, FL-Hillary Clinton announced that she supported lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and said that she would ask Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the Congress, to lift the decades-long embargo. But while Clinton outline the reasons why the "failed" embargo needed to be lifted, Clinton also […]
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Donald Trump:

Donald Trump: "I'm Number One With Hispanics"

Javier Manjarres
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July 31, 2015
Who said Donald Trump wasn't a confident man? The man who will tell you at drop of a dime that he is "successful and rich," and that he builds "great things" is running for president in 2016, says that his "numero uno" (Espanol for number one) with the Hispanic community. Trump, who is riding a […]
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Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stumps In Puerto Rico, But May Have A Big Problem

Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stumps In Puerto Rico, But May Have A Big Problem

Javier Manjarres
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July 31, 2015
The race to become the next President of the United States is on, and both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are courting minority communities for their support and eventual vote in the 2016 presidential primary elections. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be the first presidential candidate from either party to campaign on the island […]
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Hispanics,

Hispanics, "People Of Color" Are "More Likely To Live Near Power Plants"

Javier Manjarres
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July 31, 2015
  A recent Huffington Post article states that the overwhelming majority of Latinos are more concerned with environmental issues, than any other issue, included the current stagnant national economy and education. The writer of the story, who appears to support progressive causes,  unbelievably states that  "people of color" are  "more likely to live near power […]
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Hillary Clinton To Ask Congress To Lift Cuba Embargo

Hillary Clinton To Ask Congress To Lift Cuba Embargo

Javier Manjarres
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July 30, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has changed her position on Cuba, and will ask Congress to lift the U.S. embargo against the communist island. GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush pointed out that Clinton has opposed the easing of "restrictions against Cuba," but is now changing her tune, as the former First Lady and Secretary of […]
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