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Sadness and cobwebs

Albor Ruiz Oct 22, 2014
Statistics tell a moving story of desperation and impotence. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15.6 percent of young Latinas in the U.S. tried to commit suicide one or more…
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New technology monitors abusive cops

Albor Ruiz Oct 8, 2014
Here, where the excessive use of force seems to have ceased being the exception to become the rule, things may have started to change, thanks to the citizenry's efforts.
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The blockade: On the way to 100 years

Albor Ruiz Oct 1, 2014
An old saying tells us that "there's no evil that lasts 100 years," even though the United States' perverse blockade of Cuba seems on the way to being the first such evil.
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The value of domestic labor

Albor Ruiz Sep 24, 2014
Ai-jen Poo is a labor organizer whose compelling vision of the value of home-based care work is transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or…
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Florida

Journey to the seed

Albor Ruiz Sep 17, 2014
Very soon, Miamians will also be able to see "Chorus of Silence." Like the book, the documentary bravely reveals the story behind Operation Pedro Pan...
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Undocumented immigrants also died on Sept. 11

Albor Ruiz Sep 10, 2014
To rescue from eternal oblivion the undocumented immigrants who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack against the World Trade Center was the difficult mission that Joel Magallán and the…
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Global South

‘Allende, the death of a president’

Albor Ruiz Sep 3, 2014
Sept. 11 is a tragic date not only in the United States. On that day, Chile also darkens at the memory of the death of President Salvador Allende and the coup d'état staged by Gen.…
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Asking for justice

Albor Ruiz Aug 27, 2014
What's beyond question is that the support of New Yorkers, who elected De Blasio believing his promises of equal treatment for all, will depend to a great degree -- after the Garner…
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The tragedy in Ferguson is not an aberration

Albor Ruiz Aug 20, 2014
Almost two weeks have elapsed and much has been said about the tragedy in Ferguson, Mo., a city with a 70-percent black population and a 53-member police department, 50 of whom are…
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Immigration keeps heating up

Albor Ruiz Aug 13, 2014
The nation's temperature is rising rapidly as supporters and opponents of the immigrants await, with growing anxiety, President Obama's executive orders.
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