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Success and failure

Yadira Escobar Oct 16, 2013
If a "have" laughs at a "have-not" and despises him, we say that the person is arrogant and not high-minded, even if he or she wears elevated shoes. If we see more and more people…
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Florida

Against nature

Yadira Escobar Oct 9, 2013
If the United States is the paradise of civil rights and material prosperity, how could it be that every day thousands and thousands of young people want to escape through drugs?
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‘Si se puede,’ says Maria Rodriguez (+Video)

Yadira Escobar Oct 9, 2013
Yadira Escobar interviews Maria Rodriguez, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), who has worked to defend basic human rights of low-income and migrant peoples…
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Florida

A chicken in diapers

Yadira Escobar Oct 2, 2013
If a multimillionaire at a restaurant orders a chicken with a disposable diaper, I'm sure that it will be served to him without many questions, so long as he pays for the chicken and…
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Florida

The American Nightmare

Yadira Escobar Sep 25, 2013
Once upon a time in the United States, a beautiful dream deteriorated until it became a nightmare for those who hoped to have a roof over their heads, the core of the so-called American…
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Florida

Can’t live on this minimum wage

Yadira Escobar Sep 18, 2013
Those who cling to the Republican notion that raising wages will in the long run damage the economy spread suspicious statistics and studies that deny the reality we see all around us…
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Florida

Me, a communist?

Yadira Escobar Sep 11, 2013
There’s been intensification these days of an old accusation against me: "YADIRA IS COMMUNIST." My first reaction is almost always to smile or laugh. I also refuse to fall into the trap…
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Walmart, a giant corporation subsidized by us taxpayers

Yadira Escobar Sep 4, 2013
Most everyone in the U.S. buys at Walmart, even though we know that the store chain is destroying this country's market. The company pays its employees so poorly that their salaries…
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Florida

Evicting the have-nots for the benefit of the have-lots

Yadira Escobar Aug 28, 2013
In Miami-Dade County, it is usual for a corrupt mayor to be in the news, but in general the media don't show how the poor people's trailers are demolished after the tenants are evicted.
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Florida

Police electroshock

Yadira Escobar Aug 22, 2013
While the rightist press kept us informed about the antics of Antúnez, who said that "at any moment a rebellion can explode in Cuba…," Israel Hernández-Llach, a Hispanic youth barely…
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