Articles Posted by Carlos
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If it’s GOYA it has to be…Typhoid fever?!?
So maybe you drank a mamey batido from the fruit stand in your neighborhood or pulled that pack out of your freezer last night and had some and now you might get Typhoid fever!?!? If you haven’t heard about the recall, keep reading, but first some warning signs for those mamey lovers out there who [...]
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FELIZ CUMPLE DORA!
Can you believe its been ten years? Nickelodeon celebrates the landmark 10th anniversary of the world’s most beloved Latina heroine, Dora the Explorer, with a brand-new, hour-long primetime TV movie, “Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure,” premiering Sunday, Aug. 15, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon, according to a company press release. Following the TV movie, at 9:00 [...]
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Podcast: Mariana’s back from the Amazon; Dora’s birthday and more
This Podcast: Catch up with Mariana and Jon for the latest. This week Mariana shares some of her summer adventures including a trip to the Peruvian Amazon and hanging out with Brazilian Soccer Legend Bebeto. Pictures of her Amazon trip are available on www.Facebook.com/CanYouHearTheWorld. Do you know what the phrase “hit the slide” means? Tune [...]
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Safer Sex for All after Counterfeit Condom Crook is Sentenced
HIV is the health problem with the largest racial disparity; 80% of new AIDS diagnoses and deaths are among African Americans and Hispanics. Jimmy Wang didn’t help the situation by distributing more than a million COUNTERFEIT CONDOMS in the New York City area! Wang, a U.S. immigrant from China was sentenced today to 37 months [...]
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Soccer all-stars Bebeto and Marcelo Balboa Interview!
If you missed the live stream earlier today from Gatorade, be sure to catch the video below with former Brazilian national team player and soccer legend Bebeto and former US national team star Marcelo Balboa while they answer questions from fans from the Gatorade Performance Lab (in Spanish). This Wednesday the Gatorade team will livestream [...]
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NYC Latinos Dicen NO to Mosque Near WTC Site
That’s right, according to a Quinnipiac University poll, sixty percent of Latinos in NYC oppose efforts to build a Mosque near the World Trade Center site. That’s more than the 56 percent among whites and 45 percent among blacks who are opposed to the Mosque and cultural center. According to the study: Fifty-six percent of [...]
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Chipotle feeds kids with spam (the e-mail kind)
There is a Chipotle and a Qdoba both within a couple blocks of our office and a Baja Fresh a few more blocks away and we’ve gone to all three. This post isn’t about Mexican food reviews though because we wanted to share a fun program that Chipolte is doing to help kids eat healthy [...]
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Video: Cuomo Announces running for Governor of New York
Not a surprise, but NY Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo has annouced he is running for Governor of New York through his website (video below). His five-step plan outlined on the website includes the following items, but does not mention immigration reform: Clean Up Albany Get Our Fiscal House in Order Rightsizing Government NY Works NY [...]
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Feliz Cumple YouTube!
Where would Latinos be without YouTube? How could we keep up withTelenovelas from our home countries? Share videos of our crazy Dominican mom’s screaming. Well, it would definitely be a different world. On February 14, 2005 the domain name www.youtube.com was registered and this month YouTube is celebrating 5 years! In October 2009, the site [...]
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Inside Talk Round Table: The New Corona Extra Ads
Join us Thursday at 5:45 p.m. EST for Inside Talk Round Table. This Episode: Corona Extra launched a new national campaign this month designed to strengthen the brand’s relevance among Hispanics in the U.S. The campaign encourages Hispanics to celebrate their individuality and reconnect with their Latino cultural identity and values: Corona “refresca quienes somos” [...]
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ImpreMedia and Univision Will Share Content
Where are you getting your information these days? Online news portals, Facebook, television, podcasts, friends? ImpreMedia (publisher of El Diaro here in New York and La Opinion in L.A. among others) & Univision Interactive announced they are partnering and will exchange online and mobile content. Under the agreement, both companies will share local and national [...]
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What if Sotomayor had not been Confirmed?
Many in the Bronx were excited when Judge Sonia Sotomayor was first nominated and again when she was confirmed to be a Supreme Court Justice. She hears her first case in the morning! When she was first nominated, Dos Lives took to the calle and found other potential Supreme Court nominees outside the Bronx Court [...]
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Costa Rican Prez gets hit by the Swine Flu!
Don’t toss your Swine Flu mask just yet. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has caught the Swine Flu (now called the H1N1 virus). In addition to the President, there were 718 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Costa Rica, and the virus has been blamed for 27 deaths, according to a report by the [...]
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Mexico’s win on the field is an economic win, tambien
What does Mexico’s win against the U.S. mean for their economy? It means mucho mucho mucho! If Mexico had lost today’s game, it would have reduced ratings during the tournament by 30 percent for Televisa, the world’s largest Spanish-language broadcaster, cutting advertising sales by $16.5 million, or 12 percent of the company’s total estimated growth [...]
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Obama Gives Update on Immigration Reform
President Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the country’s immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both sides of the political divide, by “early next year,” Reuters reports. Obama has been criticized for not following through on a campaign pledge to tackle the issue this year. He has urged [...]
